Karin’s international background inspires her quilting and helped her create a fascinating array of modern landscape art quilts as well as a large collection of traditional quilts. She has been quilting for the last eighteen years and has created over ninety quilts in all sizes and shapes.

Her award-winning work has been exhibited at many local and regional shows in Germany, Great Britain, and the US. Two quilts were recently included in the 7^th biennial invitational quilt exhibit at the Piedmont Arts Museum.

Karin’s work reflects her lifelong passion for color, pattern and texture. She has a degree in Early Childhood Education and an international Montessori diploma. 

Karin grew up near Munich, Germany and started quilting following her family’s move to Boston, MA. After the family’s relocation to Oxford, Great Britain, Karin began teaching for local guilds.

Two years later the family moved back to Munich where Karin founded the “Hachinger Quilt Festival”, an annual outdoor event with a large quilt exhibit and vendors. Teaching, quilting, and traveling kept Karin busy for the next few years.

Karin and her family settled in Blacksburg, Virginia in 1999 and soon afterwards she founded the now biennial “Blue Ridge Quilt Festival”, a four day trade show that takes place at the Blacksburg Middle School in June. Karin organizes the festival which features a large quilt exhibit, offers classes and lectures, hosts several traveling exhibits each year, and is proud of its large vendor market.

Since her move to Blacksburg Karin was and is active in several local guilds as program chair and guild president.

Karin finds her greatest joy designing and making her quilts and sharing what she has learned with students in her workshops which have taken her to four countries on two continents. Her goal as a workshop leader is to help each student find the key to her/his personal creative style.

Memberships

• Old Church Gallery Quilt Guild, Floyd, VA
• Loosely Woven Quilt Guild, Newport, VA
• TAVA (Textile Artist of Virginia) Blacksburg, VA
• The Quilting Party, Blacksburg, VA
• VCQ (Virginia Consortium of Quilter)
• Patchwork Gilde, Germany
• The Fabric Guild, Great Britain