Louise Silk has been quilting professionally for over thirty years. In addition to commissions and exhibitions, she teaches quilting classes and workshops and is an artist member of Studio Art Quilt Associates and a life member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. One of her five solo quilt exhibits, called I Was There, Now I Am Here, traveled to four venues around the United States. Her website, www.silkquilt.com, contains a color gallery of this book's projects and many others.

Louise Silk is available to speak on the following topics:

• The Quilting Path: A Guide to Spiritual Discovery through Fabric, Thread and Kabbalah
• Pieces of Memory
• Transformation: Reuse of Materials for Meaning and Memory
• I Was There: Now I'm Here: Self Discovery through Quilting
• The Sound of a Needle: The Quilt Maker's Voice