About Us

We are a grandma and grandpa duo, Mary and Dean Smith. Mary became "The Quiltsmith" after her quilting friends encouraged her to publish her patterns. We consulted with a local pattern designing family, and were further encouraged to take the big step into pattern designing. They helped with us with all the details of getting started, how to get the patterns printed, get the business going, and market the patterns. We have been marketing her patterns since 2003, displaying them at many quilt shows, mostly in the Pacific Northwest.

Mary is a natural born artist with many talents including drawing, painting, photography, wood carving, and cabinet making as well as being a good quilter, and gardener. All these skills fit together.

She usually designs small patterns for table toppers, table runners, wall hangings, aprons, and occasionally larger projects. These smaller projects help keep the costs down.

Subject matter includes landscapes, birds, animals, seascapes, and floral, using freezer paper piecing, fusing, hand and machine applique.

We market patterns at the retail level as well as the wholesale level. All orders are shipped very promptly, usually within 24 hours, if we are not away at a show when the order arrives.

We live in central Oregon, near the town of Sisters, which is the "Quilting Capitol" of the area. Our town is known all over the world for The Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show which is always the second weekend of July. It is only a one day show, but the classes and festivities go on for a whole week. All businesses in town are covered with quilts. Many quilts are hung inside the stores the week before the show and people walk the streets, and enjoy the quilts and entertainment during the quilt walk.

Mary and I are both retired, and are enjoying the quilting and the quilting business. Both of us quilt, or in my case, I try, and enjoys it. I'm more into the quilt shows and the people we meet and the trips we take. Mary was a teachers aide in the Eugene, Oregon school system and did a lot of art work in the various schools. She loves teaching people anything she knows about quilting. I spent most of my working years at a large paper mill.