Jodi Barrows is a nationally known quilting teacher, speaker and writer.
She currently lives in the North Texas area. Over the past twenty years, Jodi
has remarkably touched thousands of quilters throughout the world with her
unique method called Square in a Square®. Her point of view provides the
quilter with the freedom to create most any quilt design with speed and accuracy.
Jodi has spoken to quilting audiences throughout the United States, Canada and Australia. She has
appeared as a guest on several quilting shows, including TNN’s Aleene’s Creative Living; TNN’s Your
Home Studio; Perfecting Patchwork on Family Net TV and PBS series with Kaye Wood. HGTV has
shown her commercial on the quilting techniques she has developed on the Simply Quilts show.
The Square in a Square® system is a process that anyone can implement in most any design. Jodi has
written fourteen books (ten of which have been on the best seller’s list), produced four tools, two video/DVD/s’
and five teacher’s books. Additionally, she has a pattern book and fabric line based on a fiction novel she
wrote from the 1865 time period entitled “Leaving Riverton.”
She also has a Certified Teacher’s Program in the United States and Canada. Jodi has had numerous
quilts appear in McCall’s, The Quilter, Quick and Easy Quilt World, House of White Birch publications,
Quilter’s Newsletter Top Ten New Products and a Featured Teacher in the Traditional Quilter.
Jodi has been commissioned to compose quilts for many state and national organizations as well as working
with the Kansas Historical Society. She has been active in guilds as well as owning several crafting and sewing
related businesses over the years. Jodi was raised in southwest Kansas, has 2 grown sons, and is married to
Steve, her high school sweetheart.
