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Sylvia Ann Landman author, teacher, columnist, consultant and designer began teaching needlework and quilting classes for California Community Colleges in 1962 and added small business classes in 1982. She also teaches and lectures for guilds, shops and national organizations across the U.S.
Curious needlework students wanted to know how Sylvia made her livelihood in the creative arts. She responded by adding eight entrepreneurial classes to her college schedule such as: Arts in the Marketplace, How to Start a Mail Order Business, Writing & Designing for Crafts Magazines, Time Management, Getting Published, Selling from the Internet, Start Your Own Home Teaching Studio and Couples in Business. She wanted to show students they could do it too!
Sylvia has traveled to Europe interviewing internationally known authors & designers such as Kaffe Fassett, Sasha Kagen and the Curator of the Knitting Museum in the Shetland Islands. She comments that her favorite classroom was aboard Holland American Cruise Lines sailing as their arts and crafts instructor.
Sylvia wrote a two year column about how to make quilts using Quilt-as-you-go methods for Quilt Craft Magazine, called, “Let’s Make a Quilt Together.” Readers across the country followed along, making two blocks per issue ending with answers to the common questions, “How do I put my blocks together?” and “Will it look funny on the back?”
In addition to maintaining a regular column for the Quilting Quarterly Journal, and frequent contributor to The Professional Quilter Magazine, Sylvia is the author of: Crafting for Dollars, Turn Your Craft Hobby Into Cash, Prima Publishing, 1996
Make Your Quilting Pay for Itself, F&W/Betterway, 1997
Quilting for Fun & Profit, Prima Publishing, 1999
Sylvia lives in Novato, CA, a small suburb of San Francisco with her husband, James Rasmussen. Students often ask if she has tired of sewing and working with her hands. No, she still has a large, active studio, (recently renovated) creating and sewing with her very supportive husband in the evenings. When not actively working in her business, she relaxes by playing her piano or organ. Sylvia also enjoys putting on frequent dinner parties for the couple’s many friends.
Allworth Press books written by Sylvia Ann Landman:
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