LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Ladies of the Lake Quilt Guild presents Lisa McKissick as the featured artist at the guild’s 18th annual Falling Leaves Quilt Show.

The show will be held in two buildings, Fritch Hall and Little Theatre, at the Lake County Fairgrounds, 401 Martin St., Lakeport.

Show hours are Saturday, Oct. 5, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 6, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Lisa McKissick is an award-winning quilter, carrying on a 125-year family tradition of quilting.

McKissick learned the art of quilting from her mom and sister. She is an expert in machine piecing, machine applique and paper piecing.

McKissick is an extraordinary quilt teacher having taught several hundred quilting classes and well over 2,500 students. She is an exciting and humorous lecturer and a talented pattern designer and developer.

She lives in Petaluma, is married, has three children and they all quilt. Her mission is to teach as many people as possible to quilt!

You will find McKissick working part-time at a quilt shop in Sonoma, where she teaches and is a buyer of fabric, notions and quilting supplies. She regularly attends Quilt Market to find the latest and greatest quilting notions and tools.

One of her lectures is “Tool Time,” featuring her favorite tools and corresponding quilts. She will have her favorite arsenal of rulers, cutters, marking devices and a number of exceptional gems for sale at her booth.

McKissick will be present Saturday and Sunday to talk with guests and present demonstrations at the quilt show.

More information on McKissick and her quilts can be found at http://cosmoquilts.com.

Presale tickets are available for $8 cash at the Clearlake and Lakeport Chamber of Commerces and at Village Sewing in Ukiah. For more information, contact Barbara Haddon at 415-209-3044.

More information can be found at http://www.LLQG.org/quilt-show.html.

Suzanne Lee is publicity chair for the Falling Leaves Quilt Show.