Quilters Calendar & Guild Network

resources for quilt guild volunteers

Michelle Hiatt

Michelle Hiatt

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MichelleHiatt-smHome: Huntington, Connecticut.

Michelle Renee Hiatt is passionate about quilting. She started her love affair 20+ years ago in the 1990s. Michelle Renee is the designer for her own pattern line Sew On The Go as well as Modern 180, a modern pattern division of Deb Tucker’s Studio 180 Design. Additionally, Michelle is a certified Studio 180 Design Instructor, as well as a certified Professional Process Expert (LSSMBB); she uses her process improvement techniques and applies them to her quilting and teaching others how to simplify their piecing while improving the quality of their quilt making.

Michelle Renee’s designs have appeared in Modern Quilting Unlimited and Fon’s & Porter’s Love of Quilting. She is known for her humor, enthusiasm and encouragement! Michelle can be reached on her website.

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

Lori Triplett

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Lori-Triplett-smHome: Overland Park, Kansas.

Lori Lee Triplett, Business Manager for Quilt & Textile Collections has successfully combined a variety of passions which include research, writing, and performing into the quilt world. As an award winning writer Lori has written more than 15 books as well as numerous magazine or journal articles with more on the way. Her most recent book co-written with her sister Kay Triplett, is Hidden Treasures from the Poos Collection. Previous books include the award winning and bestselling, Pioneer Quilts: Prairie Settlers’ Life in Fabric, Over 30 Quilts from the Poos Collection, Indigo Quilts: 30 Quilts from the Poos Collection and Chintz Quilts from the Poos Collection.

Lori’s classes can be found on her website http://www.quiltandtextilecollections.com/presentations.html

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

Sandy Chambers

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Sandy ChambersHome: North Carolina

Sandy Chambers lives in western North Carolina. She has a Bachelor’s of Fine Art from the International Academy of Design, Chicago, Illinois. Quilting is a way of life for her and you can find her everyday in her studio creating new designs for her pattern company, Designs for Divas! Her first love is color, and she teaches a color class to quilters, quilt guilds and quilt shops called “Color Your World”.

Currently she is teaching in North and South Carolina, Illinois and Virginia.

She has had quilts in the AQS show in Charlotte, the North Carolina State Fair, Mountain Fair in Asheville where she won several blue ribbons.

You can reach Sandy at chambers1205 @ gmail.com

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

Vanessa Vargas Wilson

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Vanessa-Vargas-WilsonKnown internationally as “The Crafty Gemini” Vanessa is the young face of modern quilting and homesteading. She’s an internet sensation with over 15 million views to her YouTube channel.

Vanessa’s easy style and honest approach to all she does is the secret to her success. She appeals to young and old, new sewists and experienced quilters. If there’s a new way of looking at anything, Vanessa is going to invent that new way and then share it with everyone because that’s her style.

Vanessa teaches basic quiltmaking with a modern twist, ignoring any rules that don’t suit her. She’s also accomplished at crochet and DIY home projects. If your group is looking for an energetic, happy, enthusiastic teacher Vanessa is the one to bring in.

Her artist’s statement is “DIY video tutorials on things like sewing, quilting, crafting, cooking, baking, organic gardening, canning, nutrition and weight loss! I enjoy sharing my life and knowledge with others and I hope you enjoy my creations”.

Here’s her YouTube Channel clip, for a personal introduction. Be sure to also visit her website and check her out on Facebook.



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

Jenny Lyon

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Home: Sacramento area of California

Jenny is the author of Free Motion Quilting, From Ordinary to Extraordinary.

Jenny travels to teach and lecture on the joy of free motion quilting on a domestic machine. She teaches at major international shows as well as quilt guilds and shops across the country. She is currently entering into training to judge quilt shows as well.

Her work has been shown at the Houston, Paducah, PIQF and other shows, as well as in juried SAQA exhibits and has received numerous ribbons.

“Encouraging, supportive and fun”. Jenny’s mission is to guide her students to find their own free motion quilting joy, and chocolate may be involved.

Jenny offers a variety of free motion quilting workshops that are both technique and project based, designed to release the angst of free motion quilting and find the joy! She has created a “Sloppy Woppy Free Motion Quilting” curriculum that makes quilting approachable and fun!

Her trunk shows feature her unique style in quilts, garments, and whole cloth creations. Jenny was a featured guest on The Quilt Show (#2404) and two seasons of Quilting Arts TV season 2000/2100 and 3011 and has authored articles for various quilting magazines.

Learn more about Jenny, her art and teaching opportunities at her website. Please note, Jenny is also now offering virtual presentations as well.

Visit Jenny’s Website The Quilt Skipper for more about Jenny!

Visit Jenny on YouTube- Jenny Lyon

And here is Jenny’s YouTube Intro-

Contact Jenny here- [jenny] @ quiltskipper.com (remove brackets and spaces) to get a class scheduled right away.

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

Patricia Belyea

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Home: Wauconda, Washington

A creative quilter, engaging speaker, and international teacher, Patricia blends traditional piecing with innovative curves. She invented Complex Curves and Inserted Curves — two techniques that totally expand quilters’ skill sets.

Patricia leads supportive classes that build confidence, spark curiosity, and help students approach curves with ease and joy. Please visit her website: Okan Arts http://okanarts.com and let Patricia know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!

Roxane Lessa

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Roxane-LessaHome: Raleigh, North Carolina

Roxane was a professional ballet dancer in her youth. Now she enjoys creating movement with color, line, and shapes, using textiles as her muse. She has exhibited her work in many group and solo shows internationally and at home in the US. In 2012, she won the Niche Award for Decorative Art. She also teaches textile arts in her studio, and at stores and guilds. Roxane has a B.S. in Costume Design and Textiles, but considers herself a life-long learner of textile arts.

Roxane is known as The Art Quilter’s Coach. She offers private, one-on-one coaching for quilters who want to design and make their own amazing art quilts, but don’t know where to begin. She also teaches small, intimate workshops for quilting guilds and stores. Her unique coaching style of teaching helps bring out the best in her students, with concentration on composition and design and use of color and value.

She also delivers a valuable lecture, titled: What Every Art Quilter Needs to Know Before They Sew, illustrated with a trunk show of her own award-winning work, and slides of students’ work.

She lives and works in Raleigh, NC with her 2 daughters and one lazy studio cat. Visit Her Website and Blog.

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