Minnesota Current Teachers

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Christine Barnard

• Specialty: Appliqué and hand embellishing

• Email: chrisbannard@scribblerdesigns.com

• Website: http://scribblerdesigns.com

Kandace Keldermann

• Email: kandacekeld@yahoo.com

Kay Capps Cross

• Specialty: Longarm quilting, WonderFil Threaducator

• Email: crosscuts@springgrove.coop

Maria Slowik

• Specialty: Educator for Brother International, seminars on needles and threads

• Email: mhslowik@comcast.net

Mary Alsop

• Specialty: Long arm quilting and hand embellishing

• Email: malsop@comcast.net

• Website: www.prairie-quiltingmn.com

Susan Cleveland

• Published Author

• Specialty: Unique quilting with bold threads as geometric accents on traditional/contemporary quilts, precision piecing, invisible and decorative appliqué

• Email: Susan.QuiltOn@gmail.com

• Website: www.piecesbewithyou.com/

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Michigan Current Teachers

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Angela Wolf

• Specialties: Garment and pattern design, machine embroidery and lace making

• Email: angela@angelawolf.com

• Website: www.angelawolf.com

Beth Ferrier

• Published Author - Applewood Farm Publications Inc. (Beth's own publishing company)

• Guest appearances on HGTV's Simply quilts, the Quilt Show with Alex and Ricky and Quilting Friends on PBS

• Frequent contributor to The Quilter Magazine, regular column called "Totally Off Grain" in The American Quilt Retailer

• "Rebellious Traditional" style of quilting - simple and elegant solutions

• Website: www.applewoodfarmsquilts.com

Laurie Ceesay

• Specialty: Contemporary art quilts, primarily portraits of women and fashion

• Email: artsychickquilts@gmail.com

• Website: www.laurieceesay.com

Lenore Crawford

• Specialty: Art quilts, fabric painting

• Website: www.lenorecrawford.com

Leslie Peterson

• Specialty: Designer of beginner to advanced hand stitching techniques and projects for Lilac Cottage Designs. Travelling trunk shows and classes. Vintage Linen Wholecloth domestic quilting award winning artist. Fabric Tinting instructor in 4 different mediums

• Email: lagpeterson@gmail.com

• Instagram: LesliePeterson5

Lynn Harris

• Specialty: Piecing, micro piecing, hand appliqué

• Email: harrislc@gmail.com

• Website: www.lynncarsonharris.com

Sally Manke

• Specialty: Art quilts

• Email: sallymanke@yahoo.com

• Website: www.sallymanke.com

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Massachusetts Current Teachers

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Amy Ropple

• Specialty: Mixed media textile collages: quilted, painted, embroidered and embellished by hand

• Website: www.amyropple.com

Linda Gosselin

• Specialty: Longarm quilting techniques

• Email: thequiltershelpdesk@gmail.com

Linda Ramrath

• Specialty: Quilting teacher, public speaker, TV producer

• Website: www.inspiredlayers.com

Susan Pelland

• Specialty: Appliqué

• Email: sue@suepellanddesigns.com

• Website: suepellanddesigns.com

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Maryland Current Teachers

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Gyleen Fitzgerald

• Specialty: Piecing polygons, and the Butterfly Seam

• Email: gyleen@colourfulstitches.com

• Website: www.colourfulstitches.com

Lesley Riley

• Specialty: Transfer artist, creating with fabric, quilted memories, and fabric memory books - read her articles in "Cloth, Paper, Scissors"

• Blog: LesleyRiley.com/weblog

• Website: www.LesleyRiley.com

Teri Young & Kara Mason

• Specialty: Appliqué, crazy quilting, hand embellishing

• Email: needleseyestories@gmail.com

• Website: www.needleseyestories.com

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Maine Current Teachers

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Bonnie Dwyer

• Specialty: Piecing, quilt history

• Email: bonnie@bonniedwyer.com

• Website: http://bonniedwyer.com

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Louisiana Current Teachers

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Donna Estes

• Specialty: Free motion quilting classes

• Email: donnaestes@bellsouth.net

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Kansas Current Teachers

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Lori Triplett

• Specialty: Quilting, thread painting, hand quilting, resist dying

• Email: lori@quiltandtextilecollections.com

• Website: www.quiltandtextilecollections.com

Reeze L Hanson
(Morning Glory Designs)

• Specialty: Quilting and machine appliqué

• Email: reezehanson@hotmail.com

• Website: www.morningglorydesigns.com

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Iowa Current Teachers

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Carol Moellers

• Specialty: Pattern design, longarm quilting

• Email: carol.moellers@gmail.com

• Website: www.carolmoellersdesigns.com

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Indiana Current Teachers

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Patsy Shields

• Specialty: All machine arts including machine quilting, embellishment from lace to metal, thread painting and sketching, cutwork and lace, and silk ribbon embroidery

• Email: patsysews@insightbb.com

Sarah Sharp (No Hats in the House)

• Specialty: Foundation paper piecing with DecoBob™

• Email: nohatsquilts@gmail.com

• Website: nohatsinthehouse.com

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Idaho Current Teachers

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Jodi Cook

• Specialty: Quilting, longarm, sewing

• Email: jcook@csd13.org

Shelly Fitzgerald

• Specialty: free motion quilting instruction and mastering embroidery, sewing and serging machines

• E-mail: sfitzgerald.bernina@gmail.com

• Website: sewshellyquilts.com

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Illinois Current Teachers

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Betsy Meyers

• Specialty: Quilting and garments

• Email: wbmeyers@sbcglobal.net

• Website: http://morninglorydesigns.com

Catherine Redford

• Specialty: Modern quilts

• Website: http://catherineredford.com/

Cindy Tzaelaar

• Specialty: Quilted bags and purses

• Email: acatdesign09@yahoo.com

Eve Kovacs

• Specialty: Machine embroidery techniques, scientific approach to designing wearable art, and embellishment

• Email: kovacs@hep.aul.gov.com

Jane Sassaman

• Specialty: Bernina Ambassador, appliqué collage quilts

• Website: www.janesassaman.com

Karen Thomas

• Specialty: Piecing, free motion quilting

• Email: Doodlebugquilts6@gmail.com

Laura Wasilowski

• Specialty: Hand Stitched Collage Quilts

• Email: laura.wasilowski@gmail.com

• Website: www.artfabric.com

Laurie Albrecht

• Specialty: Embroidery, serger techniques, heirloom sewing

• Email: laurie.b@comcast.net

Lori Martinsek

• Specialty: Machine appliqué, machine quilting, curve piecing, Ruth Robin

• Email: lmartinsek@gmail.com

Mary Traxler

• Specialty: Needle turn appliqué

• Email: mdtraxler@hotmail.com

Mickey Depre

• Specialty: Hand piecing and quilting

• Email: mickey@mdquilts.com

• Website: www.mdquilts.com

Susan Edmonson

• Specialty: Art quilting and mixed media designs

• Email: susanledmonson@gmail.com

• Website: susanedmonson.wordpress.com

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Hawaii Current Teachers

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Chris Faulkner

• Specialty: Garment construction, quilting, home decor, and bag making

• Email: cfaiulknermaui@hotmail.com

Phyllis Cullen

• Specialty: Fiber art, paintings, art quilts, mixed media

• Email: pcul429@gmail.com

• Website: www.phylliscullenartstudio.com

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Georgia Current Teachers

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Cookie Gaynor

• Specialty: Machine Embroidery Instructor

• Website: www.cookiescreations.com

David Gilleland

• Specialty: Longarm quilting, piecing, foundation piecing and free motion quilting

• Email: david@vectorquilts.com

• Website: www.davidgilleland.com

Mike Johns

• Specialty: Babylock Educator, custom embroidery

• Email: mike@mamasboydesign.com

• Website: www.mamasboydesign.com

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Florida Current Teachers

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Amanda Autry

• Specialties: Babylock Ambassador

• Email:madalynnblake@cox.net

Bonnie Langenfeld

• Specialty: Thread artistry on raw edge appliqué

• Email: bonnielangenfeld@joimail.com

• Website: www.landscapesinfabric.com

Crystal Drummond

• Email: daybrookdesigns@gmail.com

• Website: www.daybrookdesigns.com

Cynthia Wismann

• Specialty: Slow stitching workshops

• Email: cynthia@fiberartchix.com

• Website: www.fiberartchix.com

Deb Canham

• Specialty: Creative serging techniques

• Email: deb@debcanham.com

• Website: www.debcahamstudio.com

Emma Seabrooke

• Specialty: Garment embellishing

• Website: www.emmaseabrooke.com/

Janice Vaine

• Specialty: Hand appliqué and embroidery techniques

• Email: vainej@netscape.net

• Website: www.grahamcrackercollection.com

Joan L Clemons

• Specialty: Babylock Ambassador

• Email: jlclemons10@aol.com

Milinda Stephenson

• Specialties: Machine embroidery

• Email: milindastephenson@gmail.com

• Website: http://milindasews.blogspot.com

Maryann Heide

• Specialties: All levels of quilting classes

• Email: maryannandmatt@yahoo.com

Missy Billingsley

• Specialty: Babylock Ambassador

• Email: mrsb13@yahoo.com

Nancy Prince

• Specialty: Thread painting

• Website: www.nancyprince.com

Sheila Godes

• Specialty: Embroidery and quilting. Educator for Pfaff/Viking software

• Email: sheilagodes@gmail.com

Vanessa Wilson
(The Crafty Gemini)

• Specialty: Crafts, Garment construction, machine embroidery

• Email: craftygemini@gmail.com

• Website: www.craftygemini.com

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Connecticut Current Teachers

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Gail Yellen
(Gail Patrice Design)

• Specialty: Serger Techniques, garment construction

• Email: gail@gailpatrice.com

• Website: www.gailpatrice.com

Pamela Leggett

• Specialty: Garment construction and patterns

• Email: pamela@pamelaspatterns.com

• Website: www.pamelaspatterns.com

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Colorado Current Teachers

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Barbara Yates Beasley

• Specialty: Quilted animal portraits

• Email: barbara@barbarayatesbeasley.com

• Website: www.barbarayatesbeasley.com

Carol Ann Waugh

• Specialty: Self portraits, couching, hand embroidery and decorative machine stitching

• Email: carol@carolannwaugh.com

• Website: www.carolannawaugh.com

Judith Baker Montano

• Specialty: Crazy quilting, hand embroidery

• Email: judithbakermontano@me.com

• Website: www.judithbakermontano.com

Katie Fowler

• Specialty: Art quilter

• Website: www.katiefowler.net

Laurie Longberry

• Specialty: Machine embroidery and art classes

• Email: laurie@berryfarmstudios.com

• Website: www.berryfarmstudios.com

Liz Kettle

• Specialty: Thread, fabric collage, machine and hand stitching, fabric painting and dyeing

• Email: lizkettle@gmail.com

• Website: www.textileevolution.com & www.thethreadlab.com

Riane Morrison (Riane Elise/Material Goods)

• Specialty: High contrast hand quilting

• Email: riane@materialgoods.us

• Website: riane-elise.com

Ruth Chandler

• Specialty: Hand stitching and embellishing

• Email: ruthchandler@comcast.net

• Website: ruthchandlerdesignsblog.wordpress.com

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California Current Teachers

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Beth Upstill

• Specialty: Wool appliqué

• Email: upstill4@gmail.com

• Website: http://www.aplaidwool.com

Cathie Hoover

• Specialty: Wild & crazy embellishments, quilts, wearable art, lectures, trunk shows, and painting with fabric

• Email: cihoover@clearwire.net

• Website: www.cathiehooverstudios.com

Cynthia Catlin

• Fibre artist, trapunto

• Email: chc4quilts@aol.com

Deb Karasik

• Specialty: Paper piecing from beginning to advanced, machine quilting on domestic machines and the HQ16, and quilt design with EQ6

• Email: deb@quiltmavens.com

• Website: www.quiltmavens.com

Diane Ricks

• Specialty: Fabric painting and dying, free motion embroidery, thread painting, and wearable art

• Email: bobbydi@charter.net

Grace Errea

• Specialty: Applique, threadwork, and understanding color values

• Email: graceerrea@gmail.com

• Website: www.amazingquiltsbygrace.com

Jennifer Davey

• Email: bestillmycraftingheart@gmail.com

• Blog: bestillmycraftingheart.blogspot.com

Jennifer Rapacki

• Specialty: Photoshop elements for quilters, electric quilt, fabric weaving and tatting

• Email: jennifer.rapacki@gmail.com

• Website: www.jenniferrapacki.com

Joanne Banko

• Specialty: Garment construction, machine embroidery, Brother Educator

• Email: joannebanko@gmail.com

• Website: letsgosew.com

Karen Boutte

• Specialty: Sweat suits for jackets, raw edge applique, decorative machine stitching, needlework, straight binding, mask creations, and custom handbags

• Email: kbqart@Pacbell.net

• Website: www.quiltdiva.com

Kris Kouzelos

• Specialty: Hand stitching and embellishing

• Email: quiltedchicken@gmail.com

Kevin Kosbab

• Specialty: Machine and hand appliqué, quilts inspired by mid-century modern design, free-motion quilting

• Author of the Quilter's Appliqué Workshop

• Presenter of Start Appliqué (Craftsy) and Secrets of Home Décor Sewing (DVD)

• Website: www.feeddog.net

Penni Berger

• Specialty: Thread painted portraits

• Email: pennpastel@charter.net

Rebecca McDaniel

• Specialty: Hand and Machine appliqué

• Email: becky@beckymcdaniel.com

• Website: http://BeckyMcdaniel.com

Sandra Johnson

• Specialty: Denim Quilts, Shibori Dying with Indigo, Hand Stitching, Sashiko, embroidery, boro and more

• Email: sandrajohnsondesigns@gmail.com

• Website: www.sandrajohnsondesigns.wordpress.com

Sandra Lauterbach

• Specialty: Art quilts, fibre art

• Email: sandra@sandralauterbach.com

• Website: www.sandralauterbach.com

Shari Skerik

• Specialty: English paper piecing, foundation Paper piecing, hand embroidery, children's sewing

• Email: shari@sewbeachygirl.com

Susan Slesinger

• Specialty: All aspects of sewing and quilting especially advanced techniques, embellishments, and art quilting

• Email: sslesinger@roadrunner.com

• Website: www.californiafiberandmusic.blogspot.com

Teresa Coates

• Specialty: Piecing and appliqué

• Email: teresacoates@mac.com

• Website: www.crinkledreams.com

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Alabama Current Teachers

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Joan Friedrich

• Specialty: Serger classes

• Email: luv2sew.jf@gamil.com

• Website: www.bamasewinggals.com

Nina Clotfelter

• Specialty: Free motion quilting

• Email: ninaclotfelter@gmail.com

• Website: www.ninaquilts.com

Sherry Burkhalter

• Specialty: Quilting and sewing instructor, quilt appraiser

• Email: sherrysews@aol.com

• Website: www.quiltedcreations.net

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Arizona Current Teachers

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Cindy Seitz-Krug

• Specialty: Quilting on the domestic machine

• Email: cindy@quintessentialquilting.com

• Website: www.quintessentialquilting.com

Cristy Fincher / Purple Daisies Quilting

• Specialty: Longarm quilting, hand embellishing, appliqué work

• Email: cristy@purpledaisiesllc.com

• Website: www.purpledaisiesquilting.com

Gina Perkes

• Specialty: Longarm stitching

• Email: ginaperkesdesigns@gmail.com

• Website: www.thecopperneedle.com

Janet Valliere

• Specialty: Judy Niemeyer certified Paper piecing instructor, longarm certification, machine embroidery

• Email: jmvalliere@cox.net

Jacquelyn Morris Smith

• Specialty: Owner of Quilt Retreats at Sea, Zentangle instructor

• Email: jacquelyn@thstitchinrn.com

• Website: www.pinecreekquilting.com

Leslie Peacock

• Specialty: Wearable art, decorative stitching on garments

• Email: carousel01@earthlink.net

Marilyn Guhr

• Specialties: Babylock and Babylock serger classes, specializing in decorative thread use

• Email: marilyn.guhr@cox.net

Vanessa Fromm

• Specialty: Appliqué, embroidery

• Email: vanessa@fabricconfetti.com

• Website: www.fabricconfetti.com

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