M'Liss Rae
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& Famliy and pets too!
M'Liss has had a life long love affair with textiles and sewing. She began her career at the age of 4 embroidering napkins under the guidance of her mother. At the age of 9, her father fibbed about her age and signed her up for quilting lessons at the local fabric shop. In college, she majored in Textile Arts at the University of Washington and did graduate work in Clothing Design and Construction at Central Washington University.
M'Liss is a well known internationally as a
leader in the field of quilting. Over the past 25 years, she has conducted
hundreds of
workshops and seminars, teaching art, textile design and
quilting. Her work is regularly featured in national publications such as
McCall’s Quilting and
Quilt Magazine.
M’Liss is also the author 12 bestselling books, and numerous embroidery card and fabric
collections lines.
In 2006, M'Liss partnered with Jo-Ann Fabrics
and Craft
Education
Program in all of their stores nationwide. The result was
Beginning in 2007, Jo-Ann Fabrics and Craft Stores featured M'Liss's exclusive quilting fabric collections in over 800 stores nationwide with new collections released every other month.
With George on a Photo Shoot
The Rest of the Family
Alex, Adrienne, Michael & Me.
M’Liss lives on a small filbert tree farm on Whidbey Island, Washington with her family, five dachshunds, four cats and an assortment of drop-ins. Her husband, Michael, is the retired Sheriff of Island County, Washington and writes murder mysteries in his spare time. They have two children: Alexander, a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps currently serving his second tour in Iraq and Adrienne, a recent college graduate from Seattle University and is working as a firefighter.
The Big Easy