Phyllis Price has been a life long sewist with her earliest memory of sitting on her grandmother’s lap as she treadled. Phyllis has served as a 4-H Adult Leader and judge at local, district, and state levels. Handwork is her love and is currently working on learning English Paper Piecing and hand quilting. Quilting had to be put on a back burner until she retired from education. She served 24 years as an Interpreter for the Deaf, Counselor’s Clerk, and finally a middle school English teacher.
About two years before retirement, she began taking quilting classes and actually completed two or three. Somehow, she was exposed to Quilts of Valor and decided to make two QOVs per year. Having grown up in Abilene, Texas and during the Viet Nam War, she was influenced by military personnel associated with Dyess Air Force Base. Those two QOVs quickly became an obsession. She wrapped her first veteran in Odessa and was hooked. Her first retreat was a QOV retreat where she met/made many new friends. She currently is the Group Leader for Permian Basin Quilts of Valor. She and her husband Greg have been married for 42 years. They have two children-a daughter who is a research scientist and a son who is a violinist.