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Nancy Brenan Daniel, Tempe, Arizona
Nancy has been an accomplished quilt-making teacher since 1975.
She learned her love of quilts and her early quilt-making skills
from her maternal grandmother, who encouraged her to play with fabric
and templates and to sew at a very early age. Nancy has a BA and
MA in Art History and Art Education, is a member of the National
Quilters Association and a NQA Certified Teacher and Judge. She
is the author of more than twenty books on sewing crafts and quilt
making and a regular contributor to quilting and craft magazines.
Her quilts have been on the covers of engagement calendars for The
American Quilter's Society and Better Homes and Gardens and have
been featured in many other magazines and books. For more information
see her LQF Classes page and
visit her Website.
Libby Lehman, Houston, Texas
Libby began making quilts 34 years ago when her mother signed both
of them up for a basic class. Over the years, she has evolved from
a traditional handworker to one of the leaders in innovative machine
stitching. Her studio art quilts have won many awards and appear
in private, corporate, and museum collections. She authored ThreadPlay
with Libby Lehman and her quilts have appeared in many books
and international publications. Her quilt Joy Ride was chosen
as one of the Best 100 American Quilts of the 20th Century. In addition
to making quilts, she teaches, judges, and lectures nationally and
internationally. For more information see her LQF
Classes page and visit her Website.
Joan Zeier Poole, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
Author, pattern designer, teacher, and award winning quilt maker
Joanie Zeier Poole has been a quilter all of her adult life and
a practitioner of heirloom machine quilting for eight years. She
uses this technique, along with her innovative appliqué and
thread illustrations, to create original quilts expressing her personal
stories. They have been exhibited at major quilt shows, provoking
an emotional connection with viewers and earning awards including
Best of Show at Road to California 2006 and Pacific International
Quilt Festival 2006. She has written two books, Elegant Machine
Quilting and Joanie's Design Elements: Eight Easy Lessons
to Choose and Adapt Quilting Designs. Her classes offer information
in a supportive and motivating environment, encouraging the use
of the home sewing machine, yet welcoming to frame, longarm, and
hand quilters. For more information see her LQF
Classes page and visit her Website.
Nancy Prince, Orlando, Florida
Nancy is totally addicted to thread painting and her enthusiasm
in workshops can be contagious! Students comment on her commitment
to one-on-one attention and her upbeat attitude. Her anyone-can-do-it
style is fun, easy and a new approach to thread painting. She is
the author of Simple Thread Painting, published by the American
Quilter's Society, has taped several episodes of Simply Quilts
and Creative Living on PBS, appeared in national magazines
and won numerous awards. She is also an award-winning quilter and
travels the country teaching and lecturing to anyone who will listen,
to share the creativity thread painting brings to the quilting world.
For more information see her LQF
Classes page and visit her Website.
Judy Simmons, Fletcher, North Carolina
Judy holds a degree in Home Economics and loves sewing, designing
and teaching. Her "one of a kind" pieces utilize fabric
embellishment techniques as well as fabric marbling, dying, painting,
stamping and color lifting. Her quilts and wearables have been exhibited
nationally and internationally, including Quilt Europa, the Royal
School of Needlework in London, and Fairfield International Fashion
Show in Houston. She has published in many books and magazines and
has authored two books: Machine Needle Lace and Other
Embellishment Techniques and Creative Marbling on Fabric.
Her TV credits include Simply Quilts and ABC's The Home
Show. For more information see her LQF
Classes page and visit her Website.
Judy Sisneros, Rocklin, California
Judy's goal as a teacher is for each student to go away with a unique
quilt…not a copy of everybody else's in the workshop. Her classes
are straightforward and her approach is casual and fun. She hopes
her students will like their quilts well enough to make more than
one. A quilt maker since 1987, her first workshop on strip-pieced
landscapes resulted in her writing a book about the technique, Simply
Landscapes, published in 1994. Her current book, 9 Patch
Pizzazz…Fun, Fast and Finished in a Day, appeared in March
2006 and her new book, Rectangle Pizzazz, is due out February
2008. Judy loves teaching and traveling. For more information see
her LQF Classes page and visit
her Website.
Sarah Ann Smith, Camden, Maine
At an early age, Sarah started sewing clothes for her dolls and
trolls and she has not stopped since. In 1988, Sarah began quilting,
which proved to be the perfect marriage of two of her favorite things,
sewing and art. Her work has been juried into shows and published
in magazines and books in the US and Europe and is in public and
private collections, including the International Quilt Festival
Collection. A former U.S. diplomat, Sarah draws on her assignments
in other countries for her art. She specializes in machine work,
coloring with threads, and using whatever technique will transform
the picture in her mind into cloth. Sarah is now a full-time artist,
member of the Frayed Edges mini group, quilt teacher, pattern designer,
and mom, living with her husband, two sons, two dogs, four cats
and assorted bunnies. For more information see her LQF
Classes page and visit her Website.
Karen K. Stone, Dallas, Texas
Karen began quilt making in 1986, teaching in 1990, and publishing
her designs in 1993. Electric Quilt published Karen K. Stone
Quilts in 2004, now in its second printing, and another book
is in the works. Her quilts have won numerous awards, including
first prizes in international competitions, and have appeared on
covers of Quilter's Newsletter. Quilts made from her patterns appear
frequently in exhibition. Her Indian Orange Peel received
the People's Choice Award at Quilt National '95. She has also appeared
on HGTV's Simply Quilts. Karen holds two degrees in piano,
has two lovely daughters, a pseudo-son, and many pets, plans to
marry the man who was her first date, and divides her time between
Dallas and Groves, Texas. For more information see her LQF
Classes page and visit her Website.
Deb Tucker, Cogan Station, Pennsylvania
Deb has been an avid quilt maker since 1981 and a quilting instructor
since 1983. She was a pattern editor for Quilting Today and Traditional
Quiltworks magazines until resigning to spend more time with her
husband and very young children. She has taught extensively throughout
New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, including the Vermont Quilt
Festival and Fletcher Farm School for the Arts and Crafts. Several
of her projects have been published in a variety of magazines. She
continues to do free-lance designing and self-publishes several
pattern lines. She is receiving rave reviews on a new technique
and ruler to streamline the construction of the traditional Hunter's
Star block. She has also invented several other tools/rulers for
quilters, including her Tucker/Trimmer tool. She resides in central
Pennsylvania with her husband and two teenage children and continues
to teach, lecture, judge, and design. For more information see her
LQF Classes page and visit her
Website.
Holice Turnbow, Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Holice has been teaching quilting since the early 1970's. In 1978,
he organized a quilt show in conjunction with the U. S. Postal Service's
issue of a stamp commemorating quilting as a folk art. He then helped
organize the First Continental Quilting Congress held in Virginia
in 1978. These accomplishments gave him recognition as a quilter,
which brought him to teaching throughout the U. S. and Canada. In
the mid 1980's, he began to focus on quilting designs. His designs
have appeared through The Stencil Company, Spartex, and Benartex
and include designs based on quilts in the collection of the National
Museum of American History at the Smithsonian. His articles have
appeared in many popular quilting magazines and he has appeared
on numerous TV quilting series, including Kaye Wood's series and
Heirlooms by Design, through the CBS cable network. He continues
to write, teach, design, and judge. For more information see his
LQF Classes page and visit his
Website.
Mary Lou Weidman, Spokane, Washington
Mary Lou began her quilting life at her grandmother's knee when
she learned to do yoyos, nine patches, half-square triangles, and
Grandmother's Flower Garden blocks. After careers in fine art painting
and advertising, Mary Lou was drawn back to quilting because of
a son's illness and the time spent in the hospital. When he was
well, she started doing Story quilts with a folk art style that
took the fancy of museums and galleries. Before long, quilters and
shops discovered her whimsical style. The author of three books,
Whimsies and Whynots, Everyday Angels and Quilted
Memories, owner of a pattern company and fabric designer, Mary
Lou travels and teaches both nationally and internationally. She
hopes each of her students will do story quilts about themselves
and those they love. She believes that story quilts will be researched
and held valuable in the future. For more information see her LQF
Classes page and visit her Website.
Ann Zemke, Blaine, Minnesota
Ann, the founder of Crocus Lane Quilts, is a quilt maker, quilting
instructor and public speaker. Ann's book, They Named Me Marjorie,
is about her grandmother's life and experiences as one of the riders
on the famous "orphan trains" in America from 1854 to
1929 and was published in June 2006. The family knew nothing about
her story until her diary was discovered after her death. In her
grandmother's memory, Ann has created a block and a special quilt.
Her passion for quilt making began in 1972. She has handcrafted
over 150 unique quilts. Her specialty is fine hand quilting, although
she enjoys and shares with her students a wide array of quilt making
techniques and quilt styles. For more information see her LQF
Classes page and visit her Website.
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