Mary Nelle (Dudley) is a native Texan, having been born in San Antonio, while her dad was stationed there with the army during WWII. During her youth, she lived in Moscow, TX, and Tulsa, OK, before moving to Houston where she spent most of her school years. She graduated from Milby High, in Houston and attended Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches.
Mary Nelle works part time for the Lower Colorado River Authority at one of their rural storage facilities a few miles outside Bastrop. When not at her 3-day-a-week she can usually be found pursuing her quilting hobby with a passion.
Teapot quilt at Round Top, TX.
When we were designing our house, the main focus was the sewing room with all other rooms being secondary. Mary Nelle can be found most non-working, waking hours in her sewing room working away on her latest quilting project. The background for this page is from one of Mary Nelle's creations. One of her quilts, Everything I Love About Bastrop, was chosen to represent Bastrop County at the 2001 Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. The center block is a deer which represents the one she hit on the highway on her way to work one morning.
Quilting is a part of Mary Nelle's heritage, passed down to her from her mother and both grandmothers. She pieced her first quilt top, a 9 patch pattern, as a teenager. Over the years, many friends and family have received quilts for special occasions and every new baby is sure to receive a quilt made by Mary Nelle. She belongs to the Loblolly Pine Needles Quilting Bee, the Austin Quilt Guild and the Bastrop Senior's Center Quilters.
Ms Kitty shares Mary Nelle's passion for quilts. Her
job is to test each one for comfort.
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