Bonnie Hunter of Wallburg, Virginia, has a one-track mind, and that track is quilting. She is a dynamo, not a diva, and one can’t help but be wowed by the energy, enthusiasm, and astounding talent she brings to her quilt designing and teaching.
Bonnie started making quilts in the early 1980s, before rotary cutting revolutionized quiltmaking. Her first few quilts were made from patterns published in magazines, typical repeat-block designs painstakingly created with cardboard templates. One of the first quilting books she bought, The It’s OK If You Sit on My Quilt Book by Mary Ellen Hopkins (Burdett Design Studios, 1982), featured a Log Cabin quilt that inspired Bonnie to try her own. A seamstress friend had given her an apple box full of fabric scraps, so Bonnie cut yardstick-wide…
