Quilted journey: Bigfork maker’s work to be featured in ‘Think Modern, Montana!’
Artist Merrie Ford in her theArtBarnMT studio in Bigfork. (Avery Howe/Bigfork Eagle)
Merrie Ford’s quilting journey started in eighth grade sewing class in Kalispell. Now, after moving around the country and picking up different skills and styles along the way, she has returned to the Flathead to start her own studio, theArtBarnMT, in Bigfork.
It was under the patient guidance of Naomi Perry, who taught home economics at Kalispell’s junior high school for 22 years, that Ford first found her passion.
“I pretty much fell in love with fabric and sewed a lot of clothes during high school and college,” Ford said. A home economics major and art history minor, it seems natural that Ford would make her way to quilting. At 22 years old, she became one of the youngest founding members of Flathead Quilters’ Guild.
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