Sheila Christensen has been stitching since making all her own clothes as a teenager.  Since taking up quilting, she has quickly developed a reputation for her designs and  her helpful and patient teaching style. Sheila has a keen interest in colour and using fabric designs in creative ways, and loves to help quilters take adventurous steps in  their quilting. 

Sheila was born in the UK and moved to New Zealand in 2002. After a career in business, she studied primary teaching at Victoria University and taught in Masterton  and in London. 

She has been the owner of Quilters’ Lane in Masterton since 2011, and she finds her  teaching experience very useful in planning and implementing her quilting classes. Sheila has won awards for her quilts including Shooting Stars, Shifting Strata and  Purple Haze. Her Modern Triangle Sampler was juried into Quiltcon in the USA. Every year, Sheila designs a Puzzle Mystery Quilt, which is run as a block of the  month from her shop. 

Sheila is author of Quilts with an Angle and The Quick and Easy Triangle Block Tool,  both published by C&T, and she designs patterns for Creative Grids USA and Benartex fabrics.