News & Events
Perth Craft & Quilt Fair
May 23 - 27
Perth WA, Australia
Booth #D30
Edmonton Festival of Quilts
June 8 - 9
Edmonton, AB
Booth # TBA
Sydney Craft & Quilt Fair
June 12 - 16
Sydney, Australia
Booth #L40
The Original Creative Festival
June 13 - 15
Cincinnati, OH
Booth # TBA
International Quilt Festival
June 21 - 23
Rosemont, IL
Booth #2117
Melbourne Craft & Quilt Fair
June 25 - 28
Melbourne, Australia
Booth #B33
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Teacher Resources
The following list of teachers is provided to help you find qualified teachers in your local area. They are all familiar with our threads and love to teach thread based classes. If you would like more information regarding our teachers, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Canada
Alberta
Marj Tyess
- Specialty: Expertise with any sewing machine, creating art by experimenting with sewing machine stitches and thread painting
- WonderFil Threaducator
- Email: marjtyess@gmail.com
Joyce Brown
Cindy Chambers
- Specialty: Certified Palmer - Pletsch instructor, combines fabric's textures colors for astounding results, designer tips, and thread knowledgeable
- www.akashaclothing.com
- Toll Free: 1-877-252-5932
Peggy Fleet
British Columbia
Nadia Wilson
- Specialty: Everything to do with quilting; longarm machine quilting - freehand and computerized thread work/painting, commissioned quilts, thread classes, and beginner's piecing classes
- Quilt Judge, Canadian Sales Rep for American Professional Quilting Systems (APQS) longarm quilting machines and training
- www.nadiawilsondesigns.com
- E-mail: info@nadiawilsondesigns.com
Coreen Zerr
- Specialty: Thread painting, free motion thread work and/or quilting, fibre art landscapes, fabric painting, and embellishments
- www.coreenzerr.com
- E-mail: corsew@shaw.ca
Manitoba
Wanda Steiner
- Specialty: Beginner through advanced machine piecing and threadplay methods
- Certified McTavishing and Free Feathers Instructor
- CQA Judge
- Email: steiner9@mts.net
- Tel: 204-475-4991
Newfoundland
Hilary Rice
Nova Scotia
Penny Berens
- Specialty: Fibre artist who creates textured and manipulated wall hangings using dyed fabrics, machine embroidery, and hand stitching
- Available to teach exciting techniques for the budding experienced fibre arts
- E-mail: penny@berens.ca
Ontario
Brit Dowson (A Mother's Gilt)
- Specialty: Quilt as you go, felting, thread painting, embellishment, postcards, knitting with threads, beads, and experimenting with fibre and multimedia. "Create-create-create!"
- E-mail: mims_quilt@hotmail.com
Faye Hepworth (Children's Creative Studio)
- Specialty: Mentors children in art of sewing - ages 6 years old and older. Beginner basics to advanced fashion sewing techniques, pattern fitting, alterations including swim and action wear, accessories for fashion and interior design, quilting and crafting, using sewing machines, serger and embroidery machines
- E-mail: hepwortr@ican.net
Janet Slater
- Canadian Representative for Tin Lizzie 18 Rep
- Specialty: Long arm quilting and piecing, thread painting, landscape quilts, specialty clothing such as vests and jackets with threads and manipulated fabrics, teaching, and anything when it comes to sewing
- E-mail: janet@createwithjanet.ca
- Website: www.createwithjanet.ca
Kit Vincent
Quebec
Penelope Machine A Coudre - St. Hubert, QC
Beverley Beauchemin
Dominique Ehrmann
- Specialty: Bilingual teacher, chocolate maker, quilter who creates her own patterns, teaches paper piecing, quilting classes in free motion, traditional, applique, thread painting, scrap quilts, art quilts, and unique greeting cards
- E-mail: do.ehrmann@hotmail.com
- Website: www.quilteusequebec.com
Celine Ross
Saskatchewan
Monika Kinner-Whalen
- Specialty: Hand embroidery, free motion/thread painting, creative sewing, embellishing, postcards, creative expression, and fibre art
- Award winning embroidery artist, Monika's art has been sold & published nationally and internationally
- Juried artisan with the Saskatchewan Craft Council, member of the Embroiderers Association of Canada, Saskatoon Quilters Guild
- Offers classes & presentations for children, youth, and adults. Classes include Creative Quilted Postcards (beginner & advanced or full day workshop), Thread Painting 101, Doodle with your Sewing Machine (youth), Hand Embroidery/Basic Stitches (any age or ability)
- www.mysweetprairie.blogspot.com - this blog features gallery of works to date, inspirational posts, tutorials, class info, lecture & exhibition schedule
- Email: mysweetprairie@gmail.com
- My Sweet Prairie on Facebook
Sandra Fisher (Quilt Paradise)
- Specialty: Machine & hand piecing, applique (raw-edge by machine, hand turned and stitched), machine quilting (free motion, pantographs, stencils), designing quilt patterns and appliques, thread painting, and dying fabrics with crayon technique
- E-mail: safisher@sasktel.net
Anna Hergert
- Internationally acclaimed conceptual artist with a focus on textiles
- Author/Editor/Publisher of her monthly newsletter - a must for fiber artists
- Certified Judge
- Specialty: encourages creative growth, creates enthusiasm in her classes, instructs principles of design and creates strong problem solving skills
- E-mail: anna@annahergert.com
- Website: www.annahergert.com
United States
California
Karen Boutte
- Specialty: Sweat suits for jackets, raw edge applique, decorative machine stitching, needlework, straight binding, mask creations, and custom handbags
- www.quiltdiva.com
- E-mail: kbqart@Pacbell.net
Cathie Hoover
Deb Karasik
Diane Ricks
- Specialty: Fabric painting and dying, free motion embroidery, thread painting, and wearable art
- E-mail: bobbydi@charter.net
Susan Slesinger
- Specialty: All aspects of sewing and quilting especially advanced techniques, embellishments, and art quilting
Some of her current classes include:
Fabulous Fabric Postcards (features all sorts of the threads and techniques)
Trapunto by Machine (for entry level, intermediate and advanced machine quilters)
"Designer Denim" (personalizing denim clothes including jeans, jackets, skirts, etc.)
Colorado
Karen Pharr
Florida
Kathy Schley
- Specialty: Beginner and advanced garment constructor, artistic personalization for clothing, machine needle felting, free motion thread embellishment, "the world of thread and what you can do with it", and fibre art
- E-mail: cschley@ewol.com
Illinois
Eve Kovacs
- Specialty: Machine embroidery techniques, scientific approach to designing wearable art, and embellishment
- E-mail: kovacs@hep.aul.gov.com
Indiana
Patsy Shields
- Specialty: All machine arts including machine quilting, embellishment from lace to metal, thread painting and sketching, cutwork and lace, and silk ribbon embroidery
- E-mail: patsysews@insightbb.com
Robbi Joy Eklow
- Author of "Goddess of the Last Minute"
- Specialty: Unmarked free motion quilting and fused art quilts fabric dying
- An entertaining and supportive instructor who manages to "make it make sense"
- www.robbieklow.com
- E-mail: robbi@robbieklow.com
Maryland
Lesley Riley
Massachusetts
Susan Bleiweiss
Amy Ropple - Reading, MA
Michigan
Beth Ferrier
- Published Author - Applewood Farm Publications Inc. (Beth's own publishing company)
- Guest appearances on HGTV's Simply quilts, the Quilt Show with Alex and Ricky and Quilting Friends on PBS
- Frequent contributor to The Quilter Magazine, regular column called "Totally Off Grain" in The American Quilt Retailer
- "Rebellious Traditional" style of quilting - simple and elegant solutions
- Beth teaches all over the world www.applewoodfarmsquilts.com
Minnesota
Susan Cleveland
New Jersey
Aleeda Crawley
- Fiber artist/Owner: Sacred Space Fiberstudio LLC "Beauty expressed as fiber"
- Specialty: Exploring fibre, food and culture from everywhere. Uses fibers, metals paints, dyes, paper and threads
- Teaches: Night of 1001 tips, fabric bowls, tools of the trade, T-shirt quilts, and art quilts
- Blog: http://fiberquest.blogspot.com
- E-mail: aleeda@sacredspacefiber.net
North Carolina
Eve Agee
- Specialty: All machine needle arts including thread painting, quilting, bobbinwork, decorative stitches, cut work, creative garment embellishment, and construction
- www.evelynagee.com
- E-mail: eveagee@charter.net
Susan Fetner
- Specialty: Beginner to intermediate garment construction, embellishment, and quilting
- Quilt historian & appeaser
- E-mail: suzy.q@charter.net
Ohio
Vikki Pignatelli
Oklahoma
Jan Hawks
- Author of "Sculpted Threads" - a book on using free motion stitching on water soluble stabilizer to create jeweler, books, and sculptures
- Specialty: Jan uses her career years as an occupational therapist to help students develop their skills while exploring their creativity
- www.sculptedthreads.com
- E-mail: janhawks@sbcglobal.net
Oregon
Nancy Goldsworthy
Texas
Shelly Beth Grappe
- Specialty: Fibre artisan, thread painting, fabric collage, fibre embellishment and thread play on wool and cotton, wool applique, making and adding fibre trims, purses using 15 different techniques including couching, applique and card making
- http://www.fibermoon.com (See Other Fiber Creations)
- E-mail: shelbe@suddenlink.net
Cherry House
- Specialty: Endless patience & a love of quilting keeps students learning the basics of all aspects of quilting. Cherry helps free everyone for all strict conventional ideas and assist each student to create their own artistic project
- Cherry specializes in creating original contemporary quilt designs using cotton solids that are heavily machine quilted. She creates fresh quilt designs for Robert Kaufman and Andover Fabrics.
- http://www.cherryhousequilts.com
- E-mail: cherryhousequilts@gmail.com
Christine Parker
Trish Stuart
Virginia
Linda Stewart
Washington
Joyce Becker
- Landscape Quilt Artist/Author/Lectures/Workshops
- Book: Beautifully Embellished Landscapes/Luscious Landscapes/DVD - Joyce Becker Teaches You Landscape Quilting
- Specialty: Informative and entertaining, humorous and positive, inspiring her students to produce what they can see. Using numerous techniques, she helps to bond the students' imaginations into a cohesive piece
- www.joycerbecker.com
- E-mail: jbecker3@hotmail.com
Marie Johansen
Jerrine Kirsch
- Specialty: Teaching techniques such as specialty rulers: nifty notions ruler and boondoggle ruler, using all the feet on your machine, threads and needles, bobbinwork for beginners, new products on the market, a hands on teacher who is willing to help us all
- E-mail: jkirsch50@msn.com
Jo Ann Blade
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