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Joan Derylak

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Joan-Derylak2Home: Simpsonville, South Carolina

In 2008 a local quilt shop asked Joan to teach a class on one of her first bargello jackets and Figure Flattering Quiltwear was born.

Joan designs and publishes her own line for Quiltwear patterns for ladies of all sizes and shapes, and she means all sizes and shapes. If you are bored with the programs at your guild meetings, try “I don’t want to look like I’ve been hit by a paint truck”, OR “Quiltwear I can wear out to lunch with my non-quilting friends”.

A Lecture and Trunk shop with Joan is fun as well as informative. Her jacket patterns are grouped by body type to make the selection process easier. Jacket workshops always start with a short fitting. Student literally try on sloper muslin jackets in a variety of sizes and body types, then jump right into creating their own unique garments.

If you tired of those old doughty sweatshirt jackets then check us out at Figure Flattering Quiltwear for ALL ladies bust measurements 32”-57”, petite-plus sizes. Take a good look at her Gallery of Garments for inspiration and her Classes for your next guild workshop.

Sue Patten

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Sue PattenHome: Simcoe, Ontario, Canada

Sue Patten is not your typical quilter. Anyone who knows Sue knows her high energy, innovative designs and techniques and would tell you to expect the unexpected! Always with a story to tell and a tip or trick to share, her classes are non-stop educational and fun. Sue is an award winning longarm quilter, who has travelled throughout Canada, The United States, Europe and The UK teaching her unique and innovative styles to longarm, domestic, and hand quilters alike.

Sue offers a wide variety of classes for all levels of quilters, including hands on, lecture demos, and drawing classes along with a must see, hilariously funny, trunk show. This includes everything from her hand work, to her world- renowned, award-winning thread art quilts. Sue is the author of “Quilting Possibilities…Freehand Filler Patterns” and “Adaptable Quilting Designs” published by AQS Books.

Sue is a designer of fabric, stencils, machine embroidery patterns, hand embroidery patterns, red work patterns, Innovative whole cloth designs, longarm computerized patterns, hand and machine quilting designs,a thread designer and most importantly mother of three.

Her work has been featured in dozen’s of magazines over the last 10 years and she has been featured on various TV shows such as “The Quilt Show” with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims, “America Sews” with Sue Hausmann, QNN TV’s Quilt It and “Linda Taylor’s Longarm Quilting Show”. Sue also also offers a full range of training video’s.

She has presented trunk shows and classes to guilds around the world and is a regular teacher at dozen’s of international quilt show- Houston International Quilt Show, American Quilters Show, MQS, MQX, Machine Quilting Today, Quilting with Machines, just to name a few…

To view a full list of Sues Classes and Trunk Show Descriptions Visit Her Blog.

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

Leni Wiener

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Leni Levenson Wiener (2)Home: New York City, New York, USA

Leni Levenson Wiener is an art quilter, author and instructor living just outside New York City. Her work, which has been exhibited across the US and internationally, can best be described as fabric collage. Photo-realistic in nature, her themes focus mainly on the faces and body language of people caught in ordinary moments of their everyday lives.

“As a former commercial photographer, I still see the world through a camera lens. I am drawn to subjects that are photographic in nature–I like to capture a fleeting moment in the life of a stranger. I often depict an insignificant moment, but one that causes the viewer to look closely, to fill in the story, and in that way to be drawn deeper into the work.” All of Leni’s pieces begin with a photo or a combination of photos which are translated into commercially available fabric.

Leni has authored four books; Thread Painting (2007), Photo-inspired Art Quilts (2009), 3-Fabric Quilts (2011) and Pictorial Art Quilt Guidebook, which will be released in the spring of 2014.

Leni’s workshops cover color, value and print scale; how to choose the right fabrics for your art quilt; making a pattern from a photo; and then the steps required to learn her easy technique. She also gives talks on her process with an overview of her work and on finding your artistic voice. Workshops can be customized to fit the specific needs of the guild or group.

Visit Leni’s Website for information on workshops, talks and to see more of her work.

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

Pat Harrison

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PatHarrison-smHome: Exeter, Rhode Island, USA

Pat Harrison is a National Quilting Association Certified Master Judge, teacher, author, lecturer, designer, and award-winning longarm quilter.

A retired school librarian and teacher, Pat has been longarm quilting since 1999. She has won numerous awards for her quilts at local, regional and international shows including Paducah and Houston.

Pat enjoys all aspects of quilting, especially all those little gadgets and tips that make quilting more successful and fun. She also enjoys designing quilts using EQ7 for herself and quilting magazine.

Visit Pat’s Website, Ocean Waves Quilting Company.

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

Barbara Cline

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Barbara-ClineHome: Shenandoah Valley, Virginia

Barbara Cline started creating quilts in her teens. Her first one was a design she made up, with fabrics pieced together to create a woven look. Since then, she has had over 30 years of experience in quilting, teaching classes at a local sewing shop, and creating beautiful quilts and patterns. She also travels teaching to quilt guilds and quilt shows.

Barbara worked at The Clothes Line (now called Patchwork Plus) from 5th grade until she got married and had children. After she stopped working at the fabric store, she was a stay-at-home mother; piecing quilt tops to sell when she had the time. When her last child entered kindergarten, she started working part-time again at The Clothes Line.

Barbara is a national teacher and lecture. She currently teaches classes at Patchwork Plus and loves to design and piece wall hangings and quilts from her home in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia.

Barbara has three books published by C&T Publishing: Star Struck Quilts, Simply Triangles and Diamond Chain Quilts. Visit Barbara’s Website for more about her quilts and classes. Or visit The Patchwork Plus where Barbara is a regular teacher.

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

Joanie Zeier Poole

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JoanieZ-P2Home: Madison, Wisconsin
Specialty: Heirloom Machine Quilting

Joanie Zeier Poole, is an award-winning quilt maker, teacher, pattern designer and author. Over the past ten years, she has taught thousands of students to use their sewing machine to join fabric layers into quilts. She recognizes that magic can happen in the classroom because it happened to her! As a student of master domestic machine quilter Diane Gaudyski, Joanie elevated her skill to a level that she taught alongside her mentor at the Harriet Hargrave Machine Quilting Celebration. She now teaches at major quilt shows and at numerous guilds and shops across the country.

This inspiring entrepreneur uses heirloom machine quilting techniques to create quilts that have earned many Best Machine Quilting awards at national competitions. Joanie began the new millennium by returning to school and earned a degree in Graphic design. Through her company, Heirloom Quilting Designs.com, she uses her computer skills to create a line of original and uniquely elegant Quilting Design Collections, is producing a Quilting for Life DVD series, and to date, has authored and illustrated four books sharing her expertise in machine quilting.

Joanie’s workshops target quilters of any skill level. In her hands-on, follow the line free-motion and hand guided background fill pattern workshops, students experience comfort in knowing that classes are never based on prior knowledge or skill. A PowerPoint presentation introduces each topic, illustrated with step-by-step photos of the essential concepts. Time is then allowed to practice these procedures before putting them into action on the original project specifically designed for the targeted skills. Joanie’s Choosing, Using and Adapting Quilting Design class encourages and enables students to add their own unique personality to the function of holding the layers of their quilts together.

Contact Joanie to schedule workshops and lectures targeted to the needs of your group at Joanie@heirloomquiltingdesigns.com.

Visit Joanie’s Website or her YouTube Channel .



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

Lee Heinrich

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Lee HeinrichHome: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Co-Author of “Vintage Quilt Revival:22 Modern Designs from Classic Blocks (available December 2013); contributor to “Modern Quilts from The Blogging Universe”

Lee specializes in modern quilting and the “traditional-made-modern” movement. Her Lifesavers quilt took first place in the “Modern Traditionalism – Small Quilts” category at Quilt Con (the first ever national modern quilt show) in February 2013. Her quilts have also been published in Quilt Magazine, Quiltmaker, Fons and Porter’s Easy Quilts, Fat Quarterly e-zine, the Moda Bake Shop, and others. Lee’s blog has more than 3,000 subscribers and generates about 75,000 page views per month.

She offers a 15+ quilt trunk show, a lecture on Modern Traditionalism (what Modern Traditionalism is and how to apply modernizing design strategies to your own quilts), and hands-on classes in her Modern Traditionalism techniques and designs. Visit Lee’s Website

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