About Us

Our first trips are something we look back on and laugh about now.  For our first retreat, we rented a house in Big Bear and had eight paying customers.  Arlene Stamper taught a weekend workshop on Values. It was a great time and everyone enjoyed themselves. The weekend was a success, but there was one small glitch: we had each paid our own way for the weekend which was substantially more than what we charged our customers!!  We definitely needed to work on our pricing.

For the first four years, we ran the business in our spare time, on a shoestring budget.  In 1994, we added partner Sue Glass. The three of us worked together, growing and expanding Traveling Quilters. Sue retired in 2014 after being with us for 20 years. So now it’s back to just the two of us overseeing the company.

 In the past 32 years, we have conducted over 250 trips. We have gone several times to Paducah and Houston. Other destinations have included the Vermont Quilt Festival; Baltimore/Washington, D.C./Philadelphia (yes, that memorable trip in September 2001); Hawaii; Seattle (twice); the Sisters Quilt Show in Oregon (three times); Denver; Washington, D.C. and Williamsburg; Colorado; Nashville and Memphis; Lowell, Minnesota; Iowa; Wisconsin; Charleston and Savannah. We’ve led weekend trips throughout California; day trips all over Southern California; and lots of retreats in Big Bear and Temecula.  We are also proud to be the tour guide for bus trips during the Road to California Quilters’ Conference and Showcase.   

 All of our trips are fun and memorable but what has to be our favorite part are the friendships we’ve made along the way with some wonderful quilters (and some non-quilters too!). We’ve also enjoyed watching over and over again people meeting for the first time on our trips and become lasting friends. 

 We look forward to having you join us soon on one of our next trips. 

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