Frances Holliday Alford

Frances Holliday Alford has a long career as an educator, a philanthropist, and an artist-quilter. She spent her first twenty five professional years as a Special Education teacher, taking time to spend two years in South Korea as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer. Known for her imaginative quirky quilted art, Frances has demonstrated her unusual take on embellishment in Quilting Arts Magazine venues including television, virtual studio and written articles. She has shown her work internationally. Teaching, sharing and encouraging are trademarks of her commitment to quilting as an art form. Frances learned to hem a table cloth at six and by high school, she was constructing most of her clothes, dividing her time between sewing and her "real art." A native Texan, Frances divides her time between Austin, Texas and her vacation home in Grafton, Vermont. She has a Master of Education degree from the University of Arizona.