Mary Jane was born and raised just a few miles from downtown Los Angeles. But every summer her family would take a LONG road trip to rural Wisconsin to visit her Norwegian relatives. This was where her heart would soar. Cousins, cousins and more cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents galore. Spending time with her grandfather on his 113 acre dairy farm and feeling the baby lambs with bottles was heaven. Of course her grandparents spoke very little English but she soon learned one very important word: lefse. It's a a traditional soft Norwegian flatbread and something she still enjoys to this day. Moving from California to Western Massachusetts brought her back to her roots–a small rural setting. She always says she didn't choose to be born in Los Angeles and she always asked to stay in Wisconsin when vacation was drawing to an end. Mary Jane comes from a long line of quilters. She was named after her great-grandmother who sold quilts during the depression to make ends meet. She has been designing fabric for Henry Glass since 2012 and enjoys each and every day of it. She currently has been designing popular lines of Nordic-inspired fabrics. She now operates as both Holly Hill Quilt Designs and also The Nordic Quilter.