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Carl Hentsch

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Home: Newton, Iowa

Carl is the author of Amish-Inspired Quilts for Today’s Home, New York Beauties & Flying Geese and Stars ‘n Strips Forever as well as several gorgeous quilt patterns.

Carl specializes in foundation paper piecing, curved piecing and intermediate to advanced patterns.

Carl offers lectures, trunk shows, half-day and full-day workshops. Carl is also available for multi-day retreats.

See more about Carl on his website: www.3DogDesignCo.com

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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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Melody Crust

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Melody CrustHome: Seattle, Washington

Melody Crust, a popular quilting instructor, brings her natural teaching ability and contagious enthusiasm to quilters from coast to coast. An award winning quilter and nationally celebrated fabric artist, her work has been featured in dozens of books and magazines.

In addition to her busy teaching schedule, Melody is in constant demand as curator and judge for national and regional quilt exhibitions and has authored: Stitching Through the Layers: The Art & Elegance of Straight Line Stitching; Eye Candy Quilts: Super-fast fun with beads, baubles, buttons and more; Quilt Toppings: Fun and Fancy Embellishment Techniques, and A Fine Line; Techniques and Inspirations for Creating the Quilting Design.

See samples of Melody’s work, check out her workshops, order autographed copies of her books or contact her directly at her 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.

Please let Shannon know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!