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Bev Remillard

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Home: Laguna Hills, California

A little about me…
Loving romance and all it entails naturally leads me to pretty, tasteful and romantic fabrics. I’m inspired to design patterns and quilts with the same charm and grace as the fabric designer. I love colors of all hues and floral prints are my favorite but once in a while I break out of my box and play with brights and batiks.

Lecturing and teaching workshops is all joy to me. I love spending time with other quilters and sharing our quilting passion. Making quilts and designing patterns over the past 18 years I have been able to produce quilts of varying ability and challenges. I truly enjoy teaching and watching other quilters explore color, patterns and design and consider myself blessed to see their finished beauty.

Like most quilters, I’m usually working on about 5-10 projects which teaches me as well…Thank you for considering me. Please take a look at my website Ladylike Designs and contact me at bevquiltlady @ aol.com to come teach for you!


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Jennifer Falkowski

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Home: Madison, Wisconsin

Jennifer Falkowski is a textile designer and indigo dyer. She specializes in traditional Japanese shibori patterns. Jennifer teaches classes in and around Madison WI and co-runs the popular yearly Deep Into Indigo Retreat in Westby WI. She is a first rate speaker for quilt guilds and shops. Her enthusiasm and love for indigo dye is contagious. You can find out more about Jennifer
on her website

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Kathie Beltz

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Home: Greenfield, New Hampshire

I am totally addicted to quilting, and enjoy associating with other quilters who are equally addicted.  I’ve been quilting since 1995, teaching since 2004, and judging quilts since 2007.  My specialty is precision machine piecing, and I’m always trying new techniques, gadgets, and patterns.

I have been fortunate that some of my quilts have won awards at almost two dozen shows across the country, including Indiana Heritage Quilt Show, Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, MQX Quilt Festivals, National Quilting Association, Quiltweek Lancaster, Quiltweek Paducah, Road to California, Vermont Quilt Festival, and World Quilt Show – New England.  My quilts have been juried into the AQS show in Paducah in multiple years, winning ribbons in 2015 and 2017.  My FreeFall quilt was juried into the International Quilt Festival in Houston.

As an award-winning quilter, I lecture, give demonstrations, and teach workshops at guilds, quilt shops, and quilt shows nationally.  I especially enjoy teaching beginners.

In 2013, I was trained by Deb Tucker to teach her techniques, patterns, and tools from Studio 180 Design. 

In 2017, I launched Kathie Beltz Quilt Designs, my own line of quilt patterns. These patterns are for smaller projects that look complicated but are easier to make than you may think.

I also have extensive quilt judging experience.  My judging philosophy is to acknowledge excellence in quilting, and to educate and encourage quilters of all skill levels.  I like to consider my judging work as an extension of my teaching, guiding quilters to improve their skills through constructive comments.

I recently became a Member of the Board of Directors of the New England Quilt Museum.  There’s a lot going on, and it’s keeping me busy!

For more information on workshops, lectures, or judging, I can be emailed at [Kathie] @ KathieBeltz.com (remove brackets and spaces).

Visit Kathie’s website www.KathieBeltz.com.

For more information on workshops, lectures, or judging, please visit my website www.KathieBeltz.com.

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Michelle Hiatt

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MichelleHiatt-smHome: Huntington, Connecticut.

Michelle Renee Hiatt is passionate about quilting. She started her love affair 20+ years ago in the 1990s. Michelle Renee is the designer for her own pattern line Sew On The Go as well as Modern 180, a modern pattern division of Deb Tucker’s Studio 180 Design. Additionally, Michelle is a certified Studio 180 Design Instructor, as well as a certified Professional Process Expert (LSSMBB); she uses her process improvement techniques and applies them to her quilting and teaching others how to simplify their piecing while improving the quality of their quilt making.

Michelle Renee’s designs have appeared in Modern Quilting Unlimited and Fon’s & Porter’s Love of Quilting. She is known for her humor, enthusiasm and encouragement! Michelle can be reached on her website.

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Vanessa Vargas Wilson

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Vanessa-Vargas-WilsonKnown 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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Roxane Lessa

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Roxane-LessaHome: Raleigh, North Carolina

Roxane was a professional ballet dancer in her youth. Now she enjoys creating movement with color, line, and shapes, using textiles as her muse. She has exhibited her work in many group and solo shows internationally and at home in the US. In 2012, she won the Niche Award for Decorative Art. She also teaches textile arts in her studio, and at stores and guilds. Roxane has a B.S. in Costume Design and Textiles, but considers herself a life-long learner of textile arts.

Roxane is known as The Art Quilter’s Coach. She offers private, one-on-one coaching for quilters who want to design and make their own amazing art quilts, but don’t know where to begin. She also teaches small, intimate workshops for quilting guilds and stores. Her unique coaching style of teaching helps bring out the best in her students, with concentration on composition and design and use of color and value.

She also delivers a valuable lecture, titled: What Every Art Quilter Needs to Know Before They Sew, illustrated with a trunk show of her own award-winning work, and slides of students’ work.

She lives and works in Raleigh, NC with her 2 daughters and one lazy studio cat. Visit Her Website and Blog.

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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.

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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 .



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