2026 May Guild Meeting: Variable Geometries for Quilt Designs with Roger Winchell

Variable Geometries for Quilt Designs

With Roger Winchell

Roger Winchell began quilting by accident in 2009. (He will tell about this in his program.) Before that he pursued careers and hobbies that have been useful in his quilt designs, but which did not particularly presage his current fascination with quilts.

Originally from Ithaca, in upstate New York, he moved in 1962 to Florida.  He has degrees in Physics (BS), Mathematics (MS), Industrial and Systems Engineering (MS) and Classical Greek and Latin (BA). He has worked for the Navy in DC for four years, and as a computer systems analyst for the National Climatic Data Center until his retirement in 2004. He has been married to Katie for 58 years and they have a son, Adrian who lives in Arden.

His hobbies, past and present, include reading, piano, running, languages, stained glass, travel, and, most recently, quilting.  In the 1990’s he earned a BA degree in Classical Greek and Latin. He has run 44 marathons in 42 different states.  He has visited 3128 of the 3141 counties in the US, and once visited all 48 states (except Alaska and Hawaii) in 9 ½ days.  He and Katie are now trying to spend Adrian’s inheritance by traveling as much as possible around the world, including frequent trips to Costa Rica and other Central American countries to learn Spanish.

His colorful, geometric, original quilts have been crowd-pleasers since his very first quilt won the Viewers’ Choice at the Asheville Quilt Show in 2010.  He usually creates two or three competition quilts a year, but finds time for making quilts for friends, families and strangers (through the AQG Community Quilts program. 

He began giving talks and workshops in 2014 and is slowly constructing a website (HeQuilts.com) to display his creations.