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Heather Johnston

July 2, 2024 by admin

Home: North Little Rock, AR

Heather has had a lifelong but varied love affair with fabric. She learned sewing at her mother and grandmothers’ knees and her first sewing project was a skirt. She picked up quilting in her teens, creating a hand-stitched Cathedral Window quilt and took off from there. Most of her early quilts were her own patterns. After a decade on hold, she got back into quilting after moving to Alaska.

She has taught beginner sewing, beginner quilting, and beginner alterations classes in the local community, as well as bag making classes at her local Alaskan quilt store.

Following up on her early days, Heather loves to create quilts geared to beginner quilters and create quilt patterns for panels. She is also focused on the backside of quilts and has started making and selling personalized sublimated quilt labels. You can see more on her website at HMJ Originals.

Heather’s Lecture is on Labels for Your Quilt. She discusses the many methods of making quilt labels, including using Sublimation, and she offers advice on what to include on your quilt labels.

Heather teaches via Zoom. Please contact her at: admin @ hmjoriginals.com (remove spaces). Please let Heather know that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Filed Under: $150, Arkansas, VIRTUAL-Live-Online, Zoom Tagged With: labels, modern quilts, QAYG, Zoom Ready

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June 28, 2024 by admin

Marguerita McManus

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Home: Anchorage, Alaska

My specialty is quilt–as–you–go and my first book was a best seller, going into multiple re-prints. My techniques are popular with beginner and experienced quilters because when the project is complete they have a FINISHED quilt! My techniques can be adapted to fit many types of quilting, from crazy quilting to UFO’s—I’d love to show you how! I am passionate about ergonomics and comfort for sewing and quilting and I invented an inexpensive solution that works for all sewing machines. Wouldn’t your guild members benefit from seeing it?

Learn more about Marguerita on her website: www.crazyshortcutquilts.com

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

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Filed Under: Alaska Tagged With: QAYG, Zoom Ready

Norene Skiles

April 25, 2021 by admin

Home: Virginia Beach, Virginia

Norene, a retired school library media specialist, began sewing as a young girl, and has never stopped.  After sewing clothing for decades, she discovered quilting in 1996 and never stopped.  Her quilting style has evolved over the years from patterns and traditional quilting to modern Improv with a scrappy focus.  She loves to incorporate technology into her quilting and prints her own fabrics with Spoonflower.

Lectures are priced a $100 and zoom classes between $330 – $400.

Check out Norene’s website to see her listings. Luv Two Create

Please let Norene know that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Filed Under: $150, Virginia Tagged With: QAYG, scraps, Under $200, Zoom Ready

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October 22, 2012 by admin

Marguerita McManus

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Home: Alaska (April-September), northwestern Arizona (October-March).
Author of of the books: Crazy Shortcut Quilts, Finish (almost) Any Quilt, Sew & Quilt in Comfort, Quilt As You Go {reimagined}, T-Shirt Quilts, Crazy Shortcake

My specialty is quilt–as–you–go and my first book was a best seller for ten years, going into multiple re-prints. My techniques are popular with beginner and experienced quilters because when the project is complete they have a FINISHED quilt! My techniques can be adapted to fit many types of quilting, from crazy quilting to UFO’s—I’d love to show you how! I am passionate about ergonomics and comfort for sewing and quilting and I invented an inexpensive solution that works for all sewing machines. Wouldn’t your guild members benefit from seeing it?

My most popular class is the One Day Doll Quilt. This cute four-block quilt covers it all: crazy cutting, decorative stitch quilting, trimming squarely, joining blocks and rows and my pretty corners technique for binding. Finished quilt is 18″ sq.

The quilt-as-you-go process requires that the blocks be made and quilted before being joined, therefore full quilt workshops are a minimum of 2 days.

Crazy Shortcake Quilt As You Go

My most popular workshop is the 2 day Crazy Shortcake Class. A crib or lap size quilt made from one layer cake (10″ x 10″ squares) and 1 yard of fabric.

This quilt is easy to finish in a 2 day workshop and it covers the crazy cutting, layering and machine quilting using decorative stitches, the 3-point check for trimming, full joining of blocks and rows, and a machine binding with “pretty corners”.

Quilt As You Go ~ A Progression of Techniques Trunk Show – How I use quilt-as-you-go to make fat quarter crazy quilts using the decorative stitches of the sewing machine; to finish UFO’s; to make T-shirt Quilts; to create modern looking quilts; and to make Layer Cake Quilts. This trunk show consists of 30 quilts from all of my books plus several unpublished quilts.

Contact – Visit Marguerita’s Website and watch her videos and contact her at MMQuilts @ gmail.com to contact her with any questions or invitations to appear.

Be sure to tell Marguerita that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Filed Under: Alaska, Arizona Tagged With: crazy quilt, QAYG

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