Judging
Mary began hand piecing doll clothes at a very young age and moved seamlessly into using the sewing machine in seventh grade Home Economics and has never looked back. She enjoys hand-held needlework of all types. She completed her Teacher Certification through the National Quilting Association in 1991, Judging Certification in 2006, and Master Quilt Judging Certification in 2009. She is a member of the American Quilt Society, the Appliqué Society, the Piecemakers Quilt Guild, Zanesville, OH, and the Cumberland Quilters, Cumberland, OH.
She enjoys the challenge of competing in quilting on a local, regional, national and international level. Her work has traveled the country with the Hoffman Challenge, been exhibited in many quilt shows and seen in Quilters Newsletter Magazine, Quilting Today and the NQA Quilting Quarterly. She prides herself on attention to detail and in addition to winning first place ribbons she has won an award for most precise appliqué, best workmanship and the obsessive-compulsive prize. She feels being a quilt judge has made her a better quilter.
Mary can be reached at zesigerm@hotmail.com.