Carolyn Cullinan McCormick currently lives in Franktown, Colorado, which is just a hop, skip and a jump from Denver, with her husband, Larry. They have a son, Ryan, and a daughter, Jennifer. Ryan and his wife, Megan, have two little girls, McKenna Carolyn and Kate Elizabeth. Jennifer and her husband, Anthony, have a son, Lincoln Larry, and a daughter, Keira Lyn. Carolyn started to quilt in 1985 when she and her family moved to Bozeman, Montana. There she worked and taught a variety of quilting and craft classes at The Patchworks from 1987 to 1995. In 1995, she invented the Add-A-Quarter ruler