Linda Bratten is a native Nebraskan, but has transplanted nicely into the Armstrong, MO area. Linda and her husband, Brett, have raised three fine young men. And she is now experiencing the fun of being a grandmother.
Linda is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, Kearney with a Bachelors of Science in Education. Her major is in Vocational Home Economics. She taught Family and Consumer Sciences in the Public Schools in Weeping Water and Auburn, Nebraska, and in Stewartsville, Missouri. In 1991 she was selected as Nebraska’s Vocational Home Economics Teacher of the Year with 1-3 years experience.
She has also worked as a University of Nebraska Extension Assistant, where she wrote a weekly news column, “Managing the 90’s”.
She began sewing at a young age, but started quilting after the birth of her first son in the late 80’s. Linda has taught quilt guild programs since the 1990's and still travels sharing her love of quilting and sewing. She has her own online class for Craftsy, and has taught at the Machine Quilters Showcase sponsored by The International Machine Quilters Association, the Kansas City Quilt Festival and at MQX Midwest.
She is a National Baby Lock Educator and loves to travel sharing her love of sewing and quilting
Recent achievements include:
Linda is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, Kearney with a Bachelors of Science in Education. Her major is in Vocational Home Economics. She taught Family and Consumer Sciences in the Public Schools in Weeping Water and Auburn, Nebraska, and in Stewartsville, Missouri. In 1991 she was selected as Nebraska’s Vocational Home Economics Teacher of the Year with 1-3 years experience.
She has also worked as a University of Nebraska Extension Assistant, where she wrote a weekly news column, “Managing the 90’s”.
She began sewing at a young age, but started quilting after the birth of her first son in the late 80’s. Linda has taught quilt guild programs since the 1990's and still travels sharing her love of quilting and sewing. She has her own online class for Craftsy, and has taught at the Machine Quilters Showcase sponsored by The International Machine Quilters Association, the Kansas City Quilt Festival and at MQX Midwest.
She is a National Baby Lock Educator and loves to travel sharing her love of sewing and quilting
Recent achievements include:
- Began her adventures as a Baby Lock Educator in March 2020
- Featured as one of Craftsy's top 11 Free-motion Quilting Instructors in the class, 28 Days to Better Free-Motion Quilting with Angela Walters
- Her quilts the Bronze Iris and the Watercolor Rose were selected to be in the Natural World Art Quilts SAQA Traveling Exhibit, Various venues throughout the Midwest until January 2021
- Host for the month of November 2018, 52Quilters.com, Art Quilters theme
- "The Promise of Spring"-2017 SAQA Trunk Show
- "Firsts Emotions of Love"-Finalist, Quilting Arts Magazine, "Language of Flowers" Readers Challenge
- "Margaritas After Midnight"-Third Place Ribbon in the Machine Quilter's Showcase Quilt Show Fabric Challenge Competition, May 2016, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- "Peacock Shawl" -One of the Five Semi-Finalist in the Bernina and Threads Magazine Machine Embroidery Challenge
- Released Crafsty online class, Natural Machine Quilting Motifs, in September 2015, with over 3,000 students taking the course
- Quilted a Memory Quilt for Linda Turner, It appeared in her article in the January/February 2014 Issue of Designs in Machine Embroidery
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