Elizabeth Rosenberg began quilting in the early 1980s. She joined the local guild and signed up for every workshop with national instructors that was offered. Those instructors opened her eyes to the artistic possibilities in the world of textile art. Her work has been exhibited at shows such as International Quilt Festival, World Quilt & Textiles, Art Quilts: Elements, Quilts=Arts=Quilts, and Form, Not Function. Her quilts have traveled to invitational exhibits in places as distant as Tokyo, Japan and as Americana as Lancaster, PA. She has contributed to several books, including Fabricadabra by Paula Nadelstern, Skinny Quilts & Table Runners II, edited by Eleanor Levie, and five volumes of Rodale’s Successful Quilting series. Her work has appeared in McCall’s Quilting Magazine and Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting™. During a trip to Venice she first saw the lace made on the Venetian island of Burano and fell in love. A year later, after saving every penny she could for the trip, she returned to Venice for a month-long stay, learning to make the lace called Punto in Aria (Stitches in the Air). Since then it has influenced her quilts in a series which bears the name of the lace that inspired it, and pays tribute to the lacemakers who carry on the traditions of their island as they sit by their windows in the glorious sunlight reflecting off the canals that run through the colorful streets of Burano. Elizabeth teaches, lectures, and writes about art quilting. She lives in Aquebogue, a village on the beautiful north fork of Long Island, New York, with her husband. website: elizabethrosenberg.com instagram: @elizquilt twitter: @elizrosenberg