Anelie Belden

Fiber artist Anelie Belden began her sewing career working in the fashion industry which gave her the skills to begin her Quilting career. After owning her own quilt store and teaching quilting in her area she began to design quilts. This lead her to  taking the traditional Dresden Quilt design and creating a new updated Dresden Design which are featured in her book titled “Thoroughly Modern Dresden”. Not only are the designs modern, they are constructed using a breakthrough piecing technique to improve speed and accuracy. Belden has recorded a program demonstrating her technique with “The Quilt Show”, starring Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims. She has also taught at Quilt Guilds throughout the country, Houston Quilt Festival and with Empty Spools Seminars in Asilomar, California. An accomplished quilter, Belden has also had Her quilt “Amazon Horizons”  featured in the 2012 “The Art of The Quilt” Calendar published by Orange  Circle Studio.

     Anelie currently lives in a small community in Northern California. Her home is situated in the wooded hillside of Volcano. She and her husband enjoy the quiet and solitude of living amongst pine trees and daffodils. The snowy winter season provides a time of staying in her studio and creating the new quilt designs that dance in her head all year long. Volcano is known for “Daffodil Hill” which is a ranch which has planted thousands of daffodil bulbs which blooms in Spring. Daffodils have always been a favorite flower of Anelie’s and she enjoys the visiting Daffodil Hill each year and seeing the flowers bloom.