Quilters Calendar & Guild Network

resources for quilt guild volunteers

Zoom Ready

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

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

Kathryn Groves

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Home: Leander, Texas

BobKat Quilts is ZOOM’ing ahead!

An educator for more than 40 years, Kathy brings her love of quilting, teaching and problem solving to the classroom as a Judy Neimeyer Quiltworx Instructor. From lectures to demonstrations, classes, workshops and retreats, Kathy will happily work with you to create the custom experience for you and your students. Here’s her list: https://bobkatquilts.com/services-3/

 For the past decade, Kathy has enjoyed sharing her love of quilt making with guilds and shops across the Midwest.  Then, in January of 2019 she moved to Texas!  And in the spring of 2020, she has gone nationwide!  Thanks to her history as a software instructor, our current stay-at-home situation provided Kathy with an opportunity to meld her computer experience with her love of teaching quilt making.

 In May of 2020 – Kathy moved from the brick and mortar classroom to the virtual classroom ….  ZOOM.  Her first class had more than 20 students and it went great!  Visit her on Facebook (BobKat Quilts) or at her website to see what her students have to say about their ZOOM experience.  Whether you represent a guild looking for a presenter with ZOOM capabilities or you are a student wanting to take a class…  BobKat Quilts and Zoom is the perfect answer!

 Visit Kathy at BobKat Quilts at www.bobkatquilts.com where you can learn about the classes currently on her calendar.  Or Kathy would love to talk to you about the perfect ZOOM presentation and workshop or to be featured at your guild or through your shop or retreat.

I have heard a very, very favorable review from a trusted guild member regarding how much they enjoyed Kathy’s program and how proficient she was with Zoom technology. ~Marguerita

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

Allyson Allen

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Home: California

Allyson is a state recognized award winning Master African American quilt Artist and Culture Bearer. Her work often combines traditional textiles and fibers with paper, recycled materials, and sometimes found objects to create unique, dimensional mixed media pieces, quilts, dolls and handmade books. Allyson offers a variety of fun and informative lectures and trunk shows including Improvisational Design and Piecing, Slave Era Quilts, and the Quilts of Gee’s Bend.

A Special Exhibitor & faculty for Mancuso Quilt Shows, Allyson specializes in needle turn applique’, dimensional embellishing, improvisational piecing techniques, and creative hand and domestic machine quilting. She is the National Craft Industry Alliance’s 2024 Golden Scissors Award recipient, and her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, and embassies around the world.

A member of Southern California Council of Quilt Guilds, Studio Art Quilt Associates, The Modern Quilt Guild, & Arts Council Menifee, visit Allyson’s website

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

Mary Tabar

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San Diego, California

Mary Tabar is a fiber artist from San Diego who enjoys fabric dying and quilting.

Mary has had a needle or pencil in her hand for as long as she can remember. Growing up in the Midwest installed hard working values. She graduated from Truman University in Kirksville Missouri with a BS in Industrial Technology and a minor in Graphic Arts.

While living in San Diego CA, she went back to San Marcos CA State College and received a teaching credential. She taught for Palomar College and San Diego Community College, quilting and stitchery classes. She now teaches and lectures for quilt guilds here in California.

She has a home business of dyeing fabric, designing and making a line of patterns for machine applique called Snip & Flip, applying the design of Notan.

You can find Mary’s Lectures here: https://www.marytabar.com/lectures.html

Her Workshops are Here … and Here …

Her YouTube Channel here – https://www.youtube.com/user/marywoodtabar

To contact Mary please send her an email at marytabar @ gmail.com

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