Haywood, Dixie 1933-

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HAYWOOD, Dixie 1933-

PERSONAL: Born May 6, 1933, in Seattle, WA; daughter of Lewis Norman (a trucking manager) and Rosalie (Revie) Hamer; married Robert Clarence Haywood (a meteorologist), June 14, 1952; children: Brent Dennis, Todd Robert, Dana Claire. Education: Attended Florida State University, 1960-63, and University of Puget Sound, 1963-64.

ADDRESSES: Home and office—3536 Overholser Dr., Bethany, OK 73008.

CAREER: Freelance teacher of quiltmaking in Tacoma, WA, 1974-75, Lancaster, CA, 1975-78, and Oklahoma City, OK, 1978—. Founder of Scissortail Publications. Director of handicapped swimming program in Tacoma, 1970-73.

MEMBER: International Guild of Craft Journalists, Authors, and Photographers, North American Quilt Guild, National Quilt Association, Oklahoma Designer Craftsmen.

WRITINGS:

The Contemporary Crazy Quilt Project Book, Crown (New York, NY), 1977.

Crazy Quilting with a Difference, Scissortail Publications (Bethany, OK), 1981.

Crazy Quilt Patchwork: A Quick and Easy Approach with 19 Projects, Dover (New York, NY), 1986.

(With Jane Hall) Perfect Pineapples: Exploring Design and Techniques for Pieced Pineapple Quilts, photographs by Greg Plachta, Robert C. Haywood, and Robert M. Hall, illustrations by Helen Young Frost, C & T (Martinez, CA), 1989.

Quick-and-Easy Crazy Quilt Patchwork: With 14 Projects, Dover (New York, NY), 1992.

(With Jane Hall) Precision-Pieced Quilts: Using the Foundation Method, Dover (New York, NY), 1992.

(With Jane Hall) Firm Foundations: Techniques and Quilt Blocks for Precision Piecing, American Quilter's Society (Paducah, KY), 1996.

(With Jane Hall) Hall & Haywood's Foundation Quilts: Building on the Past, American Quilter's Society (Paducah, KY), 2000.

(With Jane Hall) Foundation Borders: Hall & Haywood, American Quilter's Society (Paducah, KY), 2002.

Contributor to Quiltmaking Teacher's Workbook.

SIDELIGHTS: A professional quilter, Dixie Haywood has spent many years teaching her favorite craft and has also written extensively on the topic, often with coauthor Jane Hall. As she once commented, publishing books, and even founding a small press called Scissortail Publications, was "the result of my own work as a quilt craftsman, designer, and teacher, so my childhood desire to be a writer came from the other interest I have had since childhood—working with fabric."