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Norene Skiles

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Home: Virginia Beach, Virginia

Norene, a retired school library media specialist, began sewing as a young girl, and has never stopped.  After sewing clothing for decades, she discovered quilting in 1996 and never stopped.  Her quilting style has evolved over the years from patterns and traditional quilting to modern Improv with a scrappy focus.  She loves to incorporate technology into her quilting and prints her own fabrics with Spoonflower.

Lectures are priced a $100 and zoom classes between $330 – $400.

Check out Norene’s website to see her listings. Luv Two Create

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Lori Dickman

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Home: Rockford, Illinois, USA

Lori will help you turn quilting challenges into joyful experiences that will inspire you to “Create!” Her positive attitude and clear instructions empower quilters to tackle their projects with confidence and joy.

Her personal “© Speedy Solutions” to Cut, Sort, Organize, Store and USE your stash offer solutions with engaging, easy-to-follow techniques and strategies!


Lori teaches & conducts workshops at quilt guilds, quilt shows, quilt shops, and on quilt cruises. She currently offers 5 virtual lectures and 7 virtual workshops that cover a multitude of subjects, and she continues to add more classes as she develops new techniques and patterns. Her Virtual 1-Hour Lectures are $350 each; her Virtual Workshops range from $400-$500 for 3-to-6-hour workshops.

Lori’s very popular “Speedy Solutions to Cut & Organize Your Scrap Stash” Lecture (and Book Set) covers her step-by-step techniques to create gorgeous scrappy quilts. The corresponding ‘scrappy’ workshop, “Scrap Up Your Stash – the Speedy Way!” is a very poplar lecture/workshop combination that many guilds from across the nation and other countries have enjoyed!

She loves to share her extensive knowledge and passion for quilting with quilters everywhere! Her engaging style, practical tips, and infectious enthusiasm make her classes & tutorials a hit among quilters of all levels.

Check out Lori’s website QuiltingWithLori for more detailed information.

Email Lori directly at: quiltingwithlori@gmail.com.

To see Lori’s techniques and tips in action, watch and enjoy over 200 of her engaging and informative YouTube quilting video tutorials on her YouTube Channel: Youtube-@quiltingwithlori

Come watch Lori’s YouTube Feature Video link

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Carol Wilhoit

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Home: Wheaton, Illinois

Carol loves making quilts that incorporate many different fabrics and she enjoys machine quilting (walking foot, free motion, and quilting with metallic thread.)  She enjoys making small quilted projects such as runners, tote bags, zipper bags and pincushions.  Small projects facilitate play with color, design and new techniques with minimal investment in time and materials.  

Carol likes to find ways to make the quilt construction process easier while producing better results. She has also refined techniques for building, organizing, and using a stash that make it a joy to have and to use.  She has been teaching quilting classes for more than a dozen years.  She loves sharing her ideas with others and encouraging students as they try new projects and techniques. She teaches both online and in-person, for quilt guilds and quilt shops, and at quilt shows.  

Get your Stash Together:  Organization for Quilters

Some quilters find that their fabric stash, scraps, quilting tools, books and magazines have become a burden, as they don’t have a good way to manage these precious resources. Knowing how to approach the task helps transform the dreaded stash into a collection that is a delight to use. This lecture provides many practical ideas for making your fabric, tools, thread, books, and magazines readily accessible. Topics include how to fold and store fabric so that it’s easy to view and locate, labeling, using your computer as a tool, and many ideas for actually using your stash. 

Infinite Opportunity:  Quilts Hidden in Your Stash

As quilters, we love to collect beautiful fabrics – yet we don’t always know how to put them all together to make quilts that we love.  The term “scrap quilt” may bring to mind the use of leftovers that don’t look particularly good together.  By contrast, while STASH quilts utilize your stash and scraps, they contain thoughtfully selected materials, and look BETTER because of the variety – not tired because they were created just to use up fabrics.  The lecture addresses several key design principles that make multi-fabric quilts work and includes pairs of quilts to show the impact of incorporating these considerations. Multiple examples of color combinations are provided to give ideas for selecting and using fabrics from your stash to make fabulous multi-fabric quilts. 

Learn more about Carol and find out about her classes and lectures on her Website at : Carol Quilts

Visit Carol’s Instagram page: Carol Quilts 123

Contact Carol via Email: carolquilts123 @ gmail.com [remove spaces]

Be sure to tell Carol that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Beth Helfter

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Home: Pepperell, Massachusetts and live online streaming for guilds.

Author, pattern designer, and national quilting instructor Beth Helfter has one rule about quilting – it’s supposed to be fun. Along with her company motto of “Inspired Designs, Relaxed Attitude,” Beth brings visionary designs and techniques to her patterns and exuberance and encouragement to the classroom.

Beth prefers to dig into her stash to create designs and patterns that appeal to her senses of color and value, using as many different fabrics as possible. Keeping to just a few color families in each quilt palette is one of her best tricks to keeping scrappy quilts from getting out of hand but allowing them to sing with tone and movement. Her popular lecture “Consistency in the Chaos” showcases several ways of looking at categories of scraps as it seeks to inspire quilters to think about scrap quilts and pull fabrics to make them shine without overwhelming the eye. Beth has decided she will never solve the mystery of why even scrap quilters can never use up their fabrics, and no longer even tries.

Her penchant for scraps and her need to use as many fabrics as possible in her quilts led her in 2017 to develop the Accordion Sewn HSTs™ method of creating half square triangles that don’t have a match and yet waste no fabric. Delving into the method further, she discovered “ordering” the accordions could lead to the creation of whole blocks and quilts from a single accordion.

Her first book on the method “Oompah! Jazz Up Your Scrap Quilts With Accordion Sewn HSTs™” was published in 2018, and “Another Round of Oompah” was published in 2020. It’s been called “life-changing,” “magical,” “addictive,” and, her favorite, “witchcraft,” and is the basis for her “Oompah! Accordion Sewn HSTs™ lecture and many of her most popular workshops. She’s currently at work on new variations of the basic Accordion Sewn HSTs™ for patterns and workshops.

As a traveling quilt teacher, she’s taught for guilds coast to coast, and never tires of the ah-ha moments and banter of a classroom full of quilters.

Visit Beth’s website: EvaPaige Quilts

Visit Beth’s YouTube Channel: EvaPaige Quilt Designs

Email Beth: evapaigequilts @ charter.net (remove spaces)


Here’s Beth’s portion of an interview among national quilt teachers done in May 2020:


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Candace Hassen

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Home: Porterdale, Georgia

My favorite things about making quilts are color relationships, and repeated geometric patterns.

My design ideas come from everywhere including, the nature, textiles and artwork from other cultures, as well as vintage quilts.

I prefer making scrap quilts because I believe they are much richer, and more interesting to look at. They are also versatile, and will add a beautiful focal point, or unique accent to a wider variety of rooms. Most of my quilts are pieced.

I have a Bachelor’s degree in Art, and have been weaving for 30 years.  Both have had a big influence on the way I use color and geometric pattern in my quilts.

I am available to teach quilting classes, and to present trunk shows to quilt guilds.

I have written patterns for many of my quilt designs.

I would love the opportunity to come and meet your guild!

Please visit my website at http://quiltdesignsbycandace.com and my blog at http://quiltdesignsbycandace.blogspot.com/

Please tell Candace that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Denise LaMarca

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Home: Niagara Falls, New York

Denise specializes in helping quilters/sewists learn how to effectively 
use their stash and scraps to make unique, personalized projects. 

Working with color and how to use art principles to come up with 
unusual, yet spectacular coloration in their quilts. She has been sewing 
for over 35 years and has worked in the field of color & design her 
entire working career. 

She offers workshops, programs and trunks shows to guilds on Color & Design, Scrap Quilting & how to keep that Stash and Scraps organized for easy use.

Denise teaches regularly at her shop: Auntie’s Attic Quilt Shop 1995 Military Road Niagara Falls, NY 

Be sure to tell Denise that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Janice E. Frisch

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Photo by Tall and Small Photography

Home: Bowling Green, Ohio

Janice E. Frisch is a quilt historian, folklorist, and published author who has been quilting and researching quilts for over 20 years.

Her research on European influences in early American quilting has been published by the Modern Quilt Guild, the International Quilt Museum in the book, American Quilts in the Industrial Age, 1760–1870, edited by Patricia Cox Crews and Carolyn Ducey, and in Quilt Studies: The Journal of the British Quilt Study Group.

She offers classes on free motion quilting and labeling your quilts and her illustrated lectures include:

The History of the American Block-Style Quilt

This illustrated lecture explores British and Dutch patchwork from the eighteenth century to identify patterns and motifs used by colonial and early-American quilters. It also examines how early Americans adapted the layout of their quilts, moving from a predominantly medallion-style arrangement to the repeating block-style that is thought of as iconically American today. Participants will come away with a clear understanding of colonial and early Euro-American patchwork styles and lots of inspiration to use in their own artwork today.

What’s in a Name? Documenting Quilts of Yesterday and Today

This talk shares some of the quilt history mysteries that Janice has unraveled (or failed to unravel) to highlight the kinds of information you should include when you are labeling your quilts. The lecture ends with practical considerations for today’s quilters: What tools are available to help you label your quilts and how do you use them? What level of information constitutes the bare minimum to put on a label and what is the ideal? And why does it all matter anyway?

For more about Janice please visit her website: Tangible Culture and contact her at tangiblecultureofficial @ gmail.com (remove spaces) Virtual Presentation fee is $400 (March 2021)

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Diane D. Knott

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Home: Cumming, Georgia, USA

Author of books Scrap Quilt Secrets (2016) and Strip Quilt Secrets (2018) published by C&T.

Diane’s loves to share all of her secrets for making scrap quilts using fun and easy techniques to ensure success.

Choose from several guild presentations with 20+ quilts each, and workshops that specialize in sewing curves, strip piecing, and sewing strategies for successful patchwork in less time. For more about Diane please visit her website: www.butterflythreadsquilting.com

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