Home: Jacksonville, Florida
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Vanessa Vargas Wilson
Known internationally as “The Crafty Gemini” Vanessa is the young face of modern quilting and homesteading. She’s an internet sensation with over 15 million views to her YouTube channel.
Vanessa’s easy style and honest approach to all she does is the secret to her success. She appeals to young and old, new sewists and experienced quilters. If there’s a new way of looking at anything, Vanessa is going to invent that new way and then share it with everyone because that’s her style.
Vanessa teaches basic quiltmaking with a modern twist, ignoring any rules that don’t suit her. She’s also accomplished at crochet and DIY home projects. If your group is looking for an energetic, happy, enthusiastic teacher Vanessa is the one to bring in.
Her artist’s statement is “DIY video tutorials on things like sewing, quilting, crafting, cooking, baking, organic gardening, canning, nutrition and weight loss! I enjoy sharing my life and knowledge with others and I hope you enjoy my creations”.
Here’s her YouTube Channel clip, for a personal introduction. Be sure to also visit her website and check her out on Facebook.
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Nancy Mahoney
Home: Palm Coast, Florida
Author, teacher, and fabric designer, Nancy has enjoyed making quilts for over 25 years, during which time an impressive range of her beautiful quilts have been featured in over 110 national and international quilt magazines. She has also created over 80 quilt patterns for a variety of fabric manufacturers.
Nancy has authored 12 books since 2002, all have been published by Martingale. Her bestselling books include Appliqué Quilt Revival (2008), Quilt Revival (2006), Treasures for the 30s (2010), Fast, Fusible Flower Quilts (2011), and Kaleidoscope Paper-Piecing (2012). She has designed 14 fabric collections, including five 30s reproduction collections for P&B Textiles. Nancy is working on her next book and fabric collection.
Nancy enjoys combining traditional blocks and updated techniques to create dazzling quilts. Not considering herself a specialist in one particular area, Nancy’s favorite techniques include precision machine piecing, quilt design, and machine appliqué. Nancy has taught many workshops nationwide for guilds, shops, and conferences; including International Quilt Festival (Houston), Minnesota Quilter’s Conference, Kentucky Getaway, Road to California, A Mountain Quiltfest (Tennessee), and many more. Nancy believes making a quilt should be fun. In her classes, Nancy’s goal is for students to have a good time, learn something new, and make a quilt that they will enjoy for many years.
When she’s not designing and making quilts, Nancy enjoys traveling to guilds and events around the country, sharing her quilts, teaching her piecing and machine appliqué techniques, and visiting gardens.
Visit Nancy’s website for more info and her blog just for fun.
Linda J. Hahn
Home: Easley, South Carolina
Linda is the author of 14 (soon to be 15) books (four of those have been award winners!), a fabric designer for Banyan Batiks by Northcott, EQ Artist, Janome Artisan and is part of the Road to California show management team. She has taught at major quilt shows all over the country (many several times), regional events, retreats and on cruises. She has had over 50 designs and articles published in your favorite quilting magazines. She is a frequent contributor to AQ Magazine.
She is best known for her innovative method of creating perfect New York Beauty blocks using just ONE pin on the first attempt. She enjoys showing just how versatile the New York Beauty block can be with her traditional, modern and whimsical trunk show!. She also has other workshops for designs which use just one block, but with creative color placement morph into dynamic designs with secondary and tertiary designs within.
Linda is a fun, dynamic and engaging speaker and instructor.
Visit Linda’s website Frog Hollow Designs
Email Linda- [lawnquilt] @ aol.com (remove spaces and brackets)
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