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Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill

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Home: Connecticut, USA

Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill is a designer, quilt pattern publisher, award-winning quilter, educator and creative entrepreneur. As a trained and practicing graphic designer, her quilts start with a concept and research shapes the design. Her work is inspired by her everyday life and experiences. Sheri strives to enhance people’s everyday lives through beautiful meaningful design. Through sharing her work and teaching, she loves to empower and inspire others to enjoy the process of making.

Sheri’s quilts have gained international recognition, including awards from Quilt Week/Paducah, QuiltCon, International Quilt Festival, the Quilt Alliance and the Modern Quilt Guild. Additionally, her work has been featured at art centers and galleries around the country. Her work has been included in books and publications such as Modern Quilts: Designs of the New Century, Modern Patchwork and International Quilt Festival Scene. She self-publishes and distributes her quilt patterns, which can be found at quilt shops throughout the country and online. She also gives presentations/trunk shows and teaches nationally.

In 2017, she created and filmed two segments for Fresh Quilting, a new public television show co-produced by the Modern Quilt Guild and KS Productions. In 2016, she was awarded the first annual Craftsy Quilt Designer Fellowship.

In 2015, Sheri founded Whole Circle Studio, LLC. Whole Circle Studio specializes in the design of custom modern quilts, patterns and other licensed products. Learn more about Sheri, her work and program offerings at Whole Circle Studio and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/wholecirclestudio/

Sheri is offering online and virtual presentations for guilds!

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

Featured Teacher Tammy Silvers

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Tammy Silvers mixes guided improv and paper piecing patterns to offer a modern spin on classic designs. She is a Certified Studio 180 instructor, offering lectures, classes and workshops on Studio 180 tools, techniques and patterns. Contact: tamarinisquilts @ gmail.com

Paula Golden

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Home: Blacksburg, Virginia

Paula Golden was selected as “2001 Teacher of the Year” by The Professional Quilter Magazine. She teaches internationally, in addition to being on the staff of Jinny Beyer’s Hilton Head Seminar since 1995. In 1989 she founded Cabin Branch Quilters Woodbridge, Virginia. Paula hosted a weekly TV series on quilting for the Park Authority of Prince William, County, Virginia.

Paula is a co-author of Quilts of Virginia 1607-1899:  The Birth of America Through the Eye of a Needle, based on the Virginia quilt documentation project. She is President of the Board of Directors for the Virginia Quilt Museum and past president of the Mason Dixon Quilt Professionals Network.

Her patterns and articles have been published in The Professional Quilter, The Foundation Piecer. Quilts With Style. Paula’s quilts are featured in the books Designing Tessellations by Jinny Beyer, A Quilt Block Challenge: Vintage Revisited by Mary Kerr, Quilts Are Forever edited by Kathy Lamancusa and Quilting with Manhole Covers by Shirley MacGregor. Her quilts are also featured in the collections of the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center’s Fisher House, the Brehm Center for Type 1 Diabetes Research and Analysis and private individuals.

To add a dimension to her teaching style, she became certified in administering the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator. She works with businesses and quilters to work within their personality types to achieve “maximum creativity”. Paula recently earned a Master of Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts.

Paula relishes sharing the history, techniques and art of quilting with students of all ages. Her passion for quilting encourages students to explore their own creativity in a positive, nurturing environment. Visit Paula’s Website.

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

Peggy Gelbrich

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Home: Yamhill, Oregon.

Peggy’s teaching style is Modern Traditional taking traditional patterns and making them new again with new, easier techniques, fabrics and settings.

She teaches machine piecing, including foundation piecing using freezer paper. This techniques leaves no paper to tear away and a reusable pattern.

She also teaches needle-turn applique and hand quilting.

She has been nominated as Teacher of the Year for the Professional Quilter Magazine. Check out her website: www.yellowhousequilter.com

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