Tresa grew up with many kinds of needlework but has been an enthusiast of quilt making since the completion of her first quilt: Grandmother’s Flower Garden in 1982. Since then she has been an avid student of quilting and is now sharing those lessons with others.

Tresa has quilts published in “Hearts and Flowers - Hand Appliqué From Start To Finish” (2002) and “A Heartland Album - More Appliqué Techniques" (2003), both published by Kansas City Star Books.

Tresa was the local chairman for the Kansas Quilters Organization meetings in Seneca in 1989 and 1994.

She is a member of the Quilt Lover’s Guild (co-founder and president, 1993), American Quilter’s Society (quilt juried into 1998 show), International Quilters Association, The Appliqué Society and the Heartland Quilt Network.

She has been teaching at the Sunflower Quilt Shop since the beginning of 2002.