Jo Morton is a quiltmaker, fabric designer, teacher, author, and lecturer. Her use of color and design, as well as her fine stitchery, give her quilts the feeling of being made in the nineteenth century. Using an antique quilt as a source of inspiration, she creates an interpretation. Her quilts complement both country and contemporary settings, and her work is included in private and public collections across the country.
In 1980, Jo took her first quilting class, and in 1985 she created her first "made to look old" quilt. She determined early on that if she ever hoped to make all