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South Carolina

Mitzie Schafer

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Home: Prosperity, South Carolina

Mitzie specializes in a raw edge applique and thread painting class, called The Painted Cow, using her original pattern. She also specializes in helping students learn to read their bodies to improve their free motion quilting skills in a class called, Improve Your Practice.

Her trunk shows feature more than 15+ quilts and lectures on modern quilt design or Improving Your Practice of Free Motion Quilting.

She is the author and illustrator of a new book, Improve Your Practice out May 2019. 

Check out Mitzie’s website Jittery Wings and her videos on YouTube!

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

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.