Eileen Doughty founded Doughty Designs in 1991 and has been creating commissioned work ever since. In 2001 she founded Q&A Quilt Artists, a regional group formed to critique, and exhibit art in the form of nontraditional quilts. From 2002-06 Eileen was a regional co-representative for Studio Art Quilts Associates and is now the Website Coordinator. She has taught workshops and lectured in several states. Eileen's quilts have been shown in numerous juried exhibitions on five continents. They are in private, government and corporate collections in the United States and Japan.