Elsie Campbell
| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Dodge City, Kansas, United States |
| Introduction | Elsie Campbell grew up with a needle in her hand in the small Mennonite community of Deer Creek, Oklahoma. After graduating from Northwestern Oklahoma State University at Alva she taught home economics, music and special education in public schools. She began exhibiting her quilts nationally in 1992 and has won such prestigious awards as: 1st place at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, 1997; Best of Show at Quilt America! in Indianapolis, 2000; the Mary Krickbaum Award for Best Hand Quilting at the National Quilt Association Show, 2001; and the American Quilters Society Excellence in Hand Workmanship Award, 2003. Elsie's quilts have appeared in numerous books and author. Her first book Nine Patch and Snowball Quilts was published 2003 and her second book, Winning Stitches, in 2004. Her third book, Innovations and Renovations: String Quilts is scheduled for release in Fall 2009. |