 Frieda Anderson - Elgin, IL
friestyle.com
Frieda loves the pure creativity involved in conceiving and designing a new quilt. She fuses smaller pieces to work out design issues and then uses them to make a bigger, bolder statement in a large format. Most of her work is machine quilted and nature inspired. She discovered hand dyeing fabric sixteen years ago, and now works almost exclusively with her own hand-dyed cottons and silks. Frieda has published three books: "Fabric to Dye For," "Fun Fast Fusies" and "Frieda's Fun Fast Free Motion Machine Quilting." She teaches all around the world, has published articles in most of the major quilting magazines, exhibited her work in national and international venues and won many awards for her outstanding quilts.
Frieda's classes and lecture:
 Esterita Austin - PORT JEFFERSON STATION, NY
esteritaaustin.com
Internationally known quiltmaker, designer and teacher, Esterita has works exhibited in the American Museum of Folk Art in New York City. She was also a guest speaker at the museum’s lecture series "Artists Speak." Esterita’s work has been widely shown in international museums and galleries as well as published in magazines and books on fiber arts. The use of textural and dimensional imagery has given Esterita's work unique style. She brings creative energy to all of her workshops, stimulating the imagination and invigorating the soul.
Esterita's classes & lecture:
 Joyce Becker - Kent, WA
joycerbecker.com
A prize-winning quilter, Joyce focuses her art, writing, teaching and lecturing on landscape quilts. Her books include: Quick Little Landscape Quilts, Beautifully Embellished Landscapes, and Luscious Landscapes: Simple Techniques for Dynamic Quilts. Joyce has published numerous articles in national quilting magazines. Her quilts have been displayed internationally in contests and invitational exhibits and have appeared in books, magazines and on television. Joyce's lively sense of humor and positive attitude result in lectures and workshops that inspire, inform and entertain quilters as she travels throughout the world. Joyce will appear on an episode of The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims in 2011.
Joyce's classes & lecture:
 Karen Kay Buckley - Carlisle, PA
karenkaybuckley.com
Karen has more than 250 quilts to her credit and her work has received numerous awards, including eight Best of Show awards. Karen’s work has been featured in numerous magazines and calendars and she has thirteen cover quilts to her credit. She has written numerous books including: From Basics to Binding: A Complete Guide to Making Quilts, Above and Beyond Basics, Love to Quilt: Bears, Bears, Bears, Appliqué Basics: Flower Wreaths, Earthy Delights: The Perfect Finish, and a pattern/book, Japanese Garden Quilt. In 1997 she was voted Teacher of the Year by the Professional Quilter Magazine.
Karen's classes:
 Susan Cleveland - West Concord, MN
piecesbewithyou.com
Susan’s enthusiasm for quilting is said to be contagious! Students enjoy her upbeat attitude, well-written instructions and the one-on-one attention included in every workshop. Her quilts have been shown in international-level competitions since 1997 and have received many awards. Judges comment on her fine workmanship and appreciate her original style. She bases her designs on traditional patterns then adds specialty threads, prairie points, piping and great binding techniques. Susan is inventor of the Groovin’ Piping Trimming Tool (which is used to trim piping seam allowances) and the Prairie Pointer pressing tool. She is proud to have been named 2010 Minnesota Quilter of the Year! Susan lives on 70 acres in southeastern Minnesota with her husband, son, daughter, two dogs and several cats.
Susan's classes:
 Sally Collins - Walnut Creek, CA
sallycollins.org
Sally is an award-winning quiltmaker, teacher and author who has been quilting since 1978 and teaching since 1985. Her quilts range in size from small to wall-size and although she is most recognized for her quality workmanship, attention to detail and teaching expertise, her continual love and interest is in the process of quiltmaking, the journey. Sally loves the challenge of combining design, color and intricate piecing in a traditional style and this interest is illustrated and explained in detail through her books: Small Scale Quiltmaking, The Art of Machine Piecing, Borders, Bindings and Edges, and Mastering Precision Piecing. Her most recent book, Drafting for the Creative Quilter is easy to understand, supported by more than 500 illustrations and includes everything you need to know to make your own quilts, your way in any size you choose.
Sally's classes:
 Karen Comstock - Cary, NC
quiltricks.com
Karen designs quilts that reflect her Norwegian heritage, Midwestern roots, and Southern charm. Her work, which has been published in national magazines, is currently on display in an exhibit at The National Humanities Center called "Patterns." She began teaching her designs in the late 1990's in Story County, Iowa, and moved with her family to North Carolina in 2003. She helped to create the BeeFF’s bee in Cary and hosts meetings and group retreats. She is an active member of several quilt guilds, including Raleigh’s Capital Quilters Guild. In 2005, after years of developing patterns for her students, she launched her company, Quiltricks. Karen travels the country to teach, lecture and exhibit, sharing the love of her craft with quilters of every level. She is known as a caring instructor with a warm sense of humor.
Karen's class:
 Pepper Cory - Beaufort, NC
peppercory.com
Pepper has been a quiltmaker since 1972, when she fell in love with her first antique quilt. She sought out quiltmakers, usually elderly ladies, who could teach her the art. Since that time she has been collecting quilts, making quilts, writing books about quilts, designing needlework tools, and sharing her love of quilting by teaching and lecturing in 47 states and 11 other countries. In 2001 she was the recipient of the Jewel Pearce Patterson Teachers Scholarship. She presently serves as president of IQA, the International Quilt Association. Pepper has authored Quilting Designs from the Amish, Quilting Designs from Antique Quilts, Crosspatch, Happy Trails, The Signature Quilt (co-authored with Susan McKelvey), Mastering Quilt Marking, and The Pepper Cory Quilting Pattern Collection.
Pepper's classes and lecture:
 Nancy Eha - Stillwater, MN
beadcreative.com
Nancy was reportedly born with a needle in her hand. After exploring nearly every needle art, she began experimenting with beads after a chance encounter at her home state’s number one tourist attraction, The Mall of America. Spending countless hours over many years asking creativity stretching “What if?” questions of beads, she continues to develop new innovative beading techniques and create magical works of art. As an internationally recognized artist, teacher, and author, Nancy shares her knowledge, passion, and pleasure for the subject of beading with others. Nancy makes learning fun, encourages confidence in students of all skill levels, and makes the seemingly complex easy to understand via small teachable steps.
Nancy's classes:
 Ann Fahl - Racine, WI
annfahl.com
Ann is a quilt artist living and working in Racine, WI. From an early age her parents impressed upon her the importance of finding a passion, which Ann did: it was all the fiber arts. From the first night of the quilting class, she realized that this new media allowed her to put all of her loves together: sewing, color, texture, shape, thread and fabric. She could experiment and sew as she developed her own designs and ideas. A new world and career began for her! Her work has been exhibited in competitions, solo exhibits and invitational shows across the United States, France and Japan. She enjoys the challenge of quilt competitions, so she continues to design new work keeping the level of workmanship high. She has authored two books: Coloring with Thread and Dancing with Thread.
Ann's classes & lecture:
 Rayna Gillman - West Orange, NJ - Cancelled
studio78.net
In her work as an artist, Rayna uses paints, dyes, wax and discharge agents to create fabric. Layered with text and images, her work explores memory and the sense of loss; both individual and collective. Rayna finds joy in the creative process – no matter what tools she uses for surface design. Most often, her work starts with the naked cloth and builds up in layers. Working with dyes enables her to add and remove color until she is pleased with the result. All of these processes are spontaneous, serendipitous, unpredictable and give the gift of surprise. Rayna’s book, Create Your Own Hand-Printed Cloth, was nominated for two best book awards and has been an international best seller since it came out in 2008.
Rayna's class and lecture:
 Lyric Kinard - Cary, NC
lyrickinard.com
Lyric is an artist with a serious addiction to fabric. Her award-winning wall quilts and wearable works of art are a product of her need and passion to create order and beauty while living a chaotic life as the mother of young children. She often says that her art is the only thing she does that is not undone by the end of the day. Her second love is teaching, which she has been doing in various capacities for the past 12 years. She loves to share her joy in the process of transforming plain fabric into a work of art. Lyric has just been named 2011 Teacher of the Year by the International Association of Professional Quilters.
Much of Lyric’s work begins with plain white cloth which she dyes and paints to create the palette from which her designs spring. Her abstracts begin with an emphasis on color and are created on the design wall while her pictorials begin with a specific message in mind and are often meticulously drafted on paper before cloth is cut. All of her artwork is quilted to a layer of batting to add texture and to emphasize line. While traditional quilts are then bound and done, Lyric often adds more embroidery or beads and even more paint if the design calls for it. This further emphasizes the dimensional and tactile quality of quilts as a medium for expression.
Lyric's lectures:
 Susan Brubaker Knapp - Mooresville, NC
bluemoonriver.com
Susan started quilting as a hobby, but it has turned into a passion and a business. She enjoys teaching for quilt groups, online classes, and publishing patterns for her original quilt designs. She is the author of Appliqué Petal Party (C&T Publishing, 2009) and produced two DVDs with Quilting Arts, Master Machine Quilting: Free-Motion Stitching and Thread Sketching and Master Machine Stitching: Thread Sketching Beyond the Basics. She loves traditional hand quilting and needleturn appliqué, but has embraced innovative machine techniques. Susan started making “art quilts” in 2005. Her quilts have won national as well as local awards, and have been exhibited at national and international venues.
Susan's classes:
 Mary Ellen Kranz - Greensboro, NC
quiltingimages.com
Quiltmaker, teacher and author, Mary Ellen shares her knowledge of how to combine quilting, digital photography, and computer software with quiltmakers across the country and internationally. Mary Ellen has authored several books on photos and fabric including Blending Photos with Fabric and Blending Photos with Fabric 2. Her quilts appear in shows and galleries and reflect a broad range of quiltmaking skills and techniques. Her twenty years of experience teaching computer technologies provided her with an understanding of how PCs, printers, scanners and digital cameras could blend together in the process of creating fiber art, so try out these tools and the latest quilting software under the guidance of a creative and patient teacher.
Mary Ellen's classes and lecture:
 Jan Krentz - Poway, CA
jankrentz.com
Jan is an internationally recognized quilt instructor, author and designer. Her quilts have been displayed at The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum as well as numerous other quilt shows and venues. Jan has made many radio and television appearances. Her books include Lone Star Quilts & Beyond, Hunter Star Quilts & Beyond, Diamond Quilts & Beyond, Quick Star Quilts & Beyond, and Quick Diamond Quilts. Winner of the 1998 Teacher of the Year award, Jan teaches motivating workshops packed with practical tips, techniques and methods to insure success.
Jan's classes and lecture:
 Suzanne Marshall - Clayton, MO
suzannequilts.com
Suzanne is a self-taught quilter who has never taken a lesson. She has evolved several novel techniques, such as Take-Away Appliqué. Her quilts have won numerous prizes, including multiple awards for Best Hand Workmanship at the American Quilter's Society shows in Paducah and Lancaster. Suzanne’s most famous quilt is probably The Mastectomy Quilt. Her quilt Toujour Nouveau was named as one of the Twentieth Century's 100 Best American Quilts. This quilt is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the American Quilter's Society in Paducah, Kentucky, as is her Mother’s Day.
Suzanne's classes:
 Laura Martell - Raleigh, NC
thecreativethimble.com
A lifelong sewer, teacher and founder of The Creative Thimble, Laura made clothes for her Barbie dolls by hand until her grandmothers taught her to sew on their machines. She has always done something creative and began quilting in 1980. Her love of handbags and tote bags prompted her to design, make and sell bags in 1990. Laura and her husband moved to Raleigh, NC in 1993. She was soon teaching her bags and totes in local classes. Since then she has developed a line of eight patterns and teaches extensively in the eastern U.S. Laura is well-known for her detailed and easy-to-follow instructions, along with her simple tricks to accomplish sometimes challenging techniques.
Laura's class:
 Margaret Miller - Bremerton, WA
millerquilts.com
Margaret is known for humor, enthusiasm and sincere encouragement of quiltmakers at all skill levels in her lectures and workshops. She takes quilters at whatever stage they are and encourages them to reach for the unexpected in their quilts. She often gets students to achieve things they didn’t know they could, and take a step or two down the road toward becoming at ease with color and design. Margaret finds it hard to believe she has been making quilts, teaching far and wide, and writing books on quilt-making for 30 years! Her mantra on color is, 'never use two fabrics when you can use twenty.' Margaret is the author of Smashing Sets for Sampler Blocks, Easy Pieces: Creative Color Plan with Two Simple Quilt Blocks, AnglePlay™ Blocks, and Stunning AnglePlay™ Quilts.
Margaret's classes and lecture:
 Jan Myers-Newbury - Pittsburgh, PA
janmyersnewbury.com
Jan has been making studio quilts for more than 30 years. She says she would never have imagined it as a life’s work when she made those first quilts in graduate school. But lucky for us, her avocation became a way of life. She is well known for her dyeing techniques and has been exploring and expanding her knowledge since that first quilt. Jan made her first “all-shibori” quilt in 1992 and has been working primarily with arashi shibori since then. Each time she unwraps a pole after dyeing, she can’t wait to see how each piece turns out, realizing that she only has a certain amount of control and the rest is kismet.
Jan's classes:
 Janice Pope - Raleigh, NC
twohourtulip.com
Known for her energy and enthusiasm, Janice is the creative mind behind “Anything But Boring”. She seeks to make projects that not only look great, but help solve everyday problems of contemporary life. Sewing since a teenager, this 50-something quilter has created and carried her own style of purses for several years. Now her bag and quilt patterns are available for everyone, especially those with limited time to sew. Shouldn't all patterns be quick and easy to make? Janice thinks most should! She hopes you will enjoy trying one for yourself or for a gift.
Janice's classes:
 Lesley Riley - Bethesda, MD
lesleyriley.com
Lesley is an internationally known quilter and mixed-media artist with a passion for photos, color and the written word. She believes there's magic in art. Making art makes us happy. Our soul craves expression; art is the soul made visible. Lesley has taught extensively in the US and as far away as Italy and Australia. Her art and articles have appeared in numerous publications and juried shows. Lesley is the author of Quilted Memories, Fabric Memory Books and Fabulous Fabric Art with Lutradur. In an ongoing effort to find the best ways for quilters and mixed media artists to get permanent photos on fabric, Lesley introduced Transfer Artist Paper™ affectionately known as TAP™, the state of the art technology for iron-on transfers to fabric along with her new book, Create with Transfer Artist Paper (C&T Spring 2011).
Lesley's classes
and lecture:
 Sharon Schamber - Payson, AZ
sharonschamber.com
Sharon began making quilts for family and friends in 1998. Prior to that time, she was in the garment industry making one-of-a-kind upscale bridal and pageant wear through her own company. Sharon’s first quilts were quilted on her home machines, and in 2005 she purchased a longarm machine in order to more easily accommodate the very large quilts she likes to make. Within a few months, Sharon was producing quilts that won Best of Show and other top awards in multiple national shows. She is the only quilter to win Best of Show at Houston’s IQA show three times. Sharon does all the design work, including the quilting pattern before cutting any fabric. She had been dyeing her own fabrics for her last four or five quilts, and plans to continue this to create the perfect colors for her quilts. When all of the design is completed, there is very little change in the finished piece. Sharon plans to continue to compete at a few shows a year, continue her heavy teaching schedule, provide longarm classes in her studio, and produce new instructional videos for techniques which she continues to develop and refine. She tells her students that there is no substitute for practice and encourages them to strive to perfect their technique and they will succeed in their efforts.
Sharon's classes and lecture:
 Eileen Sullivan - Duluth, GA
thedesignersworkshop.com
Owner of The Designer's Workshop, Eileen is a quilt artist, teacher, lecturer, and designer. She has been quilting for more than twenty years, and designing quilts using 'sew and flip' foundation pieced patterns since 1988. Her work has been exhibited in major competitions in the U.S. and abroad and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the American Quilter's Society as well as others.
Eileen's classes:
 Patsy Thompson - Holland, OH
patsythompsondesigns.com
Patsy began quilting 30-plus years ago and was a hand quilter for the first 25 years. She struggled to learn free-motion machine quilting and once mastered, it became a wonderful creative outlet and she now travels to teach and pass along her free-motion mastery to others. Her work has been exhibited in quilt shows and juried exhibitions across the United States. To date, she has authored nine instructional DVDs and two books on free-motion quilting. It is her goal to "infect" the rest of the quilting world with a love and enthusiasm for free-motion quilting!
Patsy's classes:
 Christine zoller - greenville, nc
ecu.edu/soad/textile/zoller.cfm
At 30, Christine decided to pursue her lifelong interest in textiles by earning a BS degree in textile design from Buffalo State College. She obtained her MFA from the The University of Georgia and is presently an Associate Professor and Textile Area Coordinator at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. Christine has taught at other universities and has conducted workshops at: Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Penland School of Crafts, and the Quilt Surface Design Symposium. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and can be seen in the Surface Design Journal and Fiberarts Design Books Five and Six.
Christine's class and lecture:
 Patti Cline & Cindy Page - North Carolina
quiltersgallery.net/
From the time they were big enough to sit at the sewing machine, sisters Patti Cline and Cindy Page sewed together. They owned and operated a full-service quilt shop in Charlotte, NC for 25 years. In 2006 they transformed The Quilter’s Gallery to an internet-only business. They now specialize in quilt kits - a quilt pattern and hand selected fabric for the project. The transformation from retail store to internet business did not keep these two out of the classroom. They teach various quilt classes and present lecture/demo sessions for workshops, retreats, guilds & organizations. Be sure to visit with this talented duo in the vendors' mall and come see them at their Saturday evening lecture, "Shesa B. Quilter meets Emma C. Fortune." |