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Suzanne taught herself to quilt from a library book about 25 years ago because her four children needed covers on their beds. Suzanne still has not taken any quilting classes and is now amazed that she finds herself teaching and lecturing all over the country.

Suzanne's quilts have won numerous awards including:

• One of the Twentieth Century's 100 Best American Quilts
• The Gingher Award (a $10,000 prize for best handworkmanship) awarded at the AQS show
• The Timeless Treasures Award (a $12,000 prize for best handworkmanship) awarded at the AQS show
• Best of Show at Vermont Quilt Festival; Silver Dollar City; Rockome Gardens; Quintessential Quilt Show in University City; Dogwood Festival in Knoxville, TN; Columbus Heritage Quilt Show in Columbus, IN
• Silver Award in Fabric Gardens, Osaka, Japan
• First Prize Quilt Expo III, The Hague, Holland
• First Prize at International Quilt Festival in Houston; AQS in Paducah, KY; Quilter's Heritage Celebration in Lancaster, PA; Indiana Quilting Party in Indianapolis; Western Heritage Center in Billings, MT
• Grand Prize in applique three years in a row awarded by Better Homes and Gardens Books at the International Quilt Festival
• Suzanne was selected to be included in the "30 Distinguished Quilt Artists of the World Exhibit" in Tokyo, Japan from January 25th through February 2nd, 2003.

TOUJOURS NOUVEAU and MOTHER'S DAY are in the permanent collection of the Museum of the American Quilter's Society in Paducah, KY. She has had other quilts shown by invitation at The New England Quilt Museum, Phipps Conservatory, Montshire Museum of Science, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Mitchell Museum, Wilmington Museum of Natural History, galleries in the San Francisco and Los Angelos Public Libraries, Wickrath Castle in Monchengladbach, Germany, the lobby of the House of Representatives in Washington, and a one-woman exhibit at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum.

Her works have also received extensive publication in magazines and have been featured on the covers of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, Australia's Down Under Quilts, and England's Patchwork and Quilting. Among books that contain her work are: America's Heritage Quilts, The Quilt Encyclopedia Illustrated, Great American Quilts 1994, and QUILTS, A Living Tradition.

Suzanne's first book, TAKE-AWAY APPLIQUE, was published by the American Quilter's Society in the Spring of 1998. ADVENTURE & APPLIQUE was published February 2008 by the AQS.