CHARLOTTE WARR ANDERSEN – Salt Lake City, UT
Since 1983, Charlotte’s specialty has been one-of-a-kind, original pictorial quilts made with either, or both, appliqué and piecing techniques. Her pictorial appliqué technique is a unique one featuring forms that are independently layered and created. These created forms are then attached to the background. The pictorial piecing technique makes use of set-in corners, which eliminates many unnecessary seams and makes for a smoother and more flexible piecing process. Charlotte enjoys creating realistic and representational images from the unlikely medium of fabric. She teaches her techniques nationally and internationally.
Charlotte’s quilts have won her many prestigious awards including second place in the first Great American Quilt Contest in honor of the Statue of Liberty Centennial, several first places at the American Quilter's Society Show, and two Best of Shows at the Houston International Quilt Festival and Best of Show at the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Quilt show.
Other interests of Charlotte’s includes wearable arts and writing. Charlotte has authored two books about her pictorial techniques entitled: Faces & Places - Images in Appliqué and Focus on Features - Life-like Portrayals in Appliqué.
www.charlottewarrandersen.com
SALLY COLLINS – Walnut, CA
Sally Collins is an award-winning quiltmaker, teacher and author who has been quilting since 1978 and teaching since 1985. Her quilts range in size from small to wall size and although she is most recognized for her quality workmanship, attention to detail and teaching expertise, her continual love and interest is in the process of quiltmaking, the journey. Her classes focus on how to achieve quality workmanship in any scale and are developed to help students advance and improve their own creative and technical skills as well as how to critique and correct their own work.
She loves the challenge of combining design, color and intricate piecing in a traditional style and this interest is illustrated and explained in detail through her books: Small Scale Quiltmaking; The Art of Machine Piecing; Borders, Bindings and Edges; and Mastering Precision Piecing.
http://www.sallycollins.org/
ELSIE M. CAMPBELL – Dodge City, KS
Elsie travels and teaches across the nation hand quilting, precision piecing, hand and machine appliqué techniques and quilt design. She is the author of Nine Patch & Snowball Quilts, Winning Stitches, and String Quilts: 10 Fun Patterns for Innovating and Renovating.
http://elsiemcampbell.com/index.html
KLAUDEEN HANSEN - Sun Prairie, WI
Klaudeen Hansen’s experience reaches far beyond just quilting. Not only is she a certified judge for the National Quilting Association and has judged competition quilts for a number of years, but Klaudeen also trains other people to be judges. Klaudeen is an editor for Quilt Art and Address & Birthday Book, as well as the author of many articles for various quilting magazines. Her quilts have been featured in numerous shows throughout the United States and Europe. She is an accomplished teacher
Klaudeen’s classes will teach you fast, easy, and time saving techniques for machine piecing, cutting, and machine appliqué and much more!
JODY HOUGHTON – Keizer, OR
Jody’s creative work began as childhood play. “I was always busy making something. I loved using my Mom’s treadle sewing machine and making doll clothes from scraps of fabric that were saved from the clothes my Mom made for my two sisters and me. I must have been about 6 years old when I started sewing because I remember having to stand to use the treadle machine to make my “original creations”.
Formalizing her business in 1982, Jody Houghton Designs, Inc. has been her profession for over 27 years. With a business motto of “Creating a Life, While Creating a Living”, Jody successfully built a home-based business from her designs as gift products while raising her two children, Michele and Iain.
Jody’s collections often feature her whimsical characters, Faith, Hope, and Charity. “I love blending characteristic of these virtues into the personalities of my ladies.” Expanding her licensing program is currently her business goal.
Jody's classes will include her Three Dimensional Appliqué process and its use in quilting projects. Jody will also teach the process of making custom or personalize fabric designs using the new digital on-demand textile printing process. Her Specialized Art Panels have become a focus of her current design work. Samples of this process can be viewed on
www.sisterhoodofquilters.com.
BONNIE K. HUNTER – Winston Salem, NC
Bonnie is an obsessive compulsive quilter and fabric addict! She has been quilting since 1980 years, machine quilting since 1988, and professionally longarm machine quilting for the public since 1995.
Her first book, Scraps & Shirttails, was released in 2008 followed by her second book, Adventures with Leaders & Enders was released in early 2010, also published by Kansas City Star. Her large website, Quiltville.com is visited by thousands of quilters around the globe daily, providing many with ideas for using those precious scraps, including free patterns to get you started!
http://quiltville.com
JO MORTON – Nebraska City, NE
Jo Morton is a quilt artist, fabric designer, teacher, author, lecturer and student of our ancestral quilt making. Her use of color, design and fine stitchery give her quilts the feeling of being made in the 19th Century. These quilts complement both the country and contemporary setting. Her work is included in private and public collections across the country.
Jo presents re-creations of antique quilts, imitating colors and styles of period pieces, using an antique quilt as a source of inspiration, she creates an interpretation - a quilt that might have been made in the 19th Century. Jo sold her quilts at juried Folk Art Shows in Pennsylvania, Virginia and New England from 1988 through 2003.
Jo’s quilts have been published in American Patchwork & Quilting, Quilters Newsletter Magazine, McCall’s Quilting, Quiltmaker, Love of Quilting, and Early American Life. She has appeared on HGTV’s, Simply Quilts program #603 and on Love of Quilting that airs on PBS, program #1408. She publishes her quilt designs through ‘Jo Morton Quilts’ and has published 18 books through 2009.
DARLENE ZIMMERMAN – Fairfax, MN
Darlene has designed a range of quilting tools through EZ Quilting. Her first tool, Companion Angle, was introduced 15 years ago and she now has several more quilting tools on the market. These tools are: Easy Dresden, Tri-Recs, Easy Scallop, Easy Square, Flip n Set, and three colored 60 degree tools (diamond, triangle and hexagon), and two 45 degree tools (diamond and petal shape).
Darlene is also a textile historian and has a large collection of vintage fabric and quilts. She gets her inspiration for quilts and fabrics from the vintage textiles. For seven years she designed fabric for Chanteclaire and is currently designing new fabric lines with Robert Kaufman Co.
Darlene published her first book with EZ International in 1992 called Companions; Quilts and Miniatures. She has designed patterns and co-authored 3 more books with EZ Quilting: The Quilter's Kitchen, Calming the Storm with Tri-Rec , and Quilts to Come Home To. Darlene has published 5 books with Krause Publications since 2001: Quick Quilted Miniatures, Granny Quilts, Granny Quilts Décor!, Fat Quarter Small Quilts, The Quilter’s Edge, and coming soon Quilting: The Complete Guide!
She has designed patterns exclusively (using her fabrics) for catalogs and for her pattern company, Needlings, Inc.
http://www.feedsacklady.com/
