Diane MacLeod Shink
Quiltmaker ::Instructor ::
AQS Certified Appraiser
Website: www3.sympatico.ca/dimacquilt/index.html
68 Strathearn North,
Montreal West,
Quebec H4X 1X7,Ontario, Canada
Phone (514) 486-2768
E-mail:dimacquilt@sympatico.ca
Biographical Information
Diane MacLeod Shink is a native of Nova Scotia, a graduate of Mount Allison and
SUNY Universities and a retired high school teacher. Diane teaches quilting,
collects and restores aprons and quilts. She completed the requirements for
certification as a Quilt Appraiser in 2000 in Paducah, Kentucky. Her interest in
historical quilts has yielded the column Yesterdays Quilts printed
quarterly in The Canadian
Quilter. Trunk shows, lectures on quilt history, and care of quilts have
been given to guilds throughout Canada. She resides in Montreal West, Quebec
with her husband and two grown sons.
Professional Affiliations
American Quilter’s Society Certified Appraiser
Professional Association of Appraisers of Quilted Textiles
History Related Lectures and Workshops
Illustrated Lectures:
Researching the Civil War
Veterans Memorial Quilt
Caring for Grandmothers Quilts
Victorian Era Quilting
Trunk Shows
150 years of Star Quilt Designs
Fads and styles of Aprons and Quilts in the 20th
Century
Workshops
Old Quilts Clinic. How when and why of restoring quilts
Lemoyne
Stars, Old and New Study older quilts and make new stars.
Quilt Appreciation
Day.The hows and whys of appraising
Quilts Vintage textiles .Turning them into
quilts.
E~Mail Diane at dimacquilt@sympatico.ca