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Quilt Camp in the Pines
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Quilt Camp in the Pines
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Our Teaching Staff |
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John Flynn
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John Flynn is a prize-winning quilter, author, designer and inventor of the no-baste machine quilting system, the Flynn Multi-Frame. He makes his home in Billings, Montana. With over twenty years of experience leading quilt workshops coupled with his engineering background, John brings a unique blend of skills to the classroom. John offers classes which not only teach a project but give students an opportunity to improve their piecing and quilting skills with his low key one-on-one guidance. He is always challenging himself to make piecing and quilting techniques faster, easier and more accurate for his students. |
Cara Gulati |
Cara makes very large art quilts and is currently working on a series called 3-D Explosion. She is writing a book and teaching workshops on this design and sewing technique. Her newest quilt in the series, "3-D Party Explosion" won Viewer's Choice at the Houston International Quilt Festival in 2003. Doodle Press is Cara's publishing company. Her patterns can be found in quilt stores around the country and on her web site at www.doodlepress.com. When she isn't lecturing, teaching, publishing or creating art quilts, Cara can be found walking her dogs in the forest, where she lives with her husband in Marin County, California. |
Harriet Hargrave |
Harriet is the "fairy godmother" of machine quilting. When she first introduced free motion quilting in 1984 at Houston Quilt Market, it set the quilting world on it's ear, and has been changing the look of quilting ever since. Her first book, Heirloom Machine Quilting, is in its third edition with over 280,000 copies sold. In her books and in her classes, Harriet teaches her unique methods of machine quilting and appliqué that lets quilters make extraordinary heirlooms with the easiest possible techniques. |
Lyn Mann |
Besides being known for teaching scrap quilt patterns using speed piecing techniques, Lyn is also famous for sharing helpful, practical quilt skills during her classes. She is one of 18 instructors in the United States who is featured in the book Class Act Quilts, published by That Patchwork Place. In 2004, the Southern California Quilt Shop Association" chose 3 of Lyn's quilts to feature on the run. It resulted in her book "Hit The Pavement" which was a great hit |
Linda Matteotti |
Linda Matteotti has been a quilting and needle arts instructor for the past 30 years. She currently teaches quilting at Mesa Community College. She has been teaching computer classes at the college level since 1989. In the past few years, her love of quilting and expertise in computer software have come together to make her a knowledgeable EQ5 user and instructor. Her approach to teaching EQ5 includes exercises to give students confidence in using the software. |
Barbara Olson |
Barbara’s spectacular art quilts are alive with movement and colour. In demand internationally, she travels widely, teaching, judging, & inspiring quiltmakers. Shown in numerous galleries, exhibitions & publications, Barbara’s quilts have won many prestigious awards. Barbara’s teaching is impassioned by her desire to help students access their unique visions & manifest them in some form. |
Gina Perkes |
Gina Perkes lives in Payson, AZ with her husband Chris and 3 young children; Rylie, Dalton, and Dillon. She took up quilting about 6 years ago wanting to make quilts for her children's beds. Since then, she has received numerous awards at the state, national and international levels for her work and has appeared on quilting television shows. Gina loves exploring different styles of quiltmaking ranging from innovative to traditional. |
Sharon Schamber |
Sharon has a long history in textiles. She was designer and the master pattern maker for Deja Vu/Time & Eternity Fashions in Scottsdale, Arizona for over 20 years. After retiring from that business in 1994, she has devoted her energies to designing and making beautiful award winning quilts. One of her most recognizable works is Sitting Bull. Many of her works of art are painted with fabric paints as well as thread. She started like most of us with the wrong fabric, wrong needles and wrong batting. Learn what she has found brings success in all your quiltmaking projects. Sharon was named the winner of Best of Show award at the 2005 Houston International Quilt Festival with her magnificent quilt "Scarlet Serenade". |
Joan Shay |
Joan Shay is an award
winning quilter from Cape Cod, Mass. She has developed a new applique
technique Appli-bond©. If you want to create realistic 3-D flowers,
birds and fish easily and simply, then this is the technique for you.
Appli-bond is the fusing together of two layers of fabric, thus
eliminating the need to turn under allowances or finish the edges. Once
you have fused the fabric you cut out the motifs and then applique these
to your background with decorative embroidery stitches. Surprisingly
these quilts are washable!
Joan is the author of Petal by Petal, Petal Play the Traditional Way and 3 Quilters Celebrate the 4 Seasons published by AQS. She has appeared on Quilting From the Heartland with Shar Jorgensen and Simply Quilts with Alex Anderson. Joan has published articles in The American Quilter, Miniature Quilts, Quilting is Hot, Quilting Today and Patchwork & Quilting in the United Kingdom. She travels nationally and internationally teaching at guilds, conferences and shops. |
Elly Sienkiewicz |
Elly Sienkiewicz has been designing, stitching, writing and teaching on quilts for several decades now. Author of 17 appliqué books, Elly received the Quilt Industry’s 2003 Silver Star Award for significant influence on the contemporary quilt world. Before becoming so deeply involved with group-made Albums, Elly’s individual work hung at shows across the country and at museums and galleries in and around Washington, DC, her home town. Widely admired both as a needlewoman and as a scholar, she writes with sensitivity and insight about quilt making and quilt makers. Inspiring as both a teacher and speaker, she has lectured from the Smithsonian Institution, across the country, and on five continents. Her work is widely published in quilt magazines in the USA, Europe, and Japan, and in The Magazine Antiques, Folk Art Magazine, Victoria, and Threads |
Laura Wasilowski |
Laura is a contemporary quilt maker, teacher and creator of hand dyed fabrics and threads. She has an undergraduate degree in Costuming from the College of St Benedict, St. Joseph, MN, and a Master of Art degree in Fiber from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, and is owner of ArtFabrik. Colorful, hand dyed fabrics are her inspiration for creating art quilts, as are stories of her family, friends and home. She combines vivid fabrics and whimsical stories to make pictorial quilts, which are often narratives of her life. Each wall piece she makes is of her own design, of fused applique and machine quilted. |
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