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Julie Neu

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Julie NeuHome: Arlington, Massachusetts, USA

Julie Neu is a quilt artist whose current work includes a series of pieced quilts inspired by Islamic tile designs and a series of art quilts with statements called her “Protest” series. She is also the founder of Creative Play Date, a program that promotes daily art play as a way to invigorate and expand one’s creativity.

Julie offers a trunk show that chronicles her quilting journey of finding her voice as an artist and a lecture on Quilts in U.S. History and how quilts reflect what was happening in the larger society. She offers workshops in precision piecing, creating pictorial quilts, and on using Creative Play™ to find your voice as an artist.

Visit Julie’s Website for more information about her and Creative Play.

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Carol Soderlund

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Carol SoderlundHome: Reno, Nevada

Carol has co-authored Playful Fabric Printing with Melanie Testa, published by Pokey Bolton of Crafting A Life LLC.

Carol specializes in teaching fabric dyeing and surface design techniques for quilters and fiber artists. She is widely known for her intensive color mixing classes where students learn to mix hundreds of colors using only yellow, red, and blue dyes. Carol offers a variety of workshops from 1 to 5 days in length. Carol was a finalist for Teacher of the Year in 2013 and again in 2015, awarded by International Creative Arts Professionals.

As a quilt artist, Carol is known for her use of color to create transparent, luminous, and dimensional effects of great subtlety. Her work incorporates hand-dyed, hand-printed, and discharged fabric in combination with commercial fabrics and intensive stitching.

Carol maintains an active teaching schedule throughout the United States and in Canada, teaching her color mixing techniques at ProChemical & Dye in Massachusetts and Nancy Crow’s Timber Frame Barn in Ohio and Pacific Northwest Art School in Washington. Her award-winning quilts have been exhibited nationally and internationally in such venues as International Quilt Festival (where she was a Best of Show winner!) Visions, Husqvarna Viking Masterpieces touring Exhibition.

Visit her website Carol Soderlund

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Linda Bratten

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Home: Armstrong, Missouri

Linda began sewing at a young age, but started quilting after the birth of her first son in the late 80’s. Linda has taught quilt guild programs throughout the Midwest.

She has also taught at the Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival, MQX Midwest and the Machine Quilters Showcase sponsored by The International Machine Quilters Association. She is an online instructor for Craftsy, and a National Educator with Baby Lock.

Linda has recently self-published a series of workbooks to enhance her Free-Motion Machine Quilting classes and has created several patterns and machine embroidery designs that she uses in her workshops.

Linda’s programs include several Machine Quilting Workshops with the Domestic Machine, Mixed Media Techniques both programs and workshops, Photo Transfer Techniques programs and workshops, and Thread Sketching/Painting Techniques workshops. Along with her presentations, when possible, she will bring a trunk show of her work.

She can be found on her website at Linda Bratten Creations. Fill out a contact form to request a detailed document outlining her current programs.

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Jaci Lawson

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Home: Dover, New Hampshire

When I was 9 years old, I saw a beautiful, knitted bikini in a magazine. My first thought was “I can do that!” I have been creating the impossible and the improbable ever since and luckily most turn out better than that bathing suit!

Currently working on a beer bottle garden edging and an outdoor pantry featuring a repurposed wooden boat, my projects tend to ensnare husband, family and unsuspecting friends.

An art quilter from Dover, NH, I have been quilting since 2007 and I made my first art quilt in 2009. My art quilts have since been shown in local art exhibits, local and regional quilt shows and a local craftsmen outlet.

I have also designed original purse and craft projects and my original luggage tag design was published in Quilts and More, Summer 2011. Recently, I have had two cathedral window projects published in The Quilt Pattern Magazine.

I have given demos on art quilting techniques at our local quilt show. I have also given demonstrations on fabric collage and other art techniques including a 3-D challenge at the Cocheco Quilt Guild Art Bee.

I am a member of the Cocheco Quilt Guild as well as a founding member and leader of the Cocheco Quilter’s Guild Art Bee. I have received a many winning ribbons in the annual Cocheco Quilt Guild Challenge Contest and recently I have been designing the annual mystery quilt for the guild.

After majoring in everything from political science to sociology, I eventually received a BA in English from the University of NH (2005).
My greatest achievement is living happily with the same husband for over 30 years despite dragging him into every home and garden project I could dream up. He lives in fear of 5 words, “Honey, I have an idea!” We have 3 extraordinary daughters, and 3 exceptional grandchildren. Truly, the Lord has been good to us and blessed our home.

See more about Jaci on her website

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Wendy Mamattah

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Wendy-Mamattah2Home: Portland, Oregon

Wendy Mamattah is owner of Braid and Stitch, Wendy is an internationally Published and recognized award winning quilt and textile artist, she is also a journalist, art blogger and quilt pattern designer. Her works and patterns have been featured internationally in American Quilter magazine and on the Quilt show With Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims. She lives in Portland Oregon.

Wendy is from Ghana in West Africa, and has always loved working with fabrics. She recalls as a child at age five in primary school, she received prizes for needlework instead of English or Geography which made her realize that there was a part inside of her that loved to create.

Wendy’s works to date have mainly been featured in International reach magazines, E magazines, major news publications and blogs, her works have hang in galleries in the Pacific Northwest. Wendy’s works continue to evolve in both subject matter and technique, recurring throughout in strong, clear color, texture, visual impact, and meticulous detail. She loves the colors of nature, those colors that can be imposed on the real world to see it in a new way.

Wendy lectures in West African symbolism, and teaches workshops in Silhouette applique which depict a lot of Africa, African fabric, and dance, she also works and teaches in other mediums such Impressionistic art, popularly known in art quilting as the Confetti technique, the rest are painted quilted abstract, Mosaic, and her stunning under water pieces.

Website ~ www.braidandstitch.com
Pattern Website ~ www.braidandstitch.etsy.com
Blog ~ www.quiltednonsense.blogspot.com

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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.

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Chris Kirsch

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Chris-Lynn-KirschHome: 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.

Visit Her Website

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