 Meet the Faculty
 Jennifer Amor
Columbia, SC
www.jenniferamor.com
Jennifer is an internationally-known quilt artist, teacher, author, and designer. A regular faculty member at International Quilt Festival in Houston, she has taught at conferences and guilds all over the country, and has been a featured designer in both the Fairfield and the Bernina Fashion Shows. Her quilts, wearables, patterns, and quilting articles have been featured in numerous books, magazines, catalogs, and calendars. She firmly believes that learning should be fun, so laughter is an essential part of every class.
Jennifer's class:
 Barbara J. Arnold
Rocky Point, NY
Barbara learned to quilt along side her family on Saturdays at her mother's kitchen table. Learning to quilt has been a wonderful experience and the maker of many memories. She began teaching in 1996 and hasn't stopped. She enjoys teaching first time quilters and seeing them progress and then go on to more challenging projects. In 2003 Barbara completed her journey to become a National Quilting Association Certified Teacher. She enjoys every day spent quilting and teaching.
Barbara's classes:
 Eleanor Burns
San Marcos, CA
www.quiltinaday.com
When Eleanor Burns introduced her first Quilt in a Day book, she began a quiltmaking revolution. She presented her unique style, a diverse combination of cutting and sewing applications, creating new techniques altogether. She presented an incredibly rapid stitching system, applying the method of assembly line sewing to piecework. Eleanor spread her vibrant enthusiasm to everyone. She motivated thousands of want-to-be quilters with needed-confidence and assurance. Her name and techniques have become synonymous with quiltmaking.
Eleanor's classes:
 Darlene C. Christopherson
China Spring, TX
www.darlenechristopherson.com
Darlene, an accomplished quiltmaker since 1979, has had her work published in many books including More Vertical Set Quilts with Style [AQS] by Bobbie Aug & Sharon Newman and Patchwork Portfolio by Jinny Beyer. Darlene has taught on the staff of the Jinny Beyer Hilton Head Seminar, as well as in Houston, Paducah, Road to California and across the nation. Darlene's book, A Perfect Union of Patchwork and Applique, was published by C&T. Darlene teaches hand appliqué, piecing and quilting, as well as design classes. Attention and patient guidance is given to all students.
Darlene's classes:
Xenia Cord
Kokomo, IN
Xenia is a noted quilt historian and researcher, and has degrees in History, English, Folklore and American Studies and taught folklore at Indiana University for 24 years. She owns Legacy Quilts, an antique quilts brokerage. Xenia has authored many articles published in Uncoverings – the research papers of the American Quilt Study Group, American Patchwork & Quilting magazine and The Professional Quilter.
Xenia's lecture:
 Debra M. Danko
Grand Blanc, MI
www.debradanko.com
Award winning fabric artist and quilter, Debra gains inspiration for her art quilts from her love of nature, especially botanical gardens from which she transforms her favorite floral photos into larger than life fabric creations. Her quilts are made from hand-dyed, batik and commercial cottons using many different techniques including: machine piecing, machine appliqué, painting, fused fabric collage, photo transfer, embroidery and machine quilting. Debra lectures and teaches her unique style throughout the US and abroad.
Debra's classes and lecture:
 Mickey Depre
Oak Lawn, IL
www.mdquilts.com
Mickey was introduced to the world of Fiber Arts by her own personal "grand masters" at the age of four. Grandmothers, Great Aunts, Aunts and her mother filled her days with cloth, needles, yarn and such. Textiles have always fascinated her, and when she pushed beyond traditional quiltmaking, she found the road less traveled was greatly inviting. Mickey enjoys sharing her love of fiber through lectures and workshops. Her workshops mix technique instruction with individual creativity and always a giggle or two!
Mickey's classes:
 Sherri Bain Driver
Tucson, AZ
Sherri, a quiltmaker since 1987, began judging quilts in 1991, and in 1997 became an NQA Certified judge. She has judged shows across the country and is judging coordinator for NQA's 2007 and 2008 shows. She was senior editor for Quiltmaker magazine for more than 5 years, and currently edits patterns and articles for American Quilter magazine. Sherri's other quilting activities include teaching, experimenting with new materials and techniques, as well as making award-winning quilts. Sherri describes her own style as "traditional with a twist".
Sherri's classes and lecture:
 Rita Fishel
Chillicothe, OH
www.creationssewclever.com
Rita, nationally known speaker and teacher, owns the very busy shop, Creations SewClever. After many years in the desert Southwest, Rita and family relocated to a charming farm in rural southern Ohio. In late 1992 she purchased a small clothing and fabric business. Many classes were offered in this new shop, and by far the most popular and the most fun were Rita's Mystery Classes. From 16 years of Mystery Classes, a book was born and published by AQS. Stop by the shop when you find yourself in the area. The gang is dying to show you around!
Rita class:
 Jane Garrison
Rock Hill, SC
www.ylicorp.com
Jane Garrison, Director of Education for YLI Corporation, began sewing at the age of five at her mother's knee and has never stopped. She had lots of family mentors along the way. Jane briefly taught Home Economics in the public school system, owned a sewing machine dealership, designed two pattern lines, and worked for a major sewing machine manufacturer before joining YLI.
Jane's lecture:
 Diane Gaudynski
Waukesha, WI
www.dianegaudynski.net
From self-taught quilter in 1979 to a designated NQA Master Quilter in 2002, Diane has become an accomplished designer with quilts in museums and private collections. A national teacher in machine quilting techniques for the home sewing machine, she is the author of the best selling book Guide to Machine Quilting and the new Quilt Savvy - Gaudynski's Machine Quilting Guidebook. A Wisconsin native, Diane is known for ornate original quilting designs in traditional quilts, and subtle and sophisticated use of "mud" colors.
Diane's classes and lecture:
 Linda J. Hahn
Englishtown, NJ
www.twocountryquilters.com
Linda began teaching quilting in 1994. Linda is a National Quilting Association Certified Teacher and has been twice nominated for Professional Quilter Magazine’s Teacher of the Year Award. Linda travels the East Coast presenting lectures and workshops to quilt guilds. Linda, along with her daughter, Sarah, and their getaway partner, Merry May, offer weekend getaways twice per year on the beach in Wildwood, NJ ("BBQ") and also an annual Quilting Cruise leaving the New York area.
Linda's classes:
 Klaudeen Hansen
Sun Prairie, WI
Teaching is Klaudeen's greatest interest, and teaching is where you will find her when she isn't judging, training future NQA judges, designing quilts, edition the Quilt Art Calendar series, chairing the AQS competition in Paducah or doing many other related activities. No wonder she has earned a place in Who's Who in American Quilting!
Klaudeen's classes:
 Dianne Hire
Belfast, ME
www.dhquiltsandclasses.blogspot.com
Award-winning fiber artist and international exhibitor, Diane lives with her two best friends -- husband, Terry, and Maine Coon cat, Sir Hilary Hire -- both of whom love fiber and strings in quilt form. Before 1981, she was a Couture Dress Buyer and never, ever considered quilting to be a possibility for her life. Now she is a colorist who intuitively responds to the joyful way colors intermingle and stretches the rules to locate fresh boundaries. By approaching quiltmaking this way, Diane embraces technical skills while not allowing techniques to overshadow image.
Dianne's classes and lecture:
 Lynn G. Kough
Chandler, AZ
www.lynnkough.com
Lynn's life-long "affair" with fabric has resulted in a career of teaching, writing about, judging, and creating quilts of all kinds. A traditionalist at heart, her work is influenced by time-honored patterns that morph into contemporary manifestations. She has taught quiltmaking at major conventions, guilds, and shops throughout the United States and abroad for more than 20 years. Now she has been seduced by the "bead bug" and is happily hand stitching once again!
Lynn's class:
 Billie Lauder
Sherman Oaks, CA
www.easymade.com/billie_lauder.html
Billie is proud to be a third generation quiltmaker. She has been teaching quilting since 1976. Billie has a knack for making quiltmaking easy for all levels of quilters. She loves to develop "Quick Trick" methods of quilt construction and to get quilters jazzed and excited about trying a new technique for construction or to look at something old in a new way. She likes to see just how far she can "push" a block. Twenty-four books published by Easymade Publications offer Billie a vast library to draw upon for her workshops and lectures that continue to take her all over the world.
Billie's classes and lecture:
 Sandra Leichner
Albany, OR
http://home.comcast.net/~angelperch
Sandra's quilts are best known for her mastery of hand appliqué and embellishment technique. Combining her art background and years of working with fiber, Sandra has created stunning quilts that are both art and traditional in style. Her work has consistently garnered major juried national and international awards including the RJR Best of Show Wall Quilt [Paducah] and a Master's Award [Houston]. Her work is included in the permanent collections of two national quilt museums and her quilts have been published in many sources worldwide.
Sandra's classes:
 Helen Marshall
New Zealand
www.helenmarshalldesigns.com
Helen has enjoyed teaching her own original projects, both in Patchwork and Embroidery, for more than 25 years. She has a "What happens if..." policy for students which means they have a lot of fun and get some great results. Helen likes the addition of embroidery either by hand or machine to her patchwork, giving an extra dimension to the flat surface. Inspiration often comes from her garden or the countryside of New Zealand. Her qualifications include City and Guilds of London Embroidery Parts 1 and 11, four New Zealand Embroidery and Patchwork Certificates and three Adult Teaching Papers.
Helen's classes:
 Jennifer McCann
Galena, OH
Quilting began in October, 1997 for Jennifer at a class in Westerville, Ohio. After completing her first four-patch, Jennifer had found her passion. By the end of the first week, she had six blocks completed by hand. In the years since, she has taken many classes and became an NQA Certified Teacher in 2002. "There isn't anything about quilting I don't love. Even my license plate says LV2KWLT!"
Jennifer's classes:
N ancy McElhinny
Lyndora, PA
www.fabulousfibers.com
The owner of Fabulous Fibers and Embellishments, Nancy combines her love of all things fiber with a lifetime of stitching, plus 12 years of executive experience. She has immersed herself in threads of all kinds, yarns, ribbons, silks, plus patterns, embroidery, charms and beads. Her passion has become her livelihood.
Nancy's class:
 Cindy Oravecz
Cortland, OH
www.quiltersfancy.com
Cindy is a writer by trade. But she has always found solace in working with her hands. When seven years old, her Auntie Marie taught her how to pick up a crochet hook and do the simple chain stitch. She chain stitched miles, and learned as a young child that if she were ever bored or lonely, she could always create with her hands, occupy her mind and find peace. Today, Cindy enjoys owning Quilter's Fancy, writing extensively about embellishing techniques, and teaching her three-dimensional flower making techniques while meeting stitchers from everywhere.
Cindy's class:
 Elizabeth Palmer-Spilker
Westerville, OH
Elizabeth has been quilting for nearly 20 years, focusing primarily on art quilts for the last 10 years. She is known for her graphic designs and free-motion quilting. Along with finding creative solutions to challenges, giving others the tools to get where they want to go is her passion. She has taught a wide range of classes including free-motion quilting (her favorite), and color and design. She has two rules in the classroom: 1) Have fun; 2) No quilt police allowed!
Elizabeth's class:
 Vikki Pignatelli
Reynoldsburg, OH
www.vikkipignatelli.com
A painter and sculptor, with more than 30 years experience in several art forms, Vikki became a quilter in 1991 and quickly turned her passion for intense colors and flowing design into national award winning quilts. A full-time quilt artist, author, teacher and lecturer, she has developed a layering technique for piecing curves. In her workshops, Vikki teaches her new technique with emphasis on self-confidence, a sense of adventure, persistence and inspirational motivation. Her newest book is Quilting by Improvisation: Exploring Curves, Openwork, and Dimension [Dragon Threads].
Vikki's classes:
 Froncie Quinn
Essex Junction, VT
www.hooplapatterns.com
Froncie is an avid quilt historian, pattern maker, quiltmaker, and teacher. She is the owner of Hoopla Patterns and is licensed by the Shelburne Museum, Old Sturbridge Village and others to create patterns from their antique quilt collections. She also worked with Red Rooster Fabrics in creating fabrics based on the Shelburne collection. Froncie loves hand piecing, antique quilts and miniatures. She continues to teach her classes with an extra emphasis on museum quilts.
Froncie's classes and lecture:
 Anita Shackelford
Bucyrus, OH
www.thimbleworks.com
An internationally known teacher, lecturer, and NQA Certified Judge and Masters Judge, Anita's work combines dimensional appliqué techniques and fine hand quilting to create new quilts in 19th century style. She also enjoys using her sewing machine for many parts of the creative process and has recently added longarm quilting to the mix. Her quilts have won numerous awards, including twelve Best of Shows. She is the author of eight books – the newest, A Modern Mix [AQS], inventor of the RucheMark™ tools, and designer of the P&B fabric line, Pennsylvania Plain and Fancy.
Anita's class and lecture:
 Pat Sloan
Herndon, VA
www.quiltershome.com
Pat has been sewing and quilting for many years. She started to teach quilt making to others and then turned her skills to pattern designing. In 2000, Pat's designs became so popular that she and her husband Gregg formed a design and publishing company. In addition to designing and publishing her work, they now travel around the country teaching and showing her quilts. Pat has had her designs published in many national magazines, has written many books on quilting and has designed several lines of fabric for P&B Textiles.
Pat's classes:
 Eileen Sullivan
Duluth, GA
www.thedesignersworkshop.com
Eileen has been teaching throughout the US for the last 15 years. Classes focus on foundation piecing, design, and technique. She is a contributing author to numerous publications including C&T's book, The Expert's Guide to Foundation Piecing. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in several private collections, including The Museum of The American Quilter's Society.
Eileen's class:
 Linda Taylor
McKinney, TX
www.lequilters.com
Linda is a highly awarded longarm machine quilter whose work has been displayed in many venues and published widely in quilting magazines and books. Linda has been quilting for more than 20 years and is known and respected as one of the innovators of the art of longarm machine quilting. She has appeared on more than 60 segments of television programs with popular TV quilting personalities and now has her own PBS television show, Linda's Longarm Quilting. She has produced six how-to DVDs and five books on longarm techniques, more than 140 continuous line patterns, and the handbook on longarm quilting, The Ultimate Guide to Longarm Machine Quilting [C&T].
Linda's classes and lecture:
Janet White
Columbus, OH
The current NQA Vice-President and National Quilting Day coordinator, Janet's been collecting fabric, taking classes, and thinking about quilts for more than 20 years. She still makes quilts just for the fun of it!
Janet's class:
 Bernadine Yoder
Arthur, IL
www.bernadinesneedleart.com
In the late 1980's, Bernadine saw Russian punchneedle embroidery on an antique crazy quilt - and discovered how it was done. It was then that she knew that she wanted to develop designs and teach it, which she has for the past 19 years. Bernadine researched and developed designs based on authentic historical patterns, creating miniature versions of chenille bedspreads, rugs and tapestries. She views all these forms of hand embroidery as painting with thread or ribbon to create heirlooms that will stand the test of time and bring pleasure to all who see them.
Bernadine's class:
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