Christine Perrigo was an award-winning, internationally exhibited longarm quilter and had been quilting since 2003. With a background in computer science and 15 years experience in the computer industry, she had a unique, highly technical approach to computerized quilting and surface design. She focused on high end, custom digital quilting for modern quilts and approaches each quilt as opportunity to explore new territory and push boundaries.

Collaboration, exploration, and invention were cornerstones to Christine’s process. She had the ability to see what others could not in their own work and treated quilting as an additional element to enhance the one-of-a-kind nature of a quilt. Since 2014, a Gammill Statler had been her partner in learning and exploring the world of longarm quilting.

Aesthetically, Christine loved contrast and interplay; minimal and maximal, organic and geometric, balance and asymmetry. She used thread as paint and batting as sculpture. As a teacher, she focused on how her students’ could incorporate her approach into their quilting design and find a unique voice in their own quilts.

Christine’s work was featured in publications such as Simply Moderne, QuiltCon Magazine, Curated Quilts, American Quilter, Scraps Inc. 2 and Modern Quilts: Designs of the New Century. Her quilting and personal work hung at AQS Paducah, Road to California, QuiltCon, the International Quilt Festival, the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, and the National Quilt Museum.

To see a complete list of her accomplishments, please see her resume. Her newest work can be found on her Instagram, @ccpquilt. 

Christine lived in Colorado, USA, and sadly, passed away in 2024.

website: Contemporary Custom Quilting