In her studio, Frieda creates contemporary art quilts and one of a kind wearables. 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

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

As the author of thirty quilting books and a travelling teacher, Jodie looked to the airwaves to reach more people in her mission of spreading the joy of quilting. Right out of the box the very first episode of the show “Friends in the Bee” earned Jodie accolades as host and co-producer from her peers in the form of prestigious Communicator, Videographer and Telly awards.

From hosting and developing shows Jodie found herself hosting and now also at the helm of QNNtv, the Internet television channel devoted exclusively to quilting. Aggregating series made for traditional airwaves and creating shows exclusively for QNNtv, the network now airs over 1,000 shows on demand; by far the largest library of quilting videos anywhere. QNNtv has cut out the gatekeepers, putting decision-making for quilting programming in the hands of quilters and our industry. Jodie’s mission at QNNtv is to spread the joy of quilting with this most powerful venue ever. Finally there is a place for quilters and will-be quilters to learn to quilt all day, any day. Jodie can also be seen on public television, hosting on-location episodes of Love of Quilting.
www.jodieandcompany.com
www.QNNtv.com
www.quiltersblogs.com

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 is 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
www.cathyfranks.com

Laura has taught at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas and Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio where she spearheaded the foundation of the Fashion Merchandising Association for college design students. During this time, she illustrated two college textbooks, one for Tailoring and the other for Draping.

She has taught at the International Quilt Market and Spring Markets as well as at Pfaff Dealer Conventions and numerous other sewing and craft expos in North America. Guest artist television credits include: America Quilts Creatively with Sue Hausmann and Martha’s Sewing Room with Martha Pullen.

Laura was the USA editor of the machine embroidery/sewing/quilting magazine CREATIVE. Her designs can currently be viewed in issues of Jenny Haskins’s CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS magazine where she is a contributing designer. www.jennyhaskins.com

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.

Linda McCuean
New Galilee, PA
Linda is a professional quilt judge certified by the National Quilting Association; quilt maker, teacher, lecturer, and longarm quilter. She has been involved in quilt making since 1978. In 1998 Linda moved from hand quilting to longarm machine quilting. Her work has been highly awarded in national and international shows. Her work has earned numerous best of show and machine workmanship awards, including the 2006 grand prize in the $100,000 Quilting Challenge. 

In 2007, Linda became a member of the Master Quilters Guild when The National Quilting Association awarded her quilt Bella. Masterpiece Quilt status. Many of Linda’s quilts have been featured in books, magazines, and calendars. Linda and her husband, Don, live in New Galilee, PA. 

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 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

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

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

Nelly Vileikis
Aurora, OH
Nelly’s colorful, playful personality encourages students of all levels to reach beyond their normal limits and her goal is for her students to take their newly learned skills into future successes.

With an advanced degree in math, a voracious appetite for quilting and a passion for teaching, Nelly is well on her way to becoming a world class quilting artist and teacher. She willingly shares her talent with her students and encourages each to take their knowledge to the next level.

Nelly is an accomplished quilter who has won numerous awards in local as well as national competitions. For over ten years she has taught in several quilt shops, at many Quilt Guilds throughout North Eastern Ohio, Quilting Get-A-Ways and private classes. She is also a designer. Confidence building instruction, mixed with great attention to detail, not to mention a whole lot of fun adds-up to great classroom experience for those who sign up for her classes. www.artelasquilts.com

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

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