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Dana Jones

Dana Jones

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Home: Gilpin County, Colorado

After too many years of dreaming about making quilts, I decided it was time to live into that dream in 2003. I began taking classes and attending quilt shows whenever possible.In 2007, I began teaching.

In 2009, I moved to Colorado where I landed a job as an editor with Quilters Newsletter magazine, and less than a year later, I was running the magazine. I also had the opportunity to do a two-year stint as editor of the SAQA Journal (Studio Art Quilt Associates) before stepping down from that position to research and write my book, Pagtinabangay: The Quilts and Quiltmakers of Caohagan Island. I spent several years on the road telling the amazing story of the more than 100 women and men on this tiny, 13-acre Philippine island.

I was honored to assist in mounting exhibitions of the island quilts at the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky; the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles in San Jose, California; and Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum in Golden, Colorado.

I now live at 9,200 feet in Colorado in the Rocky Mountains where I watch the wild critters from my quilt studio that faces Mount Thorodin. I enjoy designing and making quilts and teaching others to do so. And I enjoy speaking and writing about quiltmaking and quiltmakers.

I have a special passion for foundation piecing so many of my quilts and classes incorporate that technique. I’m also addicted to insetting circles and find great joy when I help others see how easy it is to do.

I’m a regular teacher at multiple quilt shops in Colorado and have taught at Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum.

Most popular booking is my lecture: Pagtinabangay: The Quilts and Quiltmakers of Caohagan Island. You’ll be transported to a tiny island — just 13 acres — in the central Philippines as you enjoy images and stories of the colorful quilts and quiltmakers of Caohagan Island. You’ll see photos of more than 50 of these handmade, one-of-a-kind quilts plus be introduced to the unique techniques developed by these quiltmakers whose tools are simply fabric and scissors, needle and thread. I spent more than a month on the island, quilted with the women and men, went fabric shopping with them on nearby Cebu Island, and snorkled the reef that surrounds Caohagan. Those who view the quilts come away smiling, inspired by the creativity of these islanders. (Flexible/Under $400)

My most popular workshop is Peace Cranes Over Hiroshima. You’ll learn a lot about color value, which is key to creating this quilt’s three-dimensional look. The pattern and foundations for the quilt are included in the class fee. I designed and made “Peace Cranes Over Hiroshima” after a visit to the peace park that is at the epicenter of the World War II atomic bombing site in Hiroshima, Japan. This foundation-pieced quilt is based on an Origami folded peace-crane image from the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin. 

Find out more about Dana on her website: https://www.danajonesquilts.com/ and be sure to tell Dana that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Nancy Prince

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Home: Orlando, Florida

Nancy is an award winning thread painting quilt artist, author and international quilting teacher. Twenty one years ago she was looking for a way to add dimension and more interest to her quilts and to her delight that was when she discovered thread painting.

Nancy has won numerous quilting awards with her competitive quilts including Best of Show at the International Quilt Festival in Houston as well as Best of World at the Mancuso show in New England. Her most favorite awards have been the 20 plus Viewer’s Choice awards at various national shows.

Nancy’s anyone-can-do-it teaching attitude has encouraged students for the past 18 years. She is totally addicted to thread painting and her enthusiasm in workshop is contagious! Students comment on her commitment to her one-on-one attention and her upbeat attitude. She excels in taking the mystique out of thread painting making it easy for anyone to master.

Nancy has used camera technology for the past 18 years in her on-site workshops and she now uses the same technology for her Zoom workshops. The camera technology gives an up-close view of each machine demo of the project assuring that students have a front row seat in all workshops. Color slides are used after each sewing machine demo to augment the thread painting demo assuring the student has a good grasp on each step.

Nancy offers traditional on-site workshops as well as virtual workshops. Nancy has had much success transferring from on-site to virtual workshops due to her attention to detail and perseverance in learning the “Zoom curve”. She enjoys interacting with her students throughout the day. Fun and laughter are main components in her classroom as well as sharing the knowledge she has acquired over the past 21 years. Students in Zoom workshops at Road to California and other shows have commented
on how well her Zoom workshops are organized.

Workshop: Thread Painted Landscapes Woodlands – Nancy is known for her Thread Painted Landscapes and the Woodlands version is no exception. This workshop starts with custom printed fabric which virtually guarantees success right from the start. Teaching her thread painting techniques is paramount in all workshops. Of course thread is the main star but weight of thread, importance of value in thread selection, thread manufacturers, solid thread vs variegated are all topics of discussion. Kits are a part of each workshop and students comment on the attention to detail in her step-by-step color illustrated booklet included with each kit. This workshop like most of Nancy’s workshop is geared toward all levels of experience.

Lecture: Some 20 plus years ago Nancy picked up a little wooden hoop, a piece of stabilizer and some thread and that moment sent her on a totally unexpected yet enjoyable journey. With all these years of making thread painted quilts, there is a story to tell. The lecture will demonstrate her thread painting techniques, some fun and humorous stories and lastly a trunk slide show of quilts from her first thread painted quilt to her latest competitive quilt.

Nancy would love to share thread painting or thread sketching with your guild. To learn more about Nancy visit her website at www.nancyprince.com To view Nancy’s virtual workshops please go to http://www.nancyprince.com/workshop-lectures/virtual
Email: Nancy @ NancyPrince.com
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBwNrpzp5G3CMG4Ah6j_e1Q.
Nancy’s Quilt Gallery: http://www.nancyprince.com/quilt-gallery/nancys-quilts

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

Carole Lyles Shaw

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Home: Bradenton, Florida, USA and online. Carole is offering classes online via her website with live streaming to connect with students. She offers live streaming for guilds for trunk shows and lectures.

Carole is an enthusiastic modern quilter, teacher and mixed media artist. She brings a painless and fun approach to improvisational modern quilting to her lectures and workshops. She began quilting many years ago when she decided to make quilts for her family. From those beginnings, Carole decided very quickly to break from traditional patterns and start creating her own designs using inspirations from modern art and other sources. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the U.S., Canada and other countries. She has been published in American Quiltmaking, 1970-2000, Quilts Today: A Living Tradition, Spirits of the Cloth and many other books. Her work has been juried into both quilt and art exhibits and has won awards.

Today, her focus is on exploring the modern quilt movement. She lectures and teaches workshops on modern quilting techniques for beginning and experienced quilters, helping each quilter find her own unique approach to expanding beyond the traditional.

Carole is the co-founder of the Sarasota Modern Quilt Guild in Sarasota FL. If you’re ever in their area, please visit a guild meeting.

Carole loves being a member of the quilt and textile art community and sharing her knowledge with others. Carole is a highly experienced workshop facilitator and she creates a warm and fun atmosphere. Beginner or experienced—all levels of quilter are welcome in her classes and everyone receives support and attention. She offers classes and lectures for groups all over the country. Take a look at her workshops and contact her from her website for information.

Lectures & Trunk Shows:

WHAT IS A MODERN QUILT? THE MYTHS AND THE MAGIC!

This 40-60 minute interactive presentation introduces quilters of all backgrounds to the modern quilt movement. Intimidated by modern quilts? I dispel some of the myths  so every quilter can appreciate the freedom in this new style of creative expression! I use many modern quilts to illustrate the key design trends in modern quilting. 

MY JOURNEY TO MODERN QUILTING

This lecture and trunk show is the story of my love of modern quilting—starting with modern quilts that I made in the early 2000’s.  There will be lots of time for questions and answers. In addition to the lecture (slides), I also show some of my quilts ‘in person’ on my design wall and table.  Please note that I do not cover modern quilt design principles in depth—familiarity with modern quilting is a prerequisite.   Topics include:

  • Artistic and quilter influences on my modern quilts
  • Early explorations of high contrast and minimalist palettes
  • Maximalism
  • AfroModerne quilts – cultural heritage and modernism
  • The Future of Modern Quilting—From Where I Stand

Modern Quilt Workshops – Live or via Zoom

I love traveling across the country meeting quilters who are interested in modern quilting. In the past year or so, I’ve had the honor of teaching my modern quilt workshops in California, Texas, Georgia, the east and west coasts of Florida, South Carolina, Virginia and I’ll be adding other states to this list!

Carole now offers a variety of classes, workshops,  online over the internet for students and for guilds. She’s combining every resource, including Zoom, to connect with her students to provide a world-class learning experience. ~Marguerita

My modern quilt workshops are suitable for all levels of quilters.  And, traditional quilters who take my modern quilt workshops tell me that they learn a lot about ‘what makes a quilt modern’ and have loads of fun–even though these workshops take them a little bit out of their box. I hear them say that quilting modern is freeing!

Visit Carole’s Website for more about her, her online quilt workshops and classes and to view her gorgeous quilts. Please let Carole know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar! Watch a May 2020 interview with Carole below:

Julia McLeod

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Home: San Francisco Bay Area, California

Author of ‘Patchwork Luxe’ from C&T publishing, Julia McLeod specializes in making quilts from neckties, kimonos, sari silks and other reclaimed textiles. Her mission is to give quilters the confidence and techniques to cut into their treasured textiles and make beautiful quilts.


Visit Julia’s website for details of her fun and informative lectures and workshops.

Learn more about Julia on her website: https://juliamcleodquilts.com/ .

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

Joyce Hughes

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Home: Kintnersville, Pennsylvania

Joyce Hughes  is an award-winning self-taught quilter, fiber artist, and author. Her first quilt was a tee-shirt quilt, which she enjoyed making, but felt limited in the ability to express her artistic capabilities. Within several months, she began to design pictorial landscape quilts using raw edge applique, thread painting, and a variety of embellishments. Never knowing the “rules” she broke a lot of them, but with exciting results!

Amazingly, her first art quilt, “Mother’s Day”, was entered into a national show and won a blue ribbon. This has led to numerous awards, recognitions, and opportunities in the quilting world. Several proud accomplishments for Joyce are: “McCall’s Quilt Designer 2012 – Professional Category” for McCall’s Quilting Magazine; also an endorser and sample maker for Northcott and Timeless Treasures fabrics, and Ambassador for Mettler Threads and Brother Sewing.

Currently, Joyce has a second book, Thread Paint A Garden Quilt (released October 2020) focusing on raw edge applique and thread painting to add shading, highlighting, and definition. Joyce’s first book, Creating Art Quilts with Panels is about working with Fabric Panels to create dimension and texture with threads and embellishments, creating a style of her own! Joyce loves to teach and share her tips. One of her greatest accomplishments is when a student creates their own artwork following Joyce’s technique of Dimensional Thread Painting!

Lecture Description:

“My Journey into Quilting”… It is a very open and inspiring talk about how Joyce started in quilting, leading into Art Quilts with Thread Painting, finishing with ideas to use with Panels as Art Quilts. 

Join the many people who leave very excited to try something new with their quilting . Joyce’s  main subject matter will be working with fabric panels. Showing many “Before and after” Art Quilts. Exploring how panels will be able to be used on your personal projects. Many panels are looked at and passed over. Joyce often here’s, “What do you do with this”, it’s so big, the colors are dull, etc., etc.  With a little embellishing and/or thread painting on the fabric, it soon becomes a piece of art.

 Learn about the preparation of the Panel for a project, the freedom of using thread painting and showing that layering thread lets you achieve different effects on the quilts. Then, add embellishments of ribbon, markers, paint, crystals, etc., The Panel is now unique and one of a kind!

Class Description:

Want to learn Dimensional Thread Painting but you think it is too hard. I often hear, “I am not creative and can my Machine do this? etc., etc., Yes, You are Creative and Yes, you can do this on your Domestic Sewing Machine!!! 

In this class you will start with a Beautiful Panel to Create a piece of Art! You will learn the proper steps of Dimensional Thread Painting and find it to be a fun and creative technique. Explore the various thread selection, setting up your machine for stitching techniques with free motion quilting of zig zag and straight stitching, bobbin work and embellishing with netting and crystals. See the fabric come to life as you sew and layer the threads on top of your design. You will use Thread as Paint –sew with different types of threads and color combinations.  Learn how to create interesting texture and dimension to your quilting project. You will leave with a full knowledge of Dimensional Thread Painting and create a One of Kind piece of Art!

Learn more about Joyce on her website www.JoyceHughesOriginals.com and contact her at joyhughes1 @ verizon.net [remove spaces]

Please tell Joyce that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Beth Sullivan

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Beth Sullivan of Beth Sullivan Designs lives in Bellingham, MA with her husband and three teenagers.

After making her first T-shirt quilt for herself in 2000, she started making them for friends and family. When her children were born she turned it into a part time and eventually full time business. She has now made over a thousand T-shirt and memory quilts in her career.

Beth specializes in using unique materials in memory quilts. Her motto is that if it can be washed, sewn and made to lie flat, it can usually go in the quilt. After answering hundreds of questions about T-shirt quilts from quilter friends for many years, she now lectures and teaches classes in the planning and construction of these unique quilts. Lectures and classes are available in person or virtually via Zoom. 

LECTURE: Quilts to a Tee: Using T-Shirts and Unique Clothing in Quilts 
This one-hour lecture for guilds and groups is designed to provide inspiration and guidance for quilters who are thinking about tackling a T-shirt or memory quilt.  It is available in person or virtual via Zoom. Quilt samples and photos are used to show how quilters can expand the possibilities of the conventional T-shirt quilt to include anything that can be washed, sewn and made to lie flat. The design and construction of a variable layout quilt is discussed as well as the use of partial seams in construction of unique quilt designs. Using interesting items is a focal point of the lecture as well including the use of sweaters, jeans, ties, bibs, bathing suits, baby clothes, and many other cloth items. (Pricing: $275 ($225 if booked with a workshop)) [January 2021 pricing]

CLASS: T-Shirt Quilt Starter Workshop (3 hours, maximum of 12 students)
In this 3-hour class, students will learn how to design their own T-shirt quilt based on the unique clothing items they have. They will learn how to prep T-shirts and other clothing for use in quilting including rough cutting, fusing, and final cutting. They will design their own T-shirt quilt including their own layout plan, tackle unique items, and start on the T-shirt prep. They will not be able to sew at this class but will finish with an understanding of what they need to do when they start sewing, with the unique plan in place and a good start at block prep. This class is offered in person or virtual via Zoom. 

Find out more about Beth on her website http://www.bethsullivandesigns.com/ and contact her beth @ bethsullivandesigns.com

Be sure and tell Beth that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!