Quilters Calendar & Guild Network

resources for quilt guild volunteers

Virginia

Clorinda Fresquez-Tria

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Home: Stephens City, Virginia

Unlock your creativity with Clorinda Fresquez-Tria, a skilled fiber artist who masterfully blends mixed media with thread painting.

Offering both in-person and virtual classes, Clorinda’s experience as a former teacher ensures clear instruction. Join Clorinda Design Studio today and explore the art of mixed-media fiber art!

Learn more about her work, lectures, and classes on her Facebook, Instagram, and website: Clorinda Design Studio

Please let Clorinda know that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Norene Skiles

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Home: Virginia Beach, Virginia

Norene, a retired school library media specialist, began sewing as a young girl, and has never stopped.  After sewing clothing for decades, she discovered quilting in 1996 and never stopped.  Her quilting style has evolved over the years from patterns and traditional quilting to modern Improv with a scrappy focus.  She loves to incorporate technology into her quilting and prints her own fabrics with Spoonflower.

Lectures are priced a $100 and zoom classes between $330 – $400.

Check out Norene’s website to see her listings. Luv Two Create

Please let Norene know that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Joy Duke

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Home: Hampton, Virginia

Joy Duke is the designer of over 125 patterns for Joyous Appliqué Designs and the author of numerous articles for Quiltinghub.com as a quilting contessa. 

Joy specializes in applique patterns that are easy, fun, and nature-inspired that all quilters are capable of making.  Joy also likes to incorporate yo-yos in unusual ways in her applique pattern designs.  Her latest passion is bamboo felt applique which allows those that are allergic to wool, or that don’t have the budget for it, to create beautiful fun pieces of art. 

In addition to designing, teaching, and lecturing for guilds (both in-person and via ZOOM), she enjoys going to the beach and spending time with her family.  Sometimes she is even found stitching on the beach or around a competition swimming pool and meets the nicest people when stitching in public.  These interactions lead her to create one of her most popular lectures/trunk shows entitled “Stitching in Public”.

Lecture titles include:

(NEW in 2024) “How Do You Yo-Yo?” – This lecture and trunk show allows participants to see how yo-yos are made with a hands-on demonstration as well as a discussion on the various methods that some people use to make them. Then we explore the many ways that yo-yos can be used on our quilts, clothing, and around our homes in non-traditional and traditional ways as well as hearing another name for this familiar little gathered circle.

“Stitching in Public” – A fun trunk show where Joy shares the funny things and advice people have shared with her while she is stitching. 

“Making It Your Own” – A look at how we can take a pattern and make simple changes to personalize it either for the recipient or the maker.  It is meant to help quilters think about how they can use that pattern that they really like and “tweak it” a bit.  This was the way Joy got started designing her own patterns.

45 minute to 1 hour ZOOM lectures start at $250.  Please see Joy’s website for information on classes and lectures.

Website: www.JoyousAppliqueDesigns.com

Contact Joy at JoyousAppliqueDesigns @ cox.net [take out the spaces]

Please let Joy know that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Julia Graves

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Home: Leesburg, Virginia

Julia Graves is a Zoom-experienced lecturer and teacher on a variety of quilting subjects, with a focus on color and design that are applicable to all your future quilts. 

Her Amazing Abstracts class teaches how to use color and value to create amazing movement and drama.  Her traditional piecing classes that focus on color and value include Tricks with Transparencies, Luscious Luster, Rainbow Drops and Shimmering Triangles.   Other fun classes include creating your own gemstone in Gemstone Bling and Color Exploration where we play with color to see the effects we can achieve.  She has lectures on Color, Design, Landscape Quilts, Personalizing and Memory Quilts, Community and Faith in Fiber and her very popular My Quilting Journey.

Let There Be Light

Julia’s two most popular bookings are:

  • Color Exploration Lecture – This lecture will discuss how to select beautiful color combinations for your quilts and provide tips on how to fix color combinations that just don’t seem to be working.  Includes a slide show and trunk show illustrating classic color combinations and fascinating color illusions.
  • Amazing Abstracts Class – Create an abstract quilt that has amazing movement and drama. Go from inspiration to a simple sketch, then have fun “coloring” your sketch with bits of fabric to create a mock-up of your design – see before you sew!  The design is gridded and blocks are foundation pieced using an easy sew and flip method with room for creativity and improvisation.  Lots of discussion of design principles and how to use color and value to create the drama and desired effects.  

Julia started her quilting business, Special Occasion Quilts LLC, in 2007 and teaches, lectures, designs patterns, makes commission quilts, longarms for others and sells & services APQS longarm machines.  She won Best Longarm Machine Workmanship Wall Quilt Category at the 2016 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, is a Gem Affiliate teaching the gorgeous gem patterns by MJ Kinman – Textile Artist, has had quilts published in books by Gloria Loughman, Katie Pasquini-Masopust and MJ Kinman, was an Artist in Residence at Empty Spools in 2019, and will be teaching at Empty Spools in 2021 and 2022 and Hudson River Valley Art Institute in 2022.  

Julia has been sewing since she was ten and always loved fabric, needle arts and the entire creative process.  She did her apprenticeship as a quilter by making a quilt for each of her nieces and nephews (and thinks she should have counted them before making this promise – there were 32!).  She has since made more quilts than she can count, many for charity, and is partial to scrap quilts and working with color to achieve amazing results. 

Visit her gallery on her website at http://www.soquilts.com.  Contact Julia viat email –juliagraves82 @ gmail.com. Julia has videos of her on this page: http://soquilts.com/classes-and-lectures/

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

Darlene Price

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Home: Chesapeake, Virginia

Darlene Price has been around a needle, thread and sewing machine all her life. After retiring from life as a Commercial Real Estate Paralegal her goal was to figure out quilting. Art Quilts is where she landed. Come take a look at her work, her lectures and classes. 

Visit Darlene’s website at Quiltscapesbydarlene.com. 

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

Bunnie Cleland

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Home: Chesapeake, Virginia, or traveling in our Motorhome; We will be traveling nation-wide

Bunnie Cleland is a long-time crafter and sewist (sewing artist). She fell in love with quilting in 2006, after her mother dragged her to a quilt show and 9 store shop hop. She was hired at a local quilt shop before she even finished her first quilting class…though she did go on to finish 12 quilts that first year! 

Her Triangle Frenzy business started by accident in 2013 when she arranged some triangles into a quilting project and was prompted to translate her efforts into patterns. High demand for the patterns, by quilters, retailers, and fabric companies, resulted in the global distribution of Triangle Frenzy, designs that produce several visually stunning quilting projects including table runners, table toppers, lap quilts, and bed quilts.

As a former Navy Electronics Technician and Naval Nuclear Power Plant operator, she understands the importance of precision and accuracy. She discovered she has the talent for translating complex written directions into easy-to-follow instructions. This aided her in the creation of Triangle Frenzy’s detailed, step-by-step illustrations for experienced beginners and intermediate level quilters.

She’s also able to use her technical background in teaching sewing techniques to students, guiding them through the creative process that will help them succeed at quilting.

Bunnie’s most popular presentations include:

 “Quilter’s Consultant”

Bring your questions, puzzles, conundrums, and unfinished projects and find options and solutions. Includes a sought-after handout tip sheet.

“Creativity, Organization, Scraps and Quilts”

The title says it all. Includes tips, and the sought-after handout tip sheet.

On the rare occasions when she’s not quilting, she enjoys photography, digital scrapbooking, trading pins, her new Motor Home, and organizing just about anything. She and her retired husband live in Chesapeake, Virginia, and have two grown children.

Bunnie is known for her Triangle Frenzy, find out more on her website Triangle Frenzy

Email: bunnie @ trianglefrenzy.com (remove spaces)

Please let Bunnie know that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Cindy Grisdela

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Home: Reston, Virginia, USA. Online classes for guilds, as well as presentations, are available!

Cindy is the author of Artful Improv: Explore Color Recipes, Building Blocks & Free Motion Quilting.

Cindy specializes in improvisational piecing and free motion quilting. She offers a variety of classes, both technique based and project based, using improv techniques to help quilters explore their own creativity. She also offers trunk shows on using color effectively and combining stitch patterns to create compelling quilts.

Cindy’s work was featured in Quilting Arts TV’s season 2100 on curved piecing and improv log cabin blocks. Find out more about Cindy by visiting her website.

Cindy is experienced in offering online classes, presentations, workshops specifically for guilds. Be sure to check her website for more details. ~Marguerita

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

Barbara Cline

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Barbara-ClineHome: Shenandoah Valley, Virginia

Barbara Cline started creating quilts in her teens. Her first one was a design she made up, with fabrics pieced together to create a woven look. Since then, she has had over 30 years of experience in quilting, teaching classes at a local sewing shop, and creating beautiful quilts and patterns. She also travels teaching to quilt guilds and quilt shows.

Barbara worked at The Clothes Line (now called Patchwork Plus) from 5th grade until she got married and had children. After she stopped working at the fabric store, she was a stay-at-home mother; piecing quilt tops to sell when she had the time. When her last child entered kindergarten, she started working part-time again at The Clothes Line.

Barbara is a national teacher and lecture. She currently teaches classes at Patchwork Plus and loves to design and piece wall hangings and quilts from her home in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia.

Barbara has three books published by C&T Publishing: Star Struck Quilts, Simply Triangles and Diamond Chain Quilts. Visit Barbara’s Website for more about her quilts and classes. Or visit The Patchwork Plus where Barbara is a regular teacher.

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