About MeHi! My name is Sandra Darlington, and I am the owner of Darlington Quilts.I have been interested in sewing just about my entire life, along with other handcrafts, such as knitting, crocheting, woodworking, cross stitch and needlepoint, to name a few. I learned these skills from my Mother, Myrtle MacIntosh, and she learned them from her Mother, Anna Campbell. Actually, my Grandmother was the person who first got me interested in quilting. She was a very skilled hand quilter, but I decided that this process, although beautiful, was too slow for me.Years later I took a piecing class at a local quilt shop, Steve's Sew and Vacuum in King of Prussia, PA and shortly thereafter, joined the Valley Forge Homestead Quilt Guild. It wasn't long before I really caught the quilting fever and upgraded my old sewing machine to my first Bernina, but that wasn't exactly what I was looking for, either. Later that same year I went to a national quilt show and saw a longarm. "WOW," was all I could say! A few years later I ordered my APQS Liberty and have been addicted to quilting ever since. After years of quilting "just for me," and always being asked by friends to quilt for them, I finally decided to open a business. That's how Darlington Quilts was born. I love taking classes to advance and enhance my skills. I have taken longarm classes with national and international educators, such as Linda V. Taylor, Kim Brunner, Karen McTavish, Irena Bluhm, Sue Patton, Jamie Wallen, DeLoa Jones, Linda Mae Diny, Dawn Cavanaugh, Debbi Trevino, Kim Stotsenberg, Linda Stellar, Diana Phillips, and Suzanne Earley, just to name a "few." In addition to taking the "in person" classes at the national shows such as MQX in New England, or the AQS show in Paducah, KY and Quilt Festival in Houston, TX, and the more local shows in Lancaster, Hershey and Oaks, PA, I regularly take on-line classes through MQR and a few others. |
