Diane started quilting in the mid-1960s after seeing a quilt in a Time magazine article on folk art. She thought, "I want to make that," and did, although "poorly, with much help from store clerks, a neighbor, and my husband's aunt." That was the beginning for her, and she hasn't stopped since that first attempt. Applique continues to be her favorite with made-up patterns ("I can't read directions"), but she loves all the aspects of this art. She has no rules for others or herself, except to do your best. Over the years, Diane has been amazed and blessed by work published in numerous quilting magazines, awards won, ribbons pinned on quilts, lectures given, and classes taught. She had a one-woman show in the late 1980s called People, Places, and Quilts, which resulted in a book of the same name published by EPM Publications. Quite by accident she owns ("with the Lord and the bank") two quilt shops in South Carolina. Both are called People, Places, and Quilts, and are well run by a group of sixteen ladies who love quilting, customers, each other, and most of the time, Diane. One is in Summerville (which was honored to be selected as one of the top ten quilt shops in North America for the year 2000), and more recently, one in Charleston. Diane lives happily in Summerville, South Carolina, and loves all that is "good, right, and holy: people, animals, community, church, workplace and workmates, gardening, sewing, reading, drawing, writing, the outdoors, four grown children, one daughter-in-law, and a mom who right now is saying, 'Oh Di, did you have to go and say all that?' Well, yes!"