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Stephanie Hackney

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Home: Austin, Texas

Stephanie Hackney is a world-traveling branding professional and professional speaker who’s known for her expertise on batting (wadding).

Stephanie has shared her knowledge through lectures at many major quilting industry shows and events, including: Quilt Market, Quilt Festival, Road to California and AQS Spring Paducah (as well as numerous other AQS events).

She has also provided batting education to the members of numerous guilds in North America, as well as to customers of numerous retail stores, and she is often called upon to share this education (and sales training) to industry sales teams.

She serves as the director of sales and marketing for Hobbs Bonded Fibers, an industry leader in non-woven textiles manufacturing, and has made it her mission to provide quilters, sewers and crafters with the knowledge they need to choose the best batting option(s) to garner the results they desire in their quilted, sewn and crafted projects.

The lecture she offers, ‘Batting: What’s Inside Matters,’ is presented via a 1-hour lecture and customization of the information is possible.

For more information on Stephanie’s professional background, please visit her LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniehackney

Please let Stephanie know that you found her on The Quilters Calendar.

Patty Sawyer

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Home: Sebago, Maine, USA

Award Winning Quilt Artist & Designer, Experienced Quilt Judge & Coordinator, Inspiring Lecturer & Instructor, Computerized Longarm Quilting Specialist, Quilt Shop Advisor & Consultant, Quilt Retreat Hostess & Facilitator

Spirited artist and instructor, Patty Sawyer has an infectious passion for quilting. Patty’s whimsical approach and playful style of connecting with her students leads to unleashing inhibitions and revealing hidden talents. Her philosophy includes disguising creative play time as a means to mastering basic skills.

She delights in sharing her abundant knowledge of
shortcuts, tips and tools to help enlighten and build student’s confidence. Her goals are not predicated in neurotic perfectionism but rather joy and satisfaction in accurate execution and achievement.

You can find out more about Patty’s workshops and lectures on her website here – https://www.sew-clusion.com/workshops-and-lectures

Patty runs retreats from her gorgeous home in Maine! For more information about them click here – https://www.sew-clusion.com/

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

Sally Terry

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Home: Jacksonville, Florida

Sally is the author of the books: Pathways to Better Quilting, Hooked on Feathers, From Quilt Top To Quilted, and she is the creator of The Language of Quilting and Terry Twist Designs.

Sally helps all levels of machine quilters make-it-up-as-you-go with Free Motion Freedom Feather and Fills Classes with “wiggle room” for both sitdown and standup quilters.

She offers a 15+ quilt trunk show on How To Choose and Coordinate Machine Quilting Designs, lectures on Color and Modern Quilts and Running Specialty Threads.

Her Website is http://www.sallyterry.com and her videos can be found on YouTube.

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

Sue Patten

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Sue PattenHome: Simcoe, Ontario, Canada

Sue Patten is not your typical quilter. Anyone who knows Sue knows her high energy, innovative designs and techniques and would tell you to expect the unexpected! Always with a story to tell and a tip or trick to share, her classes are non-stop educational and fun. Sue is an award winning longarm quilter, who has travelled throughout Canada, The United States, Europe and The UK teaching her unique and innovative styles to longarm, domestic, and hand quilters alike.

Sue offers a wide variety of classes for all levels of quilters, including hands on, lecture demos, and drawing classes along with a must see, hilariously funny, trunk show. This includes everything from her hand work, to her world- renowned, award-winning thread art quilts. Sue is the author of “Quilting Possibilities…Freehand Filler Patterns” and “Adaptable Quilting Designs” published by AQS Books.

Sue is a designer of fabric, stencils, machine embroidery patterns, hand embroidery patterns, red work patterns, Innovative whole cloth designs, longarm computerized patterns, hand and machine quilting designs,a thread designer and most importantly mother of three.

Her work has been featured in dozen’s of magazines over the last 10 years and she has been featured on various TV shows such as “The Quilt Show” with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims, “America Sews” with Sue Hausmann, QNN TV’s Quilt It and “Linda Taylor’s Longarm Quilting Show”. Sue also also offers a full range of training video’s.

She has presented trunk shows and classes to guilds around the world and is a regular teacher at dozen’s of international quilt show- Houston International Quilt Show, American Quilters Show, MQS, MQX, Machine Quilting Today, Quilting with Machines, just to name a few…

To view a full list of Sues Classes and Trunk Show Descriptions Visit Her Blog.

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

Pat Harrison

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PatHarrison-smHome: Exeter, Rhode Island, USA

Pat Harrison is a National Quilting Association Certified Master Judge, teacher, author, lecturer, designer, and award-winning longarm quilter.

A retired school librarian and teacher, Pat has been longarm quilting since 1999. She has won numerous awards for her quilts at local, regional and international shows including Paducah and Houston.

Pat enjoys all aspects of quilting, especially all those little gadgets and tips that make quilting more successful and fun. She also enjoys designing quilts using EQ7 for herself and quilting magazine.

Visit Pat’s Website, Ocean Waves Quilting Company.

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