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Gyleen Fitzgerald

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Home: Churchville, Maryland

“I want children to be do-ers of life and not just watch-ers. I hope my writing inspires them to laugh and read out loud; one day it may lead to art and creative thinking.”

Fitzgerald was born in Philadelphia, PA but grew up in Taiwan and Japan. She obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering at Drexel University and opened Colourful Stitches in 1999. Its first subsidiary, FPI Publishing was launched in 2005 with the publication of her first two books. Its second subsidiary, Tools by Gyleen was launched in 2010 with the Pineapple Tool. In 2011, she obtained the Trademark for her Butterfly Seam.

Those formative years in the Far East developed her love for simplistic artistry. She began needlework at the very young age of 4 and has since pursued artistic expression in drawing and quilt making. Her quilts blend colour, pattern and texture to provide a contemporary essence to traditional quilting. Her strength as a quilter is demonstrated by the infusion of engineering tools and techniques to simplify visually complex quilts. Her writing life came much later; she started with technical reports, moved to technical instructions and finally got the courage to do creative organized thinking. Her written works center around Haiku poetry, Quilt project books, patterns and magazine articles and of course the crème de la crème, children’s books.

As an artist she has achieved “Best of Show” recognition; as a writer and publisher she has achieved award winning status with Quilts: Unfinished Stories with New Endings. Gyleen has appeared on The Quilt Show and Lifetime TV promoting finishing antique quilts and the new spirit of traditional quilting. Gyleen has an active social media presence on three Facebook group pages and in the Forum of The Quilt Show’s website.

For Gyleen, quilting is the passion which colours her world as her writing journey continues.

Visit Gyleen’s website.

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Rami Kim

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RamiKim2Home: Rocklin, California

Rami Kim is a DNA scientist-turned fabric artist/quilter/instructor known nationally and internationally. She is a 17-time Best of Show winner, distinguished for her innovative art-to-wear.

Her passion is in contemporary art-to-wear, quilts, cloth dolls and bags with special interest in 3-dimensional textures and she is known for her own distinctive colors and techniques. Her first book, Folded Fabric Elegance, published by AQS, is about her 3-D texturing techniques and new projects. Her second book Quilted Elegance, also published by AQS, focuses on reversible wearable arts, bags and two-sided quilts. The third and most recent book, ‘Elegant Cotton, Wool, Silk Quilts’ was published in autumn 2012.

She graduated from University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) majoring in endocrinology and worked at the Cancer Research Institute at UCSF before her passion and talent in fabric art drastically changed this biochemist’s career years ago.

She says she’d rather spend even more time with beautiful fabrics and threads and beads than with DNA sequencing gels and radioactive isotopes of cold, gray science. In her website you’ll find information on upcoming workshops, lectures and trunk shows hosted by Rami, as well as a gallery of her art. Enter Rami’s world of fascination and take a look around! Visit Rami’s Website and her blog for what’s new in her world today.

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Wendy Butler Berns

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Wendy_Butler_Berns_(425x640)Home: Lake Mills, Wisconsin

As a published, award winning quilt artist and teacher who found her passion for quilting in 1993, Wendy presents at guilds, retreats, conferences, and on-line nationally and internationally. Enthusiastic and empowering, describe Wendy as a teacher. She is recognized for her unabashed free-motion machine quilting, embellishing and picture image machine appliqué style, use of color and contemporary original designs. Her creative passion and energetic teaching style encourages and inspires students and keeps them coming back for more.

Her work and articles appear in many quilt publications. Her own book, Photo Album Quilts, which unfortunately is out of print, features her machine picture image appliqué process. Wendy has appeared on Quilting Arts TV, Sewing with Nancy Zieman and currently is featured in three online courses on Craftsy.com. She is the 19th recipient of the Jewel Pearce Patterson Teacher’s Scholarship recognizing quilting teachers awarded by Quilts Inc., Houston, Texas. and curated an exhibition of her work and her students titled “Out on a Limb” which traveled throughout the country.

To contact Wendy directly and to find out more information regarding her workshops, lectures and gallery of quilts, please visit Wendy’s website and contact her at wbbquilter @ aol.com





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