Meet Marcia Layton
Inheriting a love of sewing from my grandmother and mother, I have always enjoyed experimenting with all kinds of arts and crafts, from painting to smocking to embroidery, and most recently, to quilting. I love fabric, have way too much of it, (not enough!) but truly enjoy working with it and seeing all of the possibilities it offers my creative soul.
I’m a Florida native who spent much of my childhood traveling around the eastern United States and overseas to Germany and Australia with my Air Force family. Later I attended Florida State University where I graduated with a degree in French and German, and a minor in art. It was during college summers that I started working with young children as a performer and recreation counselor with the Florida State Flying High Circus at Callaway Gardens, Georgia.
For over 20 years I was a pre-K teacher and assistant director of Play Haven Preschool in Tampa, Florida, where I taught art, music, French, and school readiness skills to four-year-olds. I started making quilts using children’s handprints for the school’s spring art show and fund-raising event in 1998. The quilts were so popular and I had so much fun making them that they became an annual tradition for the next 8 years.
In 2003 my first book, Handprint Quilts, was published by Martingale and Company and was followed by Calendar Kids in 2007.
In 2006 I stopped teaching and began working at Heritage Quilt and Needlework in Tampa. What fun to be in a store full of fabric each day! Making store samples gave me the opportunity and practice to improve my quilting skills and try new techniques.
In 2008 I fell in love with yo-yos while experimenting with the Clover yo-yo makers. In searching for a way to use all of those cute little fabric puffs, I was inspired to create a little gingerbread house decorated with brightly colored yo-yo “candies”. Lollipop Lane came about when I decided to try my hand at pattern design. Other yo-yo quilts followed and to date there is no end in sight to my newest obsession.
I still call Tampa home, but in 2010 Heritage Quilt Shop closed its door. Shop owner, Betty Sadow, and I decided to try a new adventure and take the shop on the road. For the past 10 years we’ve been traveling to quilt shows all around the country. What fun and interesting travels we’ve had! I’ve also continued to teach classes and present workshops on my quilt and towel designs. Time at home is spent coming up with new patterns and sewing new samples.
In 2018, we started vending under my business name, Marcia Layton Designs and focusing on selling my patterns, the towels and Yo-Yo makers that are used for the designs at quilt shows near and far. I’m also excited to be able to offer my patterns with online shopping from the website.
Hope to see you in my travels!
Marcia
I’m a Florida native who spent much of my childhood traveling around the eastern United States and overseas to Germany and Australia with my Air Force family. Later I attended Florida State University where I graduated with a degree in French and German, and a minor in art. It was during college summers that I started working with young children as a performer and recreation counselor with the Florida State Flying High Circus at Callaway Gardens, Georgia.
For over 20 years I was a pre-K teacher and assistant director of Play Haven Preschool in Tampa, Florida, where I taught art, music, French, and school readiness skills to four-year-olds. I started making quilts using children’s handprints for the school’s spring art show and fund-raising event in 1998. The quilts were so popular and I had so much fun making them that they became an annual tradition for the next 8 years.
In 2003 my first book, Handprint Quilts, was published by Martingale and Company and was followed by Calendar Kids in 2007.
In 2006 I stopped teaching and began working at Heritage Quilt and Needlework in Tampa. What fun to be in a store full of fabric each day! Making store samples gave me the opportunity and practice to improve my quilting skills and try new techniques.
In 2008 I fell in love with yo-yos while experimenting with the Clover yo-yo makers. In searching for a way to use all of those cute little fabric puffs, I was inspired to create a little gingerbread house decorated with brightly colored yo-yo “candies”. Lollipop Lane came about when I decided to try my hand at pattern design. Other yo-yo quilts followed and to date there is no end in sight to my newest obsession.
I still call Tampa home, but in 2010 Heritage Quilt Shop closed its door. Shop owner, Betty Sadow, and I decided to try a new adventure and take the shop on the road. For the past 10 years we’ve been traveling to quilt shows all around the country. What fun and interesting travels we’ve had! I’ve also continued to teach classes and present workshops on my quilt and towel designs. Time at home is spent coming up with new patterns and sewing new samples.
In 2018, we started vending under my business name, Marcia Layton Designs and focusing on selling my patterns, the towels and Yo-Yo makers that are used for the designs at quilt shows near and far. I’m also excited to be able to offer my patterns with online shopping from the website.
Hope to see you in my travels!
Marcia
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