Quilters Calendar & Guild Network
resources for quilt guild volunteers
Home: Chesapeake, Virginia
Darlene Price has been around a needle, thread and sewing machine all her life. After retiring from life as a Commercial Real Estate Paralegal her goal was to figure out quilting. Art Quilts is where she landed. Come take a look at her work, her lectures and classes.
Visit Darlene’s website at Quiltscapesbydarlene.com.
Be sure to tell Darlene that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!
Home: West Newbury, Massachusetts
Amy Friend is a former museum curator turned designer. She designs modern quilts and specializes in foundation paper pieced designs. She authored the books Intentional Piecing, Improv Paper Piecing: A Modern Approach to Quilt Design, and Petal + Stem.
Amy runs community block swaps several times a year as well as block of the month and quilt along programs. She is an award winning quilter and her quilts have been exhibited at a number of quilt shows as well as museums. Amy is a national quilt teacher and lecturer, both on Zoom and in person.
Amy enjoys speaking to guilds about the modern quilting aesthetic and design principles like alternate gridwork and negative space.
She also teaches her own foundation paper piecing technique that considers directional fabric, the grain of the fabric, and minimizes waste.
Her most popular workshops include Improv Paper Piecing where she teaches her unique approach to modern quilt design where participants each design their own improvisational block and repeat it through paper piecing.
Another is Large Scale Intentional Piecing where fabrics are kept directional in order to harness the power of stripes or other motifs while foundation paper piecing on larger foundations.
While most of Amy’s classes are more appropriate for the intermediate to advanced quilter, she also teaches beginner paper piecing and welcomes beginners into any of her classes, spending extra time with them so they can succeed. Amy is interested in teaching virtually and limited (driving distance) travel.
Visit Amy’s website: During Quiet Time
Amy’s YouTube Channel: During Quiet Time
Please contact Amy at [amybfriend] @ gmail.com (remove brackets and spaces)
Please let Amy know that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!
Home: Sabillasville, Maryland.
Michelle Umlauf began her sewing career as a freelance National Educator for Sulky of America, Clover, and formerly Baby Lock. She teaches at popular expos nationwide, in her local community and online. Quilt guilds hold a special place in her heart because of the personal connections that are made during an event.
I have a quirky wit and coined my program brochure as “Spools & Tools”. After all, that has been my area of expertise for nearly 15 years.
Lately, the most popular program is “Spools & Tools for Quilters.” Guilds members love notions. I demonstrate how to use them and set up an area for you to handle them. Plus, I bring eye candy for you to enjoy. Members haven’t heard of some of the notions, can’t find them or have something, but don’t know how to use it! As a lecture, you will enjoy learning all about the amazing notions that make the quilt making process easier, faster and more accurate without disrupting the enjoyment it gives you. In a hands-on workshop, I bring my “School Box” filled with almost everything you need to make a couple small projects just for the fun of it. I love watching you test driving the “spools and tools”, and discovering what works for you and help you when it doesn’t. Clover has a lot of wonderful sewing notions, and I’m prepared to tell you about many of them. You will find that I tend to over-deliver because I am very passionate and enthusiastic about you, and giving you the best of me.
My experience has afforded me the opportunity to become well-versed in everything from hand embroidery to machine machine embroidery. Recently, I have taken an interest in mixed media, art quilts sprinkled with a bit of hand embroidery. I contributed a piece of my work in the book Photo Memory Quilts by Lesley Riley.
You can sign up for my newsletter and get to know me and discover UFO Friday, a monthly meeting I host online.
My husband and our fur family enjoy traveling across the country and camping, so no place is off-limits.
Website: Sewing Machine Artistry
Instagram: Sewing Machine Artistry
Sign up to be a Sewing Friend
Email: [Michelle] @ SewingMachineArtistry. com (remove brackets and spaces)
Please let Michelle know that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!
Home: Ottawa, Kansas, USA
Reeze Hanson is a prolific designer, entertaining speaker, and an award-winning teacher whose company, Morning Glory Designs, features an eclectic variety of whimsical florals and bold geometrics. Reeze teaches and lectures widely on one-patch quilt techniques, offering both traditional and modern methods geared toward the busy/working quilter. Her floral applique work features machine applique shortcuts and tips to make beautiful quilts in less time, without sacrificing accuracy. Reeze also teaches all levels of EQ8, quilt design software. A sewer, quilter, and custom dressmaker for more than 50 years, and a retired college professor, Reeze has lots of experience, wisdom, and humor to share. To check on availability see Reeze’s calendar.
For guilds seeking a presenter, Reeze travels extensively, and offers:
Reeze also offers workshops in machine applique, precision piecing, curved piecing without pins, project classes featuring precuts, and all levels of EQ8 quilt design software.
Visit her Website for more about her and her presentations: www.morningglorydesigns.com and her blog: www.blog.morningglorydesigns.net
Please let Reeze know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!
Home: Seattle, Washington
The art of making something by hand sets each of us on a journey to discovering who we are as artists. This personal process can start with simply sewing two pieces of fabric together. Constant practice and study have become my best teachers. I love that quilts provide a physical utilitarian object that showcase the evolution of one’s creative confidence and developing aesthetic.
I enjoy merging improvisational techniques with modern and/or traditional quilt design. Exploring new ideas keeps my style in constant evolution and the process fresh. I wish I could sew as fast as the ideas come to me. The good news is I’ll never run out.
I love sharing stories about my quilts and the skills and techniques I’ve learned from making them. My workshops and truck show/lectures make modern improvisational quilting fun, laid back and accessible. I also host weekly Open Studios and workshops in my West Seattle studio. You can find out more about me, and see my quilts, at my website Sew Katie Did. Katie is open to a limited amount of travel.
Please let Katie know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!
