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Pamela Carrico,
Owner, designer & knitter
Pamela Carrico, owner and head designer for CMO/CM2,
began hand knitting and sewing when she was 16 years old. It was then her
love affair with fabrics of all kind began. Art classes in high school
and college helped develop her talent with color and texture. Knitting,
sewing, and needlecrafting garments and gifts for her family contributed
to the deveolpment of her skills.
In 1978, while living in Kansas, Pamela discovered
knitting machines. This enabled her to start using yarns she had only dreamed
of and to make hand-loomed knit fabrics of all kinds. This lead to creating
hand-loomed garments for more than just her family and developing a small
market for her knits at craft shows and doing production knitting for a
specialty catalogue. In 1982, with help from a good friend,
Cindy Kiser, and with the inspiration of Pat Higby's book, "PDQ Jacket",
Pamela learned to view the knits she made as fabric to be combined with
other fabrics, and Quilt-Knit jackets were created. Another
friend, Rita Baker, contributed quilted fronts to these creations, also.
These partnerships continued until Pamela's move to Bartlesville, Oklahoma
in 1987. At Bartlesville, she gave her line of garments
the name of "Cherokee Maiden of Oklahoma Designer Knits" for her
One of a kind designs and "Cherokee Maiden, Too Fun-Knits" for everything
from stocking hats to aphgans. In 1990, while in a craft mall
in Bartlesville, Pamela saw quilts that excited her color senses thus found
her quilt designer, Bonnie Eggert. Working together either from the yarn
to the quilt or from quilt to yarn, Pamela and Bonnie have combined their
skills and expanded the styles of "Quilt-Knits" available from CMO.
Continuing exploring the world of fabric Pamela has started
some specialty machine quilting of her own to combine to jackets and vests
also. As the exotic yarns market grows, so does Pamela's
design combinations and as always, she is looking forward to the next creation.
Pamela's family includes Jack, her husband of
38 year, 2 grown daughters, 1 granddaughter plus a pair each of beagles
and cats. She has knit almost every day for the past 25 years, except for
the six months she took off to make Angela's wedding dress in 1992 and
Kristin's wedding dress in 2000. Love of yarn & fabric is second
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Bonnie Eggert,
quilt designer
Bonnie Eggert has been sewing since 1962 and
making quilts since 1970. She has made hundreds of quilts, quilted home
accessories, and quilted garments. Some items have been given as gifts
to family and friends, but in the last ten years, most have been sold through
a crafts mall in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where her hand quilted items were
very popular with customers.
Bonnie's first major in college was interior
design, but obtained her B.A. in business administration.
She has been married for 32 years to husband
Barry and has two grown sons, Brian and Ben. She recently took early retirement
after 20 years with the Phillips Petroleum Company international headquarters
in Bartlesville and is now devoting her efforts to her quilting and researching
the family's ancestors.
Here is Bonnie's own Webpage.
Bonnie Eggerts Quilt Page |
| Rita Baker, Knitter and Quilter |
Sally Williams, Quilter |
Teresa Wofle - FuzzBalls,
Knitter and Embroidary |
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Pamela
Carrico, Cherokee Maiden of Oklahoma Designer Knitwear
Bartlesville,
OK 74006 * (918) 333-8933) * Cherokee@maiden.net
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