Cathy and Sue are sisters who live 10 minutes from one another and share a love of quilts and of designing their own patterns and quilts. Both of them take advantage of the opportunities to attend classes and workshops in their local area as well as national conventions. 

Cathy Audley  and   Sue Chaffee

Sue Chaffee has been quilting since 1989. A former elementary school teacher, she has taught at guilds and quilt shops in the Kansas and Nebraska area. She has been a teacher at Nebraska State Quilters Guild convention several years. Sue is a member of the Nebraska State Quilters Guild, the American Quilt Society, and the Olathe Quilters Guild, where she has served as newsletter editor and as president. 

Her quilt, Weddingflower, was juried into the 2006 Denver National Quilt Show. Autumn Still Life was exhibited at the AQS show in Nashville in 2002. In 1998, her quilt, My Nebraska Garden, won Best of Show at the Calico Quilt Club annual quilt show in Columbus, NE.

Sue enjoys the many faces of quilting, and likes to manipulate fabric through dyeing, printing, painting, discharging, and embellishing.

Cathy Audley has been quilting for 12 years.  She too enjoys hand dyeing, painting and printing fabrics to make them reflect her creativity.  She has taught workshops and classes for guilds and at local guilds in Kansas and Nebraska and at Quilt Nebraska, the Nebraska state convention.  She is a member of the Olathe Quilters Guild, AQS, the Nebraska State Quilters Guild and Ozark Piecemakers Quilt Guild. 

Her many years as a secretary gave her coordinating and organizing skills.  While she enjoys many aspects of quilting she specializes in threadwork embellishment which she uses often in bobbin drawing and trapunto.