Bonnie Leman

She was born September 28, 1926, in Purdin, Missouri. Her parents were Rex and Laura Hale, and she had one brother, Roy. Bonnie Leman left home at the age of 16 to attend Park University. She graduated in 1947, at the age of 19, earning a degree in home economics with a minor in English. After graduating, she taught English and home economics to junior high students in Shannon City, Iowa and Abilene, Kansas, and received a teaching certificate while working. However, she found she did not enjoy her second teaching post, so she moved to Denver, Colorado with her brother. There, she worked as a waitress, then taught herself shorthand from a book at the Denver Public Library so that she could work as a secretary, and worked her way up to a production manager position at an electrical manufacturing company. She then moved to Washington, D.C. and worked as a secretary at the National Academy of Sciences before moving back to Denver to be nearer to her parents. She then began pursuing a teaching degree at the University of Denver. In 1954, she met George Leman in the teaching master's program there, and they were married later that same year. == ''Quilter's Newsletter Magazine'' ==

In 1968, the Lemans started a mail-order business selling quilting templates, so that Bonnie could stay home with their children while also earning income to supplement George's teacher's salary. The templates they sold were reproduced from the collection of Kansas City Star quilt patterns that Bonnie inherited from her mother after she died. Barbara Brackman, and Jennifer Chiaverini. The magazine ceased publication in late 2016, citing economic reasons caused by a changing market. == Other work ==

In addition to her work on the magazine, Leman was also a freelance writer. She wrote and published books and other publications on the subject of quilt making. She traveled much of the world in the course of her career, and contributed to the growth of the quilt making art in many countries. Books • Quick and Easy Quilting (1972), • Patchwork Sampler Quilt, Intermediate & Advanced Lessons in Patchwork (1979) • Log Cabin Quilts (1980), • Taking the Math Out of Making Patchwork Quilts (1981), • Patchwork Sampler Legacy Quilt: Intermediate and Advanced Lesson in Patchwork (1984), – co-author • Hands All Around: Quilts From Many Nations (1987), – co-author • Quilts: Visions of the World (1988), • Choice Scrap Quilts (1994), == Personal life ==

George Leman died in 1986. Leman died in Arvada, Colorado on September 4, 2010, at the age of 83, and was survived by 7 children. == See also ==