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Carol Soderlund

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Carol SoderlundHome: Reno, Nevada

Carol has co-authored Playful Fabric Printing with Melanie Testa, published by Pokey Bolton of Crafting A Life LLC.

Carol specializes in teaching fabric dyeing and surface design techniques for quilters and fiber artists. She is widely known for her intensive color mixing classes where students learn to mix hundreds of colors using only yellow, red, and blue dyes. Carol offers a variety of workshops from 1 to 5 days in length. Carol was a finalist for Teacher of the Year in 2013 and again in 2015, awarded by International Creative Arts Professionals.

As a quilt artist, Carol is known for her use of color to create transparent, luminous, and dimensional effects of great subtlety. Her work incorporates hand-dyed, hand-printed, and discharged fabric in combination with commercial fabrics and intensive stitching.

Carol maintains an active teaching schedule throughout the United States and in Canada, teaching her color mixing techniques at ProChemical & Dye in Massachusetts and Nancy Crow’s Timber Frame Barn in Ohio and Pacific Northwest Art School in Washington. Her award-winning quilts have been exhibited nationally and internationally in such venues as International Quilt Festival (where she was a Best of Show winner!) Visions, Husqvarna Viking Masterpieces touring Exhibition.

Visit her website Carol Soderlund

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Lynn Koolish

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Home: Berkely, California

Lynn Koolish is a fiber artist, teacher, and author. She is most known for her bright colors and hand-dyed fabric. She also creates mixed-media fiber art collages.

She offers single day and multi-day classes in fabric dyeing (including beginning, shibori, and water-soluble resists), mixed-media / alternative surfaces collage, fabric painting, and improvisational design and piecing. Her classes are process oriented giving students freedom to explore and experiment.

Lynn also offers 45 minute slide talks on her journey as an art quilter (Confessions of an Eclectic Quilter); Fabric Dyeing; Alternate Surfaces to Paint, Stitch, and Embellish; and Creativity From the Inside Out.

She has written/co-written 5 books including Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Dyeing, The Wonderful Colorful Wonder Wheel of Color (with Kerry Graham and Mary Wruck), Innovative Fabric Imagery for Quilts (with Cyndy Rymer), and More Photo Fun (with the Hewlett-Packard Company and Cyndy Rymer). She also has a DVD: Lynn Koolish Teaches You Printing on Fabric

Website: lynnkoolish.com

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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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Lori Triplett

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Lori-Triplett-smHome: Overland Park, Kansas.

Lori Lee Triplett, Business Manager for Quilt & Textile Collections has successfully combined a variety of passions which include research, writing, and performing into the quilt world. As an award winning writer Lori has written more than 15 books as well as numerous magazine or journal articles with more on the way. Her most recent book co-written with her sister Kay Triplett, is Hidden Treasures from the Poos Collection. Previous books include the award winning and bestselling, Pioneer Quilts: Prairie Settlers’ Life in Fabric, Over 30 Quilts from the Poos Collection, Indigo Quilts: 30 Quilts from the Poos Collection and Chintz Quilts from the Poos Collection.

Lori’s classes can be found on her website http://www.quiltandtextilecollections.com/presentations.html

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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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Rayna Gillman

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RaynaGillman1Home: New Jersey

Rayna Gillman’s intuitive color sense and spontaneous design approach infuse her students with a sense of play. Her “no rules/no such thing as a mistake” teaching style encourages quilters to create fresh,
original work with the words “what if?”.

Nominated by Professional Quilter Magazine as teacher of the Year in 2010, she teaches internationally and is the author of Create Your Own Free-Form Quilts and Create Your Own Hand-Printed Cloth, published by C&T. Her Free-Form Fabric Design DVD is available at the Interweave Store. Contact Rayna at rgillman @ studio78.net, Visit Rayna’s Website or browse her blog.

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Laura Wasilowski

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laura-wasilowskiHome: Elgin, Illinois

Laura Wasilowski is both contemporary quilt maker and creator of hand-dyed fabrics and threads. Her pictorial art quilts (created from fused fabrics and hand-embroidered or machine quilted) are collected and exhibited
internationally.

Wasilowski’s narrative quilts begin with her unique hand-dyed fabrics and are inspired by stories of family, friends, and home. The whimsical wall pieces often chronicle her life.

Owner of the dye shop, Artfabrik, Laura is also a lecturer, surface designer, quilt instructor, pattern designer, and author of Fusing Fun, Fuse-and-Tell, and her latest book: Fanciful Stitches, Colorful Quilts.

For more information please visit Laura’s Website

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Mary Tabar

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San Diego, California

Mary Tabar is a fiber artist from San Diego who enjoys fabric dying and quilting.

Mary has had a needle or pencil in her hand for as long as she can remember. Growing up in the Midwest installed hard working values. She graduated from Truman University in Kirksville Missouri with a BS in Industrial Technology and a minor in Graphic Arts.

While living in San Diego CA, she went back to San Marcos CA State College and received a teaching credential. She taught for Palomar College and San Diego Community College, quilting and stitchery classes. She now teaches and lectures for quilt guilds here in California.

She has a home business of dyeing fabric, designing and making a line of patterns for machine applique called Snip & Flip, applying the design of Notan.

You can find Mary’s Lectures here: https://www.marytabar.com/lectures.html

Her Workshops are Here … and Here …

Her YouTube Channel here – https://www.youtube.com/user/marywoodtabar

To contact Mary please send her an email at marytabar @ gmail.com

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