Pure Country Quilts - About Pat Richie

I live in the beautiful bitterroot Valley of Western Montana with my husband, Jerry Dowd, who is very supportive of my quilting “addiction”. Jerry and I have three grown children, Janet, Suzanne, and Tammy. I have always loved quilts and quilting, but during the years I was raising a family, running a small ranch, and working as a law enforcement officer, it seemed it was all I could manage to make quilts for special occasions like births, graduations, weddings, etc., and traditional quilts were the order of the day!

In 1995, I retired from 22 years as a law enforcement officer, and it was about then when I was introduced to the possibilities of painting on muslin, then quilting this creation. I was excited! I have been fortunate enough to travel throughout the Western States teaching this process and other quilting techniques, and was delighted to be asked to teach at Quilter’s Affair in Sisters, OR, as well as being asked to write the workshop article for Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, July/August, 1999, issue on painted quilts.

Subsequently, I wrote a news release article that appeared in Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, October 2002, on the Firestorm 2000 quilts. This collection of 12 quilts were made by the fire fighters in fire camps during out disastrous 2000 fire season. This article was later reprinted in a leading Japanese quilt magazine, Patchwork Quilt tsushin, February 2003.

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