Marianne Fons writes from the small town of Winterset, Iowa, reporting on quilty and non-quilty topics.
Marianne Fons taught millions of Americans how to quilt as co-host of "Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting" nationwide on public television and as co-author of QUILTER'S COMPLETE GUIDE, the best-selling "bible" of quiltmaking.
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