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Santa Rosa, California
Karen Bolan is a clear and patient teacher, thoughtful and entertaining lecturer, and clever and instructive quilt pattern designer. Her original award winning quilts and quilting philosophy integrate a love of geometry, experimentation, interconnection, depth, and texture. Karen offers virtual programs or travels to you from Santa Rosa, California.
Learn more about Karen on her website: Karen Bolan
Be sure to tell Karen that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!
Home: Cary, North Carolina
Sandy Fitzpatrick of Hissyfitz Designs is an applique quilt pattern designer whose goal is to get as many of the quirky designs, that are spinning around in her head, down on paper for you to enjoy!
Her fusible applique patterns are full of whimsy and will certainly bring a smile to your face. Sandy strives to make her full-sized patterns easy to follow and fun to make. Her classes, which focus on machine applique and free-motion quilting are equally fun.
Having lived in many places as she and her husband moved around with the Air Force, Sandy currently lives in Cary, North Carolina. Her lectures and workshops are always an informative, fun experience. View her line of patterns and laser cut kits at www.HissyfitzDesigns.com
Sandy presents and teaches via Zoom! Here are some short descriptions, in her own words. For more workshop and presentation information, please visit Sandy’s website:
My most popular workshop is, “You Choose the Project”. Students are allowed to choose any of my applique designs for this fusible machine applique class. I also offer a Free-Motion Quilting workshop to help you reduce that pile of UFOs you have lying around in your sewing studio.
Zoom Lectures:
My most popular lecture is, “Why Didn’t I Think of That?” – Tips, tricks, and shortcuts to make your sewing and quilting easier and more enjoyable. How to sew a sleeve to your quilt quickly and easily, tricks to add dimension to your quilts, and organizational tips.
Free-Motion Fun and Facts – Ideas and inspiration to help you along the path of a wonderful, relaxing free-motion experience. How to set up your sewing area and taking the fear out of your quilting.
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/HissyfitzDesigns
Instagram: www.Instagram.com/hissyfitzdesigns
Please let Sandy know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!
Home: Wheaton, Illinois
Carol loves making quilts that incorporate many different fabrics and she enjoys machine quilting (walking foot, free motion, and quilting with metallic thread.) She enjoys making small quilted projects such as runners, tote bags, zipper bags and pincushions. Small projects facilitate play with color, design and new techniques with minimal investment in time and materials.
Carol likes to find ways to make the quilt construction process easier while producing better results. She has also refined techniques for building, organizing, and using a stash that make it a joy to have and to use. She has been teaching quilting classes for more than a dozen years. She loves sharing her ideas with others and encouraging students as they try new projects and techniques. She teaches both online and in-person, for quilt guilds and quilt shops, and at quilt shows.
Get your Stash Together: Organization for Quilters
Some quilters find that their fabric stash, scraps, quilting tools, books and magazines have become a burden, as they don’t have a good way to manage these precious resources. Knowing how to approach the task helps transform the dreaded stash into a collection that is a delight to use. This lecture provides many practical ideas for making your fabric, tools, thread, books, and magazines readily accessible. Topics include how to fold and store fabric so that it’s easy to view and locate, labeling, using your computer as a tool, and many ideas for actually using your stash.
Infinite Opportunity: Quilts Hidden in Your Stash
As quilters, we love to collect beautiful fabrics – yet we don’t always know how to put them all together to make quilts that we love. The term “scrap quilt” may bring to mind the use of leftovers that don’t look particularly good together. By contrast, while STASH quilts utilize your stash and scraps, they contain thoughtfully selected materials, and look BETTER because of the variety – not tired because they were created just to use up fabrics. The lecture addresses several key design principles that make multi-fabric quilts work and includes pairs of quilts to show the impact of incorporating these considerations. Multiple examples of color combinations are provided to give ideas for selecting and using fabrics from your stash to make fabulous multi-fabric quilts.
Learn more about Carol and find out about her classes and lectures on her Website at : Carol Quilts
Visit Carol’s Instagram page: Carol Quilts 123
Contact Carol via Email: carolquilts123 @ gmail.com [remove spaces]
Be sure to tell Carol that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!
Home: Princeton, NJ
1 ¼ hour class: Free Motion Quilting with Rulers $200
Your quilt top is finally pieced and your pattern ends with those three scary words ‘Quilt As Desired‘. Now what? Take a deep breath, drop those feed dogs and try free-motion quilting with rulers!
Up until a few years ago, quilting with rulers on your domestic machine was unheard of. Rulers were the tools of longarmers. That’s not true anymore! Now quilters are using rulers to create beautiful and precise designs, from straight lines to curves to feathers and so much more.
When ruler quilting started gaining popularity around 2017, Sue was teaching a free-motion quilting class at her local quilt shop. At that time, there wasn’t much information available about quilting with rulers on the domestic sewing machine. Thinking rulers would be a good class for the shop, she watched videos, bought a ruler foot and some rulers and started playing. That’s exactly how she describes quilting with rulers – it’s like playing because it’s so much fun!
Whether you’re a true beginner to ruler work or you’ve had some experience with rulers, you’ll learn something from this presentation. Many quilters believe that you must be an experienced free-motion quilter to use rulers. That’s not the case. Beginners seem to find working with rulers easier than doing straight free-motion work. It just takes a little practice.
Sue loves to share her quilting knowledge with others.
During the first half of her presentation, she’ll discuss the ruler foot, rulers and what to look for when purchasing rulers, and supplies needed for ruler quilting. She’ll share a lot of information and helpful tips that she’s picked up along the way.
In the second half of the presentation, Sue will demo a few rulers. She’ll show you how easy it is to stitch straight lines with the straight-edge ruler and how to stitch a perfectly round circle with a circle ruler. Time permitting, she’ll also demo a clamshell ruler.
Sue is an avid quilter who has been quilting for 36 years. She started out as a hand quilter, then moved on to machine quilting with a walking foot. Free-motion quilting quickly followed. After retiring from her computer programming job in 2008, she started teaching at her local quilt shop. Free-motion quilting and Ruler Quilting are two of her most popular classes. Sue is Zoom ready. You can reach her at shurley36 @ hotmail.com.
Be sure to tell Sue that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!
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.
Home: Cumming, Georgia, USA
Author of books Scrap Quilt Secrets (2016) and Strip Quilt Secrets (2018) published by C&T.
Diane’s loves to share all of her secrets for making scrap quilts using fun and easy techniques to ensure success.
Choose from several guild presentations with 20+ quilts each, and workshops that specialize in sewing curves, strip piecing, and sewing strategies for successful patchwork in less time. For more about Diane please visit her website: www.butterflythreadsquilting.com
Please let Diane know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!
Home: San Jose, California
Mel Beach is a San Jose, CA based quilt artist, teacher and lecturer, who breaks away from tradition by adding her own modern, beautifully textured and colorful twists. She loves stretching her creativity through her completion of 60+ quilt challenges at the local and international level. Her quilt challenge entries draw upon her inquisitive nature of asking “What If?”, working in a series, comedy improv studies along with her love of nature, photography and sketching.
Many of her challenge quilts have been exhibited locally, juried into national quilt shows and traveling exhibits, published in books/magazines, earned awards/ribbons and selected as Finalists.
She is an Aurifil Artisan and a Featured Artist on The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims (episode 2112).
Mel is an industry leader in online teaching for guilds. She works closely with many guilds, including the Studio Art Quilt Association and the Northern California Quilt Council, to bring the best possible learning experience to her students. ~Marguerita
Multi-Media Lectures/Trunk Shows: Quilt challenges, fabric dyeing and free-motion quilting.
Quilting Workshops: Pebble & Play!, Mod Molas & Bright Blooms, Magnificent Mandalas, Walking Foot WOW.
Modern Design Workshops: Slice of Improv, Free Styling & Spiraling, Mod Mandalas, Intriguing Interleaves, Improv, Improv Piecing, Improvisational.
See more about Mel on her website Mel Beach Quilts. Please let Mel know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!
Please let Mel know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!
Home: Reston, Virginia, USA. Online classes for guilds, as well as presentations, are available!
Cindy is the author of Artful Improv: Explore Color Recipes, Building Blocks & Free Motion Quilting.
Cindy specializes in improvisational piecing and free motion quilting. She offers a variety of classes, both technique based and project based, using improv techniques to help quilters explore their own creativity. She also offers trunk shows on using color effectively and combining stitch patterns to create compelling quilts.
Cindy’s work was featured in Quilting Arts TV’s season 2100 on curved piecing and improv log cabin blocks. Find out more about Cindy by visiting her website.
Cindy is experienced in offering online classes, presentations, workshops specifically for guilds. Be sure to check her website for more details. ~Marguerita
Please let Cindy know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!
