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Rami Kim

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RamiKim2Home: Rocklin, California

Rami Kim is a DNA scientist-turned fabric artist/quilter/instructor known nationally and internationally. She is a 17-time Best of Show winner, distinguished for her innovative art-to-wear.

Her passion is in contemporary art-to-wear, quilts, cloth dolls and bags with special interest in 3-dimensional textures and she is known for her own distinctive colors and techniques. Her first book, Folded Fabric Elegance, published by AQS, is about her 3-D texturing techniques and new projects. Her second book Quilted Elegance, also published by AQS, focuses on reversible wearable arts, bags and two-sided quilts. The third and most recent book, ‘Elegant Cotton, Wool, Silk Quilts’ was published in autumn 2012.

She graduated from University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) majoring in endocrinology and worked at the Cancer Research Institute at UCSF before her passion and talent in fabric art drastically changed this biochemist’s career years ago.

She says she’d rather spend even more time with beautiful fabrics and threads and beads than with DNA sequencing gels and radioactive isotopes of cold, gray science. In her website you’ll find information on upcoming workshops, lectures and trunk shows hosted by Rami, as well as a gallery of her art. Enter Rami’s world of fascination and take a look around! Visit Rami’s Website and her blog for what’s new in her world today.

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Wendy Butler Berns

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Wendy_Butler_Berns_(425x640)Home: Lake Mills, Wisconsin

As a published, award winning quilt artist and teacher who found her passion for quilting in 1993, Wendy presents at guilds, retreats, conferences, and on-line nationally and internationally. Enthusiastic and empowering, describe Wendy as a teacher. She is recognized for her unabashed free-motion machine quilting, embellishing and picture image machine appliqué style, use of color and contemporary original designs. Her creative passion and energetic teaching style encourages and inspires students and keeps them coming back for more.

Her work and articles appear in many quilt publications. Her own book, Photo Album Quilts, which unfortunately is out of print, features her machine picture image appliqué process. Wendy has appeared on Quilting Arts TV, Sewing with Nancy Zieman and currently is featured in three online courses on Craftsy.com. She is the 19th recipient of the Jewel Pearce Patterson Teacher’s Scholarship recognizing quilting teachers awarded by Quilts Inc., Houston, Texas. and curated an exhibition of her work and her students titled “Out on a Limb” which traveled throughout the country.

To contact Wendy directly and to find out more information regarding her workshops, lectures and gallery of quilts, please visit Wendy’s website and contact her at wbbquilter @ aol.com





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Melody Crust

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Melody CrustHome: Seattle, Washington

Melody Crust, a popular quilting instructor, brings her natural teaching ability and contagious enthusiasm to quilters from coast to coast. An award winning quilter and nationally celebrated fabric artist, her work has been featured in dozens of books and magazines.

In addition to her busy teaching schedule, Melody is in constant demand as curator and judge for national and regional quilt exhibitions and has authored: Stitching Through the Layers: The Art & Elegance of Straight Line Stitching; Eye Candy Quilts: Super-fast fun with beads, baubles, buttons and more; Quilt Toppings: Fun and Fancy Embellishment Techniques, and A Fine Line; Techniques and Inspirations for Creating the Quilting Design.

See samples of Melody’s work, check out her workshops, order autographed copies of her books or contact her directly at her Website.

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