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 Instructor’s
Profiles-
Others to be added as contacts are confirmed
Barbara
Chainey is one of
the foremost quilting teachers in the United Kingdom, her specialty being
traditional hand quilting and quilting design. During the 20 years she has been
teaching, writing and designing, she has inspired and encouraged countless
quilters of all skill levels. Barbara
teaches and judges extensively in the US and the UK. Since 1991 more than 100 of
her elegant and original quilting designs have been translated into stencils.
Barbara's first book The Essential Quilter is widely regarded as a
standard reference for quilting design, and her latest book Quilt It! is
well on its way.
Lee
Cleland
<PHOTO> is a
freelance patchwork/quilting teacher specializing in machine quilting. Quilting
and teaching are her passions. Not only is she interested in imparting
information and correct technique, but also inspiring students to have
confidence in themselves and to experiment. Lee lives in the bush at her
property "Skyridge" in northern New South Wales, Australia. She is very well known in Australia
and New Zealand, as well as the US. She is best known for her best selling first
book Quilting Makes the Quilt, released in 1994. Feathers That Fly
– Lees latest book –
was released in 2002. Lee believes that quilting should ALWAYS BE ENJOYABLE!
When Harriet
Hargrave
<PHOTO> first started showing her heirloom style quilts in 1982, it caused
quite a stir. At that point in time machine quilting was considered unthinkable
on a "hand" made quilt. Machine quilting was something on comforters
that you bought at the store! The feathers, stippling, and echo quilting on
Harriet's quilts turned thousands of quilters onto the possibilities offered by
their sewing machines. Harriet's book Heirloom Machine Quilting is the
industry standard and the most commonly used workbook for beginning machine
quilting classes. She has just rewritten it for the publication of the 4th
edition, to be released at this conference in June, 2004. Harriet has been
traveling internationally since 1984, spreading the word and teaching thousands
and thousands of people the joys and rewards of heirloom style machine quilting
n a home sewing machine. She was chosen as one of the 88 Leaders of the Quilt
World in 1994, nominated for the Quilters Hall of Fame in 2003 (pending), was a
finalist for the All-American Quilter honor, and internationally recognized as
the "fairy godmother" of machine quilting. She is the author of Mastering
Machine Appliqué, Art of Classic Quiltmaking (co-authored with Sharyn Craig), and From Fiber to
Fabric. She has owned and operated Harriet's Treadle Arts for 23 years, and
travels extensively teaching and lecturing.
Sue Nickels
<PHOTO> –
Sue started as a hand quilter and gradually changed her focus to machine work.
She has been teaching nationally for over 12 years. Sue has written two book on
machine techniques, her most recent "Machine Quilting- A Primer of Techniques."
Many of her quilts have won awards at national shows, including IQA's 2003
Master Award for Machine Artistry and AQS's 2004 Machine Workmanship Award for
"The Space Quilt" made with her sister Pat Holly. Sue provides a relaxed
environment for students to learn machine techniques that are time-saving, never
compromising quality workmanship for speed!
Hari
Walner <PHOTO> –
Hari is the author
of Trapunto By Machine and Exploring Machine Trapunto. These two ground-breaking
books introduced her techniques of working with water-soluble thread to achieve
beautiful trapunto effects with your sewing machine. She is a co-founder of
Beautiful Publications, LLC, a small publishing company that specializes in
publishing and distributing her Continuous Line quilting patterns world wide.
Hari has taught on an international level, although most of her teaching venues
are in the United States. |
