Quilters Calendar & Guild Network
resources for quilt guild volunteers
Home: Seattle, Washington
Patricia Belyea, an artisan quilter, imports vintage hand-dyed yukata cottons from Japan. In 2013, she opened a petite yukata cotton shop in the lower level of her Seattle home where she also teaches quilting classes.
An avid traveler, Patricia visits guilds and shares her passion for quilting.
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Home: 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.
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Home: Watertown, Wisconsin
Author of Repliqué Quilts, Snuggle & Learn Quilts for Kids, Compass Capers and Where do I Start With Fiber Art?
Chris’ “no fear” attitude shines through in her enthusiasm for teaching classes on machine appliqué, free motion quilting, beginning fiber art, and designing and stitching Mariner’s Compass variation quilts. She also offers a variety of lectures meant to entertain and inspire.
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Home: Simpsonville, South Carolina
In 2008 a local quilt shop asked Joan to teach a class on one of her first bargello jackets and Figure Flattering Quiltwear was born.
Joan designs and publishes her own line for Quiltwear patterns for ladies of all sizes and shapes, and she means all sizes and shapes. If you are bored with the programs at your guild meetings, try “I don’t want to look like I’ve been hit by a paint truck”, OR “Quiltwear I can wear out to lunch with my non-quilting friends”.
A Lecture and Trunk shop with Joan is fun as well as informative. Her jacket patterns are grouped by body type to make the selection process easier. Jacket workshops always start with a short fitting. Student literally try on sloper muslin jackets in a variety of sizes and body types, then jump right into creating their own unique garments.
If you tired of those old doughty sweatshirt jackets then check us out at Figure Flattering Quiltwear for ALL ladies bust measurements 32”-57”, petite-plus sizes. Take a good look at her Gallery of Garments for inspiration and her Classes for your next guild workshop.
Home: Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Sue Patten is not your typical quilter. Anyone who knows Sue knows her high energy, innovative designs and techniques and would tell you to expect the unexpected! Always with a story to tell and a tip or trick to share, her classes are non-stop educational and fun. Sue is an award winning longarm quilter, who has travelled throughout Canada, The United States, Europe and The UK teaching her unique and innovative styles to longarm, domestic, and hand quilters alike.
Sue offers a wide variety of classes for all levels of quilters, including hands on, lecture demos, and drawing classes along with a must see, hilariously funny, trunk show. This includes everything from her hand work, to her world- renowned, award-winning thread art quilts. Sue is the author of “Quilting Possibilities…Freehand Filler Patterns” and “Adaptable Quilting Designs” published by AQS Books.
Sue is a designer of fabric, stencils, machine embroidery patterns, hand embroidery patterns, red work patterns, Innovative whole cloth designs, longarm computerized patterns, hand and machine quilting designs,a thread designer and most importantly mother of three.
Her work has been featured in dozen’s of magazines over the last 10 years and she has been featured on various TV shows such as “The Quilt Show” with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims, “America Sews” with Sue Hausmann, QNN TV’s Quilt It and “Linda Taylor’s Longarm Quilting Show”. Sue also also offers a full range of training video’s.
She has presented trunk shows and classes to guilds around the world and is a regular teacher at dozen’s of international quilt show- Houston International Quilt Show, American Quilters Show, MQS, MQX, Machine Quilting Today, Quilting with Machines, just to name a few…
To view a full list of Sues Classes and Trunk Show Descriptions Visit Her Blog.
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Home: La Connor, Washington
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Home: New York City, New York, USA
Leni Levenson Wiener is an art quilter, author and instructor living just outside New York City. Her work, which has been exhibited across the US and internationally, can best be described as fabric collage. Photo-realistic in nature, her themes focus mainly on the faces and body language of people caught in ordinary moments of their everyday lives.
“As a former commercial photographer, I still see the world through a camera lens. I am drawn to subjects that are photographic in nature–I like to capture a fleeting moment in the life of a stranger. I often depict an insignificant moment, but one that causes the viewer to look closely, to fill in the story, and in that way to be drawn deeper into the work.” All of Leni’s pieces begin with a photo or a combination of photos which are translated into commercially available fabric.
Leni has authored four books; Thread Painting (2007), Photo-inspired Art Quilts (2009), 3-Fabric Quilts (2011) and Pictorial Art Quilt Guidebook, which will be released in the spring of 2014.
Leni’s workshops cover color, value and print scale; how to choose the right fabrics for your art quilt; making a pattern from a photo; and then the steps required to learn her easy technique. She also gives talks on her process with an overview of her work and on finding your artistic voice. Workshops can be customized to fit the specific needs of the guild or group.
Visit Leni’s Website for information on workshops, talks and to see more of her work.
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Home: Exeter, Rhode Island, USA
Pat Harrison is a National Quilting Association Certified Master Judge, teacher, author, lecturer, designer, and award-winning longarm quilter.
A retired school librarian and teacher, Pat has been longarm quilting since 1999. She has won numerous awards for her quilts at local, regional and international shows including Paducah and Houston.
Pat enjoys all aspects of quilting, especially all those little gadgets and tips that make quilting more successful and fun. She also enjoys designing quilts using EQ7 for herself and quilting magazine.
Visit Pat’s Website, Ocean Waves Quilting Company.
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