Lynn B. Welsch started sewing at 9 years old and made her first quilt while in high school after seeing a quilt exhibit at the Kutztown, Pa. Folk Art Festival.
She earned a BS in Art Education in 1973 from the University of Southern Maine where her interest in fiber arts started. She began making traditional quilts in 1976 and art quilts in the early 1990s.
Lynn’s Art Quilt pieces have been juried into the Houston International Quilt Festival, the American Quilter’s Society Show in Paducah, Kentucky, a National Quilting Association Show, a Studio Art Quilt Associates national show, the Hoffman Challenge, and the Tims Art Quilt Studio Gallery.
In 2007, Lynn retired to Mimbres, NM and established her art quilt business, Mountain Spirits Studio. She is active in the New Mexico group of the Studio Art Quilt Associates, exhibiting and selling some of her work in many regional shows.
In the fall of 2011, her original design quilt Texas Triumph was included in the book Lone Stars III, Texas Quilts from 1986-2011 and in the book 500 Traditional Quilts by Lark Books in 2014.