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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

Mark Boos
Bunnell, FL
Mark is an authorized Gammill technician and has been working with quilting machines for five years. In addition, he also completed factory training for Bernina, Brother and Janome machines. Mark has been a “tool man” since he could hold a screwdriver and has an extensive mechanical background. His career began with training in the marine industry, with seven years of experience in South Florida. Upon moving north to the Palm Coast area, he entered the auto industry with an additional training and six years of experience. Mark completed certifications in electrical, a/c and diesel to name just a few. Mark not only knows how to repair longarm machines, he is proficient in the operation and use of both hand-guided and computerized Gammill quilting machines.

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.

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

Peggy Dilbone
High Springs, FL
Independent Sewing Educator, Designer & Author
Peggy Dilbone is a designer, author and teacher. She has been teaching for over 20 years, sharing her enthusiasm for heirloom sewing and sergers. She has appeared on America Sews with Sue Hausmann and Martha's Sewing Room with Martha Pullen. Peggy has been published numerous times in Sew Beautiful Magazine and has garments showcased in Elegant Sewing for Baby, Fabulous Fashions, Six Easy Patterns for Women, Small Quilts and Such, and Sleepwear Just for You by Martha Pullen. Peggy's Trinity Cross Christening Gown is featured in "The Best of Sew Beautiful Christening Gowns"; by Martha Pullen, which features eight of Sew Beautiful's favorite gowns. Peggy has taught classes in London, Mexico and Puerto Rico; and at Husqvarna Viking convention, Martha Pullen School of Art Fashion and Martha Pullen /Husqvarna Viking Extravaganzas. Peggy presents heirloom and serger seminars and trunk shows throughout the United States and is a key teacher and designer for the Martha Pullen Heirloom licensing programs. Peggy publishes a series of sewing and serger patterns, CDs and a DVD on serger coverstitch. Her patterns are available on her website www.PeggyDdesigns.com

Karen Erickson
Snohomish, WA
Home Fashions U
Karen’s passion for sewing began at 10 years old, taking apart used clothing and using parts for patterns. During high school in 1971, she was awarded Home Economics Student of the year. In the 70s she pursued studies in photojournalism, and in tandem found herself teaching for Art Craft Needlework Co at home parties, plus assisting her customers in how to sew their completed projects. In 1986, Home Finishing by Karen a (home based professional sewing workroom) was born, sewing window treatments, pillow, bedding and slipcovers for customers. In 1999, when 75% of her business had evolved into slipcovering she morphed the business into Slipcover America Inc. and started a networking forum for slipcover professionals. Karen’s world has evolved into being a fulltime educator whose passion is dedicated to home decor, interior fashion and sewing. She has joined forces with Claudia Buchanan and together they have created Home Fashions U “dedicated to home decor interior fashion”. Karen hosts a radio podcast “Home Fashions U Blog Talk radio” and produces newsletters, DVDs, CDs and continues to write articles for various print magazines and online publications.
www.slipcoveramerica.com
www.slipcovernetwork.com
www.homefashionsu.com
www.blogtalkradio.com/Home-Fashions-U

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

Carolyn Friedlander
Lake Wales, FL
Carolyn Friedlander is a quilt and fabric designer (with Robert Kaufman) working from her hometown of Lake Wales, Florida, an environment she enjoys for its warm weather, few distractions, and potent community of quilters and crafters. In her work, she draws inspiration from features of the Florida landscape—its long leaf pines, palmettos, water, scrub land, and sand—as well as her background in architecture. You can follow Carolyn and her work on her website (carolynfriedlander.com) and blog (carolynfriedlander.com/blog).

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

Shar Jorgenson
Starbuck, MN
A veteran quilter for 30 years. Shar is a familiar face to thousands of television viewers. Her PBS television series, Quilting From The Heartland, and Quilting With Shar, brings innovative techniques to quilt makers of all skill levels. Her enthusiasm, down-to-earth style, and extensive experience, guide quilters through the steps of creating beautiful quilts, quickly and easily with todays tools. In 1988, Shar created her first set of laser templates. Her time- saving method of rotary cutting several layers of fabric into customized shapes brought accuracy and convenience to quilt makers. Without sacrificing the beauty of traditional designs, Shar teaches methods for accurately producing ageless quilt patterns with ease and efficiency. Her step-by step instructions, based upon her own hands-on experience, take the mystique out of quilting and insure successful results. In addition to 13 years of programing for PBS she is the author of over 40 quilting books and has developed over 35 template sets and a full line of quilting stencils. In 2009 Shar was nominated the Quilter of the Year for Minnesota Quilter's Inc. Many of Shars classes can now be seen on www.thequiltingschool.com.

Debra Justice
Abbotsford, BC Canada
Labours of Love
Debra Justice is the president and founder of Labours of Love Heirloom Sewing Supplies Inc. An online mail order company based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. Debra's interest in sewing began at age 10, when she was enrolled her in some sewing classes. By the age of 20 she was teaching classes in quilting, a subject that she covered for several years during her off hours as a civil and municipal draftsperson.

With a love for the Victorian Era it was only natural that Debra would fall in love with Heirloom Sewing. Labours of Love was opened in 1990 offering a selection of Vintage styled patterns, fine old fashioned fabrics, French Laces and her own how to DVD "Precious Petticoats" an Introduction to Heirloom Sewing. Her first DVD was received with rave reviews and Sew You Want To Get Fancy her second DVD soon followed. Her DVDs and patterns have been featured in publications such as Sew News, Sewing Decor and The Creative Machine. In 2004 Debra wrote her first book Modern Machine Techniques which has already turned into a best seller. Her newest book on sewing machine feet called Learn to Sew With Your Feet was released in March of 2009.

With the success of her two books she has been retained by Sew News Magazine as contributing writer for their foot column. She will share lots of ideas and new techniques on how to use the feet that came with your machine. Debra teaches others how to recreate vintage clothing and teddy bears inspired by the Victorian Era. Her no nonsense approach and fun seminars have made her a favourite key note speaker and respected sewing expert nationwide. She resides in Abbotsford, British Columbia with her boys Taylor and Spencer. www.laboursoflove.com

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

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

Karen Pharr
Luttrell, TN
Karen Pharr Studios
Karen is an award winning quilter with quilts shown in both Quilt Shows and Art Galleries. Karen uses nature as her main inspiration for her work. As a national teacher, pattern designer and art quilter, Karen loves to help students develop new fun and creative techniques which they can apply to their own quilting style. A yes you can attitude flows throughout her classroom so everyone can create while having fun and learning new techniques they can take with them and apply to future projects. www.karenpharrstudios.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

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

Emma Seabrooke
Islamorada, FL
Sew KeysE, Inc.
Emma Seabrooke is a certified Palmer/Pletsch pant and fit instructor. She trained with French Couture for years and took many fashion design courses in college while obtaining her degree. Emma loves sewing with knits and has designed clothing patterns for them. She has perfected the best styles for all sizes, especially “well-endowed” ladies. Emma is an active member of the Home Sewing Association, and believes all her students can achieve clothing that looks and fits beautifully. She offers patterns, notions and fabrics that apply to her classes for sale. www.emmaseabrooke.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."

Nelly Vileikis
Aurora, OH
Nelly's colorful, playful personality encourages students of all levels to reach beyond their normal limits and her goal is for her students to take their newly learned skills into future successes. With an advanced degree in math, a voracious appetite for quilting and a passion for teaching, Nelly is well on her way to becoming a world class quilting artist and teacher. She willingly shares her talent with her students and encourages each to take their knowledge to the next level. </div>

Nelly is an accomplished quilter who has won numerous awards in local as well as national competitions. For over ten years she has taught in several quilt shops, at many Quilt Guilds throughout North Eastern Ohio, Quilting Get-A-Ways and private classes. She is also a designer. Confidence building instruction, mixed with great attention to detail, not to mention a whole lot of fun adds-up to great classroom experience for those who sign up for her classes. www.artelasquilts.com

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.

Jean Ann Wright
Marietta, GA
From 1986 to 2007 Jean Ann edited an international quilting magazine titled QUILT, plus a variety of special interest titles. After retiring she has written three books published by Landauer Publishing Corp: Circle of Nine, Sashings and Settings and First Time Log Cabin Quilts. She is a freelance designer, designing quilts for several major fabric manufacturers. Her quilts are frequently shown in popular quilting magazines and frequently appear on the cover. She has designed two fabric collections for Newcastle Fabrics and a Log Cabin Trim Tool that is manufactured by Creative Grids, introducing a new quick and easy method to make log cabin blocks.

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

Susan Zellers
Dunnellon, FL
Event Specialist
Using a needle and thread, Susan's mother taught her to sew at the age of three. She has sewn all kinds of clothing and home decorator items. From 1981 to 1999, she had a home business that specialized in bridal gowns, special occasion items and custom embroidery. Married for 29 years with two daughters, she has had a lot of practice at her craft. Working also in a retail business part-time and then fulltime since 1996 she has managed and taught employees and consumers basic sewing to computer skills. She especially enjoys the time she spends with the computer digitizing programs; always wanting designs that are not readily available. Recently introduced to the quilting world, she combines her interests together to make unique quilts and wall hangings.