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2002 Faculty |
Lois Arnold
Arizona
Lois is an international quilt maker, designer and artist from Chandler,
Arizona who works in both areas of traditional and innovative quilt making.
Her passion for the pursuit of perfection in patchwork has earned her the
title of Princess of Precision. Lois has won awards in both regional and
national shows and has appeared in several books and magazines such as The
American Quilter and on HGTV s Simply Quilts in conjunction with the release
of her book, Pine Tree Quilts.
Bobbie Aug
Colorado
Bobbie Aug was inspired by the quiet, dignified beauty of nineteenth-century
quilts and began making quilts 30 years ago. She became a quilt dealer,
quilt collector, quilt shop owner, and quilt show consultant and producer,
focusing on anything related to quilts and quilt making. Bobbie lives in
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Debbie Bowles
Minnesota
Debbie came to quilt making via a lifetime of garment and craft sewing.
She leads each quilter to have fun while creating something that pleases
them and is uniquely their own. Debbie offers achievable, slightly nontraditional
projects with enormous design possibilities for all skill levels. If you
are looking to push yourself just slightly out of the box , join Debbie
for some fun.
Eleanor Burns
California
Perhaps no single teacher in the quilting industry is single-handedly as
responsible as Eleanor Burns for bringing so many people into the fold of
quilt making. Her early training as a teacher contributes to the simple,
easy-to-understand style that makes her books and television series so popular.
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Debbie Caffrey
New Mexico
Debbie is a self-published author of six books and eleven patterns. In addition,
she has designed and published over ninety patterns in an ever-changing
line of mystery quilts. Debbie has taught energy-filled workshops nationwide
for conferences, guilds and quilt shops. Debbie has contributed a number
of articles to Traditional Quiltworks magazine and has appeared on two episodes
of HGTV s television program, Simply Quilts. More -
Rachel Clark
California
Rachel is a contemporary folk artist, teacher and lecturer who comes from
a long line of sewers. She has been doing wearables for over 20 years and
teaching on the national circuit for eight years. Eclectic fabric mixes,
vibrant designs, and her keen sense of humor characterize Rachel s work.
While her work can be whimsical or political it is a personal statement
that reflects her love of traditional quilt making. She has done several
one-woman shows and her work has been featured in magazines like, Threads
and The Quilting Quarterly and the Fairfield Fashion Show.
Sandi Cummings
California
Sandi Cummings is a contemporary art quilter from Moraga, California. She
balances her time between, a national lecture/workshop schedule and most
important, her art quilt creations. Her pieces are exhibited frequently
and are a part of many corporate and private art collections. In her classes,
she emphasizes experimentation and encourages and facilitates students to
develop original design concepts in a supportive atmosphere.
Jerriann Fenimore
Arizona
In 1995, she became a sewing specialist for a Husqvarna Viking dealer in
Colorado, providing guide and specialty classes. After completing a training
program with Viking Sewing Machines Inc., she became a certified Freelance
Educational Consultant. In November 2000, Jerriann attended specialized
training in Starbuck, MN with Sharlene Jorgenson to be certified as an instructor
for Quilting From the Heartland with Husqvarna Viking.
Lynn Graves
New Mexico
Lynn has been an avid quilter since 1985 when she was attacked by the quilting
bug. The phrase necessity is the mother of invention is very true in her
case. Lynn designed Little Foot® as a result of her need to obtain an
exact 1/4 seam allowance. As a new quilter she felt she needed all the help
she could get. She has been teaching at quilt shops, symposiums, guilds
and at Quilt Camp in the Pines since about 1992. More
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Stevii Graves
California
Stevii Graves of San Diego, California is an avid collector of P & B
Fabrics as well as being an author, judge, curator and founding member of
Quilt Bureaucrats R Us. She is currently President of the California Heritage
Quilt Project. She is the curator for the special exhibit, The Quilts of
the P & B Corporate Collection, for Road to California 2002.
Laura Heine
Montana
Laura Heine, a self taught quilter won the Bernina Award for the best machine
quilting workmanship presented by AQS in Paducah, 1993 for her quilt One
Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. In 1994, she opened her quilt shop,
Fiberworks, in Billings. She teaches locally and nationally, showing students
what has worked for her and encouraging them to express their own concepts
and creativity in quilting. She is currently working on a book, I Made It,
due out in 2002. more -
Linda Jenkins
Colorado
Linda is one of the award-winning members from Piece O Cake Designs. She
and her partner, Becky Goldsmith, started Piece O Cake in 1994. Since then,
they have written seven quilting books and self-published five of those
including The appliquéé Handbook, which illustrates their easy appliquéé
techniques. They have designed many award-winning quilts including A Walk
in the Mountains and Simply Delicious . Linda and Becky have designed four
collections of fabric for P & B Textiles. More -
Mary
Jensen
Mary Jensen has been able to combine her love for teaching
and her home economics background to become a Bernina educator
for the past ten years. Mary s favorite thing to create
is a quilt, although at one time it was wedding dresses.
Her other hobbies include spending time with her
kids, working in the yard, and reading.
Melody
Johnson
Melody has stepped in at the last minute to replace David
Walker, whose classes were cancelled for health reasons.
Melody is an artist, teacher, and business woman, whose
hand dyed quilts are distinguished by riotous color and
exuberant embroidery. Trained as a painter, she turned to
quiltmaking as a diversion. Painting in fabrics and threads
has since become her focus. Her award winning quilts are
exhibited internationally, including eight American Quilter's
Society Shows, Visions-Quilt San Diego '92, '94, '96 and
'98, and Quilt National '95, '97 and '99. In 1994 she completed
her Master of Arts degree from Northern Illinois University.
She is co-owner with Laura Wasilowski of ARTFABR!K Extraordinary
Fabrics and Threads.
Nancy Kirk
Nebraska
Nancy Kirk has been restoring quilts professionally for over 10 years and
has organized six annual Quilt Restoration Conferences in Omaha. The Conference
will now be held on a biannual basis. Nancy is president of the nonprofit
Quilt Heritage Foundation, which also sponsors the Crazy Quilt Society and
the Dead Quilt Society. She owns the Kirk Collection, an on line business
specializing in antique and reproduction fabrics and antique quilts. She
has written articles for popular quilting magazines including Quilters Newsletter
Magazine and Traditional Quiltworks and has been seen twice on Simply Quilts
on HGTV. More -
Debi Kuennen-Baker
California
Debi has been an Educational Consultant with Pfaff Sewing Machines since
1990 and is best known for her combination of patchwork and surface embellishment.
She has been a participant in the Hobbs Fashion show in Paducah, the Fairfield
Fashion Show and is currently designing a garment for the 2001-2002 Bernina
Fashion Show. Her work has been shown in American Quilter, Sew News and
numerous Pfaff Club magazines.
Trish Linden
California
Trish, a National Educator for Sulky of America, a Certified Home Economist,
fiber artist, quilter, teacher and sewing machine professional brings experience
to the field of creative sewing. Students learn simple, new ways of artistic
expression through the use of thread, stabilizers, specialty needles, machine
settings and fabric manipulation.
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Cathy Miller British Columbia Cathy Miller from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada has been a professional singer and songwriter for 25 years, and has five previously released recordings. She has been a quilter for significantly less time, but has jumped into the arena with both hands and feet. She has performed her show for guilds, shops and conferences throughout Canada, Australia and the United States. More - |
Ruth McDowell
Massachusetts
The inspiration for most of Ruth s quilts is her love of nature. After graduating
with a B.S. in Art and Design, Ruth spent several years working as an illustrator.
In 1972, she began her career in quilt making and since that time, she has
become a full-time professional quilt artist with over 300 quilts to her
name. Ruth leads a very active international career teaching and lecturing
about her work. She wrote her first book in 1991 and now has five, including
Piecing: Expanding the Basics, and Pieced Flowers, a pattern book of 55
flower blocks.
Yvonne Perez-Collins
California
Yvonne is the author of Soft Gardens and Beading by Machine, both books
on textile embellishment. Her work has been featured on PBS shows with Sue
Hausmann, and in Threads Magazine and Arts & Crafts Magazine. She is
an educator for Sulky of America and has taught nationally for 16 years.
Theresa Polley-Shellcroft
California
Creativity is the center of Theresa Polley-Shellcroft s life. She began
drawing when she was two years old and began painting and sewing at age
eight. It was moving to California in 1980 that she fulfilled her desire
to learn about quilting. However, she found that she did not take to traditional
quilt patterns and found it much more creative and challenging to create
her own designs. She has been a presenter at several workshops and conferences
about African fiber arts and African American quilting and visual arts.
Liz Porter
Iowa
Well known as a teacher, author of best-selling quilting books, fabric designer
and television show host, Liz Porter offers workshops and lectures on an
eclectic array of topics. Liz has taught from coast to coast, in almost
every state, abroad and at sea. Since 1995, Marianne and Liz have been teaching
quilting on public television as hosts of Quilting With Fons & Porter.
A new collaboration since 1996 has been a bimonthly quilting magazine, For
the Love of Quilting with Marianne and Liz as executive editors. More -
Bob Purcell
Utah
Robert Purcell lived in Japan for ten years and speaks fluent Japanese.
His background in customer service, quality control, and Japanese business
practices are ideally suited for our quilting industry. He is vice president
of Superior Threads. More -
Kathy Sandbach
California
Author of Show Me How to Machine Quilt, Kathy Sandbach has been machine
quilting for the past 20 years. During the last ten years, she has been
machine quilting for others, and supporting herself with this skill developing
dozens of designs that do not need to be marked and do not use a long arm
machine. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Quilts,
Quilts, and More Quilts and Smashing Settings and Borders and others.
David Sanders
Texas
David Sanders was born into cotton via the Rosendale Valley in Manchester,
England. He moved to Australia where he spent 25 years in education, traveling
and learning. Between engagements across the US and overseas, he now calls
Austin, Texas home. An eclectic raconteur, he integrates business, collecting,
photography, education, history and world travel into his rich life.
Jane Sassaman
Illinois
Jane studied textile and jewelry design at Iowa State University. In 1980,
she discovered art quilts and knew quilting satisfied the artist, the craftsman,
and the draftsman in her. As an award-winning quiltmaker, Jane is known
for her bold designs celebrating the energy and beauty of garden flowers
and plants. Jane s quilts are shown worldwide and can be found in many private
and corporate art collections. She is author of the book, The Quilted Garden.
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Joan Shay
Massachusetts
Joan Shay has developed a new, exciting and easy appliquéé technique
which she calls Applibond. She has written a book, Petal Play, and a second
book, Petal Play the Traditional Way will be released in fall of 2001 by
AQS. Joan is intrigued by all aspects of quilting and has won many local,
state and national awards. She has appeared on Simply Quilts for HGTV and
Quilting from the Heartland. More -
Koji Wada
California
Koji Wada, owner of Kasuri Dyeworks for the past twenty-eight years, has
been the only major importer offering the best available traditional Japanese
textiles in the United States. There is a scarcity of information about
these beautiful fabrics due to the fact that the knowledge about their production
was verbally conveyed from masters to their disciples, and written records
would have jeopardized their trade secrets. More -
David
Walker
has just had emergency surgery and will not be able to teach
hisscheduled classes. I am sure all of you will join us
in wishing David a speedy and full recovery. We have been
so fortunate to secure Melody Johnson
as a replacement instructor for David's classes
Cindy Walter
Washington
Cindy is an inspiring and innovative author, teacher, lecturer, designer
and promoter of quilt making. Her classes range from traditional to contemporary
techniques. The works of the great painters fascinated her though she found
the idea of painting in oils somewhat daunting. She felt an urge to paint
on her quilt with dabs of fabric! Thus, she created the technique of Snippets.
She has authored several books including Fine Hand Quilting, Attic Windows
with Diana Leone and her newest release, More Snippet Sensations. More -
Sheila Williams
California
Sheila started her career with computers in the Marine Corps setting up
training programs and educating personnel, and has now developed her own
computer and quilting software consulting business. She has been quilting
a long time but when classes often asked to design templates for a project,
her question always was, Isn't there a software program to do that for me?
After extensive research and education of all the different programs on
the market, she now teaches all those various programs in quilt shops in
Southern California. More -
Kaye Wood
Michigan
Kaye is well known in the quilting industry, thanks in large part to her
quilt show, Kaye s Quilting Friends, that appears on PBS stations throughout
the country. Kaye has designed several tools to make quilting easier and
more accurate and has authored more than 20 books on strip quilting. I love
the teaching part of quilting and whatever the skill level of my students
I can help them to enjoy making quilts, Wood says. More -
Pat Yamin
New York
Pat has been in the quilting business for 20 years. Her company, Come Quilt
With Me, began in September 1981 as a mail order company. About 9 years
ago, she began manufacturing acrylic templates, which then led to the development
of the Brooklyn Revolver (a rotary cutting turntable). Pat travels to about
24 quilt shows a year, teaching and vending at most and also exhibits at
the quilt markets. In January 2001, she released her first book, Look What
I See and it has already sold out and is in the 2nd printing. She loves
to discuss quilts and ideas with her customers.
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