Eleanor Burns (born July 3, 1945, in Zelienople, Pennsylvania) is a master quilter[1] and former TV series host of Quilt in a Day, which aired in 1994 on PBS for six seasons.[2]
Eleanor Burns | |
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Born | |
Occupation | Quilter / Teacher / Author |
Known for | Quilt in a Day |
Television | PBS, RFD-TV |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame, 2012 |
Burns first started stitching on her Aunt Edna's feed sacks. Her first book, Make a Quilt in a Day: Log Cabin Pattern, was self-published in 1978. The book has been credited with starting a quilt-making revolution as people learned Burns's style of stitching a quilt.[3]
She has since written more than 100 books on the subject of quilting. In addition, Burns has written many patterns and developed a series of specialty rulers for quilting.[4] The Quilt in a Day TV series, which first aired in 1990, was based on Burns's book Make a Quilt in a Day.[5]
In 2012, Burns was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame.[6][7]
Burns maintains a quilting studio at her Bear's Paw Ranch in Julian, California,[8] a mountain town in San Diego County.[9]