​4th generation quilter donates work to families

Linda Baxter Lasco with the quilts she has donated to TLC.

By Neil Allen
 
Linda Baxter Lasco of Sunapee stopped by the TLC office today with several quilts she had made. She donated them to the families TLC works with. She makes the small quilts as samples to share with students of her scrap fabric machine quilting classes.

​“I don’t have any lectures or classes for a bit so I thought I would donate what I’ve made. It is nice to know they’re being used,” Linda said.
 
Linda has donated quilts to TLC in the past, too. “I’m happy to know there is a place where I can take them and they’ll be used by families and babies,” she said.
 
Linda has been making quilts for nearly 50 years and is a fourth generation quilter. She started quilting while reading “The Mountain Artisan Quilting Book” by Alfred Allan Lewis.
 
“I remember telling my sister years ago, ‘I love quilts but I don’t think I could make them.’ I started reading the book and realized I was reading a pattern and tried it. I started making patchwork pillows and made one for a class in college,” she said.
 
She most recently held classes at the North Country Quilters & Sew ‘n Vac in Rumney, NH and offers classes to quilting guilds. In addition to teaching quilting, Linda has worked as an editor for the American Quilters Society. “I learned a lot from the books I edited,” she said.
 
Thank you, Linda, for the wonderful quilts. The families who receive them will love them!

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