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Jenifer Dick

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Home: Kansas City, Missouri

Jenifer is the author of 6 books since 2005 including: Nine-Patch Revolution, The Modern Appliqué Workbook, Grapefruit Juice and Sugar, The Circuit Rider’s Quilt, Quilt Retro, and Stories in Stitches. In 2015 she started publishing patterns under the name Everyday Stitches. 

Jenifer literally wrote the book on machine applique – The Modern Applique Handbook – and also teaches a variety of piecing techniques including simple paper piecing and guided improv.

She has been talking to guilds for 15 years and teaching just as long. She offers an applique trunk show featuring 25+ quilts called “Because It’s Applique!” And a 25-year retrospective look at her best quilts called “25 Years, 25 Quilts.” Both offer lots of tips, hints and advice to make your own quiltmaking easier and more fun! Workshops include Invisible Zigzag Applique, Starburst, a Paper pieced showstopper (that’s really simple to make!), Exploding Nine-Patch, an explosion of color and fun! and more, which can be seen on her website.

Her Blog: www.42quilts.com and her website: www.everydaystitches.com

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

Cindy Brick

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Home: Castle Rock, Colorado

Cindy Brick is an editor, designer and writer who travels the world teaching about quilting and quilt history. A former editor for Quilter’s Newsletter, she is also an AQS-certified and USPAP-trained personal property appraiser who specializes in textiles. She also judges quilt competitions, with venues as varied as the international Quilt Festival, the Pacific International Quilt Festival and the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival. She has written hundreds of articles and seven books, including Hanky Panky, the Stitcher’s Language of Flowers, Quilts of the Great Depression, the Fabric Dating Kit,Crazy Quilts and Quilts from the Golden West. 

Nearly all of Encyclopaedia Britannica’s quilt-related entries are her writing; she also consulted for three television specials on quilting (appeared in person on one), and was on Simply Quilts to explain her Hanky Panky quilt method. She has been on an episode of The Quilt Show to talk about Crazy quilts, and on the Quilter’s Newsletter channel to discuss Friendship Quilts.

Cindy is a frequent contributor to various magazines, and continues to write and design for her company, Brickworks. She also frequently writes for frugal living and personal finance blogs. For more on her books and products, including color photos, visit the Brickworks website at www.cindybrick.com. 

Denise LaMarca

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Home: Niagara Falls, New York

Denise specializes in helping quilters/sewists learn how to effectively 
use their stash and scraps to make unique, personalized projects. 

Working with color and how to use art principles to come up with 
unusual, yet spectacular coloration in their quilts. She has been sewing 
for over 35 years and has worked in the field of color & design her 
entire working career. 

She offers workshops, programs and trunks shows to guilds on Color & Design, Scrap Quilting & how to keep that Stash and Scraps organized for easy use.

Denise teaches regularly at her shop: Auntie’s Attic Quilt Shop 1995 Military Road Niagara Falls, NY 

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

Lee Chappell Monroe

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Home: Winston Salem, North Carolina

Lee has been creating since she first discovered crayons at age 2! She’s from a family of quilters and learned everything from her mother, affectionately known as The Guru. She loves all things fabric—from zippy pouch to queen size quilt—and everything in between.

With a love of color and bold graphic shapes, Lee enjoys designing patterns and teaching all types of classes, while sharing her adventures on her blog, www.maychappell.com.

She is a trained graphic designer which shows in her clean aesthetic. Her work has appeared in multiple publications, including Stitch, Quiltmaker & Modern Patchwork. Lee is also a Bernina Ambassador. She is an active member of the Triad Modern Quilt Guild. Lee lives in beautiful North Carolina with Mack the Chihuahua.

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

Michelle Umlauf

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Home: Sabillasville, Maryland.

Michelle Umlauf began her sewing career as a freelance National Educator for Sulky of America, Clover, and formerly Baby Lock.  She teaches at popular expos nationwide, in her local community and online.  Quilt guilds hold a special place in her heart because of the personal connections that are made during an event.

I have a quirky wit and coined my program brochure as “Spools & Tools”.  After all, that has been my area of expertise for nearly 15 years.  

Lately, the most popular program is “Spools & Tools for Quilters.”   Guilds members love notions.  I demonstrate how to use them and set up an area for you to handle them.  Plus, I bring eye candy for you to enjoy.  Members haven’t heard of some of the notions, can’t find them or have something, but don’t know how to use it!  As a lecture, you will enjoy learning all about the amazing notions that make the quilt making process easier, faster and more accurate without disrupting the enjoyment it gives you.  In a hands-on workshop, I bring my “School Box” filled with almost everything you need to make a couple small projects just for the fun of it.  I love watching you test driving the “spools and tools”,  and discovering what works for you and help you when it doesn’t.  Clover has a lot of wonderful sewing notions, and I’m prepared to tell you about many of them.  You will find that I tend to over-deliver because I am very passionate and enthusiastic about you, and giving you the best of me.

My experience has afforded me the opportunity to become well-versed in everything from hand embroidery to machine machine embroidery.  Recently, I have taken an interest in mixed media, art quilts sprinkled with a bit of hand embroidery. I contributed a piece of my work in the book Photo Memory Quilts by Lesley Riley.  

You can sign up for my newsletter and get to know me and discover UFO Friday, a monthly meeting I host online.

My husband and our fur family enjoy traveling across the country and camping, so no place is off-limits.

Website:  Sewing Machine Artistry

Instagram: Sewing Machine Artistry

Sign up to be a Sewing Friend

Email:  [Michelle] @ SewingMachineArtistry. com (remove brackets and spaces)

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

Deborah Kalenty

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Home: Central New Jersey

I am an enthusiastic and passionate teacher / lecturer (with fun / low stress classes).  

I a quilter (30 years); online quilt shop / quilt show vendor (15 years); Studio 180 Design Certified Instructor (5 years); and published designer.

 I specialize in Deb Tucker Studio 180 Design tools / lectures / workshops.  My “Tucker Tool Time” lecture has been very well received though NJ/NY/Eastern PA.  This lecture is also part demo, with overhead camera, to show HOW to use our tools, and trunk show with over 30 quilts.

 I teach at shops, guilds, retreats and quilt cruises.  I’m based in Central NJ – will travel.  Please contact me for more information: sales @ QuiltersObsession.com

Jackie O’Brien

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Home: Whitesboro, New York, USA

I made my first quilt in 2004 and it was love at first stitch. I have been teaching quilting techniques since 2006. I am known for teaching One Block Wonder’s, of which I have made 67 so far. I am a Certified Instructor for Studio 180 Design since 2013. I am also “Island Batik Ambassador”, sharing challenges & projects and a Northcott Creators club participant using their fabulous fabrics.

My quilts have been exhibited at the Virginia Quilt Museum in Harrisonburg, Virginia, The Fenimore Art Museum, and the Farmers Museum in Cooperstown, the Earlville Opera House in Earlville, NY, and the
Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute in Utica, NY.

Two of my One Block Wonders are featured in Maxine Rosenthal’s new book “One Block Wonders Around the World”. My quilt “Waves of Joy” is included in Deb Tucker’s new book “Royal Treasures” based on the Hunter
Star quilt.

I offer classes teaching the One Block Wonder technique and classes using all of Deb Tuckers Studio 180 Design Tools. You can see my workshops here – https://ifthesethreadscouldtalk.com/workshops/

Please let Jackie know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!

Sue Fox

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Home: Berkeley, California

Sue Fox (right) and Julia McLeod (left) are two San Francisco Bay Area quilt makers who make new quilts from rescued materials. Specializing in incorporating silks and other up-cycled fabrics into their work, they love to exhibit, lecture and teach about their work.

Many quilters have stashes of neckties, kimonos, saris and more. Silk and Salvage’s lectures and workshops aim to give quilters the inspiration, tips and techniques necessary to to make beautiful silk quilts.

Visit Sue’s website for more about her – www.silkandsalvage.com

Please let Sue know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!