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deadline, I sat and quilted for 12 hours a day until it was finished.”
Jinny credits her family—husband John, sons Sean 14 and Darren 11, and daughter Kiran, 7—with patience and help during that trying period. The 52,500 prize money she received “will probably be used for some project benefitting the entire family, because they were so supportive,” she added.
A “Traditionalist” in her quilting art, Jinny does all her work by hand and uses only 100 per cent cotton fabrics. She was originally inspired to learn the craft while living in India, where she became fascinated with the dark Indian calico prints (originally calicos were exported to England from the Indian port of Calicut).
"Although I come from a family of artists, I had never really found my own medium, but when I looked at the scraps of Indian cotton I had left from sewing, I decided not to waste them but to try quilting,” she said. Her First effort, “Flower
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