Karen has always had a passion for art and anything ‘hands on’. From Kindergarten to the fifth grade, she won the homeroom art contest every year, and so began her journey into art as a hobby! Over the course of her lifetime, she has drawn many pictures, hand-painted every run-through banner for her high school football team, owned her own small business designing hand-drawn pictures on ceramic tiles using children’s hand prints and footprints, taught home school art to 5 – 15 year olds at Siskey YMCA in Matthews, NC, taught herself how to crochet using looms, designed and constructed a brick paver patio on the front of her home, and just recently bought her first sewing machine and taught her how to sew a quilt top!
Her very first quilt top will be permanently on display with her train. She was inspired by the rich Appalachian culture and her late mother-in-law’s passion for quilting, but never had a chance to learn from her how to piece one together. The chosen colors of white, Kelly green, blue, and old gold symbolize the rivalry between two in-state universities that are “United By Culture.”
Karen spends her free time with family, friends, exercising, coaching a girls’ program at a local elementary school that promotes running and physical fitness as well as building self-esteem, and volunteering at her children’s school.
Karen is originally from the small town of Denver, NC, just outside of Charlotte, and just recently moved to Huntington, WV, two years ago from Waxhaw, NC, with her husband of 11 years, Dr. Russell Fry, and her 3 beautiful children, Sophia, Silas, and Sutton.
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