Marsha McCloskey is one of the quilting world's best-known authors and teachers. She has written or co-authored over twenty-five books on quiltmaking since 1981. Specializing in the Feathered Star and other traditional pieced designs, she has taught drafting, rotary cutting and machine piecing to quilters all over the United States and in nine foreign countries. Each year she travels about once a month to teach and lecture. She has her own small publishing company, Feathered Star Productions, Inc., a website, and has designed fabric for quilters since 1996 when her first Staples line was introduced by Fabric Sales Company. Her newest book, written with Sharon Evans Yenter, is called The Best of Blended Quilts. Another new book, Feathered Star Quilt Blocks II is planned for 2009.