Quilters Calendar & Guild Network

resources for quilt guild volunteers

machine quilting

Cindy Grisdela

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Cheryl Schenck

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Home: Madison, Wisconsin

Cheryl is a favorite among students! She teaches quilting classes and is a certified TuffetSource affiliate as well as a certified McTavishing instructor. She teaches classes ranging from beginning quiltmaking to free-motion quilting.

One hour lectures include “Tuffetmaking: From First Stitch to Last Staple,” “McTavishing,” and “Bindings, Labels, and Sleeves, Oh My!”

Read more on her website unSpooled.

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Roxane Lessa

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Roxane-LessaHome: Raleigh, North Carolina

Roxane was a professional ballet dancer in her youth. Now she enjoys creating movement with color, line, and shapes, using textiles as her muse. She has exhibited her work in many group and solo shows internationally and at home in the US. In 2012, she won the Niche Award for Decorative Art. She also teaches textile arts in her studio, and at stores and guilds. Roxane has a B.S. in Costume Design and Textiles, but considers herself a life-long learner of textile arts.

Roxane is known as The Art Quilter’s Coach. She offers private, one-on-one coaching for quilters who want to design and make their own amazing art quilts, but don’t know where to begin. She also teaches small, intimate workshops for quilting guilds and stores. Her unique coaching style of teaching helps bring out the best in her students, with concentration on composition and design and use of color and value.

She also delivers a valuable lecture, titled: What Every Art Quilter Needs to Know Before They Sew, illustrated with a trunk show of her own award-winning work, and slides of students’ work.

She lives and works in Raleigh, NC with her 2 daughters and one lazy studio cat. Visit Her Website and Blog.

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Chris Kirsch

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Chris-Lynn-KirschHome: Watertown, Wisconsin

Author of Repliqué Quilts, Snuggle & Learn Quilts for Kids, Compass Capers and Where do I Start With Fiber Art?

Chris’ “no fear” attitude shines through in her enthusiasm for teaching classes on machine appliqué, free motion quilting, beginning fiber art, and designing and stitching Mariner’s Compass variation quilts. She also offers a variety of lectures meant to entertain and inspire.

Visit Her Website

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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.

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