Mary Walter attended Framingham State College and The School of the Worcester Art Museum. She has fostered her passion and talent for quilt making for more than twenty years. Mary teaches quilt making at her own quilt shop A Quilter's Garden within the Southborough Arts Center in Southborough Massachusetts and is an adjunct faculty member at The Worcester Center for Crafts. In addition to her nationwide teaching and lecturing schedule Mary is a National Quilting Association Certified Quilt Judge.

Exhibiting and commissioned art works are also a large part of Mary's quilting background. Many of her quilts have won awards, and are included in private and corporate collections in the United States and Europe. Recently, Mary has been able to combine her quilt making and travel throughout Wales to present an exhibit at The New England Quilt Museum titled Welsh Quilting "Old Traditions New Art".

Mary is a founding member of the "Women Who Run With Scissors" a group of contemporary Art quilters. She is also a member of the New England Fiber Collective in Boston, Mass.