IDA LA-VERN COUCH

MEMBER, AFRICAN AMERICAN QUILT CIRCLE OF DURHAM

Ida Couch is from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she attended and graduated from Chapel Hill High School. She is a member of St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Ida lives and works in the wonderful city of Durham, North Carolina. Ida graduated from UNC-Greensboro with a B.S. degree and a few years ago graduated from Phoenix University with a M.B.A. in Business Management.

Quilting is something that Ida has always wanted to learn for a very long time, actually since a little girl. Ida has been a seamstress for over fifty years and has always had a passion for fabrics. Ida joined the African American Quilt Circle in 2002 because of a friend, Bertie Howard, who was one of the founding members. Bertie encouraged Ida to become a member of AAQC and she is glad she did. Bertie has been such an inspiration as well as other members of the quilt circle.

Ida wanted to quilt in order to use different quilting techniques to embellish apparel designs and to create beautiful quilts for everyone to enjoy. Ida’s grandmother quilted and used fabrics from old garments and sacks. Ida has always striven to learn to do everything she did. Ida wants to continue the tradition of quilting in her family and pass it on to others in the community.