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Bunnie Cleland

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Home: Chesapeake, Virginia, or traveling in our Motorhome; We will be traveling nation-wide

Bunnie Cleland is a long-time crafter and sewist (sewing artist). She fell in love with quilting in 2006, after her mother dragged her to a quilt show and 9 store shop hop. She was hired at a local quilt shop before she even finished her first quilting class…though she did go on to finish 12 quilts that first year! 

Her Triangle Frenzy business started by accident in 2013 when she arranged some triangles into a quilting project and was prompted to translate her efforts into patterns. High demand for the patterns, by quilters, retailers, and fabric companies, resulted in the global distribution of Triangle Frenzy, designs that produce several visually stunning quilting projects including table runners, table toppers, lap quilts, and bed quilts.

As a former Navy Electronics Technician and Naval Nuclear Power Plant operator, she understands the importance of precision and accuracy. She discovered she has the talent for translating complex written directions into easy-to-follow instructions. This aided her in the creation of Triangle Frenzy’s detailed, step-by-step illustrations for experienced beginners and intermediate level quilters.

She’s also able to use her technical background in teaching sewing techniques to students, guiding them through the creative process that will help them succeed at quilting.

Bunnie’s most popular presentations include:

 “Quilter’s Consultant”

Bring your questions, puzzles, conundrums, and unfinished projects and find options and solutions. Includes a sought-after handout tip sheet.

“Creativity, Organization, Scraps and Quilts”

The title says it all. Includes tips, and the sought-after handout tip sheet.

On the rare occasions when she’s not quilting, she enjoys photography, digital scrapbooking, trading pins, her new Motor Home, and organizing just about anything. She and her retired husband live in Chesapeake, Virginia, and have two grown children.

Bunnie is known for her Triangle Frenzy, find out more on her website Triangle Frenzy

Email: bunnie @ trianglefrenzy.com (remove spaces)

Please let Bunnie know that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Tina Curran

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Home: Studio City, California

Tina Curran has been a quilter for over 20 years. She is known for her use of color and fun imagery in her quilts. Her work has earned multiple blue ribbons and the rank of Master Quilter at her local quilt guild.

Her quilts have hung in major shows including Road to California (Ontario, CA), the AQS show in Paducah, KY and the International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX.

Tina’s work has been featured more than 20 times in magazines (Quilters Newsletter and Quiltmaker) and in three books (including Ricky Tims’ “Kool Kaleidoscopes”).

She has been designing patterns since 2002, began giving quilt lectures in 2012 and started teaching her designs in quilt guild workshops in 2013. In 2015, she started a free monthly email newsletter to chronicle her adventures in quilting, which is read by thousands of quilters around the world. Her patterns are sold in her shop on Etsy.com (tinacurran.etsy.com) and to date have been bought by quilters in all 50 states and 23 foreign countries.

Whimsical Garden by Tina Curran

She offers two trunk shows. The first is a reimagined in-person show, now using photos. The second one features quilts no longer in her possession, so perfect for sharing using photos. Her popular design lecture demystifies the process with the hope to inspire others to design their own quilts. She also has a talk tracing her career path — from the advertising industry to the quilting industry, highlighting the joys and the challenges along the way.

All her workshops are project-based, helping students to make their own versions of her quilt designs. Her most popular is “Whimsical Garden,” where students make a floral fabric collage. With four versions of American flags quilts, her flag workshops are also popular, as is her “California Poppies” class. The details of the nine workshops that feature regular piecing and the seventeen that feature paper piecing can be found on the “Lectures and Workshops” page on her website.

Tina is an experienced presenter/teacher on Zoom. More information can be found on her website at www.tinacurran.com.

Please let Tina know that you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar.

Zoom Overview for Boards

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One hour presentation for Quilt Guild Board members and Program chairs on How Guilds are Using Zoom. Included are PDFs specific to using Zoom:

  • Training Guide for Guilds and their Members
  • Program Ideas
  • Membership Tips
  • Professional Teacher Checklist (are they really Zoom Ready?)
  • How to Raise Funds via a Facebook Private Group

$150 Contact MMQuilts @ gmail.com

In-Depth Training is also available on

  • Choosing the Right Settings for Your Meetings
  • Creating Templates & Recurring Meetings
  • Controls – How to Use Them for the Best Presentation Possible
  • Rehearsing Your Presentation

Amy Friend

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Home: West Newbury, Massachusetts

Amy Friend is a former museum curator turned designer.  She designs modern quilts and specializes in foundation paper pieced designs.  She authored the books Intentional Piecing, Improv Paper Piecing: A Modern Approach to Quilt Design, and Petal + Stem. 

Amy runs community block swaps several times a year as well as block of the month and quilt along programs.  She is an award winning quilter and her quilts have been exhibited at a number of quilt shows as well as museums.  Amy is a national quilt teacher and lecturer, both on Zoom and in person.

Amy enjoys speaking to guilds about the modern quilting aesthetic and design principles like alternate gridwork and negative space.

She also teaches her own foundation paper piecing technique that considers directional fabric, the grain of the fabric, and minimizes waste. 

Her most popular workshops include Improv Paper Piecing where she teaches her unique approach to modern quilt design where participants each design their own improvisational block and repeat it through paper piecing. 

Another is Large Scale Intentional Piecing where fabrics are kept directional in order to harness the power of stripes or other motifs while foundation paper piecing on larger foundations.

While most of Amy’s classes are more appropriate for the intermediate to advanced quilter, she also teaches beginner paper piecing and welcomes beginners into any of her classes, spending extra time with them so they can succeed.

Visit Amy’s website: During Quiet Time

Amy’s YouTube Channel: During Quiet Time

Please contact Amy at [amybfriend] @ gmail.com (remove brackets and spaces)

Please let Amy know that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Private Zoom Training

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Does your guild need help transitioning to using Zoom? Experienced Zoomer and Zoom Transition Trainer Marguerita McManus is available to help! Contact MMQuilts @ gmail.com for more information. In “Six Sessions to Success” you will have everything you need to run your guild meetings – no matter how large your guild – via Zoom. Full board & committee training for

  • Creating your guild’s plan for meetings to increase membership
  • establishing the best settings for security and meetings
  • creating meeting templates and recurring meetings
  • learning the in-meeting controls and how they work
  • running a mock-meeting and using the controls
  • follow-up after your first meeting, planning programs, tips on hiring truly “Zoom Ready” national teachers and more…

Marguerita has been on-camera for 15 years, uploading videos to YouTube that have over 2.5 million views. She has been a professional in the quilting industry for over twenty years. Contact her at MMQuilts @ gmail.com

Ronna Bruce

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Home: Sherman, Texas

Guild To Guild Virtual Teacher

Ronna is a leader in transitioning guild activities to Zoom. She was the mastermind behind moving her guild onto the Zoom platform in March of 2020 and in the use of Facebook for Guilds.

Ronna offers her Facebook Expertise to guilds:

Facebook Groups for Guild Revenue – One hour lecture, or coaching with your guild board, with full demonstration and “How-To” handouts of how to create and use Facebook Groups to hold auctions; sell goods donated to the guild and for members to buy-sell between members. A very affordable guide to get your members motivated and your guild started with Facebook Groups! $150 – 1 hour lecture or coaching session.

Ronna’s presentations are thorough and expertly presented and she patiently answers all questions. She has my highest recommendation! ~Marguerita

Ronna has created some wonderful games for quilt guilds and she shares them on her website – https://sites.google.com/view/ronna-bruce-designs/home?authuser=0

Contact Ronna at rkbruc3 @ gmail.com to book her lecture today!

Be sure to tell Ronna you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Trudy Cleveland

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Trudy Cleveland is a professional quilter and photographer residing in Oceanside, California. She has merged her two passions of quilting and photography into presentations that reveal the impact photography has on our artistic endeavors. She shares what she has learned along her journey of photographing quilts, inspiring her audience to begin routinely taking photographs of their textile art. Using only a smartphone she shares the process to achieve professional grade images.


Both her textile art and photography have been on exhibit in juried shows including Road to California and The Hoffman Challenge. Her photography has been featured in “Fons and Porter Love of Quilting” magazine.
Power Point Lectures: “Shoot Your Quilt”: 45-60 minute presentation discussing: Why, How and When you should photograph your quilts/textile art “Upgrade Your Quilt Toolbox”: 45-60 minute presentation
How to use your household electronics to improve your quilting process.

Get the most out of your computer applications, printers, lasers and the internet to step up your textile art experience.

Workshop: “Photographing Your Quilt”
How To Photograph Your Quilt Using A Smartphone
How To Edit Images Of Your Quilts/Textile Art


Lectures and Workshops can be done in-person or on Zoom platform. https://trudycleveland.com/newsite/

Please tell Trudy that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Ellen Lindner

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Home: Melbourne, Florida

A former flight instructor, Ellen didn’t try her hand at art quilting until her forties.  After learning the basics, she quickly began to experiment, and over the course of years, developed her own fabric collage technique. Now using her teaching skills at a lower altitude, she teaches online and in person, as well as via her episodes on Quilting Arts. Ellen has also written two eBooks and several articles.

Her classes are perfect for traditional quilters who want to try art quilts, but are looking for direction. In some classes the students learn a technique, such as Double Reverse Applique. But most cover an artistic concept, such as color or design. Some of these actually have “artistic courage” included in the supply list! Ellen thinks these are the absolute best classes, because her students learn so much.

www.AdventureQuilter.com

Please let Ellen know that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!