Original Sewing & Quilt Expo / Georgia Quilt Show Faculty
We take the time to search out the best in the industry, introducing you to exceptional designers, best-selling authors, creative thinkers and visionaries. Taking classes at Original Sewing & Quilt Expo and Georgia Quilt Show adds to a memorable and satisfying experience!
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 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
Denise Applegate-Schober
Lake Forest, IL
QBOT "The Automated Quilter"
Although Denise has been sewing for more than 40 years she made her first quilt in 1986 using one of Eleanor Burns Quilt in a Day books. She started sewing with her mother and the local 4-H Happy Hands Club. While learning how to make garments and craft items as a young adult Denise has learned to incorporate some of these same techniques into her quilting. She continues to take classes learning the latest and greats quilting and sewing techniques that she loves to share with you. You are sure to learn many new techniques along with some of the traditional quilting staples that will carry you through your years of sewing as they have Denise. www.myqbot.com
Janet Baker
Crystal River, FL
Jenny Haskins Products
Janet Baker has been in love with sewing and quilting for most of her life and like most of us, she has been mesmerized with the embroidery machines since they were introduced to our industry. She is a staunch supporter of the ASG and has worked unselfishly for years to promote the love of this great art called sewing. Janet sat at the feet of Jenny Haskins in June of 2008 and was certified personally by Jenny to go forth and teach the world her creative techniques and skills. Since then Janet has traveled from coast to coast sharing her love of beautiful creations inspired by Jenny Haskins. In March of 2010 Janet was chosen to headline as a teacher of teachers during the National Convention of Sewing Machine Dealers in Las Vegas. www.rnkdistributing.com
Marci Baker
Fort Collins, CO
Alicia's Attic, Inc
Marci sewed her first quilt when she was nine years old. Her interest in sewing continued through high school and college. Her education in math and engineering was put to excellent use in simplifying techniques to help others with their quilting. As a result, Marci has been deeply involved as an author with her Not Your Grandmother’s™ Quilts series of quilting books and as creator of other products, such as the Qtools™ and Know Before You Sew™ solution cards.
Not only is Marci a popular teacher at quilting guilds and trade shows across the United States and Canada, but her expertise is also recognized internationally. She has been featured in Redbook; on HGTV's "Simply Quilts"; NBC’s “The Jane Pauley Show”; highlighted in Traditional Quiltworks; and has been published in numerous quilting magazines. Marci had been nominated for The Professional Quilter magazine’s "Teacher of the Year" award in 2002 and 2005. Marci, her husband Clint, their two sons, and pet snake currently live in Fort Collins, Colorado, where they enjoy the outdoors and the beautiful creation of life near the mountains. www.aliciasattic.com
Maggie Ball
Bainbridge Island, WA
Dragonfly Quilts
Maggie began quilting in 1986 and enjoys creating her own designs from elements of traditional patterns. Her award-winning quilts have been exhibited locally and nationally. Teaching quilting is a natural extension of her passion and she finds it rewarding. Her teaching experience is extensive in the USA, and beyond to the UK and Mongolia, as well as quilting with over 800 children in local schools.
As a volunteer in Mongolia in 2004, Maggie taught quilting to low-income and unemployed women. In 2006 she helped organize the First International Quilt Show there in collaboration with quilters from the UK and Japan. Her association with Mongolian quilters continues and she successfully headed a capital campaign raising $80,000 to purchase a permanent facility for the Mongolian Quilting Center in Ulaanbaatar, where she visited and taught in 2009.
Maggie is the author of four books published by Krause Publications. Creative Quilting with Kids and Patchwork and Quilting with Kids aim to encourage adults to pass on the quilting tradition to the next generation. Traditional Quilts with a Twist contains new patterns derived from the traditional Bear’s Paw, Trip Around the World, and Ohio Star. Her most recent book, Bargello Quilts with a Twist, features quilts made from her original, easy to construct, 16-piece Bargello block. www.dragonflyquilts.com
Paulette Bell
Bridgewater, NJ
Brother International, Home Appliance Division Paulette Bell is a freelance educator for Brother International, Home Appliance Division. She has been affiliated with the commercial embroidery industry for twenty five years as a shop owner, writer and most recently as an editor for Stitches Magazine. www.brother.com
Debra Bohn
Clemmons, NC
Husqvarna Viking Independent Educator
Over 30 years ago, Debra started sewing when her young daughter wanted a Cabbage Patch Doll for Christmas. You couldn’t buy one anywhere so Mrs. Claus got busy and took a class on how to make the doll. It was love at first project! For the last 15 years, she has been teaching sewing, embroidery and embroidery software across the United States. While she is accomplished in many sewing techniques, her obsession is embroidery and embroidery software. She has attended many training sessions through the years and is familiar with most brands.
Debra has been published in Creative Machine Embroidery and Through the Needle and is a contributor to Keeping the World Sewing and VSM Software Club. Debra’s classes are designed to help embroiderers take the mystery, and misery, out of embroidering. She shares her sewing successes and her failures, with samples and anecdotes, with her students, who are glad to know they are not the only one who makes mistakes. Debra’s philosophy for teaching is that her students have fun while learning and she tries to help them realize that there is potential in all of them.
www.sewpracticaldebra.com
Lorene Bonewitz
Hurst, TX
Sew It Up
Lorene Bonewitz is the owner and founder of The Grapevine Collection of Fine Fashion Fabrics which had its start in 1998 in North Texas. Her shop is a culmination of her passion for sewing and embroidery. She has travelled and studied extensively. Some of her mentors include Sandra Betzina, Judy Barlup, Margaret Islander, Martha Pullen, Susan O'Connor and Judith Baker Montano to mention just a few.
In order to reach customers worldwide, Lorene opened up SewItUp.com Making sample garments and accessories to inspire her shop customers who, in turn, wanted to copy them, gave Lorene the idea of kitting up her designs. These kits are the core of the web store. The quality of the fabric selection found at the shop, along with the quantity of specialty trims and buttons, make SewItUp.com's kits unique. Her kits, fabrics and trims have been featured in Sew News, Butterick and McCall's Sewing Today, Quick Quilts, Sew Beautiful (a six page feature article in the August 2008) and Southern Living. This last publication heralded her newest endeavor, Sewing in Southern Comfort, three day sewing retreats.
Lorene's initial dream in opening up a shop was to share with others her knowledge and passion for the needle arts in an environment where women feel at home in to learn and grow. Most of her customers would agree that she has accomplished that goal. www.sewitup.com
Lisa Bongean
Mensha, WI
Primitive Gatherings
Award winning quilter, teacher, designer and quilt shop owner Lisa Bongean has loved quilting since she began in 1996. She has won several local awards, and has had the privilege of showing quilts in Paducah, KY in 2000 & 2002. Her primary focus is to spread her love of quilting and the pride of accomplishment for working hard & trying new techniques. Lisa enjoys each and every step in the quilt making process; hand applique and wool appliqué are her favorites!
Lisa is a well-rounded quilter, an experienced teacher and the owner of Primitive Gatherings a quilt shop that opened May 2004 in Menasha, WI. Her shop features her line of hand dyed wools, homespun, reproduction and designer fabrics that carry the same warm feeling of the shop. Lisa wants to share as many skills as possible with her students and quilting friends; pinning, piecing, trimming, perfect points, time savers, etc. "The feeling is indescribable when I've inspired a quilter with one of my designs and it overwhelms me to see their finished projects. I also try to teach them how to add their own personal touches so the quilt becomes their 'own'."
www.primitivegatherings.us
Marian Bressel
Wayland, MA
Fabritique
Marian grew up in New York and was influenced by the panorama of a multi-cultural city. This has translated into her company, Fabritique, which searches the world for interesting fabrics and crafts. She loves projects that look difficult or complicated when finished, but are really easy to do.
www.fabritique.com
Barb Callahan
Venice, FL
Barb Originals
Barb designed and constructed one-of-a-kind garments using her label Barb Originals and sold them at art shows for almost 25 years, alongside her antique linens, buttons and trimmings. After years of hearing customer requests for patterns and instructions for these very wearable items, she decided to accommodate them. Today Barb travels the U.S. sharing her expertise in using vintage linens, buttons, hankies, trimmings and more to create stylish, flattering and easy-to-make clothing and accessories. She holds a bachelors degree in education and a masters degree in administration and counseling, and has also attended classes at FIT in New York. Her articles have appeared in Threads, Sew Beautiful and her company’s newsletter.
www.barboriginals.com
Regina Carter
Jackson, GARegina Carter is a professional longarm quilter from Jackson, Georgia. Regina began has been quilting for 30 years, professionally for 10 years. She works full time for customers and is experienced in both Gammill hand guided quilting and Gammill Statler Stitcher computerized quilting. Over the years her award winning quilts have gained her local, regional, and national recognition in shows and publications. Regina teaches longarm quilting at shows and private studios. Regina challenges herself with every quilt to provide her customers with a work of art.
Diana Cedolia
Dunedin, FL
Independent Educator, VSM Group
Diana was born and educated in England and has lived in the U.S. for 27 years. She is especially fluent in embroidery software and shares this expertise in many ways, but her true passion is the serger. She has organized and led several successful serger clubs in Florida over the years, and more recently has won prizes for her work at various Husqvarna Viking Conventions, mostly for her serging inspirations. She frequently contributes to various serger books.
www.husqvarnaviking.com
Vickie Clontz
Rockwell, NC
With 40+ years of sewing experience and a Bachelor of Science degree in Clothing Design, Vickie's passion for creating keeps her busy designing patterns for her company Annie's Keepsakes, teaching, holding workshops and programs for guilds, and winning ribbons for her Wearable Art. Her projects have been published in numerous magazines such as Create & Decorate, Quilting Arts, Crafts, Crafts 'n Things, and Giftmaker. Vickie specializes in wool and felting and encourages everyone to get their "daily dose of fiber".
www.annieskeepsakes.com
June Colburn
Largo, FL
June Colburn Designs II, Inc.
June's odyssey began in 1973 with itchy feet and a Master's degree in library science. While working for international schools, June's motto, "Have sewing machine, will travel" led her into adventures hunting for fabrics in souks, bazaars and temple sales from Quito to Paris, Istanbul to Singapore. Talking with the people who wove, dyed, embroidered, sewed and sold native textiles influenced her life. The exquisite kimono fabrics of Japan defined her creative direction. June's work has been featured in many exhibitions, collections and design shows. She shares her knowledge and love of Asian textiles through lectures and classes.
www.junecolburn.com
Eric Drexler
Port Charlotte, FL
Sulky of America
With over 25 years in the sewing industry, Eric Drexler has developed a wide spectrum of expertise. As a senior in High School in 1983, Eric started working in Joyce and Fred Drexler’s Sewing Center as their sewing machine mechanic. Over the next 15 years he went on to become a Teacher, Manager and Co-owner until the business was sold in 1998. For the last 10 years he has been a full-time employee of Sulky of America during which time he has become more heavily focused on his creative side, while continuing to indulge his passion for sewing machine repair. Free-motion artistry has been Eric’s other life-long passion ever since he was inspired by Joyce when, at age 10, she first taught him the technique. He has made numerous large and small works of machine art, some of which have been featured in Sulky Books and at Trade and Consumer Shows all over the country. Through his association with Sulky of America during all the years of its existence, he has had the pleasure and honor of being inspired by some of the world’s greatest creative sewers and quilters. For the 10 years of its existence, he managed the Sulky Challenge and was responsible for its appearance all over the country.
Eric loves life and he loves to teach and share his exuberance for creative sewing. He is passionate about inspiring students of all ages so they can discover and enjoy a lifetime of creative fun. His infectious smile and warm humor put everyone at ease and ready to learn. He is widely sought after to teach and share his contagious enthusiasm at Consumer shows, Sew Exciting Seminars, Guild Programs and, more recently, on PBS shows.
www.sulky.com
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.
www.mollyelkind.com
Karen Erickson
Snohomish, WA
Home Fashions U
Karen’s passion for sewing began at 10 years old, taking apart used clothing and using parts for patterns. During high school in 1971, she was awarded Home Economics Student of the year. In the 70s she pursued studies in photojournalism, and in tandem found herself teaching for Art Craft Needlework Co at home parties, plus assisting her customers in how to sew their completed projects. In 1986, Home Finishing by Karen a (home based professional sewing workroom) was born, sewing window treatments, pillow, bedding and slipcovers for customers. In 1999, when 75% of her business had evolved into slipcovering she morphed the business into Slipcover America Inc. and started a networking forum for slipcover professionals. Karen’s world has evolved into being a fulltime educator whose passion is dedicated to home décor, interior fashion and sewing. She has joined forces with Claudia Buchanan and together they have created Home Fashions U “dedicated to home décor interior fashion”. Karen hosts a radio podcast “Home Fashions U Blog Talk radio” and produces newsletters, DVDs, CDs and continues to write articles for various print magazines and online publications.
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
Cathy Gandy
Alpharetta, GA
Baby Lock Education Consultant
"Variety is the spice of life," says education consultant, Cathy Gandy. She takes pride in her sewing background which boasts of working in fiber art, teaching classes, retail selling, and fabric buying. When that wasn’t enough to keep her busy, she occupied her time spinning and weaving. Her finished samples include tapestries, rugs, baskets, and garments. As a hobby, Cathy really enjoys machine appliqué for quilting and creating her own designs using the Baby Lock software products. Whether it’s garment sewing, home décor, quilting, or heirloom techniques, her creations express her love of the industry. Sharing her ideas, talents, and knowledge with sewing enthusiasts everywhere is what gives Cathy the most pleasure.
www.babylock.com
Diane Gloystein
Lincoln, NE
Sulky of America
A love of beautiful clothing and a desire to create unique, one-of-a-kind designs led to a lifelong love affair with fashion, fabric and fiber arts. A sense of whimsical imagination is found in many of Diane's creations. Her position as a National Educator representing Sulky of America is the fulfillment of a dream which offers her the extraordinary opportunity to inspire students with a myriad of sewing techniques, surface design and embellishment possibilities. She travels extensively teaching and presenting seminars across the country, where her high energy presentations, incredible array of inspiring samples and infectious enthusiasm are met with rave reviews. Diane is a featured artist with her quilted Fiber Bubbles jacket in Sulky's newest book, Quick & Easy Weekend Quilting with Sulky.
www.sulky.com
Daphne Greig
North Saanich, BC Canada
Patchwork Studio
Daphne began sewing as a young girl, making outfits for her dolls, sewed her own and her children's clothes for years and made her first quilt in 1980. She began teaching quilting classes at local quilt shops in 1990. Daphne has extensive teaching and presentation experience including lectures to over 300 attendees.
She co-authored four quilting books, designed over 100 published patterns, regularly writes articles for quilting magazines and teaches internationally and online at Quilt University.com. Her work has been exhibited in Canada and the United States. Daphne's goal as a teacher is to encourage students to try new techniques, to expand their skills and, most importantly, to have fun and enjoy the creative process. She considers herself a 'student' of fibre arts and works at developing her own skills by attending workshops and participating in associations that further the art of quilting.
www.daphnegreig.com
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
Cynthia Guffey
Baton Rouge, LA
Cynthia has owned a fabric and design studio bearing her name in Baton Rouge, Louisiana since 1983, and her designs have been worn everywhere from the opening of the Met to governors’ inaugurations to Acapulco. Her fitting and sewing expertise is derived from a mathematical background, and her constant search for the simple and the obvious. And although her precise sewing techniques are not short-cuts, she saves you time by helping you get it right the first time. She shares her effective, practical and simple fitting and construction techniques with students throughout the United States, offering seminars and workshops filled with information that results in beautifully fitted, custom-look clothing. Cynthia’s design philosophy involves creating lines that multiply opportunities to fit and enhance a figure type.
www.cynthiaguffey.com
Judi Gunter
Chestertown, MD
Judi is an avid antique doll quilt collector. She enjoys analyzing the designs and colors in the quilts, and occasionally uses them as the basis for her workshops and lectures. To become a NQA Certified Judge, Judi was required to successfully complete an extensive written test, and pass a panel review given by other certified judges. As a judge, she adheres to a Judges Code of Ethics, continues to upgrade her quilting skills, examines new quilting trends, and studies current judging procedures.
As a teacher and lecturer, she teaches adult and children's quilting at guilds and shops throughout the East Coast. Judi's work has been part of national juried exhibits at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in NY, International Quilt Show in Houston, American Quilter's Society Quilt Show in Paducah, Southern Maryland Quilt Show, Williamsburg Quilt Festival, and Quilter's Heritage Celebration in PA, as well as numerous local shows. Her quilts and articles have also been published in several magazines.
Judi Gunter resides in Chestertown, Maryland with her husband. She is a member of the National Quilting Association, Baltimore Appliqué Society, Olde Kent Quilters, and the Mason-Dixon Quilt Professionals Network. Judi is also a member of the Annapolis Quilt Guild where she has held many leadership positions.
www.quiltjudge.com
M'Liss Rae Hawley
Freeland, WA
M'Liss's Quilting World, LLC
M’Liss Rae Hawley is an accomplished quilting teacher, lecturer, embroidery and textile designer, and best-selling author. She conducts workshops and seminars throughout the world and is the author of 13 books.
The originator of numerous innovative designs, M’Liss is constantly seeking new boundaries to challenge her students while imparting her enthusiasm and love for the art of quilting. M’Liss continues to create fabric with coordinating embroidery collections, write books, and create patterns for many magazines. M’Liss is the quilting spokesperson for national companies. She likes to break quilting down to the basics to show students that quilting can be easy and fun at any level of skill!
M’Liss and her husband, Michael, live on Whidbey Island, Washington, in a filbert orchard. Michael is also a best-selling author and the recently retired sheriff of Island County. Their son, Alexander is a Platoon Staff Sergeant in the US Marine Corps, currently serving overseas, and their daughter, Adrienne, a Fire Fighter, is attending graduate school in Dublin, Ireland. Michael and M’Liss share their home with five dachshunds and three cats.
http://www.quiltclasses.com/
Lorraine Henry
San Diego, CA
Conselle Institute
Lorraine is a Conselle specialist in fashion sewing, fitting, and alteration with 28 years’ experience as a custom dressmaker/tailor and adult education teacher. She holds a degree in Clothing and Textiles from Brigham Young University. Lorraine is a master at deception, showing ways to use line, shape, color, and fabric to create simple "tricks" that make one appear taller, shorter, thinner, or wider – looking more like you want to be seen. Lorraine travels the country for Conselle offering seminars on wardrobing, fitting and alteration procedures.
www.conselle.com
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
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
Rose Ann Hunter
Newburyport, MA
Rose Ann Hunter has been a fiber artist for the last 30 years. When chosen as a craft person in residence at Old Sturbridge Village, she was able to pursue her passion and research the lost art of traditional rug making 1790 to 1850 with techniques that are knitted crocheted or sewn into folk art. She loves to reproduce historic rugs and then adapt these techniques and bring them to present day. Her patterns have been published and she teaches and lectures at living history museums, conferences, and guilds. Her favorites are the wool on wools and stretched the imagination to make beaded wool jewelry and clothing embellishments with these historic sewn techniques.
www.roseannhunter.com
Debby Kratovil Bristow, VA
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 was Quilt Magazine’s Special Projects Editor for 14 years, along with sewing and designing for various fabric companies and publications. Her published works include Bold, Black & Beautiful Quilts (AQS, 2004), five different Quilt Block a Day calendars (Accord, Simon & Schuster, and Martingale), and her new book, Supersize ‘Em Quilts. 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
Cindy Losekamp
Cedar Grove, IN
Sew Artfully Yours
Cindy is the creator of several Signature Series embroidery disks for Cactus Punch and CEO of Sew Artfully Yours, Inc. Cindy's skills take machine embroidery to new heights in creativity, and along with embroidery, she is also the creator of a myriad of other machine techniques. She is the designer and author of thirty-one books, and has been teaching and inspiring people to sew and create for twenty-one years. There are no boundaries in artistic pursuits when it comes to her books and classes. Everyone is encouraged to transcend to a higher level of creativity.
www.sewingart.com
Linda MacPhee
MacPhee Workshop
Edmonton, Alberta
Linda MacPhee is well known as a leader and innovator in the clothing design & home sewing industries. Not only has she been recognized by the Canadian Awards for Business Excellence, but she has also won the YWCA award for Woman Entrepreneur of the Year 2003. She has also been awarded The Global Television Woman of Vision for November 2003 as well as the University of Alberta Alumni Award of Excellence for 2004. She is co-founder of MacPhee Workshop, celebrating 25 years in business, one of Canada’s largest design houses and pattern manufacturers. In her capacity as Creative Director and Chief Fashion Designer she has been instrumental in developing and producing over 200 different patterns currently carried by MacPhee Workshop. Her television series, ‘Sew Much Fun’ is currently being shown in the United States and Canada. Her new series, Linda MacPhe's Workshop, offers the viewer and eclectic view of the wonderful and creative world fabric. Linda is also a regular contributor to magazines. She has been featured on the cover of and inside "Sew News" magazine, the well-known American sewing magazine, several times.
www.macpheeworkshop.com
Debbie Maddy
Graham, TX
Calico Cottage Quilt Designs
Debbie started sewing when she was nine years old and has been quilting since the early 80s. In 2002 she started Calico Carriage Quilt Designs and has self published 28 patterns and 6 books. She designs patterns for beginning quilters that even the experienced quilters enjoy. All the patterns are based on old traditional quilt blocks that were made with diamonds and therefore too difficult for many quilters to attempt. She redesigned the blocks using half square triangles and no diamonds, no Y seams and no bias edges. She does not use foundation or paper piecing. Many of her patterns have been made by first time quilters. The technique is simple but the results look complicated. Experienced quilters like the line because they can complete quilts in much less time than in the past. She now teaches nationallyand continues to design and create new quilts.
www.calicocarriage.com
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
Marti Michell
Atlanta, GA
Michell Marketing / Shades Textiles
It is no wonder that Marti Michell, the 2004 Silver Star Honoree at the Houston International Quilt Festival, is often introduced as a pioneer in the current quilt revival. In fact, in 1972 when Marti and her husband Richard started Yours Truly, Inc., a patchwork kit company, there was no quilt industry. Since then, she has contributed in almost every capacity. Whether she is participating as a teacher, quilter, author, publisher, manufacturer, designer, consultant, judge or quilt collector, her enthusiasm for and love of quilting is always evident. Since 1995 the Michells have manufactured the From Marti Michell line of acrylic templates and specialty rulers for rotary cutting. The Silver Star is a prestigious “lifetime achievement” award. In 1991 she also received the first Michael Kile award given for commitment to creativity and excellence in the quilting industry. Marti lives in Atlanta, GA, but was born and raised in Iowa. She received a B.S. in Textiles and Clothing and Home Ec Journalism from Iowa State University. www.frommarti.com
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 Textile 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 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
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 privileged 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. She 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.
http://colorzmyworld.blogspot.com
www.ginkogallery.net/spotlight.shtml
www.interweave.com (Piece in Cate Pratos book Mixed Media Self-Portraits)
www.martingale-pub.com (Two quilts in Leigh McDonald's book Adventures In Circles)
Marty Moon
Culpeper, VA
Early Times Workshop
Owner of Early Times Workshop for 20 years, Marty enjoys quilting and doing other types of needlework. Trained by hand in very traditional quiltmaking, Marty prides herself on the technical aspects of her quilts and is passionate about passing those skills on to others. Always seeking a challenge or competition to whet her appetite, Marty grounds her ‘art’ quilts in her traditional background. You can find one of Marty’s quilts in Quilting with Manhole Covers by Shirley MacGregor.
www.earlytimesworkshop.com
Laura Murray
Minneapolis, MN
Laura Murray Designs
An enduring passion for transforming fabric with color, texture and design has led Laura Murray to a career as fiber artist, author, business owner, and instructor. Her award winning art quilts have been exhibited widely for the past 14 years in juried and invitational quilt and art shows. More recently, Laura's attention has turned to wearable art, and she particularly enjoys creating unique fabric by enhancing vintage kimono panels with dyes and paints. Her company, Laura Murray Designs, can be found vending at large quilt and sewing shows across the country featuring unique fabrics and products for quilters, sewers, and fabric artists.
www.lauramurraydesigns.com
Tammy O'Connell
Muskego, WI
Peacock Patterns
Tammy brings together beauty, form and function in Peacock Patterns, her new line of garment and accessory designs. Her first series, Jitney Bags, features practical totes and purses with an individual flair. Tammy is a nationally known sewing teacher, HGTV series guest, clothing judge and past ASG Chapter President, and was awarded the "Sievers School of Fiber Arts Award" for her outstanding creative and innovative use of fabric and design. Her passion is to revive exquisite sewing techniques from the past and interpret them in distinctive modern designs, helping students create their own sense of simple elegance.
www.peacockpatterns.com
Ellen Osten
St. Petersburg, FL
Sulky of America
Ellen has been sewing and teaching professionally for over 30 years. She is the co-author of several books and the creator of a unique line of patterns, Sew...What's New. Ellen has been with Sulky of America, Inc. since 1988, and enjoys traveling throughout the country giving lectures, demos and hands-on classes. She enjoys teaching all skill levels, and instructs in many subject areas including free motion thread painting, computerized embroidery, pattern fitting, design and color.
www.sulky.com
Pattie Otto
Franksville, WI
Great Copy Patterns
Pattie is the owner and designer of Great Copy Patterns which features ladies and uni-sex garments with an emphasis on outerwear and classic styles. She is the author and designer for Embroidery Club which meets bi-monthly in southeastern Wisconsin. She also creates Embroidery Club by Mail – a corresponding bi-monthly publication. Both clubs feature original embroidery designs and techniques with detailed full color instructions and embroidery designs on diskette.
She has taught extensively over the years, with her favorite classes being machine embroidery, heirloom work, silk ribbon embroidery by machine, serger techniques, swim & action wear, and fitting seminars. Pattie has also designed and coordinated production for a small swimwear manufacturer. Having recently acquired Great Copy Patterns, Pattie is excited about the opportunity to be at the helm of this growing company. Her enthusiasm for fabric, texture, pattern design and construction is evident in all aspects of the company. Great Copy Patterns are available by mail, on-line and can be found in finer specialty and quilting stores. Pattie is a life long resident of southeastern Wisconsin. She lives in the country with her husband, Rick, and is the mother of four children.
www.greatcopy.com
Darlene Pollard
Knoxville, TN
RNK Distributing
Darlene Pollard, National Education Coordinator for RNK Distributing, exclusive distributors of Floriani Products has become known for her love for sewing, quilting and embroidery. Darlene started her passion for all aspects of embroidering with the early home embroidery machines and in a short time became a professional digitizer. She began teaching others her tricks and solutions to everyday challenges in home embroidery many years ago. Darlene has worked with nearly every brand of sewing machine in the last ten years and has been teaching instruction classes for those machines and software since their introduction. She loves sharing her basic embroidery techniques, tips and tricks about stabilizers, sewing projects, computer software basics, and much more. Her expertise along with a relaxed personality makes her class fun, informative, to the point and creates a workshop type atmosphere.
www.rnkdistributing.com
Susan Purney Mark
Victoria, BC Canada
Patchworks Studio
Since taking her first quilting class over 20 years ago, quilting has been a very important part of Susan's life. Her studies have included intensive design courses in England and Canada, as well as quilting techniques, history, fibre and dyeing workshops. Along with her pattern business partner, Daphne Greig, Susan formed Patchworks Studio, a quilt pattern company that has received generous support around the world. Susan co-authored "Quilted Havens" with Daphne Greig, published in 2000 by the American Quilter's Society and "Fat Quarter Frenzy" in early 2005. She encourages quilters, both newcomers and the more experienced, to enjoy the process, to gather as much knowledge as possible and to challenge themselves with new techniques and processes. Susan has taught classes at basic, intermediate and advanced levels and students have described her classes as informative, fun and inspiring. www.susanpm.com
Londa Rohlfing
Savoy, IL
Londa's Creative Threads
With 13 years of owning a retail fabric and sewing machine shop behind her, Londa switched to an internet-based business to go world-wide with www.londas-sewing.com. Her personal mission is “To offer quality sewing products with passion, individual attention, and creative suggestions as a fellow avid seamstress, teacher and designer.” After 40+ years of what she calls “normal (now boring) garment sewing”, her mountain-top sewing experiences are ‘artsy, creative sewing’. She delights in creating garments that are unique and truly one-of-a-kind. Her current ‘obsession’ is with transforming sweatshirts into wonderful, unique ‘couture’ jackets. Her techniques are shared in her ‘books’ on CD and DVD and in her ‘pattern’ Design Booklets. She is published in several sewing periodicals including Sew Savvy and Creative Needle, and appeared in a webisode on
www.nowsewing.net in October 2008. Traveling to teach and vend at guilds, shops, and consumer shows has become a new and exciting aspect of her business.
www.londas-sewing.com
Mavis Rosbach
Jesup, GA
Quiltbird Studio
Mavis started sewing at age 8 and has learned and enjoyed other handcrafts throughout her life. She started quilting with her sister 23 years ago on an anniversary quilt for their parents. Bit by the quilt bug, she took a beginner class from the local college and made several other quilts; then life and raising two children with her husband Jeff consumed her time. After moving from the west coast to a small town in Georgia, her interest in quilting was renewed when she enrolled in an appliqué class. In 1999 Mavis was approached to teach local quilting classes and soon after organized the local quilt guild. She started writing booklets for and leading ‘all-nighter’ quilting and other specialty classes locally and in the surrounding areas. In the fall of 2001 she purchased her Gammill Long Arm, created Quiltbird Studio and shortly thereafter began quilting professionally. Recently she has begun designing quilting patterns, motifs and long arm pantographs. Still enjoying the personal aspect of quilting, Mavis loves teaching and talking quilts with others!
www.quiltbirdstudio.com
Kathy Ruddy
Mukilteo, WA
Unique Patterns
Active in the sewing industry since 1962, Kathy's experience spans five decades as a pattern designer, serger and fitting expert and Vice President of Unique Patterns, a complete solution to successful dressmaking patterns for sewing with the bodyskanner™, which captures accurate measurements of your body. Her specialty is to sew and serge fast and easy without sacrificing quality, fit or fashion detail.
www.uniquepatterns.com
Nancy Sapin
Franklin, NC
Sulky of America
Nancy Sapin comes from an artistic and creative family. While Nancy learned to sew when she was very young, she really began sewing in earnest when she was in her early 20's. After 3 children, sewing and crafts took a back seat to owning and operating an electronic assembly business. She employed and taught women, both in groups and individually, the art of hand winding and assembling electronic coils and transformers. During this period of time, she honed her skills of teaching, precision, patience, scheduling, and dedication toward quality and creativity.
Nancy has now come back full circle to sewing. She moved to Franklin, NC after meeting and marrying her husband, David. Several years ago she began sewing Sulky samples to be shown at Sulky Sew Exciting Seminars, Certification Trainings and in Consumer and Trade show booths. Nancy has taught classes and lectured in 2008 & 2009 at the ASE in Novi, MI. Her felted bowl is published in Sulky's latest book “Supplement to Sulky's Secrets to Successful Stabilizing.” Her newest fabric wrapped cord square trivet and bowl design was presented by Joyce Drexler on Quilting Arts TV show in February, 2009, and will be published in Sulky's future Embellishing book.
www.sulky.com
Peggy Sagers
Dallas, TX
Silhouette Patterns
Peggy holds a degree in Fashion Design and Fashion Merchandising from Brigham Young University. Having drafted patterns professionally on a free-lance basis for numerous manufacturers in the Dallas area, Peggy created her own pattern line, Silhouettes, in the late 1990’s. Her patterns incorporate B, C, and D cup sizing as well as proportionate lengths, which are unique in the pattern industry. She brings no frills to the home sewing world, but instead focuses on classic designs for great-fitting business and casual wardrobes. She has been a featured guest on HGTV’s Sew Much More, and currently spends her time teaching at seminars and workshops in the United States and Canada.
www.silhouettepatterns.com
Emma Seabrooke
Islamorada, FL
Sew KeysE, Inc.
Emma Seabrooke is a certified Palmer/Pletsch pant and fit instructor. She trained with French Couture for years and took many fashion design courses in college while obtaining her degree. Emma loves sewing with knits and has designed clothing patterns for them. She has perfected the best styles for all sizes, especially “well-endowed” ladies. Emma is an active member of the Home Sewing Association, and believes all her students can achieve clothing that looks and fits beautifully. She offers patterns, notions and fabrics that apply to her classes for sale.
www.emmaseabrooke.com
Barbara Soumar
Vero Beach, FL
Flamingo Island Designs
Barbara Miro Soumar is a fiber artist and sculptor, showing her work throughout Florida; She is pattern designer and owner of Flamingo Island Designs, an online fabric store. Barbara uses art to express her love of nature, which is a driving force in her life. She has been a teacher of quilting, handcrafts, sewing, sculpture and fiber arts for more than 25 years, teaching students of all ages and levels of experience.
www.flamingoislanddesigns.com
Connie Spurlock
Coeur d’Alene, ID
Sew Wonderful Dreams
Although she didn’t even learn to sew until she was over 30 years old, Connie used her background in marketing and education to develop Sew Wonderful Dreams, a pattern design company. Fifteen years ago the company focused on craft patterns, while today the emphasis is on quilting and education. About her company she says: “We believe the best marketing tool we have is to educate. Everyone can learn but the way we learn is variable. Our classes are designed to help you learn in a way that will be most beneficial to you.”
www.sewwonderfuldreams.com
Kathy Stachowicz
Sanford, FL
Baby Lock Education Consultant
Kathy is a creative needle artist, designer, and author who comes to Baby Lock with an extensive teaching background in sewing machines, sergers, and hand needle arts. She encourages sewing enthusiasts to be creative with fun and easy embellishment techniques. Kathy has received awards for her wearable art, specializing in surface design and fabric manipulation. Kathy co-authored two books full of fun fiber and rich textured techniques, contributed to Sulky of America’s Concepts book series, and was published in Australia’s Machine Embroidery magazine. For 11 years Kathy has shared her knowledge and expertise while working as a freelance educator for Sulky of America and she is thrilled to bring those same skills to the Baby Lock Education team.
www.babylock.com
Carol Steinbrecher
Boulder, CO
Conselle Institute
Style Solutions, LLC
Carol has been sewing since she was a little girl and hasn’t stopped since. She learned home décor and window coverings from her grandmother but has stayed with her love of fashion construction and wardrobing. Carol is founder and CEO of Style Solutions, LLC, an image and fashion management services firm. Carol specializes in tailoring, alterations of ready-to-wear, fitting techniques & fashion pattern alterations; wardrobe strategies, personal styling, closet clutter control and image services. Carol’s clients include Oscar award winner, Paula DuPre Pesman. Carol is an affiliate of the Conselle Institute of Image Management, member of AICI, ASDP, BPW and the Boulder Chamber of Commerce. Graduate of UW-Oshkosh-BSN. Carol totally believes chocolate is one of the basic food groups and that at least 25% of every day should be fun!
www.conselle.com
www.stylesolutionsllc.com
Jennifer Stern
Manchester, CT
J Stern Designs
In 2000 Jennifer began designing garments and digitizing her own original embroidery designs for wearable arts fashion shows, winning awards along the way. In 2007, she had a fashion show featuring her first collection of original designs – jeans, tee shirts, tops, skirts, pants dresses and jackets – which are now patterns for home sewers. Jennifer's patterns feature easy-to-follow directions with lots of illustrations. Her new adventure is producing instructional videos to go along with her patterns as well as classes on DVD and a series of videos on fitting and creating new styles from her basic patterns. Jennifer is also a contributor to Threads’ Magazine and Craftstylish.com (published by Taunton Press).
www.jsterndesigns.com
Barbie Swanson
Lake City, FL
Fabric Art Shop
Barbie Swanson is a nationally known fiber artist, teacher, designer and inventor. She is a member of many fiber art organizations including the Surface Design Association and the North Florida Art League. She invents tools to aid in design and creates specialty hand-dyed and painted fabrics and yarns, which she incorporates into her art pieces. Because of her love of nature and the way she brings this love into her art, she has won many awards for her art creations and has been published in several magazines. She loves to teach, from the very basics to the more complex, and the motto for Barbie’s students is “YES, I CAN!” It is what she believes in and anyone working in class or on individual projects with her realizes that they CAN and DO. With patient guidance, that allows a student to explore, most find that after even one session, that they can pursue an avenue that lets them grow in a direction that is beneficial to their needs and desires. In her art classes, she encourages her students to find their own way and not make copies of her art samples. Her goal for everyone is to move him or her to create something that has meaning and gives pleasure.
www.fabricartshop.com
Jolee Tarbell
Charlottesville, VA
My Cozy Cottage
With degrees in Home Economics, Business, Education and Art, Jolee has been a teacher, quilt and needlework shop owner and designer of needle arts and quilt related clothing patterns. She is a member of the Studio Art Guild and American Sewing Guild. It is a thrill for Jolee to share ideas with sewing enthusiasts across the country. She'll soon be presenting her publication Fit to Be Tied and continuing to teach classes with all who share her love of fabric artistry.
www.mycozycottage.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
Jamie Wallen
Kalamazoo
Jamie Wallen Fine Art Quilts
Jamie Wallen entered the Quilting Community with a background in Fine Arts. After a long arm purchase in the late nineties he began to develop his own style of quilting, During this time he developed a large and loyal community of piecers Throughout the USA that "Wanted him to put his unique style of work on their quilts". Eventually, he began mentoring new quilters in his area. It was during this period that he met and became friends with Nichole Webb with whom he collaborated and released the book "No Boundaries" which includes Jamie's TM design "Flurry Of Angels". In 2004 Jamie began teaching workshops and classes throughout the US. In 2005 Jamie began "Heading back To his Roots of Fine Art "WITH" the long arm". He has developed a new series of quilting technique's he calls "Thread fusion" , and continues to teach nationally. 2005 also brought Jamie into a new Studio where he works and teaches workshops in Kalamazoo Michigan. Jamie is presently also collaborating with Fine Artist Patrick Whalen on original hand dyed artist's cloth for long arm quilters use in artist's whole cloths. As Jamie say's "I've found my home in the quilting community , and I'm going to explore 'every' room".
www.jamiewallen.citymax.com/home.html
Laura Wasilowski
Elgin, IL
Artfabrik
Laura Wasilowski is both contemporary quilt maker and creator of hand-dyed fabrics and threads. Her pictorial art quilts, made from fused fabrics and machine quilted, are collected and exhibited internationally. Wasilowski’s narrative quilts begin with her unique hand-dyed fabrics and are inspired by stories of family, friends, and home. The whimsical wall pieces often chronicle her life. Owner of the dye shop, Artfabrik, Laura is also a lecturer, surface designer, quilt instructor, and author of Fusing Fun and Fuse-and-Tell.
www.artfabrik.com
Elayne West
Plymouth, WI
The Sewing Basket
Elayne West is a partner at The Sewing Basket in Plymouth, WI. Elayne began sewing clothing and other projects in grade school and has been sewing and quilting ever since. She has taught and given trunk shows at Quilt Expo in Madison, WI and at many guilds. One of her purse designs was featured in Asian Fabrics Magazine. At The Sewing Basket she teaches sewing and quilting classes, designs patterns and does trunk shows of their original pattern - the "What a Deal Purse Cards". See samples at
www.sewingbasket.biz. The Sewing Basket is also home to the Quilting Football League (QFL) program. Visit
www.teamqfl.com and join the fun!
Dini Yan Demarest, NJ
Dini is originally from Beijing, and along with her sister Momo, is a recognized artist in China. Their paintings have won awards in both China and international competitions. As a professor of Fine Arts at the University of China, Dini taught at the Fine Arts Institute of Northeast Normal University.
Dini and Momo design and digitize embroidery patterns for their company, Momo-Dini Embroidery Art. Their designs merge the different cultures of the East and West together to give the embroidery new life and energy. Dini and Momo blend the best of art and technology, and their goal is to produce the best designs with the highest standards and quality.
www.momodini.com
Gail Yellen
Glastonbury, CT
Gail’s original design sweatshirt jacket classes have been a consistent favorite at Manchester Sewing Machine Center in Connecticut where Gail has taught a variety of techniques for the past 7 years. Gail Patrice Design began when a gallery owner in Maine carried these designs as ready-to-wear jackets and sold out the collection each season! Gail has created a pattern line of jackets and is developing a series of DVDs to include her favorite design and embellishment techniques. She is an active member and the Manchester Neighborhood Group leader of the CT Chapter of the American Sewing Guild. Gail holds a BA in English and Dental Hygiene.
www.gailpatrice.com
Hope Yoder
Designs by Hope Yoder, Inc.
Hope Yoder is an author, designer and sewing instructor who specializes in machine embellishments and loves to incorporate refined embellishment techniques and machine embroidery into romantic ladies clothes and accessories. Hope owns a new pattern company called “Hope Sew Patterns” & has written two books. She is the designer of many machine embroidery collections including Tag-A-Longs and Heirloom Embellishments which features heirloom techniques that are re-created in the embroidery hoop. Hope has appeared on the PBS show, “Martha’s Sewing Room” and her work has been featured on the cover of Sew Beautiful, Sew News, Designs in Machine Embroidery and Clotilde’s Sewing Savvy magazine. She also writes for Australian Machine Embroidery, Creative Machine Embroidery, and House of White Birches. Hope teaches at International Dealer Conventions as well as traveling the country teaching hands on workshops at the School of Art Fashion and other consumer events helping ladies discover how to “Romance Their Wardrobe” using her special techniques. To find out more visit
www.hopeyoder.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