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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.

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

Deborah Gale Tirico

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Home: White Haven, Pennsylvania

Deborah is an avid needle artist, designer, instructor and author. She has studied appliqué with national and internationl teachers and continues to study historical appliqué quilts and coverlets.

Her area of specialization is the creation of a sculptural look to felted wool appliqué by using needle tilting techniques and the layering and stuffing of wool pieces. Deborah’s designs feature matching and over-dyed wool threads, and embroidery embellishments which enhance and define the clarity of her subjects.

She is an active member of the EGA, EAC, NETA, PA quilters and Loundon Sampler Guild and enjoys teaching at guilds, chapter meetings, regional, national and international seminars.

Her first book, “Gorgeous Wool Appliqué: A visual guide on adding dimension and unique embroidery” was released in October 2015 and her second book “Dimensional Wool Appliqué Baltimore Style which translates traditional Baltimore Album blocks into her own felted wool style was released in December 2016.

Examples of Deborah’s work can be found on her website

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

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

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