Quilters Calendar & Guild Network
resources for quilt guild volunteers
Santa Rosa, California
Karen Bolan is a clear and patient teacher, thoughtful and entertaining lecturer, and clever and instructive quilt pattern designer. Her original award winning quilts and quilting philosophy integrate a love of geometry, experimentation, interconnection, depth, and texture. Karen offers virtual programs or travels to you from Santa Rosa, California.
Learn more about Karen on her website: Karen Bolan
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Home: San Francisco Bay Area, California
Author of ‘Patchwork Luxe’ from C&T publishing, Julia McLeod specializes in making quilts from neckties, kimonos, sari silks and other reclaimed textiles. Her mission is to give quilters the confidence and techniques to cut into their treasured textiles and make beautiful quilts.
Visit Julia’s website for details of her fun and informative lectures and workshops.
Learn more about Julia on her website: https://juliamcleodquilts.com/ .
Be sure to tell Julia that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!
Home: Studio City, California
Tina Curran has been a quilter for over 20 years. She is known for her use of color and fun imagery in her quilts. Her work has earned multiple blue ribbons and the rank of Master Quilter at her local quilt guild.
Her quilts have hung in major shows including Road to California (Ontario, CA), the AQS show in Paducah, KY and the International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX.
Tina’s work has been featured more than 20 times in magazines (Quilters Newsletter and Quiltmaker) and in three books (including Ricky Tims’ “Kool Kaleidoscopes”).
She has been designing patterns since 2002, began giving quilt lectures in 2012 and started teaching her designs in quilt guild workshops in 2013. In 2015, she started a free monthly email newsletter to chronicle her adventures in quilting, which is read by thousands of quilters around the world. Her patterns are sold in her shop on Etsy.com (tinacurran.etsy.com) and to date have been bought by quilters in all 50 states and 23 foreign countries.
She offers two trunk shows. The first is a reimagined in-person show, now using photos. The second one features quilts no longer in her possession, so perfect for sharing using photos. Her popular design lecture demystifies the process with the hope to inspire others to design their own quilts. She also has a talk tracing her career path — from the advertising industry to the quilting industry, highlighting the joys and the challenges along the way.
All her workshops are project-based, helping students to make their own versions of her quilt designs. Her most popular is “Whimsical Garden,” where students make a floral fabric collage. With four versions of American flags quilts, her flag workshops are also popular, as is her “California Poppies” class. The details of the nine workshops that feature regular piecing and the seventeen that feature paper piecing can be found on the “Lectures and Workshops” page on her website.
Tina is an experienced presenter/teacher on Zoom. More information can be found on her website at www.tinacurran.com.
Please let Tina know that you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar.
Trudy Cleveland is a professional quilter and photographer residing in Oceanside, California. She has merged her two passions of quilting and photography into presentations that reveal the impact photography has on our artistic endeavors. She shares what she has learned along her journey of photographing quilts, inspiring her audience to begin routinely taking photographs of their textile art. Using only a smartphone she shares the process to achieve professional grade images.
Both her textile art and photography have been on exhibit in juried shows including Road to California and The Hoffman Challenge. Her photography has been featured in “Fons and Porter Love of Quilting” magazine.
Power Point Lectures: “Shoot Your Quilt”: 45-60 minute presentation discussing: Why, How and When you should photograph your quilts/textile art “Upgrade Your Quilt Toolbox”: 45-60 minute presentation
How to use your household electronics to improve your quilting process.
Get the most out of your computer applications, printers, lasers and the internet to step up your textile art experience.
Workshop: “Photographing Your Quilt”
How To Photograph Your Quilt Using A Smartphone
How To Edit Images Of Your Quilts/Textile Art
Lectures and Workshops can be done in-person or on Zoom platform. https://trudycleveland.com/newsite/
Please tell Trudy that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!
Home: Berkeley, California
Sue Fox (right) and Julia McLeod (left) are two San Francisco Bay Area quilt makers who make new quilts from rescued materials. Specializing in incorporating silks and other up-cycled fabrics into their work, they love to exhibit, lecture and teach about their work.
Many quilters have stashes of neckties, kimonos, saris and more. Silk and Salvage’s lectures and workshops aim to give quilters the inspiration, tips and techniques necessary to to make beautiful silk quilts.
Visit Sue’s website for more about her – www.silkandsalvage.com
Please let Sue know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!
Home: San Jose, California
Mel Beach is a San Jose, CA based quilt artist, teacher and lecturer, who breaks away from tradition by adding her own modern, beautifully textured and colorful twists. She loves stretching her creativity through her completion of 60+ quilt challenges at the local and international level. Her quilt challenge entries draw upon her inquisitive nature of asking “What If?”, working in a series, comedy improv studies along with her love of nature, photography and sketching.
Many of her challenge quilts have been exhibited locally, juried into national quilt shows and traveling exhibits, published in books/magazines, earned awards/ribbons and selected as Finalists.
She is an Aurifil Artisan and a Featured Artist on The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims (episode 2112).
Mel is an industry leader in online teaching for guilds. She works closely with many guilds, including the Studio Art Quilt Association and the Northern California Quilt Council, to bring the best possible learning experience to her students. ~Marguerita
Multi-Media Lectures/Trunk Shows: Quilt challenges, fabric dyeing and free-motion quilting.
Quilting Workshops: Pebble & Play!, Mod Molas & Bright Blooms, Magnificent Mandalas, Walking Foot WOW.
Modern Design Workshops: Slice of Improv, Free Styling & Spiraling, Mod Mandalas, Intriguing Interleaves, Improv, Improv Piecing, Improvisational.
See more about Mel on her website Mel Beach Quilts. Please let Mel know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!
Please let Mel know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!
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!
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!
