In one breath, Sally Mackey insists she is not a quilter, that her skill is applique --stitching fabric onto a larger background. In the next, she says, face serious, "Quilting is my life. I live and ...

I work a full-time job and spend my after-work time parenting my 2-year-old daughter. I get one hour of free time between her bedtime and my own, and every night, I spend it quilting. I've been ...