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Cindy Brick

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Home: Castle Rock, Colorado

Cindy Brick is an editor, designer and writer who travels the world teaching about quilting and quilt history. A former editor for Quilter’s Newsletter, she is also an AQS-certified and USPAP-trained personal property appraiser who specializes in textiles. She also judges quilt competitions, with venues as varied as the international Quilt Festival, the Pacific International Quilt Festival and the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival. She has written hundreds of articles and seven books, including Hanky Panky, the Stitcher’s Language of Flowers, Quilts of the Great Depression, the Fabric Dating Kit,Crazy Quilts and Quilts from the Golden West. 

Nearly all of Encyclopaedia Britannica’s quilt-related entries are her writing; she also consulted for three television specials on quilting (appeared in person on one), and was on Simply Quilts to explain her Hanky Panky quilt method. She has been on an episode of The Quilt Show to talk about Crazy quilts, and on the Quilter’s Newsletter channel to discuss Friendship Quilts.

Cindy is a frequent contributor to various magazines, and continues to write and design for her company, Brickworks. She also frequently writes for frugal living and personal finance blogs. For more on her books and products, including color photos, visit the Brickworks website at www.cindybrick.com. 

Catherine Redford

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Home: Naperville, IL

Author Modern Machine Quilting book and DVDs

Catherine Redford is a national award-winning quilter, author, teacher and speaker available for classes, workshops and lectures at your guild, group or store. Topics range from machine quilting on your domestic machine to wool appliqué and folk art style embroidery and more!

Catherine ha been featured on Quilting Arts TV, in print and at quilt shops across the USA and beyond.

Visit Catherine’s website at www.catherineredford.com for more details, and contact her at catherine @ catherineredford.com

Specialities: Hand embroidery, wool applique, English paper piecing, beading on fabric, domestic machine quilting.

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

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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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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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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Laura Wasilowski

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laura-wasilowskiHome: Elgin, Illinois

Laura Wasilowski is both contemporary quilt maker and creator of hand-dyed fabrics and threads. Her pictorial art quilts (created from fused fabrics and hand-embroidered or machine quilted) are collected and exhibited
internationally.

Wasilowski’s narrative quilts begin with her unique hand-dyed fabrics and are inspired by stories of family, friends, and home. The whimsical wall pieces often chronicle her life.

Owner of the dye shop, Artfabrik, Laura is also a lecturer, surface designer, quilt instructor, pattern designer, and author of Fusing Fun, Fuse-and-Tell, and her latest book: Fanciful Stitches, Colorful Quilts.

For more information please visit Laura’s Website

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