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Linda M Poole

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LindaMPooleHome: Milford, Pennslvania

My whole life has always revolved around photography, writing, painting, and sewing. These interests have fueled my passion for travel, teaching, and sharing my experiences with people around the world. I have taught throughout the USA, the United Kingdom, Germany, Turkey, and Italy. I believe language is never a barrier in the translation of quilts.

Let the things you see in my book be a springboard for your imagination. Each pattern gives you choices – use commercial fabrics, paint your fabric, or do both!

Linda Poole lives with her husband Ray Williams and Corgi pup Zoie near Milford, Pennsylvania, a beautiful region in the northeastern part of the state. Together they share the passion of discovering the gifts of nature while hiking trails that lead to creeks, brooks, rivers, and lakes. Ray can be found with his fishing pole in hand with Linda by his side clicking away with her camera. Visit Linda’s Website.

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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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Laurel Anderson

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Laurel-Anderson1Home: Carmichael, California

Author of Appliqué Workshop, with C&T Publishing Laurel specializes in a wide variety of alternative methods of appliqué plus hand appliqué, color and pattern design.

See her class choices at Whisper Color Teaching.

She offers a quilt trunk show called Laurel’s Search for Perfect Appliqué and a PowerPoint talk on the History of Appliqué.

Visit Laurel’s Website

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Shannon Shirley

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ShannonShirleyHome: Woodbridge, Virginia

Author of Creating Children’s Artwork Quilts. Shannon Shirley has been quilting since 1989. She is an award winning fiber artist, an instructor, speaker and author. She has been teaching professionally since 2006 and loves to share her eclectic styles of quilting with students of all levels, whether in her own studio or on the road.

Shannon makes commission pieces and loves the challenge of designing to meet the needs of each of her clients.

She creates children’s artwork quilts, incorporates vintage linens, makes art quilts from her own photographs and makes memory quilts just to name a few.

She grew up in an Air Force family and loves to travel but settled in Northern Virginia in 1975. Visit Shannon’s Website.

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Peggy Gelbrich

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Home: Yamhill, Oregon.

Peggy’s teaching style is Modern Traditional taking traditional patterns and making them new again with new, easier techniques, fabrics and settings.

She teaches machine piecing, including foundation piecing using freezer paper. This techniques leaves no paper to tear away and a reusable pattern.

She also teaches needle-turn applique and hand quilting.

She has been nominated as Teacher of the Year for the Professional Quilter Magazine. Check out her website: www.yellowhousequilter.com

Visit Peggy’s Website

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Susan Brubaker Knapp

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Home: Charlotte, North Carolina

I am a fiber artist, quilt pattern designer and teacher. Quilting started as my hobby, but has turned into a passion and a business. I teach classes at quilt guilds, at quilt festivals – and occasionally online — and have published patterns and books for my original quilt designs.

I love traditional hand quilting and needleturn appliqué, but have embraced innovative machine techniques. I started making “art quilts” — works of art executed in fabrics and fibers — in 2005. My quilts have won national as well as local awards, and have been exhibited at national and international venues. I have won seven Best of Show awards at three different quilting guilds, with six different quilts.

My work has been featured in several national magazines, in five calendars, and has graced the covers of two issues of Quilting Arts magazine. I am the author of two books – Point, Click, Quilt! Turn Your Photos into Fabulous Fabric Art (C&T Publishing, 2011), and Appliqué Petal Party (C&T Publishing, 2009).Visit Susan’s Website

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Sue Pelland

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Home: Upton, Massachusetts

Sue Pelland is the designer of the Leaves Galore Rulers. She travels to quilt shows regularly to teach, show her quilts and vend. Sue is working on a book about the many ways to use her rulers to enhance your quilts.

Visit Sue’s website

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Scarlett Rose

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Home: Anderson, California

Scarlett Rose learned to quilt in 1976, started teaching in 1986 and has been quilt judging since the early 1990’s. For over 20 years, Scarlett has taught for quilt guilds, shops and conferences throughout the United States. She has taught twice in Japan.

While specializing in Celtic designs for appliqué, embroidery, sashiko and crayoning, Scarlett also designs scrap quilts, friendship quilts and foundation pieced quilts that are modern innovations on classic patchwork patterns and traditional symbols. Drawing on her cultural heritage, she combines eastern influences with her Celtic work. Besides her contemporary appliqué and patchwork quilts, Scarlett has also designed unique Wearable Art pieces and Art Quilts.

Since 1998, Scarlett’s website at www.ScarlettRose.com, has specialized in Celtic, fantasy, Asian and stained glass books and patterns, with shipping worldwide. Scarlett Rose’s Celtic & More currently publishes a full line of Celtic appliqué, Asian inspired bias appliqué, foundation pieced and innovative patchwork patterns and e-patterns, including Celtic machine cross stitch designs and Celtic hand cross stitch charts.

Scarlett teaches at a local quilt shop in Northern California: Blue Iris Quilt Shop, 9348 Deschutes Road, Palo Cedro, CA. Visit Scarlett’s Website.

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“Our guild recently hosted our first virtual speaker, Scarlett Rose. The lecture she presented was ‘Quilts + Genealogy = Family Stories.’ What a fantastic lecture! Who knew so much family history can be found in a quilt! Her presentation consisted of a PowerPoint presentation and a live portion. The PowerPoint portion was well prepared. All of her pictures were clear, vibrant and in focus. Not only did she share full quilts, but also up close detail of quilt blocks as well. She managed to capture detail in all of her photos. If you have members that share an interest in old quilts as well as family research and documentation, I would highly recommend this lecture! Not only did she totally draw us into the past, she inspired many of us to start documenting our own family histories through the use of quilts for generations to come!”

Vickie Wassell
Programs Coordinator
Pieces ‘n Patches Quilt Guild