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Trudy Cleveland

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Trudy Cleveland is a professional quilter and photographer residing in Oceanside, California. She has merged her two passions of quilting and photography into presentations that reveal the impact photography has on our artistic endeavors. She shares what she has learned along her journey of photographing quilts, inspiring her audience to begin routinely taking photographs of their textile art. Using only a smartphone she shares the process to achieve professional grade images.


Both her textile art and photography have been on exhibit in juried shows including Road to California and The Hoffman Challenge. Her photography has been featured in “Fons and Porter Love of Quilting” magazine.
Power Point Lectures: “Shoot Your Quilt”: 45-60 minute presentation discussing: Why, How and When you should photograph your quilts/textile art “Upgrade Your Quilt Toolbox”: 45-60 minute presentation
How to use your household electronics to improve your quilting process.

Get the most out of your computer applications, printers, lasers and the internet to step up your textile art experience.

Workshop: “Photographing Your Quilt”
How To Photograph Your Quilt Using A Smartphone
How To Edit Images Of Your Quilts/Textile Art


Lectures and Workshops can be done in-person or on Zoom platform. https://trudycleveland.com/newsite/

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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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Shannon Shirley

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ShannonShirleyHome: Woodbridge, Virginia

Author of Creating Children’s Artwork Quilts. Shannon Shirley has been quilting since 1989. She is an award winning fiber artist, an instructor, speaker and author. She has been teaching professionally since 2006 and loves to share her eclectic styles of quilting with students of all levels, whether in her own studio or on the road.

Shannon makes commission pieces and loves the challenge of designing to meet the needs of each of her clients.

She creates children’s artwork quilts, incorporates vintage linens, makes art quilts from her own photographs and makes memory quilts just to name a few.

She grew up in an Air Force family and loves to travel but settled in Northern Virginia in 1975. Visit Shannon’s Website.

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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

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