Nevada

Christa Watson

May 29, 2026 by Rita

Las Vegas, NV

Christa Watson is an enthusiastic, full-time quilter who enjoys traveling & teaching others how to find joy in making their own quilts from start to finish.

She’s the author of numerous patterns & books with a focus on domestic machine quilting.

She’s also a prolific fabric designer and a cheerleader for the modern quilting movement. She believes that quilts don’t have to be perfect to be functional and beautiful. If you can dream it, you can do it! Follow her online @ChristaQuilts and ChristaQuilts.com.

Please note she is not offering virtual classes at this time.

Rona Herman

December 9, 2019 by admin

Home: Reno, Nevada

I’m Rona Herman, also known as Rona the Ribbiter, and I’m an author, teacher, pattern designer, Tour Manager and YouTube host with a passion to experience all that life (and quilting) has to offer.

With a love of math and geometry, I’ve been ‘doodling’ quilt like designs since grade school. However, once my sister finally taught me to sew in 2010, I was off and running! As a self-taught quilter, I’ve tested many methods and techniques to find my niche. Everything from basic stitching and fabric choices to applique and pattern design. After landing a job as a quilt instructor at my local JoAnn Fabric in 2016, I discovered my love of teaching.

Today I’m showing quilters the world through my YouTube videos, taking quilters around the world on my Quilt Tours and helping quilters travel the world themselves through my blog and books. All that AND I’m teaching quilters around the world color theory and my unique style of using fabric and color to turn traditionally pieced blocks into modern quilt designs. My quilts may look difficult. But, in truth, they are as easy to assemble as any traditional quilt!

Carol Soderlund

April 13, 2018 by Rita

Home: Reno, Nevada

Carol has co-authored Playful Fabric Printing with Melanie Testa, published by Pokey Bolton of Crafting A Life LLC.

Carol specializes in teaching fabric dyeing and surface design techniques for quilters and fiber artists. She is widely known for her intensive color mixing classes where students learn to mix hundreds of colors using only yellow, red, and blue dyes. Carol offers a variety of workshops from 1 to 5 days in length. Carol was a finalist for Teacher of the Year in 2013 and again in 2015, awarded by International Creative Arts Professionals.

As a quilt artist, Carol is known for her use of color to create transparent, luminous, and dimensional effects of great subtlety. Her work incorporates hand-dyed, hand-printed, and discharged fabric in combination with commercial fabrics and intensive stitching.

Carol maintains an active teaching schedule throughout the United States and in Canada, teaching her color mixing techniques at ProChemical & Dye in Massachusetts and Nancy Crow’s Timber Frame Barn in Ohio and Pacific Northwest Art School in Washington. Her award-winning quilts have been exhibited nationally and internationally in such venues as International Quilt Festival (where she was a Best of Show winner!) Visions, Husqvarna Viking Masterpieces touring Exhibition.

Visit her website Carol Soderlund

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