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Frieda Anderson
Elgin, IL
Friestyle
Frieda received her BS in art history, with a minor in ceramics, at the University of Vermont. As an adult her fashion interests led her to tackle an associate’s degree from Harper College in Fashion Design. Her creativity began in early childhood with making doll clothes and stuffed animals.
In her studio, Frieda creates contemporary art quilts and one of a kind wearable’s. Her specialties include, fusing, creative machine quilting, original pieced quilts, and designing elegant and original garments. Frieda hand-dyes luscious cotton and silk fabrics for use in her quilts and has created a personal color palette evident in her work. She enjoys giving quilt lectures, teaching and demonstrating her techniques in workshops. www.friestyle.com |
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Marci Baker
Fort Collins, CO
Alicia's Attic, Inc
Recognized internationally for her expertise in quilting, Marci enjoys sharing ideas that simplify the process of quilting. She began teaching quilting in 1989 for her local quilting guild and shops. In 1993 she started Alicia’s Attic with the concepts that combine her love of math with her love of quilting.
As an admirer of traditional quilts, Marci was inspired to author books on Not Your Grandmother’s™ Quilts. This series uses the traditional patterns people associate with their grandmother and simplifies the technique. She has invented several tools to help make quilting easier for all. Her Know Before You Sew™ solution cards take common problems quilters encounter, and provide easy-to-understand solutions.
Marci spends much of the year traveling, teaching classes for quilting guilds and trade shows as well as teaching in her workshop, Alicia’s Attic. Enthusiasm and inspiration for quilting can be seen throughout her lectures, workshops, and books. She has been featured in Redbook, on Home and Garden TV's "Simply Quilts", NBC’s “The Jane Pauley Show”, highlighted in "Traditional Quiltworks", and has been published in numerous quilting magazines. Marci has been nominated for The Professional Quilter magazine "Teacher of the Year" award in 2002 and 2005. www.aliciasattic.com |
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Vickie Clontz
Rockwell, NC
Annie's Keepsakes
Vickie Clontz is an award winning and acclaimed designer and artist. All her designs are unique pieces of art developed in her home. Vickie began sewing and crafting at the age of 5 when her mother began teaching her how to make doll clothes. She started her company "Annie's Keepsakes", (named after her mother and daughter) in 1990, as a way to continue her love of crafting and staying home with her children. Annie's Keepsakes has been growing steadily and is now distributed throughout the United States and abroad. She also designs crafts for magazines. She regularly appears at both local and national trade shows. www.annieskeepsakes.com |
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Jodie Davis
Canton, GA
QNNtv.com
www.jodieandcompany.com
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Mickey Depre
Oak Lawn, IL
Mickey was introduced to the world of Fiber Arts by her own personal “grand masters” at the age of four. Grandmothers, great aunts, aunts and her mother filled her days with cloth, needles, yarn and such.
Textiles have always fascinated her from vintage to current and her taste has always been ALL! Sewing in general, mending to garment making were never a chore…but when she pushed beyond traditional quilt making she found the road less traveled was greatly inviting.
Mickey enjoys sharing her love of fiber thru lectures and workshops. Her workshops mix technique instruction with individual creativity and always a giggle or two.
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Molly Elkind
Alpharetta, GA
Molly earned an MA in Studio Art, with a concentration in Fiber, from the University of Louisville in 2002. She also holds a B.A. and M.A. in English and has over twenty years of experience teaching students of all ages. Molly has taught art workshops and professional development sessions in schools, museums and community art centers since 1999 and is currently a teaching artist on the roster of the Fulton County School Arts program. Molly’s handmade paper sculptures, fabric wall hangings, and artist’s books have been exhibited in juried shows locally and nationally, and she has been published in Arts Across Kentucky and Needlearts magazines. Her work is in several private collections.
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Myrna Ficken
St. George, UT
A Quilter's Choice
Myrna, a long arm quilter with many years experience, began long arm quilting while living in Southern California for fun and it became her passion and her profession. She stays very busy with her machine quilting business, A Quilter's Choice when she is not away teaching. She is also representative for American Professional Quilting Systems. She has traveled and taught at shows and events both domestically and internationally. www.aquilterschoice.com |
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Cathy Franks
Carmel, IN
Cathy is an international award winning quilt artist for her innovative design techniques and quilting style. She has won Judges Choice, Best Machine Quilting, Best of Show, Viewers Choice and numerous other ribbons.
Cathy has been quilting for 30 years, machine quilting for 15 years and long arm quilting since 1993. Her work has been published in numerous quilting magazines, including international publications in France and Japan. Cathy’s work has been showcased on the covers of books and in special promotion publications.
As a teacher, Cathy in infectious! She has a delightful, positive personality and the energy of several 2-year olds! Cathy is able to help each student understand the principles she is teaching; but more than that, she encourages each student so that they feel they can incorporate her techniques into their own quilting designs
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Karen Grof
Safety Harbor, FL
Happy Apple Quilts
Karen began quilting almost 30 years ago with an appliqué baby quilt for her daughter, Katie. With an art background and training in drawing and painting, she enjoys creating original designs. Karen now has her own pattern design company, Happy Apple Quilts. She writes patterns with beginners in mind so extra details are added. Karen believes quilting should be easy and fun. She likes to complete a project quickly because there are so many more she wants to do! She enjoys sharing techniques that all quilters can enjoy. www.happyapplequilts.com |
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Barbara Hershey Handler
Knoxville, TN
The Quilt Handler
Barbara is one of the first certified Square in a Square instructors and has recently added a certification in Creative curves. She has been doing trunk shows and teaching workshops almost non-stop since 2001. She enjoys working with guilds, quilt shops and quilt and embroidery shows. Another of her specialties is combining piecing with machine embroidery. Barbara has over twenty years of classroom experience and especially loves teaching these wonderful techniques. www.thequilthandler.com |
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Mary Huey
Willoughby, OH
Mary Huey Quilts
With a degree in clothing and retailing from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Mary fortunately became hooked on quiltmaking in the early 70's. For the past 25 years she has owned and operated Erie Street Quilts in Willoughby, Ohio, founded on an education-based philosophy. She has taught extensively throughout Northeast Ohio, offering popular workshops and lectures, and as a creative consultant for Kings Road Imports of California during the 90's, discovered a new excitement for quiltmaking through design. Mary is committed to nurturing creativity in her students by teaching workshops that challenge them to be more attentive to their personal preferences, building confidence and uncovering individual creativity. www.maryhueyquilts.com |
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DeLoa Jones
South Haven, MI
DeLoa's Quilt Shop
www.deloasquiltshop.com
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Deb Karasik
San Franscico, CA
QuiltMavens
Deb’s infectious enthusiasm, warm smile and easy going teaching style are just some of the attributes that have earned her a large following of students. Knowing that paper piecing, setting curves and perfect spikey quilts, challenge some students, she’s made it a personal goal to not only see to it that all of her students understand the process, but actually end up enjoying it!
Relatively new to the quilting world, Deb has only been actively quilting since the fall of 2000, when her daughter told her she was pregnant with triplets! If that wasn’t incentive enough to jump into quilting, what is? But in this relatively short time, Deb has gone from a beginner to a quilt designer, an accomplished author, teacher and award winning quilter.
Deb teaches extensively throughout the country, is currently finishing up her second book for AQS, and still manages to maintain a full time job in the interior design industry. www.quiltmavens.com |
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Debby Kratovil
Atlanta, GA
Quilter By Design
Debby brings her background as a high school math and English teacher to the world of quilting. She is such a prolific quilter that she has been dubbed the "power quilter" by her quilting friends. Her hundreds of published articles about quilts, easy techniques, and how-tos have helped thousands of quilters discover an easier way to approach a wide range of projects. She has been Special Projects Editor for Quilt Magazine for 14 years, along with sewing and designing for various fabric companies and publications. Her published works include Bold, Black & Beautiful Quilts (AQS, 2004), two quilt block a day calendars with Accord Publishing, and the brand new perpetual Quilt Block a Day Calendar published by Martingale. Her most recent venture is "The Calendar Girls" quilt shop program where she will provide a free quilt pattern a month to participating quilt shops beginning in 2008. She is an enthusiastic teacher who especially loves the "aha!" moments with her students. She freely shares tips, tricks and techniques to make quilting a real pleasure. www.quilterbydesign.com |
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Stacy Michell
Marietta, GA
Shades Textiles
In 1986, Stacy Michell started a business venture called “Shades Textiles”. After visiting several large quilt shows, she was inspired to explore the options of hand dyed textiles in the quilting marketplace. Within her first couple of years in business Stacy started exhibiting at as many as 18 quilt shows a year. Stacy met a Japanese Textiles artist named Akio Kawamoto and quickly entered the export market place. Today much of her fabric is sold in Japan and there are several very large private collections of her cloth there. Stacy’s Cloth has also been featured in many Japanese how-to-quilt books written by Kathy Nakajima.
Many of her Japanese customers started to make Hawaiian Style quilts using her colorful hand-dyed cloth. These fabric choices broke the old design rule of Hawaiian quilts being made from 2 solid colors of cloth. This artistic movement inspired Stacy and her associate Toshiko Hashimoto to create a large line of appliqué designs inspired by Hawaiian quilts, but on any design theme, but Hawaiian. Hawaiian style quilts have a distinctive technique, where the cloth is folded and cut, kind of like making a paper snow flake, but the designs are of a Hawaiian theme. “All-Around Appliqué Designs” from Shades Textiles have over 100 block designs with diverse themes from cats & dogs to Christmas trees and Jack ‘O Lanterns or sports like surfing or golf. All of the creative energy flowing around her studio with the addition of the appliqué patterns has also created many new dyed fabric techniques and colors. www.shadestextiles.com |
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Linda McCuean
New Galilee, PA
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Kim Montagnese
Amherst, OH
AhHa!
Kim began playing with fabric and sneaking the use of her mom's "forbidden" sewing machine in the early 70s. Long before great fabric or creative classes were available, Kim was forced to make it up as she went along. She came to love the look of hand appliqué, but lacked the patience. Fortunately, a series of mistakes led to the method she uses today. Students love the "no curved piecing"," inside out" and "quilts that keep on giving" concept of quilting. Kim loves the AhHa! moment students experience and has felt priveledged to share the fun for the past 15 years.
Kim's quilts have won many awards throughout Ohio, been displayed at the Denver International Airport as well as private collections across the country and also featured in Art Quilt Calender. Shes is a member of Lorain County Piecemakers, Studio Art Quilters Association and Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, and is proudly associated with Pear Tree Gallery and Ginko Gallery.
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Mabeth Oxenreider
Carlisle, IA |
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Suzy Seed
Houston, TX
National Educator representing Sulky Of America
Creativity and over 30 years in the sewing industry has resulted in a focused attention toward teaching and inspiring her students. Suzy has worked in retail sales with both fabric and sewing machines, as a sales representative for a notion house and for manufacturers of sewing products. She also was a cutter and sewer for a small manufacturer and has been a Sulky Educator for more than 10 years, teaching Sulky "Sew Exciting" Seminars across the country as well as many freelance classes. She is versed in a multiplicity of sewing machine brands. Suzy has the heart and the skills of a master teacher with a passion for sharing knowledge and inspiring people in the use of threads, machines, ideas, and tools. Suzy believes her classes and seminars should be inspiring, fun and creative. www.sulky.com |
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George Siciliano
Lebanon, PA
George is a former United States Marine and was a member of the famous Marine Drum & Bugle Corps. In September of 1997 he took up his wife Virginia's passion of quilting, specializing in variations of the ‘log cabin’ block because he saw the endless design possibilities. He currently has over 150 different variations of this block on his computer database.
In his first 5 years of competition he has accumulated 65 (21 first place) ribbons for his unique works, in local, national and international shows. He has been published in Miniature Quilts Magazine and the books Marvelous Miniatures (Rodale Press) and American Quilting 1970-2000 (American Quilter's Society).
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He has demonstrated his techniques at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City and currently one of his quilts is part of the American Quilters Society’s traveling exhibit called, Man Made Quilts. In his first year as a professional teacher George was nominated for “Quilt Teacher of the Year 2003”.. His easy going style of teaching makes the construction of a “miniature masterpiece” very doable and lots of fun. www.georgesiciliano.com |
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Virginia Siciliano
Lebanon, PA
Virginia has been quilting for over 20 years. She enjoys taking traditional patterns and using them in unique ways. She has a wonderful color sense and finds that each quilt she makes challenges this sense. She is part of the fast dying breed of quilters who feel that hand quilting is the most exciting and fulfilling part of the quilting process, and is nationally recognized for her beautiful hand quilting. Among her achievements:
3rd place, traditional pieced, at American Quilter's Society show in Paducah (2001), Best Pieced Traditional at Vermont Quilt Festival (2001); 1st place, traditional pieced, at Smithtown Stitchers Show (2002). Her quilt Samarkand was one of the quilts chosen to be displayed at the Japan Quilt Expo in Tokyo Japan, and was also featured in the book Foundation Borders by Jane Hall and Dixie Haywood and published by American Quilter's Society. Virginia shares her quilt studio with her husband George of 40 years and as of this day, they are still talking. www.georgesiciliano.com |
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Sue Spargo
Uniontown, OH
Sue Spargo Folk Art Quilts
Southern Africa has had a considerable influence on Sue's life and creativity. She was born in Zambia and grew up in South Africa. She is influenced especially by the energy and color of traditional African designs. Her early experiences combined to stir her love of "primitive" arts and crafts and grew into her focus on folk-art.
Sue teaches throughout the United States, continuing to develop new designs and techniques in hand dyed wool and embellishments. She has written many books, as well as a new CD of designs for The Electric Quilt Company, called Folk-art Dreams. Her other absorbing passions include being with the four unique, strong and fulfilling personalities that are her children, tending her garden and traveling. www.suespargo.com
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Holice Turnbow
Sturbridge, MA
Growing up in an extended family of quiltmakers, where everyone “just did it”, didn’t hurt. Holice began quilting in the early 70's when he was asked to teach for a county recreational program. National exposure followed in 1978 and he has since served as a consultant for the West Virginia Department of Culture and History, Benartex Fabrics and the Smithsonian Institution. Along the way Holice became certified as a quilt judge and teacher by the National Quilting Association. He lectures and conducts workshops in many aspects of quilting, particularly the use and development of quilting designs. His relaxed style and friendly, humor-loving manner make him the perfect choice for students beginning or enhancing their quiltmaking experience. |
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Cathy Wierzbicki
Snohomish, WA
Time To Quilt
Cathy Wierzbicki can best be described as the "Renaissance Woman" of crafting. Although her present focus is on creating wonderfully original & beautiful quilts, there are very few crafts that Cathy hasn't turned her hand to at one time or another. So how did Cathy begin quilting? "I started with an Amish block a few years back and I got hooked. The design part was a total surprise." There's no denying that Cathy has a gift for seeing images in fabric. Her quilts capture moods that run the gamut from serene & charming to tongue-in-cheek whimsy.
"Quilting has changed my life & done so for countless others. Whether you are a novice or an experienced quilter, or whether you approach this craft on a small scale or are a dedicated quilter, it matters not. There is so much to be learned, to be shared and to be enjoyed by quilters of all skill levels. I hope you, too, will discover that the fabric of your life has been enriched by those around you, and may you always
"Take Time To Quilt." www.timetoquilt.com
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Debra Youngs
Schoolcraft, MI
Art U Wear
Debra Beadles Youngs, founder of Art U Wear, is a quilt and clothing designer living in Schoolcraft, Michigan. Debra began sewing at age 10 and soon began to develop her own patterns. Two years later, at age 12, her grandmother, Mary Beadles, taught her to quilt. Quilting soon became her passion. After 17 years at home to raise her children, she discovered that she had accumulated over 30 queen-size bed quilts, several twins, and hundreds of baby quilts.
Art U Wear is a by-product of her love of quilts and the fact that the sleeves are too short on most “store bought” jackets. Debra lectures and teaches her jacket techniques at workshops across the country. Her work has been published in Wearable Art 1900-2000, a Schiffer Book for Designers and Collectors. Her designs have been featured in Bernina Magazine and Love of Quilting magazine. Debra has also appeared on two PBS quilting shows. She remains active in her local quilt guild and is currently enlarging her studio to house a sewing school for children. www.artuwear.net
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