The Feathered Star Productions website is pretty much a family affair these days, featuring the work of both Marsha McCloskey, quilt designer, and David McCloskey, bioregionalist and mapmaker. Married for over 50 years, they are both semi-retired and live in Eugene, Oregon.

Marsha McCloskey is well known throughout the quilting world as a teacher, author, and fabric designer. She specializes in Feathered Star designs and precision machine piecing. For many years, she traveled to lecture and teach workshops around the United States and in several foreign countries. Her quilts have a traditional look, yet are an inspiration for quilters of every sort. Her exceptional sense of color encourages others to branch out into new color schemes and fabric uses. Marsha's designs for multi-fabric, rotary-cut and machine-pieced quilts can all be made by the average quilter.
Her first book, Small Quilts was published in 1981 and is the book that countless quilters used to make their very first quilts. Since then she has written or co-authored thirty books on quiltmaking, designed many fabric lines, and a set of rotary cutting rulers.

David McCloskey, a former Seattle University professor of Sociology, Ecology and Geography, is one of the founding bioregionalists that helped give the term 'Cascadia' to this beautiful land of flowing waters. Aside from creating some of the most definitive, and stunning maps of the region, he practices and teaches 'Cascadian bioregionalism' which moves us away from pre-defined, existing and often arbitrary political boundaries, towards a watershed and community first approach, of getting grounded in our place, and the culture that it breathes, and every person taking a role and responsibility of what it means to be an inhabitant of this land. One can learn more on the Cascadia Institute here: http://cascadia-institute.org