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Teacher Biography
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Teachers are
listed alphabetically
A star * indicates a new teacher for
2008.
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Jennifer Alexander*
Quilt Top
Stop, Bountiful, UT
www.quilttopstop.com
Jen Alexander has always
had a love for fabric. She found the wonderful
world of quilting eight years ago and has
enjoyed her A-1 Longarm for four years. Jen has
been teaching machine quilting and maintenance
on A-1 Quilting Machines for two years. she has
been a dealer for A-1 Quilting Machines for over
a year. She loves what she does and the women
she works with. Jen lives in beautiful Northern
Utah with her husband and three beautiful
children.
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Amy Anderson*
APQS,
Carroll, IA
www.apqs.com
Amy has been with the APQS
Family since Aug.2004. She has played many roles
while with the company from answering phones,
ordering inventory, and shipping. She found her
true home in June 2006 in service department.
Her love for machines will show as she teaches
you the ins and outs of your APQS quilting
machine.
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Grace Anderson
Gia
Originals, Grants Pass, Oregon
girene1@msn.com
Grace Anderson has been longarm machine quilting
for 12 years on an APQS machine and has been
teaching longarm for the past three years. For
the past twenty five plus years she has taught a
big variety of classes, including machine
quilting and piecing, clothing design and
construction, and Victorian Crazy quilt and
embroidery. Earning a college degree in
education, she taught in a private school for
several years, then turned to private teaching.
Grace ran a sewing and alterations business for
years before jumping wholeheartedly into
quilting. Honors include numerous ribbons for
her personal and customer quilts as well as
completing many commissioned art quilts for
private and corporate clients. She has been
guest speaker/teacher at quilt guilds, involved
in numerous fashion shows, and is the resident
quilt judge for Lighthouse Quilt Guild
(California). Currently, Grace continues to
teach, create and develop quilting designs for
sale, and is learning digitizing for the
computerized quilting machine.
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Megan Best
Best Machine Quilting,
Bellingham, WA
www.bestquilter.com
Megan Best is an award winning
professional longarm quilter with a successful
business in NW Washington state. She has been
quilting professionally for 16 years. She
specializes in individualized and innovative
machine quilting. Along with teaching at local
quilt shops and sewing machine stores, she
taught merchandising, textiles and clothing on
the college level. She has also owned a quilt
shop. Currently she is an A-1 and CompuQuilter
dealer for WA, OR, N. Idaho, MT, AK, HI and
Western Canada. She lives in Bellingham WA with
her husband and 2 children.
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Anne Bright
BZ Quilting, Meridian, ID.
www.annebright.com
Anne Bright is the founder of BZ Learning, Inc.,
also known as BZ Quilting. Her designs and
style are recognizable to most longarm quilters
and are used worldwide. They have a playful,
happy quality and add magic to any quilt. When
asked to get, "dark and twisted" she was
instructed that her bear she just designed was
still smiling. Anne broke into the world of
quilting with her first book, "Simply Continuous
Quilting". The books sold so quickly that
within a few months, Anne had created five books
full of exciting designs for freehand quilters.
Currently, she has 13 books available (and is
still working on more). Watch for new books to
be released soon! Anne recently purchased a
home in Idaho that can accommodate ten quilters
so she can host quilt retreats and spread her
love and learning of quilting through
workshops. Her excitement is contagious, making
learning fun and easy. Anne teaches at shows
across the nation and her classes fill up
quickly. check her website for shows and quilt
shops she will be attending near you!
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Marion Carmickle*
ChiliQuiltes, San Antonio, Texas
www.chiliquiltes.net
Marion Carmickle has been an
educator staff development specialist,
librarian, course designer & instructional
technology director/specialist for over 30
years. She has taken her expertise in web
technology and coupled it with her love of
quilting (She has been a quilter for over 20
years) and recently began consulting for a local
quilt shop to enhance their web presence. Marion
is married, resides in San Antonio Texas and is
the proud "mom" to her "fur kid", Chili.
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Pam Clarke
Designs With
Lines, Spokane, WA
www.homestitches.comPam Clarke
has been quilting since the late 1960's and
sewing for 46 years. She lives in Spokane WA and
grew up in Sacramento CA. Pam has been machine
quilting and teaching machine quilting, piecing
and appliqué classes since 1988. She is the
owner of Homes Stitches, a professional machine
quilting business that was started in 1988. Her
work can be seen in several published magazines
and books. She quilts for Debbie Mumm, K-P Kids,
Fiber Mosaics, Mary Lou and Company, Fabric
Sales, Kaufaman, Bernantix, Retta Weirheim and
Martingale. To this date she has quilted over
7000 quilts and has made several hundred. Pam
has appeared on Quilt Central and with Linda
Taylor for PBS. She has also been featured in
Fons and Porter as a Celebrity Quilter. Pam
teaches all over the USA including IMQS,
Innovations, Machines in Motion, the Home
Machine Quilt IMQX in NH and several local shows
in the Northwest. Her favorite type of quilting
is appliqué mixed with simple piecing with a
scrappy look that has won her numerous ribbons
across the USA. Designs with Lines is another
business that was started by Pam Clarke in 1998.
This technique was designed to help speed up the
quilting process by using simple lines as a guide to create individual designs. Pam has been
creating her own stencils for several years and
this technique is used for the home machine
quilter or the longarm machine quilter. She has
available 8 videos from Beginning to the
Advanced Machine Quilter, along with Sketchbooks
full of ideas to go along with her stencils. Pam
has also expanded her business this year to
include Log Cabin Dry Goods, the largest retail
and machine-quilting store in Spokane. With A-1
machine rentals, drop off quilting services, a
broad range of classes, high quality, low cost
fabrics, die cut services and meeting rooms, Pam
is excited to see Log Cabin Dry Goods grow. In
February 2007 she introduced her new book
published by Golden Threads and AQS "Quilting
Inside the Lines" and is an authorized certified
Husqvarna Viking Sewing Machine Dealer.
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Lisa Coker*
Lisa's Custom Quilting, Commerce,
TX
www.lisacoker.com
Lisa has been professionally
machine quilting since 2001. Within 6 months of
buying her machine she said goodbye to her "day"
job. Over the past 7 years she has quilted over
1,200 quilts for customers across the United
States and the UK. Lisa and her customers have
won over 30 ribbons in local competition. Lisa
aspires to mastery in quilting, both on her own
and her customer's quilts, and greatly enjoys
passing on what she has learned and discovered
to others. Lisa lives in Commerce, Texas with
her husband and family. With practice, anything
can be achieved.
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Kim Diamond*
Sweet Dreams Quilt Studio, Columbia, MO
www.sweetdreamsquiltstudio.com
Kimberlee Daimond has been quilting for over 20
years. She owns the first Gammill machine ever
Statlerized. With Paul Statler's encouragement,
Kim began selling her quilt patterns in 2001.
She currently has over 2500 quilting patterns
for sale and has customers all over the world.
As Statler grew so did the need for training.
Kim became one of the regular monthly trainers
for Gammill Statler in 2004. She has since
taught all over the country and even taught
overseas. She is the principle "Train the
Trainer" teacher and certifier for
CreativeStudios. She has written several
training manuals for Statler.
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Laura Lee
Fritz*
Houndholl'r, Lolo, MT
www.houndhollr.com
Laura Lee Fritz has taught quilting for over 20
years at Houston International Quilt Festival
and Napa Valley College, and has taught now and
then at Innovations, MQS, AQS in Paducah, and in
many conferences guilds and shops across the
U.S.A. She is known for her books: "The Art of
Hand Appliqué” (AQS 1989), “250 Continuous-Line
Quilting Designs”, “Mindful Meandering”, and
“Creative Classics “(from C&T Publishing,
2000-2008), and for her quilted-garment and
pantograph patterns from Golden Threads. Less
well known are her more advanced complex and
elegant designs in self-published books and
pantographs. She grew up in Berkeley,
California, and presently resides both in Marin,
California close to her teaching in Napa, and
Western Montana where she and husband Ron Paul
run a quilting machine business, raise blue tick
hounds and black sheep.
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Nancy
Goldsworthy
Nine Patch Quilting, Portland, OR
www.ninepatchquilting.com
Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Nancy
has been sewing since she was a child. Her love
of sewing took her to a career in apparel
manufacturing. From leather gloves to leisure
suits. Nancy has made them all. During her years
in the industry, she went from the lowest
operator on the line up to production engineer.
In 2001, after 30+ years in the industrial
sewing industry, Nancy left her corporate job to
follow her love of quilting. She set up her
longarm machine and started up Nine Patch
Quilting in the loft over her living room. Now,
as an award winning quilter and author, Nancy
travels the country teaching and sharing her
love of quilting. Look for her books, "Needles
and Threads and Bobbins, Oh My!", "Flat or
Fluffy? A Beginners guide to Battings", and "The
Quilter's Guide to UFO's" (Unfinished Objects),
from Easy Made Publishing. You can contact Nancy
at
www.ninepatchquilting.com.
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