Bonnie is employed (1994 to present) as Executive Show Director at the American Quilter's Society (AQS), Paducah, Kentucky, where she also writes and edits quilting books. She is the author of nine quilting books, published by the AQS:
Borders & Finishing Touches 2, 2006
Vintage Quilt Blocks: State by State, 2004
Designs on Freedom, 2003
Any Body Can Learn to Quilt, 2001
Playing with Triangles (w/Phyllis D. Miller), 2000
Paper Pieced Patterns, 1999
Flowering Dogwood Patterns, 1998
Borders & Finishing Touches, 1997
Ribbon & Threads: Baltimore Style, 1996.
In addition, she is the editor of the AQS Update newsletter, published six times a year. Bonnie serves on the editorial team at AQS.

She has won numerous awards with her quilting, including a third place at the 1986 AQS Quilt Show & Contest, Paducah, Kentucky. That quilt, A Little Bit of Candlewicking, is now in the collection of The National Quilt Museum in Paducah. Bonnie also has two quilts in the Artists of Iowa Collection, Waterloo, Iowa; her quilts were the first textiles to be added to this collection that features artists from Iowa.

She shares her quilting knowledge by teaching for quilt groups and conferences across the U.S., Australia (1997), Turkey (2000), and Japan (2002 & 2003), and Canada (2007. She joined 80 other national quilt and sewing instructors in Switzerlad for the Bernina Teachers Reunion in 2006.

Bonnie served as a technical director for the AQS quilting television show, American Quilter, that aired in 2005 on Lifetime Real Women. She has appeared on several quilting television programs, including:
American Quilter (January to December 2005 on Lifetime Real Women)
#106 Quiltscape segment: A Day in the Life of the Show Director and Savvy Quilter segment, shaped borders with piping
#110 Nashville Quilt Exposition

Simply Quilts on HGTV
#124 Quilting Bees Then & Now, visit the NQA quilt show in Riverside, California, with competition judge, Bonnie Browning
#418 Finishing Touches, border and edge treatments from Bonnie's book, Borders & Finishing Touches
#526 Warm Hug rice bag, Jewelry pincushion, and Album cover, from Bonnie's book, Any Body Can Learn to Quilt
#641 Startdust Quilt, a quilt designed by Bonnie for the AQS program, Teach America 2 Quilt...Again!
#661 Presidential Redwork by Michael G. Buckingham; Bonnie assisted Michael by demonstrating using redwork on his designs
#802 Wind Mill quilt; from Log Cabin With A Twist by Barbara Kaempfer, Bonnie demonstrates how to make the Wind Mill Quilt used in the opening of the Simply Quilts program.

HGTV Special Program - Quilts, Secrets Hidden in Fabric (which originally aired in July 2003). This program features quilt blocks from WW II that were given to Bonnie. She researched the designer of the blocks and continues to try to locate the women whose names are embroidered on some of the blocks. There are still many unanswered questions about these blocks. The blocks traveled 6,000 miles before they arrived on Bonnie's desk and she stitched them together.

Sew Young, Sew Fun on PBS, sponsored by Husqvarna Viking
Bonnie taped a program on sewing with children that will air on PBS in 2003; part of the program was taped at the 2002 Quilt Camp for Kids at MAQS Quilt Museum in Paducah.