Shelly Pagliai is a quilt pattern designer, author, blogger, coffee lover, ranch wife, goat keeper, cat herder, and professional machine quilter. A quilter since the age of 12, she started her pattern company in 1999, while working her day job as a computer technician. She started blogging in 2009, and added a longarm machine to her business that same year. She quickly became so busy with customer quilts that she quit her day job in 2010 to begin designing and quilting full time. Shelly’s work has been featured in numerous quilting magazines, museum exhibits, and books, and has appeared in many major quilt shows, where she has received numerous awards. She is the author of A Simple Life: Quilts Inspired by the ’50s, with C&T Publishing. Shelly quilts on a Nolting Pro Series 24 named Ivy in the upstairs of the 1921 farmhouse she shares with her Cowboy at Prairie Moon Ranch in Missouri. Check out their antics at prairiemoonquilts.com.