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Expo Faculty – Spring 2008
When you take classes at Original Sewing & Quilt Expo, you're treating yourself to the very best: passionate designers, best-selling authors, industry insiders and creative pioneers. Whether they arrive from around the globe, across the country or just around the corner, their classes are a memorable part of a satisfying Expo experience.
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Rebecca Aldrich Bowen
Sunshine Knit Designs
St. Augustine, FL
Rebecca brings a lifelong enthusiasm for knitting to the classroom. She believes in the intelligence of knitters, and wants her students to be independent, thinking knitters. She works in a needlework shop where her classes are popular and well-attended. She designs and publishes her own line of patterns, Sunshine Knit Designs, has had patterns published on KnitNet, and has done designs for yarn companies. She has a degree in elementary education, and a full major in art. www.sunshineknitdesigns.com |
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Dawn Anderson
Dawn Anderson Designs
Centreville, VA
Dawn began sewing when she was 5 years old. She has worked as a custom tailor and dressmaker as well as designed and created costumes for theatre and dance. While attending college, she taught sewing for 7 years. Dawn earned a B.A. and M.F.A. in Theatre Costume Design. She worked as a costume designer, cutter/ draper, patternmaker, and advanced seamstress. She created custom costumes for actors, singers, and dancers. The costumes were modern and historic clothing, as well as specialty garments, corsetry, and millinery.
Dawn was fortunate to study traditional hand tailoring from a German tailor. She continued her studies abroad in England where she learned historic sewing techniques and visited many historic clothing collections. She lived and worked as a designer and dressmaker in Scotland. Upon returning to the USA, Dawn continued to work as a custom tailor and eveningwear designer. One of her gowns was worn to President Bush’s first inaugural ball.
Dawn now has her own sewing pattern company, Dawn Anderson Designs, which culminates all her sewing and teaching experience into thorough instructions and inspiring designs. Dawn also teaches the couture sewing group for the northern Virginia American Sewing Guild. www.dawnandersondesigns.com |
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Marci Baker
Alicia's Attic, Inc
Fort Collins, CO
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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Katie Bartz
Eagan, MN
Katie has the reputation of being an adventurer and an inspiring entrepreneur. She has a successful computer consulting business and is a sought-after educator in both the technical and sewing worlds. Her Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Information Systems and passion for sewing gives her the ability to understand the creative and technical needs of people in both industries. Katie likes nothing more than to share her knowledge and build confidence in everyone she meets. Katie’s life experiences and enthusiasm keep students involved and entertained in her classes, which provides a great environment for learning.
Katie has recently co-authored a book and enjoys publishing articles which showcase her embroidery software, sewing and computer abilities. She also enjoys producing instructional CDs and DVDs and has recently been invited to assist on the set of the television show “While You Were Out”. Katie is a licensed Martha Pullen Instructor, Certified Pam Damour Drapery School Educator, and is a Sulky Certified Educator. To put it simply, Katie loves life and enjoys sharing her warm spirit! www.kjbartz.com
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Mary Bell
KMB Fibre Ware, Inc.
Lambertville, MI
Mary began knitting when she was 5 years old. Shortly thereafter she started sewing, quilting, needlepointing, embroidery and cross-stitch. She is a life long needlecrafter that left the corporate world after 30 years in management and organization effectiveness to combine her love of the fiber arts into a new career as a sales representative in the midwest for several fine yarn companies. Her passion is teaching and she has been a knitting instructor and guest speaker in local yarn shops for several years putting on workshops and teaching new techniques and patterns to all ages. Mary's classes are designed to engage the knitter in color and design while enhancing their technical skills. |
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Nora Bellows
Noni Designs
Crofton, MD
Nora was taught to knit by her mom when she was 12, but did not discover the world of felted bags until 2000. Her first bag was made from a simple pattern, but she immediately began to innovate. Soon, her unusual creations attracted the attention of customers in the Baltimore knit shop (Woolworks) where she worked to support her knitting habit. In addition, she began making bags exclusively for private commission and for sale in a very few small boutiques around the East Coast. During the Fall/Winter 2005 season she founded Noni Designs and launched a line of eight fashionable, innovative bag and embellishment patterns that are as beautiful as the designs they feature. www.nonipatterns.com |
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Mac Berg
Beach Park, IL
Mac attended and worked in her college theater department where she learned you can make anything with a little fabric and lots of creativity! Although sewing has been a life-long hobby (since age 10), her real love is teaching. A teacher of the deaf, she interpreted for deaf students while her children were young and is an active substitute teacher in Waukegan, IL. She began teaching at her local sewing center and soon became co-owner of that same store. She continues to teach in the store and across the country, and participated in the Threads Magazine Design Challenge VI. She is presently (continually!) working on a book about serger techniques, and exploring weird new ways to digitize and utilize machine embroidery. |
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Gail Bird
Igolochkoy™/Birdhouse Enterprises
Sacramento, CA
Gail has been teaching, lecturing, collecting, mentoring, writing articles and books for the past 35 years in the art of Igolochkoy™. Her initial interest in the original miniature Russian punchneedles began in Berkeley, CA in a quilt shop that had this technique on a purse. Because it was a bird design (her last name and she happens to collect fiber art birds), and because the technique was something she was not familiar with, she purchased the tools and took them back to New York. She is self taught and highly motivated. It was 12 years later she bought the company, and she and her husband continue the heritage and production of the hand crafted tools. Her passion has enabled her to travel the world, researching, teaching and selling her expertise and wares. She has an extensive collection of her customers and students works. She spends most of her time now certifying designers and teachers by correspondence courses and lecturing and teaching classes for guilds and special interest groups. www.gailbird.com |
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Debra Bohn
Husqvarna Viking Independent Educator
Clemmons, NC
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.husqvarnaviking.com
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Jan Bones
Lingerie Secrets
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Jan designs regular and plus-sized patterns for her company Lingerie Secrets, teaches pattern design at the University of Manitoba, produces sewing videos and writes books and articles for Threads magazine. Jan also travels extensively, sharing her methods for creating lingerie and how to make your own dressform. www.sewinglingerie.com |
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Barb Callahan
Barb Originals
Venice, FL
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 |
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Kay Capps Cross
Cross Cuts Quilting
Spring Grove, MN
Kay started sewing at a very young. Her school shopping was a trip to the fabric store for yard goods and patterns! Her mother and grandmother made those wonderfully heavy “quilts” made from scraps and big wool comforters that were recycled. That was her first introduction to quilting. She started taking quilting classes in the 1990s, and was soon teaching her own designs. Her foray into black and white was instrumental in developing her style and improving her life.
It was suggested to Kay to use quilt making as a therapeutic measure. She was encouraged to make quilts that came from inside of her and to show them to people. Her “therapy” quilts were met with appreciation and encouragement. She kept reaching for the black and white fabrics – and her creativity was set free.
Kay has taught and presented trunk shows at quilt shops, guilds, retreats and shows. She has quilts in McCall’s Quilting,Magic Patch, Fabric Trends and soon will be seen in Quilters' World. Her first book is hot off the presses. Published by AQS, it is titled Black & White Quilts by Design. www.crosscutsquilting.com |
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Diana Cedolia
Independent Educator, VSM Group
Dunedin, FL
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 |
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Melanie Coakley
EmbroideryFX
Chattanooga, TN
Melanie is President and Owner of EmbroideryFX located in Chattanooga, TN. Nineteen years ago she stopped travelling for a nationally known sewing machine company and started a commercial embroidery business from her home. This quickly evolved into a retail location spcializing in custome logos. She had created embroidery for high profile customers as well as local business. Her experience brings her to educate others interested in complete embroidery experience: techniques, products and digitizing. She is a contributing writer for trade magazines, and a frequent speaker for industry events. Her degree is in textiles and art from the University of Georgia. She has enhanced her embroidery experience by offering products used in the commercial embroidery industry to home embroidery enthusiasts so that they too can create beautiful embroideries! www.signaturedesigns.com |
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June Colburn
June Colburn Designs II, Inc.
Largo, FL
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 |
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Louise Cutting
Cutting Line Designs
Winter Park, FL
Thread’s newest contributing editor and the spokesperson for Rowenta Irons in garment construction, Louise Cutting is the designer of Cutting Line Designs patterns. She created the One Seam Pant© with over 38,000 patterns sold to date. The instructions have been quoted as the best in the pattern industry. She was the owner of Fabric Collections, a designer fabric store in Winter Park, FL. Louise was the Fashion Design Department Head at Prospect Hall College and Art Institute and taught Interior Design at Marymount College. She has appeared on Sew Much More for HGTV, and America Sews with Sue Hausmann. Louise has written articles for Threads, Creative Machine Embroidery, and Sew Beautiful. Her pattern designs have been featured in Sew News and Handwoven magazines. She is an internationally known speaker on sewing and design. www.cuttinglinedesigns.com |
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Carol Cypher
Port Ewen, NY
Carol is a fiber artist and teacher working primarily with feltmaking and beadwork, known for her provocative pairing of the two. She is the author of three books: Hand Felted Jewelry and Beads, 25 Artful Designs; Mastering Beadwork, A Comprehensive Guide to Off-Loom Techniques and How We Felt.
Her work is shown in museum and gallery gift shops, magazines, and several books on fiber art, color, jewelry and design. She is one of the bead artists featured in a Japanese bead art book titled The Art of Beading Stitches. Lesson 11 in the JALD beadwork certification program is her design.
She divides her time between studio, writing, and teaching workshops nationally. In 2008 her teaching schedule takes her abroad to New South Wales and Victoria in Australia and Osaka, Tokyo and Kobe in Japan. Her interviews and technique demonstrations are aired on PBS, DIY and HGTV television networks. www.carolcypher.com
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Pam Damour
The Decorating Diva
Champlain, NY
Known as "The Decorating Diva”, Pam offers professional drapery workroom training to the public and the trade. A regular on HGTV and the Discovery Channel, she generously shares her 20+ years’ experience as a sewing professional. Pam travels the US and internationally, offering programs that include a professional Drapery School, bringing trade secrets to home sewing enthusiasts, trunk shows packed with sewing methods and one-day home décor sewing workshops. Sewing retreats and teacher certification programs are held at her family’s home (a log cabin) on Lake Champlain at the foot of the Adirondack Mountains, and her home based interior design business flourishes, thanks to the teamwork of her dedicated staff. www.pamdamour.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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Kim Diehl
Pocatello, ID
With just her third quilt, Kim entered and won American Patchwork & Quilting magazine’s “Pieces of the Past” quilt challenge in 1998. This win took her life down a new and unexpected path, and Kim began designing quilts professionally. Kim has seen her original designs published in numerous magazines, including an upcoming feature in Australian Homespun magazine, and she remains a frequent design contributor for American Patchwork & Quilting.
To date, Kim has authored three books with Martingale & Company, including two best-sellers, and she is currently working on a fourth book of lap quilt designs, as well as her debut line of quilting fabrics for Henry Glass.
When she’s not designing, sewing quilts, and working in her country-style gardens, Kim enjoys traveling to quilting groups and events around the country, sharing her quilts and teaching her easy invisible machine appliqué methods. www.kimdiehl.com
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Shelley Doyal
Blue Flamingo Designs
Geneva, FL
Shelley has been a life long seamstress. She has a degree in Fashion Merchandising and surrounds herself with fabric, patterns and sewing machines. Along with being a sewing machine and quilt shop owner, Shelley conducts classes in embroidery software, basic sewing and quilt construction. Shelley is also a Certified Educator for Wild Ginger, a computerized software pattern drafting program. She recently formed Blue Flamingo Designs, a new pattern and sewing information company with her sister. She is a member of the American Sewing Guild and the Sewing Educator Alliance. Shelley enjoys working with her husband, remodeling her Florida home and of course sewing, sewing and sewing. www.blueflamingodesigns.com |
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Megan Engelmann
Stitch Cleveland
Lakewood, OH
Megan is a Cleveland-based fashion designer and graduate of Kent State University's Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising. She has been sewing for nearly twenty years and specializes in women's clothing design and illustration. Megan is a co-owner of Cleveland-based design studio and shop Stitch Cleveland and is currently working on a new line of patterns. www.stitchcleveland.com |
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Diane Ericson
ReVisions
Santa Rosa, CA
Diane, founder of ReVisions, is an artist and designer. In her 30 years of teaching, Diane has provided art and design classes for public schools and guilds, teacher training programs, art therapy workshops, creativity coaching and numerous retreats. As a frequent contributor to various fiber publications including Threads & Sew News, Diane enjoys playing in her studio, creating new designs for ReVisions and exploring other inventive ways to inspire and celebrate creativity. Diane teaches workshops and retreats in various locations, and has become a recognized expert in the sewing field and motivational speaker for women’s groups. www.dianeericson.com |
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Nancy Fiedler
Janome
Dwight, IL
Janome Educational Coordinator Nancy Fiedler has been teaching sewing techniques for over 20 years. You have seen many of Nancy’s designs in Janome Digest and www.Janome.com. She has also been a contributor to Creative Machine Embroidery, Designs in Machine Embroidery, and Clotilde’s Sewing Savvy. Nancy specializes in embellishment techniques utilizing the features and accessories of Janome sewing machines and sergers. She writes and designs in her studio in Dwight, IL. |
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Sheila Finklestein
Akron, OH
Sheila is a professional advocate for the playful, less serious side of learning – CREATIVITY! With a Bachelor of Fine and Applied Arts her skills are based in a lifetime of time-honored traditional techniques of quilting, sewing, tailoring, patternmaking and hand embroidry. This wide spectrum of expertise allows her to easily juggle a classroom of varied skill sets and sewing/design challenges. Her classrom mantra of 'just do it', and 'done is better than perfect' recognize the learning curve in every student's quilting or sewing technique. Beyond her teaching, Sheila is an author of the quilt technique book Magic Quilted Mandalas (Krause 1999) – a book that explores the many ways to design and construct circular designs from wedge-shaped pieces. The creator of many of the quilts in MQM, she is a prolific machine piecer and machine quilter with numerous awards. Her quilts are in many private collections and exhibited in trade, art, and quilt shows nationally. She is keenly aware that: "her quilts get out more than she does!" |
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Diane Gloystein
Sulky of America
Lincoln, NE
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 |
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Karen Grof
Happy Apple Quilts
Safety Harbor, FL
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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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 |
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Helen Hamann
Decatur, TN
Helen's unique talents are complemented with a strong knowledge of the fashion and knitwear industry, as well as a deep understanding of alpaca fiber with all its glorious qualities. In June 2006, Interweave Press began marketing her first book of patterns, Andean Inspired Knits, featuring exclusive designs inspired by ancient Peruvian textiles in modern and trendy silhouettes, all beautifully hand-knitted in Alpaca. Helen has a pret-a-porter collection – Chocolate – of luxuriously hand-knitted haute couture garments in the highest qualities of alpaca and alpaca blends available – a most sensual treat to the senses. Twice a year, she takes a group of tourists to Peru to explore the country's arts and culture, culinary delights, ancient textiles, modern alpaca breeding techniques and its successful knitwear industry.
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Janet Hampson
The Woolpack
Littleton, MA
Janet learned to knit and crochet as a child from her mother who is still knitting at age 88. Her knowledge of fiber is extensive, not only from her knitting experience, but as a 4-H family. Her daughter, Lesley, has been raising sheep almost twenty years and has won many championships. After a career in human resources, Janet followed her passion and joined a major yarn distributor and learned the wholesale side of the business.
Today, she is owner of The Woolpack, a full service yarn shop with classes and workshops for all levels and catering to the needs of crocheters, knitters, and fiber lovers. You can find wool roving, silk caps and quilt bats made from fleece from her daughter's flock at the shop as well. In addition to teaching at her own shop, Janet also teaches classes at local elementary schools and adult education programs. Join one her classes – unwind your mind, soothe your soul and knit yourself silly.
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Laura Haynie
Jenny Haskins Products
Lubbock, TX
With her first ever entry in a sewing contest, Laura won a 1st Place and Grand Prize with many accolades as she continued. Just recently, her embroidered coat, pant and halter top ensemble won Best of Show at the International Pfaff convention in San Francisco, CA, as voted upon by show attendees. Color, line and design are Laura’s passions and she expresses these through garments, quilts, crafts, and home decorator items.
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.
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Lorraine Henry
Conselle Institute
San Diego, CA
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 |
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Mary Huey
Mary Huey Quilts
Willoughby, OH
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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Shirley Hummel
Morganton Sewing Center
Morganton, NC
Shirley has been sewing and teaching for 30+ years and has seen the fantastic advances in the sewing industry. She owns a shop that specializes in quality fabrics and classes. She has taught at the Martha Pullen School and has had articles featured in Sew Beautiful. She also traveled and taught as an educator for a major sewing machine company. Her love of quilting has her doing programs and teaching for quilt guilds, vending at quilt shows and teaching a technique for rotary cutting and strip piecing that allows the quilter to achieve perfect points with accuracy, simplicity of construction, and speed. Quilters are so excited to see how the resulting blocks go together with such ease! www.morgantonsewing.com |
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Deb Karasik
QuiltMavens
San Franscico, CA
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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Shirleen Kistner
Vintage Yarns
Lambertville, MI
Shirleen opened Vintage Yarns – knitting with a new twist in 2004. She enjoys teaching at the shop and making her own projects. Embellishment and accessories make projects look special and details are always the most important part. Bead and knitting go hand in hand with beautiful edges, trims and jewelry. www.vintageyarns.com |
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Debby Kratovil
Quilter By Design
Atlanta, GA
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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Debra Lambert
Picasso's Moon
Sarasota, FL
Debra has been knitting since she was 18. She has honed her skills with her years as an interior designer, art teacher, and shop owner. Her knitting shop, Picasso's Moon Scrumptious Yarn, is located in the antique district of Sarasota, FL. Knitting is her passion and she enjoys sharing her knowledge of the art of knitting. In Debra's shop she offers a cozy world filled with wonderful fibers and folks who love to knit and crochet. www.picassosmoonyarn.com |
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Debi Light
The Whole Nine Yarns
Woodstock, GA
Debi has been a knitting enthusiast since the age of eight when her Grandmother first showed her how to cast on. Her knitting enthusiasm at her young age laid the way for aspiring her dreams today as an entrepreneur. Owning and operating her very own yarn shop – The Whole Nine Yarns is a dream come true for Debi where she is surrounded by endless fibers, friends, and others enjoying the art as much as she does. Teaching others to knit and being able to share in their excitement brings it all full circle!
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Cindy Losekamp
Sew Artfully Yours
Cedar Grove, IN
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
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Nancy McElhinny
Fabulous Fibers & Embellishments
Lyndora, Pennsylvania
After a lifetime of stitching, Nancy has combined her 12 years of Executive experience with her love of fibers to create her own business. Fabulous Fibers & Embellishments is a wonderful collection of threads, fabrics, patterns, kits, & more that are used for numerous forms of needle art. Since 1995 Nancy has developed her business to provide fiber products to over 500 retail stores nation wide. In addition, Nancy and her husband travel to one retail show a month to share her knowledge and products for Wearable Arts, Crazy Quilting, Tatting, Brazilian Embroidery and much more. One of her projects has also been featured in Australian Smocking and Embroidery magazine. www.fabulousfibers.com |
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Jerri McKee
Moonlight Design Quilts & Wearables, Inc.
Downingtown, PA
Jerri is a pattern designer and teacher, known for her boutique quality jacket patterns made from Sweatshirts. She chooses to use sweatshirts so that her customers don’t have to worry about sizing. Just use a sweatshirt that fits and change it into a wonderful work of wearable art. She has 24 years of sewing experience and loves to share her shortcuts and secrets with her students. So be prepared to take home many new ideas! She can be seen on America Quilts Creatively, Kaye’s Quilting Friends, QNN Network, and this fall on America Sews. www.moonlightdesignquilts.com |
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Lyla Messinger
L.J. Designs
Reno, NV
Lyla J. Messinger is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and designer. Her Company, L.J. Designs, just launched a new pattern line called A La Mode, which is a perfect addition to the well known L.J. Designs line that is celebrating 11 years of innovation! Lyla is an innovative, inspiring teacher with endless ideas you can use to create sylish, boutique style clothing. Her book, Ordinary to Extraordinary: Terrific Treatments for Garment Sewing features her original designs and techniques. www.ljdesignsonline.com |
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Stacy Michell
Shades Textiles
Marietta, GA
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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Sandy Miller
Cutting Line Designs
Orlando, FL
Combining her lifelong love of sewing with her career of teaching high school and college English, Sandy brings expertise and enthusiasm to her sewing classes. She has taught for several years at Fabric Collections in Winter Park, FL and two branch stores, where her classes ranged from beginning to advanced garment construction, as well as tailoring, heirloom sewing, and free motion stitching. Now she is the first sample maker for the patterns from Cutting Line Designs, where she also edits the pattern instructions. In addition, she has edited Cutting Out – Adventures in Applique, Expert Tips and Techniques for One-Seam Pants© I and II, and Expert Tips and Techniques for Fine Sewing IV from Cutting Corners Inc. www.cuttinglinedesigns.com |
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Kim Montagnese
AhHa!
Amherst, OH
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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Annie Moody
Janome of America, Inc.
Annie has been an Educator with Janome America since November 2004. She enjoys designing and creating using software, technology and doing whatever is possible inside the hoop of her embroidery machine. Annie’s quilts have been exhibited at shows at the local level and national level. Her crazy quilt was exhibited at the American Quilter's Society show in Nashville, Tennessee. Her projects and articles can be found on Janome America’s website, Marcus Brothers website, the Janome Digest magazine and The Quilter magazine. Annie appears as a regular guest on Kaye’s Quilting Friends and on KayeWoodTV.com. Annie along with her sister Lynda Remmers is currently working on several “Quilt in the Hoop” embroidery designs for publication which combine embroidery and quilting in a new and unique way. Her passion is teaching others to do what she loves to do. She always asks her students to bring the same thing to every class and that is excitement and enthusiasm. She loves her current position as an Educational Coordinator with Janome America where she enjoys sharing her ideas with fellow sewing enthusiasts. |
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Fran Morgan
Fabric Café
Tyler, TX
Fran leads the design efforts of Fabric Café. A designer and author for over 18 years, Fran has appeared on television programs including Simply Quilts, America Sews, Quilting with Shar, Sew Much More, Kaye Wood Quilting Friends and American Quilter. In April 2004, American Quilter's Society released her book, The Thrill of Chenille. In November 2004, Fran took her design work to a new level by introducing Quilted Art Vases and Silhouettes Art Quilts, books that feature beautiful, gallery quality quilted projects. Her newest book, Sensational Sweatshirt Secrets was introduced in May 2006. Fran appeared as the feature designer of the month on the new Quilters News Network in October 2006. The Fabric Cafe website features designs by Fran. www.fabriccafe.com |
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Tammy O'Connell
Peacock Patterns
Muskego, WI
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 |
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Shannon Okey
Knitgrrl
Cleveland, OH
Shannon teaches at shows all over the country, writes, knits, spins yarn, runs several small businesses and organizes events such as the Cleveland edition of Bazaar Bizarre and gallery shows featuring fellow fiber artists. She is the author of not only the Knitgrrl series, but also two forthcoming books from Interweave Press (Spin to Knit and Felt Frenzy, the latter co-authored with Heather Brack). She’s currently editing two knit/crochet books for Potter Craft, and writing crochet and sewing books. Shannon recently founded her own publishing venture called anezka media.
www.knitgrrl.com & www.anezkamedia.com |
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Ellen Osten
Sulky of America
St. Petersburg, FL
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 |
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Linda M. Poole
Milford, PA
Linda M. Poole lives in the gorgeous Northeast Region of Pennsylvania in a small town called Milford, known for its eclectic community of artists and antique shops. Linda has a fond passion for traveling the globe, learning from people and passing forward everything she learns to those she meets. Her laughter and humor is contagious in the classroom and lecture halls and her patience to teach is always appreciated. Linda mentors those she meets, to believe that they “can do it” and non appliquérs walk out of her class with the “I did it, I can appliqué” attitude! Linda comes from a line of artists, watercolorists, impressionists, stained glass artisans, weavers, sculptresses, silversmiths and winemakers….all things that make “Life Good!" She currently has authored Turkish Delights to Appliqué, Bended Bias Appliqué and recently, Quilted Fairie Tales for AQS. www.lindampoole.com |
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Judith Rasband
Conselle Institute of Image Management
Provo, UT
Judith holds an MS degree in fashion with decades of experience creating and refining fitting and alteration, visual design and wardrobing technology. Director of the Conselle Institute of Image Management, Judith has received the image industry’s highest “Immie” award. A consumer advocate with a reputation for excellence, she is co-author of the NEW Edition of FABULOUS FIT and Fitting & Pattern Alteration, the “Bible” in fit books. She is also the author of the comprehensive Wardrobe Strategies and Image Management Quick Reference Guide. Her articles and interviews are published in Threads, Sew News, Image Update, Shape, Glamour, Woman’s Day, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Parents, Entrepreneur, Smart Money, and more. A guest on Oprah, Good Morning America, and the Today Show, Judi is known for accurate and practical information, lively seminar presentations including Virtual Closet™ demonstrations, and contagious enthusiasm for her subject. www.conselle.com |
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Londa Rohlfing
Londa's Creative Threads
Savoy, IL
With 13 years of owning a retail shop offering fine fabrics and sewing machines from 4 brands behind her, Londa switched to an internet-based business to go world-wide, and now operates 6 sewing-related websites. 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. www.londas-sewing.com |
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Kathy Ruddy
Unique Patterns
Mukilteo, WA
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 |
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Stephanie Ryan
Mentor, OH
Stephanie's earliest and most comforting memory is of her grandmother crocheting. With the birth of her own children, she returned to her grandmother's art when she wanted to have something made with her own hands to give her sons. Her Gypsy heritage and work in the family engineering business meld in her original crochet designs that are at once inventive and eye-capturing in their construction. Her work has been featured in INKnitters, Crochet Fantasy and will also be featured in an upcoming crochet book by Vickie Howell. www.stitchdiva.com |
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Peggy Sagers
Silhouette Patterns by Peggy Sagers
Dallas, TX
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 |
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Susan Schrempf
Ergonomic Advantage
Aurora, CO
Susan has made careers of embellishing. Whether it was sprinkling glitter onto arrangements in her flower shop, adding icing flowers to all types of cakes in her baking business or creating elegant confections in her chocolate shop, her passion is embellishing. For the last ten years, Susan has focused on the sewing industry. She has taught embellishment by machine across the country at guilds, sewing shops and expos. Susan's primary passion is sharing. Her enthusiasm for her craft delights students of all ages and levels of accomplishment. Susan's published works can be found in Sew News and Designs in Machine Embroidery magazines. She is the author of Simple Silk Ribbon Embroidery by Machine published by C&T. Susan has also designed for Embroideryarts monogram embroidery company. |
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Emma Seabrooke
Sew KeysE, Inc.
Islamorada, FL
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. |
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Suzy Seed
National Educator representing Sulky Of America
Houston, TX
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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Patsy Shields
RNK Distributing
Sellersburg, IN
Patsy began working in the sewing industry in 1983 with a major sewing machine company. Since that time she has also done Sew Better Seminars through Chilton Book Co., pants fitting and blazer construction seminars, Sew Exciting Seminars with Sulky of America and is currently working with Floriani Stabilizers and Walter Floriani, a 5th generation embroiderer.
Patsy travels presenting educational seminars, one and two day serger workshops for groups and shops as well as workshops in free motion quilting along with numerous other quilting and embellishing techniques, is a certified “Cotton Theory” quilting instructor, and also teaches at various Embroidery Retreats.
She has written articles for several publications, including Sew News, Sulky of America publications, Sew Fancy by Martha Pullen, Creative Machine Embroidery, Sewing Savvy, Round Bobbin Embroidery and Quilting Professional publications and has been mentioned in Serger Update Newsletter, Know Your Baby Lock, by Chilton, and several others. She also has her own video on Ribbon Embroidery by Machine.
She has appeared on “Quilting in the Heartland” with Sharlene Jorgenson, “Creative Living” with Sheryl Borden, and on “Sew Perfect” with Sandra Betzina. She is a current winner of the first ever Certified Master Sewing Educator award which was presented in ’07 to her along with eight other prominent sewing educators across the country.
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Nancy Shriber
Under Myrtle's Influence
Springfield, VA
Nancy is a nationally recognized artist, teacher, lecturer and writer. She designs and sells one-of-a-kind garments under the Contemporary Sashiko label. Her signature Sashiko-inspired quilting technique was featured on a recent cover of Threads. A garment maker with a love for hand sewing, touching and finding ways to use fine fibers, Nancy feels Sashiko stitching allows her to bring together all the things that speak to her and honor a beautiful stitching tradition. She loves sharing her techniques and stitching practice with others, and thoroughly enjoys continuing her own journey to find new ways to create, construct, embellish and personalize elegant garments. www.contemporarysashiko.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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Jean Sohn
Creative Memories
Norcross, GA
Coming from a family where making photo albums was a tradition, Jean began helping her Mother and Grandmother compile family photo albums at a very young age. She continued to assemble photo albums throughout the years in simple and effective albums. After retiring from a corporate career she began sharing her love of preserving the stories and memories of photographs in safe and meaningful albums by teaching classes and working with customers on an individual basis. Jean’s classes are personalized, covering traditional album making and the latest in digital albums technology. She targets the beginner who needs help with sorting and organizing through to the experience album maker who needs fresh ideas. www.mycmsite.com/jeansohn
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Caryn Southwick
The Whole Nine Yarns
Atlanta, GA
Caryn is the manager of The Whole Nine Yarns, a specialty yarn shop for knitters and crocheters. She is a self-taught crocheter and has been perfecting her craft since the age of 11. Caryn teaches beginning, intermediate and advanced crochet techniques. Her work was recently showcased at the Summer 2006 Knit & Crochet Show in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Caryn draws her inspiration from the amazing yarns produced today, the abundance of fabulous patterns and her Great-Aunt Lizzie. She is passionate about teaching the art of crochet to her students. www.thewholenineyarns.com |
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Connie Spurlock
Sew Wonderful Dreams
Coeur d’Alene, ID
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 |
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Kathy Stachowicz
Baby Lock Education Consultant
Sanford, FL
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 |
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Fran Steinbock
Felted Lilies LLC
Shaker Heights, OH
Fran began her exploration of wool and fibers as a young child. She has explored many art mediums through the years but returned to her love of knitting about 10 years ago when she entered a knitting store and felt as though she had entered a jewelry store. The colors and textures transfixed her. Her journey continued as she looked for patterns to use the beautiful fibers that she found. She fell in love with felting knitted purses and began to take classes in the felting process. She is fascinated with how wool fibers can be manipulated and learns new things every time she works with wool batts and rovings to create vessels, flowers and decorative accessories. Combining colors and textures is especially exciting when working with "wet felting". Fran has been teaching "wet felting" workshops and enjoys teaching others about the wonderful world of fibers and "wet felting". |
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Jim Suzio
Pittsburgh, PA
An independent motivational sewing speaker and highly sought-after instructor in the U.S., Canada and Australia, Jim is a self-taught sewer with a passion for learning how things are made (and how to make them better). His simple, clear and direct approach to embroidery software has resulted in his most popular series of classes and workshops ever. His numerous television appearances on America Sews with Sue Hausmann and Canada's The Big Breakfast Show, contributions to The Ultimate Serger Answer Guide and articles featured in Sew News magazine all feature his innovative and unique style. Jim lives and creates in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife Betsy and their daughter, Meri Katharine.
http://betsyelle-ivil.tripod.com/index.html
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Gail Yellen
Gail Patrice Design
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.
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