Fiber Artist, Deana Coyner
Category: Place Cleaver Brooks
Deana attended Florida State University and graduated with a Bachelor’s of Finance and Accounting at American Intercontinental University in Buckhead, Georgia. She is a fiber artist who is relatively new to quilting and loves the generational continuity that quilting provides to communities and families. Her Mom and Grandma were both self-taught and worked in garment construction, tailoring, and mending. She picked it up in high school and began structured learning in Home Economics. “Thank heavens for YouTube, she says. This is where I picked up knitting, and the love of tactile fiber art began to develop.” Walking into a local yarn store with vast quantities of color, texture, and smell piqued her curiosity to create for herself and others. Knitting stitch by stitch and weaving a story for the person she is making for was appealing. The dichotomy of that and quilting is the same: fabric selection, color choice, patterns - all with someone special in mind. From working as a controller in Tallahassee and then interviewing for a job at Cleaver Brooks, the impact of this change and the people of Thomasville on her life inspired her to document it.
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