Quilters Calendar & Guild Network

resources for quilt guild volunteers

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Sally Terry

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Home: Jacksonville, Florida

Sally is the author of the books: Pathways to Better Quilting, Hooked on Feathers, From Quilt Top To Quilted, and she is the creator of The Language of Quilting and Terry Twist Designs.

Sally helps all levels of machine quilters make-it-up-as-you-go with Free Motion Freedom Feather and Fills Classes with “wiggle room” for both sitdown and standup quilters.

She offers a 15+ quilt trunk show on How To Choose and Coordinate Machine Quilting Designs, lectures on Color and Modern Quilts and Running Specialty Threads.

Her Website is http://www.sallyterry.com and her videos can be found on YouTube.

Please let Sally know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!

Katie Pedersen

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Home: Seattle, Washington

The art of making something by hand sets each of us on a journey to discovering who we are as artists. This personal process can start with simply sewing two pieces of fabric together. Constant practice and study have become my best teachers. I love that quilts provide a physical utilitarian object that showcase the evolution of one’s creative confidence and developing aesthetic.

I enjoy merging improvisational techniques with modern and/or traditional quilt design. Exploring new ideas keeps my style in constant evolution and the process fresh. I wish I could sew as fast as the ideas come to me. The good news is I’ll never run out.

I love sharing stories about my quilts and the skills and techniques I’ve learned from making them. My workshops and truck show/lectures make modern improvisational quilting fun, laid back and accessible. I also host weekly Open Studios and workshops in my West Seattle studio. You can find out more about me, and see my quilts, at my website Sew Katie Did

Please let Katie know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!

Linda Bratten

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Home: Armstrong, Missouri

Linda began sewing at a young age, but started quilting after the birth of her first son in the late 80’s. Linda has taught quilt guild programs throughout the Midwest.

She has also taught at the Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival, MQX Midwest and the Machine Quilters Showcase sponsored by The International Machine Quilters Association. She is an online instructor for Craftsy, and a National Educator with Baby Lock.

Linda has recently self-published a series of workbooks to enhance her Free-Motion Machine Quilting classes and has created several patterns and machine embroidery designs that she uses in her workshops.

Linda’s programs include several Machine Quilting Workshops with the Domestic Machine, Mixed Media Techniques both programs and workshops, Photo Transfer Techniques programs and workshops, and Thread Sketching/Painting Techniques workshops. Along with her presentations, when possible, she will bring a trunk show of her work.

She can be found on her website at Linda Bratten Creations. Fill out a contact form to request a detailed document outlining her current programs.

Please let Linda know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!

Lynn Koolish

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Home: Berkely, California

Lynn Koolish is a fiber artist, teacher, and author. She is most known for her bright colors and hand-dyed fabric. She also creates mixed-media fiber art collages.

She offers single day and multi-day classes in fabric dyeing (including beginning, shibori, and water-soluble resists), mixed-media / alternative surfaces collage, fabric painting, and improvisational design and piecing. Her classes are process oriented giving students freedom to explore and experiment.

Lynn also offers 45 minute slide talks on her journey as an art quilter (Confessions of an Eclectic Quilter); Fabric Dyeing; Alternate Surfaces to Paint, Stitch, and Embellish; and Creativity From the Inside Out.

She has written/co-written 5 books including Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Dyeing, The Wonderful Colorful Wonder Wheel of Color (with Kerry Graham and Mary Wruck), Innovative Fabric Imagery for Quilts (with Cyndy Rymer), and More Photo Fun (with the Hewlett-Packard Company and Cyndy Rymer). She also has a DVD: Lynn Koolish Teaches You Printing on Fabric

Website: lynnkoolish.com

Please let Lynn know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!

Carl Hentsch

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Home: Newton, Iowa

Carl is the author of Amish-Inspired Quilts for Today’s Home, New York Beauties & Flying Geese and Stars ‘n Strips Forever as well as several gorgeous quilt patterns.

Carl specializes in foundation paper piecing, curved piecing and intermediate to advanced patterns.

Carl offers lectures, trunk shows, half-day and full-day workshops. Carl is also available for multi-day retreats.

See more about Carl on his website: www.3DogDesignCo.com

Please let Carl know you found him on The Quilter’s Calendar!

Bev Remillard

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Home: Laguna Hills, California

A little about me…
Loving romance and all it entails naturally leads me to pretty, tasteful and romantic fabrics. I’m inspired to design patterns and quilts with the same charm and grace as the fabric designer. I love colors of all hues and floral prints are my favorite but once in a while I break out of my box and play with brights and batiks.

Lecturing and teaching workshops is all joy to me. I love spending time with other quilters and sharing our quilting passion. Making quilts and designing patterns over the past 18 years I have been able to produce quilts of varying ability and challenges. I truly enjoy teaching and watching other quilters explore color, patterns and design and consider myself blessed to see their finished beauty.

Like most quilters, I’m usually working on about 5-10 projects which teaches me as well…Thank you for considering me. Please take a look at my website Ladylike Designs and contact me at bevquiltlady @ aol.com to come teach for you!


Please let Bev know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!

Jaci Lawson

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Home: Dover, New Hampshire

When I was 9 years old, I saw a beautiful, knitted bikini in a magazine. My first thought was “I can do that!” I have been creating the impossible and the improbable ever since and luckily most turn out better than that bathing suit!

Currently working on a beer bottle garden edging and an outdoor pantry featuring a repurposed wooden boat, my projects tend to ensnare husband, family and unsuspecting friends.

An art quilter from Dover, NH, I have been quilting since 2007 and I made my first art quilt in 2009. My art quilts have since been shown in local art exhibits, local and regional quilt shows and a local craftsmen outlet.

I have also designed original purse and craft projects and my original luggage tag design was published in Quilts and More, Summer 2011. Recently, I have had two cathedral window projects published in The Quilt Pattern Magazine.

I have given demos on art quilting techniques at our local quilt show. I have also given demonstrations on fabric collage and other art techniques including a 3-D challenge at the Cocheco Quilt Guild Art Bee.

I am a member of the Cocheco Quilt Guild as well as a founding member and leader of the Cocheco Quilter’s Guild Art Bee. I have received a many winning ribbons in the annual Cocheco Quilt Guild Challenge Contest and recently I have been designing the annual mystery quilt for the guild.

After majoring in everything from political science to sociology, I eventually received a BA in English from the University of NH (2005).
My greatest achievement is living happily with the same husband for over 30 years despite dragging him into every home and garden project I could dream up. He lives in fear of 5 words, “Honey, I have an idea!” We have 3 extraordinary daughters, and 3 exceptional grandchildren. Truly, the Lord has been good to us and blessed our home.

See more about Jaci on her website

Please let Jaci know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!

Catherine Redford

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Home: Naperville, IL

Author Modern Machine Quilting book and DVDs

Catherine Redford is a national award-winning quilter, author, teacher and speaker available for classes, workshops and lectures at your guild, group or store. Topics range from machine quilting on your domestic machine to wool appliqué and folk art style embroidery and more!

Catherine ha been featured on Quilting Arts TV, in print and at quilt shops across the USA and beyond.

Visit Catherine’s website at www.catherineredford.com for more details, and contact her at catherine @ catherineredford.com

Specialities: Hand embroidery, wool applique, English paper piecing, beading on fabric, domestic machine quilting.

Please let Catherine know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!