Eleanor Burns

Eleanor Burns (born July 3, 1945, in Zelienople, Pennsylvania) is a master quilter and former TV series host of Quilt in a Day, which aired in 1994 on PBS for six seasons.

Career
Burns first started stitching on her Aunt Edna's feed sacks. Her first book, Make a Quilt in a Day: Log Cabin Pattern, was self-published in 1978. The book has been credited with starting a quilt-making revolution as people learned Burns's style of stitching a quilt.

She has since written more than 100 books on the subject of quilting. In addition, Burns has written many patterns and developed a series of specialty rulers for quilting. The Quilt in a Day TV series, which first aired in 1990, was based on Burns's book Make a Quilt in a Day.

Award
In 2012, Burns was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame.

List of publications

 * All Star Quilts
 * Amish Quilt
 * Applique in a Day
 * Bears in the Woods
 * Birds in the Air
 * Boston Common Quilt
 * Christmas Quilts and Crafts
 * Cross Stitch Quilts
 * Day & Night Quilt Book
 * Delectable Mountains
 * Double Pinwheel Quilt
 * Dutch Windmills
 * Easy Strip Tulip
 * Fans & Flutterbys Quilts
 * Flying Geese Quilt in a Day
 * Garden Lattic
 * GO! Qube - Mix and Match Blocks and Quilts Book
 * Go! Sampler Book
 * Grandmother's Garden Quilt
 * Hearts Delight-Nine Patch Variations
 * It's 'El'ementary
 * Jewel Box Quilt
 * Last Minute Gifts
 * Lover's Knot Placemats
 * Lover's Knot Quilt
 * Machine Quilting Primer
 * Magic Vine Quilt
 * Make a Quilt in a Day: Log Cabin Pattern (1978)
 * May Basket
 * Nana's Garden
 * Northern Star
 * Orion's Star Quilt
 * Pineapple Quilt
 * Quick Trip Quilts
 * Quilt Blocks on American Barns
 * Quilter's Almanac Block Party Three
 * Quilts From El's Attic
 * Quilts from El's Kitchen
 * Quilts Through the Seasons
 * Recycled Treasures from Grandma's Attic
 * Radiant Stars Quilts
 * Schoolhouse Wallhanging
 * Scrap Quilt
 * Snowball Quilt Simplified
 * Spools and Tools Wallhanging
 * A Star For All Seasons
 * Star Log Cabin
 * Star Spangled Favorites
 * Stars Across America Block Party Series Seven
 * Still Stripping - After 25 Years
 * Stockings and Small Quilts
 * Sunbonnet Sue Visits Quilt in a Day
 * Tales of First Ladies and Their Quilt Blocks
 * Tennessee Waltz Quilt
 * Trio of Treasured Quilts
 * Triple Irish Chain
 * Underground Railroad Sampler
 * Victory Quilts
 * Wild Goose Chase Quilts

Personal life
Burns maintains a quilting studio at her Bear's Paw Ranch in Julian, California, a mountain town in San Diego County.