Carter Houck
Pattern maker, designer, editor, author and coauthor of numerous books.
Inducted in 1990 at the Continental Quilt Congress, Falls Church, Virginia.
Research Associate: Linda Wilson
Carter Houck is a native of the Commonwealth of Virginia where she was schooled in fashion
designing. She worked for pattern companies, wrote sewing columns and did free-lancing writing. In
1970s she became editor of Lady’s Circle Needlework and in 1974 she began editing Lady’s Circle
Patchwork Quilts. With photographer Myron Miller she wrote the book American Quilts and How to
Make Them in 1975. She has several other books to her credit and is presently writing a column on
“Museums and Quilts” for Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine.

Carter has judged many quilt exhibits. Her hobbies include mountain hiking and sailboat racing. She
has moved back to her home state, living in Charlottesville with her husband, Grant Holt.