Quilters Calendar & Guild Network

resources for quilt guild volunteers

Illinois

Lori Dickman

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Home: Rockford, Illinois, USA

Lori will help you turn quilting challenges into joyful experiences that will inspire you to “Create!” Her positive attitude and clear instructions empower quilters to tackle their projects with confidence and joy.

Her personal “© Speedy Solutions” to Cut, Sort, Organize, Store and USE your stash offer solutions with engaging, easy-to-follow techniques and strategies!


Lori teaches & conducts workshops at quilt guilds, quilt shows, quilt shops, and on quilt cruises. She currently offers 5 virtual lectures and 7 virtual workshops that cover a multitude of subjects, and she continues to add more classes as she develops new techniques and patterns. Her Virtual 1-Hour Lectures are $350 each; her Virtual Workshops range from $400-$500 for 3-to-6-hour workshops.

Lori’s very popular “Speedy Solutions to Cut & Organize Your Scrap Stash” Lecture (and Book Set) covers her step-by-step techniques to create gorgeous scrappy quilts. The corresponding ‘scrappy’ workshop, “Scrap Up Your Stash – the Speedy Way!” is a very poplar lecture/workshop combination that many guilds from across the nation and other countries have enjoyed!

She loves to share her extensive knowledge and passion for quilting with quilters everywhere! Her engaging style, practical tips, and infectious enthusiasm make her classes & tutorials a hit among quilters of all levels.

Check out Lori’s website QuiltingWithLori for more detailed information.

Email Lori directly at: quiltingwithlori@gmail.com.

To see Lori’s techniques and tips in action, watch and enjoy over 200 of her engaging and informative YouTube quilting video tutorials on her YouTube Channel: Youtube-@quiltingwithlori

Come watch Lori’s YouTube Feature Video link

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

Carol Wilhoit

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Home: Wheaton, Illinois

Carol loves making quilts that incorporate many different fabrics and she enjoys machine quilting (walking foot, free motion, and quilting with metallic thread.)  She enjoys making small quilted projects such as runners, tote bags, zipper bags and pincushions.  Small projects facilitate play with color, design and new techniques with minimal investment in time and materials.  

Carol likes to find ways to make the quilt construction process easier while producing better results. She has also refined techniques for building, organizing, and using a stash that make it a joy to have and to use.  She has been teaching quilting classes for more than a dozen years.  She loves sharing her ideas with others and encouraging students as they try new projects and techniques. She teaches both online and in-person, for quilt guilds and quilt shops, and at quilt shows.  

Get your Stash Together:  Organization for Quilters

Some quilters find that their fabric stash, scraps, quilting tools, books and magazines have become a burden, as they don’t have a good way to manage these precious resources. Knowing how to approach the task helps transform the dreaded stash into a collection that is a delight to use. This lecture provides many practical ideas for making your fabric, tools, thread, books, and magazines readily accessible. Topics include how to fold and store fabric so that it’s easy to view and locate, labeling, using your computer as a tool, and many ideas for actually using your stash. 

Infinite Opportunity:  Quilts Hidden in Your Stash

As quilters, we love to collect beautiful fabrics – yet we don’t always know how to put them all together to make quilts that we love.  The term “scrap quilt” may bring to mind the use of leftovers that don’t look particularly good together.  By contrast, while STASH quilts utilize your stash and scraps, they contain thoughtfully selected materials, and look BETTER because of the variety – not tired because they were created just to use up fabrics.  The lecture addresses several key design principles that make multi-fabric quilts work and includes pairs of quilts to show the impact of incorporating these considerations. Multiple examples of color combinations are provided to give ideas for selecting and using fabrics from your stash to make fabulous multi-fabric quilts. 

Learn more about Carol and find out about her classes and lectures on her Website at : Carol Quilts

Visit Carol’s Instagram page: Carol Quilts 123

Contact Carol via Email: carolquilts123 @ gmail.com [remove spaces]

Be sure to tell Carol that you found her on The Quilters 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!

Laura Wasilowski

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laura-wasilowskiHome: Elgin, Illinois

Laura Wasilowski is both contemporary quilt maker and creator of hand-dyed fabrics and threads. Her pictorial art quilts (created from fused fabrics and hand-embroidered or machine quilted) are collected and exhibited
internationally.

Wasilowski’s narrative quilts begin with her unique hand-dyed fabrics and are inspired by stories of family, friends, and home. The whimsical wall pieces often chronicle her life.

Owner of the dye shop, Artfabrik, Laura is also a lecturer, surface designer, quilt instructor, pattern designer, and author of Fusing Fun, Fuse-and-Tell, and her latest book: Fanciful Stitches, Colorful Quilts.

For more information please visit Laura’s Website

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