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We take the time to search out the best in the industry, introducing you to exceptional designers, best-selling authors, creative thinkers and visionaries. Taking classes at Original Sewing & Quilt Expo adds to a memorable and satisfying experience!

Pat Barry
Racine, WI
Pat Barry Quilts
Pat Barry is a professional quilter and loves to share her knowledge with others. She teaches privately and at quilt shows (including MQX, MQS, HMQS and Georgia Quilt Show) and has been a guest quilt artist on Linda Taylor’s The Quilting School. Pat is the author of “ABCs of Longarm Quilting”, and has written user manuals for Gammill Quilting Systems and for the Statler Stitcher® CreativeStudio™ software. She also writes for magazines and has been a regular contributor to OnTrack!, IMQA's quarterly trade magazine. You will see her at most major quilt shows, either teaching or demonstrating new, innovative products for quilters. www.patbarryquilts.com

 
Barb Callahan
Venice, FL
Barb Originals
Barb designed and constructed one-of-a-kind garments using her label Barb Originals and sold them at art shows for almost 25 years, alongside her antique linens, buttons and trimmings. After years of hearing customer requests for patterns and instructions for these very wearable items, she decided to accommodate them. Today Barb travels the U.S. sharing her expertise in using vintage linens, buttons, hankies, trimmings and more to create stylish, flattering and easy-to-make clothing and accessories. She holds a bachelors degree in education and a masters degree in administration and counseling, and has also attended classes at FIT in New York. Her articles have appeared in Threads, Sew Beautiful and her company’s newsletter. www.barboriginals.com


Tammie Campbell
Akron, OH
Tammie grew up in Canfield, Ohio and moved to Florida in 1973 with her family. In 1975, the family moved to Put-In-Bay, Ohio. While living on the island, Tammie did quite a bit of quilting and sewing and enjoyed doing many different crafts. Tammie's love of beading started around 2000 when she and her husband were living at the Dry Tortugas National Park. They were lucky to have a woman there that shared her talent and her beads with the staff, and Tammie has been in love with beads ever since. As she moved on to The Great Smoky Mountain National Park in Tennessee and then on to Lake Roosevelt in the state of Washington, Tammie took many classes and tried many forms of beading. In 2010 Tammie's husband retired from the National Park Service and they moved back home to Ohio. Tammie has two beautiful granddaughters that she enjoys as often as she can.


Regina Carter
Jackson, GA
Regina Carter is a professional longarm quilter from Jackson, Georgia. Regina began has been quilting for 30 years, professionally for 10 years. She works full time for customers and is experienced in both Gammill hand guided quilting and Gammill Statler Stitcher computerized quilting. Over the years her award winning quilts have gained her local, regional, and national recognition in shows and publications. Regina teaches longarm quilting at shows and private studios. Regina challenges herself with every quilt to provide her customers with a work of art.
 

Colleen Casey
Marietta, GA
Some Art Fabric
I knew I would be an artist at an early age – I need to make things. Throughout school I excelled at all creative endeavors and decided to attend Savannah College of Art and Design. After college I moved back to Atlanta and began a career as a fine artist. In '98 I started teaching high school art, so I could share the joy that art brings me. Now I teach, parent and create art as time permits. I feel that everyone should be able to create and I use my time and talents to help others find joy in art.  www.someartfabric.com


Susan Clark
Cedar Falls, IA
RNK Distributing
Susan is a Certified Jenny Haskins Accredited Educator for RNK Distributing, and she has been an active part of the Home Sewing Industry since 1985, teaching sewing, quilting, embroidery and embroidery software from coast to coast. During this time she has served not only as a teacher for consumers, but a trainer of those who teach. Susan’s extensive experience in our industry includes managing a number of dealerships or retail stores selling a multiplicity of machine makes and models. Her broad knowledge of so many different machine types make her classes extremely interesting to owners of every brand and since Susan has been fully trained to teach all types of sewing/embroidery software she can relate to almost any question regarding any product.

Susan has also contributed to different sewing industry magazines and newsletters with articles and projects as well as having published embroidery design sets and sewing and embroidery patterns of her own. Susan will teach you the secrets, tips and tricks she has learned in creating perfect embroidery and carefree quilting. You will love the relaxed atmosphere of her class and her down to earth teaching method. www.rnkdistributing.com

 
June Colburn
Largo, FL
June Colburn Designs II, Inc.
June's odyssey began in 1973 with itchy feet and a Master's degree in library science. While working for international schools, June's motto, "Have sewing machine, will travel" led her into adventures hunting for fabrics in souks, bazaars and temple sales from Quito to Paris, Istanbul to Singapore. Talking with the people who wove, dyed, embroidered, sewed and sold native textiles influenced her life. The exquisite kimono fabrics of Japan defined her creative direction. June's work has been featured in many exhibitions, collections and design shows. She shares her knowledge and love of Asian textiles through lectures and classes. www.junecolburn.com


Louise Cutting
Winter Park, FL
Cutting Line Designs / Cutting Corners
Louise is a contributing editor for Thread’s Magazine, and the designer of 'Cutting Line Designs' patterns. She is the creator of the 'One Seam Pant'© with over 51,000 patterns sold to date. Her sewing instructions have been quoted as the best in the independent pattern industry. Louise was the Fashion Design Department Head at Prospect Hall College, The Art Institute and taught Interior Design at Marymount College. 'Sew Much More' for HGTV, 'America Sews' and ‘Sewing with Martha Pullen’ have featured Louise’s talents on their TV programs. Her articles & pattern designs have appeared in Threads, Sew News, Sewing Today, Sew Stylish, Handwoven, and Sew Beautiful magazines. She is an internationally known speaker on sewing and design and in 2008 received ‘The Outstanding Teacher Award’ www.cuttinglinedesigns.com


Tamara Evans
Dallas, TX
RNK Distributing 
Tamara Evans, National Education Coordinator for RNK Distributing, (exclusive distributors of Floriani Products) is from Dallas, TX. Tamara says she has been sewing for as long as she can remember and loves every aspect of it - except maybe handwork. Her "professional" sewing experience began in Jr. High sewing costumes and clothing for family and neighbors. After graduating from The University of Oklahoma, she worked at a variety of corporate and entrepreneurial ventures, but eventually returned to her passion - sewing. Tamara's experiences include machine embroidery, digitizing, quilting, garment design, home decor, and crafts. Through her years of working in the Sewing Industry she has developed a particular talent for rationalizing the purchase of any new gadgets, fabrics, or machines. Tamara's life journey took her to Illinois for a while and it was there she developed a very successful embroidery and gift business, And Sew On. Upon her return to Texas she began developing a series education and sewing related products. Tamara is now putting her energy and expertise into bringing the best in sewing education directly to the sewing public through the vast Floriani Dealer network www.rnkdistributing.com
Dusty Farrell
Cambridge Springs, PA
Country Stitchin
Dusty is a free-hand quilt artist. He is mostly recognized for his incredibly fast no holds bared quilting and "Quilting in the Dark". He has quilted for several top designers in the industry and has appeared in numerous magazines and “Quilt It” online program. Always being up for change Dusty changes quilt designs on the fly to fit his unique personality. Dusty's motto’s are "the imperfect perfect" and “If I can draw it I can quilt it“. www.cscountrystitchin.com


Stephanie Farrell
Cambridge Springs, PA
Country Stitchin
Stephanie owns and operates a quilt shop in NW PA with her husband, Dustin. She spends her days designing quilt patterns for PTQ and Frond design Studios, sewing shop samples and taking care of her kiddos. Stephanie is an award winning quilter and teacher. A self taught quilter who enjoys sharing her unique style of quilting and techniques with her students. Quilting is like therapy its good for the soul. www.cscountrystitchin.com


Cathy Gandy
Alpharetta, GA
Baby Lock Education Consultant
Variety is the spice of life," says education consultant, Cathy Gandy. She takes pride in her sewing background which boasts of working in fiber art, teaching classes, retail selling, and fabric buying. When that wasn’t enough to keep her busy, she occupied her time spinning and weaving. Her finished samples include tapestries, rugs, baskets, and garments. As a hobby, Cathy really enjoys machine appliqué for quilting and creating her own designs using the Baby Lock software products. Whether it’s garment sewing, home décor, quilting, or heirloom techniques, her creations express her love of the industry. Sharing her ideas, talents, and knowledge with sewing enthusiasts everywhere is what gives Cathy the most pleasure. www.babylock.com
 

Diane Gloystein
Lincoln, NE
Sulky of America
Diane Gloystein travels across the country as a freelance educator. She loves to share her passion and enthusiasm for embellishment as she entertains and educates. Her creations have been featured on Fons & Porter Love of Quilting, America Sews with Sue Hausmann, Sewing with Nancy and Quilting Arts television shows. Diane's creation, Caribbean Sunset appeared in the 2008 Rendezvous Bernina Fashion Show.
A love of designing interesting and original clothing led to a lifelong love affair with fabric and fiber arts. A sense of whimsical imagination is found in many of Diane's creations. She inspires her audiences with high energy presentations featuring a myriad of sewing techniques, surface design and embellishment techniques that will excite quilters and enthusiasts of fiber arts. www.sulky.com
 
 
Cynthia Guffey
Baton Rouge, LA
Cynthia has owned a fabric and design studio bearing her name in Baton Rouge, Louisiana since 1983, and her designs have been worn everywhere from the opening of the Met to governors’ inaugurations to Acapulco. Her fitting and sewing expertise is derived from a mathematical background, and her constant search for the simple and the obvious. And although her precise sewing techniques are not short-cuts, she saves you time by helping you get it right the first time. She shares her effective, practical and simple fitting and construction techniques with students throughout the United States, offering seminars and workshops filled with information that results in beautifully fitted, custom-look clothing. Cynthia’s design philosophy involves creating lines that multiply opportunities to fit and enhance a figure type. www.cynthiaguffey.com


Darlene Guillory
Groves, TX
Pfaff Educator
Darlene has served as an Educator with Pfaff since 1991. Known for her versatile talent and sincere passion for many areas of sewing and embroidery, Darlene takes pleasure in sharing her vast knowledge and skills. A plethora of credentials and 50+ years of sewing, enhance Darlene's expertise as a professional and personable teacher. She has published books and CD's, i.e. "Traditional Cutwork Made Easy", "Crazy Patch Stitches and more", "Clothespin Angels with your Embroidery Machine". Darlene was a guest on Houston Public Television, Sewing with Nancy, Martha's Sewing Room, and America Quilts Creatively. She has certifications in Martha Pullen, Nancy Zieman, Jenny Haskins, Susan Cleveland, Betty Cotton (the Cotton Theory), , Mattie Henderson (Quiltsmart), Marti Michell, Linda McGehee, Karen Boutte (the Quilt Diva), Linda Lee Vivian, & Cindy Losekamp.


Joyce Keske


Debby Kratovil
Fairfax, VA
Quilter By Design
Debby has been in the professional quilting world since 1994. She was Quilt Magazine’s Special Projects Editor for 14 years. She contributes to various quilt magazine titles along with sewing and designing for several fabric companies. Her hundreds of published articles about quilts, easy techniques, and how-tos have helped thousands of quilters discover an easier way to approach a wide range of projects. Her published works include “Bold, Black & Beautiful Quilts”, “Supersize ‘Em Quilts”, seven different Quilt Block a Day calendars, and is working on her next book on Mariner’s Compass quilts (March 2013). She is an enthusiastic teacher who especially loves the "aha!" moments with her students. She freely shares tips, tricks and techniques to make quilting a real pleasure.  www.quilterbydesign.com


Linda Lee
Topeka, KS
The Sewing Workshop
Linda Lee is the owner of The Sewing Workshop Pattern Collection, a group of patterns for distinctive garments using innovative sewing techniques. Linda writes for Threads, Sew News and Stitch magazines. She travels the country teaching fine sewing techniques and the art of combining beautiful fabrics and distinctive design in garment and home decorating creations. Using her background as a licensed interior designer and a member of ASID since 1974, she has written fourteen books relating to garment sewing and interiors. Sew Sensational Pillows won the Independent Book Award in the Craft and Hobby Category and Sew Easy won Honorable mention by the Independent Publisher Book Awards for Most Original Design in their “Ten Outstanding Books of the Year” awards.

Starting with making and selling felt hats in 6th grade, Linda’s business ventures have followed – from a life-long career in interior design to producing avant garde sewing patterns for the adventurous sewer. One pillow-making project ultimately led to fourteen books, television appearances on HGTV and traveling and teaching the fine art of combining beautiful fabrics and innovative sewing techniques for both garments and interiors. www.sewingworkshop.com
 


Cindy Losekamp
Cedar Grove, IN
Sew Artfully Yours
Cindy is the creator of several Signature Series embroidery disks for Cactus Punch and CEO of Sew Artfully Yours, Inc. Cindy's skills take machine embroidery to new heights in creativity, and along with embroidery, she is also the creator of a myriad of other machine techniques. She is the designer and author of thirty-one books, and has been teaching and inspiring people to sew and create for twenty-one years. There are no boundaries in artistic pursuits when it comes to her books and classes. Everyone is encouraged to transcend to a higher level of creativity. www.sewingart.com


Lynn Lunoe
Rocky River, OH
Original Sewing & Quilt Expo
As an avowed non-shopper, Lynn has always made her own clothes, home decorations and gifts. It is so much more fun to sew than shop, except for fabric and sewing supplies. Lynn learned to love to sew from her grandmother and learned the finer points from her mother, an accomplished seamstress. Quite prophetically, while working on her degree in Marketing and Public Relations at Bowling Green State University, Lynn chose her beloved sewing machine as the subject for her sales demonstration in her “Salesmanship” class. The die was cast for a lifetime of sewing and selling. 

One of the original staff members when Original Sewing & Quilt Expo began in 1995, she combined her Expo work with free-lance sewing, embroidery and special projects for the Husqvarna Viking® Sewing Machine Company (VSM). Eventually, Lynn went to work full-time for VSM, which is now SVP Worldwide. Fulfilling that college prophecy, she developed and presented programs to train retail sewing machine store associates across the nation how to demonstrate and sell sewing machines. Lynn served on the Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff® Product Development Teams, traveling regularly to the factory in Sweden. In 2008, she lived in Husqvarna, Sweden for three months to do final-testing on the new top-of-the-line sewing and embroidery machine. 

Now as Director of Marketing for the rapidly-growing Original Sewing & Quilt Expo, Lynn is enjoying working with the creative and dynamic Expo team and the wonderful vendors, faculty and volunteers that make the Expo such an exciting and satisfying event. Now that their three children are grown, Lynn and her patient husband, Bob enjoy movies and traveling.


Stacy Michell
Marietta, GA
Shades Textiles
In 1986, Stacy Michell started “Shades Textiles” a company that originally created hand dyed textiles. Over the years this enterprise has expanded to include many types of appliqué, especially “Hawaiian” style, and fused appliqué, and is home of SoftFuse Premium paperbacked web, and yes, she still dyes fabric! Her travels and life have influenced her creative style. “We live in a fast paced, get it done world, yet we enjoy the process and the journey” is one of her thoughts when developing class projects. Stacy’s class projects focus on the student having success. How can the student advance their skills? How can the student enjoy this class? Currently, most of Stacy’s teaching is appliqué based, but she also teaches patchwork classes, and fabric dying classes. www.shadestextiles.co

Sandy Miller
Orlando, FL 
Cutting Corners Inc.
Sandy currently serves as the first sample maker for the CUTTING LINE DESIGNS pattern line, as well as writing and editing the pattern instructions. Sandra travels all over the US, teaching and staffing the CUTTING CORNERS booth, where she enjoys talking to sewers and answering questions about fabric, patterns, and sewing techniques. www.cuttinglinedesigns.com

 
Kim Montagnese
Amherst, OH
AhHa!
Kim began playing with fabric and sneaking the use of her mom's "forbidden" sewing machine in the early 70s. Long before great fabric or creative classes were available, Kim was forced to make it up as she went along. She came to love the look of hand appliqué, but lacked the patience. Fortunately, a series of mistakes led to the method she uses today. Students love the "no curved piecing"," inside out" and "quilts that keep on giving" concept of quilting. Kim loves the AHHA! moment students experience and has felt privileged to share the fun for the past 20 years.
 
Kim's quilts have won many awards throughout Ohio, been displayed at the Denver International Airport as well as private collections across the country and also featured in Art Quilt Calendar. She is a member of Lorain County Piecemakers, Studio Art Quilters Association and Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Quilt Alliance. Current new projects include becoming a certified Zentangle Teacher… and sharing the tangling on fabric fun at EXPO classes.

http://insideoutquilts.com “Inside-Out-Broken Quilts”
http://colorzmyworld.blogspot.com
www.interweave.com (Piece in Cate Pratos book Mixed Media Self-Portraits)
www.martingale-pub.com (Two quilts in Leigh McDonald's book Adventures In Circles)
 
 
Marty Moon
Culpeper, VA
Early Times Workshop
Owner of Early Times Workshop for 20 years, Marty enjoys quilting and doing other types of needlework. Trained by hand in very traditional quiltmaking, Marty prides herself on the technical aspects of her quilts and is passionate about passing those skills on to others. Always seeking a challenge or competition to whet her appetite, Marty grounds her ‘art’ quilts in her traditional background. You can find one of Marty’s quilts in Quilting with Manhole Covers by Shirley MacGregor. www.earlytimesworkshop.com


Barbara Moore
Senatobia, MS
SVP Sewing Ambassador
Barbara Moore has over 20 years experience teaching and selling Husqvarna Viking products, including time spent as a Husqvarna Viking dealer. She teaches classes and workshops in Sew What’s New, Home Dec, Heirloom Sewing and Machine and Serger training. Barbara lives in North Mississippi and teaches locally as well as nationally.
 
 
Laura Murray
Minneapolis, MN
Laura Murray Designs
Artist, entrepreneur, teacher and author, Laura began her experimentations with textile color and texture in 1989. Her work, which appears in books, magazines, quilt calendars and DVDs includes wearable art and award-winning quilts. Laura's passionate response to surface design resulted in designing her favorite images in a stencil collection, soon followed by a series of stamps, including StarBuilders, along with authoring her book, "StarBuilder Inspirations". Her recent work led to the development of an innovative technique which uses stamps, paintstiks and fusible web to easily create seemingly complex designs without sewing. www.lauramurraydesigns.com


Mary Ray
Banner Elk, NC
Mary Ray Designs
Mary Ray has a long and varied career in the sewing industry. She was the manager and buyer for a specialty retail fabric store; an independent sales rep for a fabric importer; a custom designer specializing in bridal couture; and a designer of award-winning wearable art that has been featured in shows and galleries around the country. She has taught at the American Quilters’ Society Show, Design With Heart, the American Sewing Guild Conference, the Toronto Creative Sewing and Needlework Show, The Sewing Workshop in San Francisco, Quilting by the Lake in New York State, and Bernina University, as well as guilds and shops around the country. She was an associate editor of Threads magazine and an instructor in the fashion design department of Bauder College in Atlanta, GA.

Mary is currently a contributing editor with Threads and travels around the country teaching and lecturing about sewing. She is a member of the American Sewing Guild and PACC (the Professional Association of Custom Clothiers). www.maryraydesigns.com
 
Kathy Ruddy
Mukilteo, WA
kathyruddy.com
Kathy Ruddy is an international sewing celebrity, educator, pattern designer, Serger and fitting expert. Active in the sewing industry since 1962, Kathy is the star of 10 Serger and sewing videos and author of 12 Serger and sewing booklets and her new enhanced books on CD called Three ways to Learn CD'S. You can look at pictures of her projects from start to finish, read the words next to the pictures as you listen to Kathy impart her wisdom and experiences as she develops her projects. If you like a hard copy you can print off as many pages from the CD as you like. Her specialty is to show how to sew and serge fast and easy without sacrificing quality, fit or fashion details. Her fresh, fun classes are brimming with surprises and ideas. www.kathyruddy.com


Nancy Sapin
Franklin, NC
Sulky of America
Nancy Sapin comes from an artistic and creative family. While Nancy learned to sew when she was very young, she really began sewing in earnest when she was in her early 20's. After 3 children, sewing and crafts took a back seat to owning and operating an electronic assembly business.

Nancy has now come back full circle to sewing. She moved to Franklin, NC after meeting and marrying her husband, David. Several years ago she began sewing Sulky samples to be shown at Sulky Sew Exciting Seminars, Certification Trainings and in Consumer and Trade show booths. Nancy has taught classes and lectured in 2008 & 2009 at the ASE in Novi, MI. Her felted bowl is published in Sulky's latest book "Supplement to Sulky's Secrets to Successful Stabilizing" Her newest fabric wrapped cord square trivet and bowl design was presented by Joyce Drexler on Quilting Arts TV show in February, 2009, and will be published in Sulky's future Embellishing book.

Quilting and sewing have become her passion, along with cooking, gardening, and being a new grandparent. Becoming a National Educator representing Sulky of America has combined all of her acquired talents and fulfilled her other passion, to teach what she knows with fun and enthusiasm. www.sulky.com


Lisa Sipes
Colby, KS
Lisa Sipes is a self taught, award winning quilter and embroiderer whose work can been seen in several books (to be announced on the blog as they release), magazines (American Patchwork & Quilting, Generation Q, Fons & Porter, McCalls, etc) , and competitions and exhibits worldwide. She has also appeared on the television show It's Sew Easy, which airs on PBS. Lisa entered the quilting world somewhat by accident and never looked back. She learned to quilt in a most unusual way - learning to longarm machine quilt for others before making her first pieced quilt top. Lisa has an enthusiasm and passion for all things stitched and enjoys helping others turn ordinary into extraordinary. Her main specialty is making beautiful, heirloom quilts out of poorly pieced, "problem" quilt tops. Lisa takes a straight forward but laid back approach to teaching and likes to provide a classroom setting that is more like a gathering of old friends. She loves to encourage and inspire, and remind all quilters that the main objective of quilting is to have FUN! You can follow Lisa's needle adventures at thatcrazyquiltygirl.blogspot.com  


Connie Spurlock
Coeur d’Alene, ID
Sew Wonderful Dreams
Although she didn’t even learn to sew until she was over 30 years old, Connie used her background in marketing and education to develop Sew Wonderful Dreams, a pattern design company. Fifteen years ago the company focused on craft patterns, while today the emphasis is on quilting and education. About her company she says: “We believe the best marketing tool we have is to educate. Everyone can learn but the way we learn is variable. Our classes are designed to help you learn in a way that will be most beneficial to you.” www.sewwonderfuldreams.com
 
 
Carol Steinbrecher
Boulder, CO
Conselle/Style Solutions LLC
Carol has been sewing since she was a little girl and hasn’t stopped since. She learned home décor and window coverings from her grandmother but has stayed with her love of fashion construction and wardrobing. Carol is founder and CEO of Style Solutions, LLC, an image and fashion management services firm. Carol specializes in tailoring, alterations of ready-to-wear, fitting techniques & fashion pattern alterations; wardrobe strategies, personal styling, closet clutter control and image services. Carol’s clients include Oscar award winner, Paula DuPre Pesman. Carol is an affiliate of the Conselle Institute of Image Management, member of AICI, ASDP, BPW and the Boulder Chamber of Commerce. Graduate of UW-Oshkosh-BSN. Carol totally believes chocolate is one of the basic food groups and that at least 25% of every day should be fun! www.stylesolutionsllc.com

 
Holice Turnbow
Sturbridge, MA
Holice Turnbow is a Quilt Judge and Teacher certified by the National Quilting Association. His quilting career began in the early 70's when he was asked to teach needlework and quilting for a county recreational program. National exposure followed in 1978 when he served as a consultant to the West Virginia Department of Culture and History to organize a quilt show in conjunction with the U.S. Postal Service's issuance of a commemorative stamp recognizing quilting as a folk art. He also served on the planning committee for the First Continental Quilting Congress held in Arlington, Virginia in 1978. These two events resulted in invitations to lecture and teach at quilting events across the United States and in Canada.

Holice Turnbow lectures and conducts workshops in many quilting techniques with emphasis on those subjects related to the development and use of quilting designs. He has written for various quilting magazines and appeared on public television. with Kay Wood's "Strip Quilting with Kaye" and "Quilting for the 90's." He also appeared on 13 segments of "Heirlooms by Design" which was shown in the Alabama area through the CBS cable networks. He has also filmed six shows on QNN representing The Stencil Co.

He is the former co-curator of the "Hoffman Challenge" with Betty Boyink, and has served as a quilt consultant to a number of companies. Holice has also designed and made garments for two invitational exhibits and has designed and made quilted items for various other special exhibits and quilt challenges including the exhibit "Men of Biblical Proportions."
 
Helene Weber
Navarre, OH
My passion has always been art in any form, but I have truly fallen in love with fiber art. My background is in fine art; drawing, painting and sculpture, and I use this experience in creating my quits. Although I have always viewed quilts as art, it wasn’t until recently that I have discovered the blending of traditional art mediums ; colored pencil, paints, and inks, with quilting. I love painting and working with fabric because of the versatility it lends to the artist and I like using a variety of art mediums along with longarm quilting on my art quilts.


Dini Yan
Brooklyn, NY
Momo-Dini Embroidery Art
Dini is originally from Beijing, and along with her sister Momo, is a recognized artist in China. Their paintings have won awards in both China and international competitions. As a professor of Fine Arts at the University of China, Dini taught at the Fine Arts Institute of Northeast Normal University. Dini and Momo design and digitize embroidery patterns for their company, Momo-Dini Embroidery Art. Their designs merge the different cultures of the East and West together to give the embroidery new life and energy. Dini and Momo blend the best of art and technology, and their goal is to produce the best designs with the highest standards and quality. www.momodini.com

 
Hope Yoder
Sarasota, FL
Designs by Hope Yoder, Inc.
Hope Yoder is an author, designer and sewing instructor who specializes in heirloom sewing and loves to incorporate traditional heirloom techniques and machine embroidery into romantic ladies clothes and accessories. She has appeared many times on the popular TV show called Sewing with Martha. She has written two books entitled: "Embellished Heirloom Treasures" and “Victorian Dreams Heirloom Shirt”. Hope has created a new series of machine embroidery CD’s called Heirloom Embellishments which features heirloom techniques that are re-created in the embroidery hoop and has her own line of Fabric Button Cover Machines and designs that are helping many start their own embroidery business. Her work has been featured on the cover of Sew Beautiful, Sew News, Designs in Machine Embroidery and Clotilde’s Sewing Savvy magazine. She also writes for Australian Machine Embroidery, Creative Machine Embroidery and House of White Birches. Hope travels the country teaching hands-on-workshops helping ladies discover how to “Romance Their Wardrobe” using her special techniques. She is also a teacher at Martha Pullen’s School of Art Fashion in Huntsville Alabama. www.hopeyoder.com