Teacher Resources
The following list of teachers is provided for 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: Free Motion Embroidery, Machine Quilting, Beginner and Advanced Serger Techniques. Beginner and Advanced Sewing Machine Techniques.
e-mail: marjtyess@hotmail.com
British Columbia
Coreen Zerr
Specialty: thread painting, free motion thread work and or quilting, fiber art landscapes, fabric painting and embellishments
e-mail: corsew@shaw.ca
Deborah Jenkins (Crazy Quilt Cottage)
Specialty: Crazy quilting, machine quilting, fiber arts, paper piecing, beginner and intermediate classes.
e-mail: deborahjenkins@shaw.ca
Saskatchewan
Sandra Fisher (Quilt Paradise)
Specialty: Machine & hand piecing; Applique ~ raw-edge by machine, hand turned and stitched. Machine quilting ~ free motion, pantographs, stencils. Design my own quilt patterns and appliques. Thread painting and dying fabrics with crayon technique.
e-mail: safisher@sasktel.net
Ontario
Faye Hepworth (Children's Creative Studio)
Specialty: Mentoring of children in art of sewing - Ages 6 years old and older. Beginner basics to advanced fashion sewing techniques, pattern fitting, and alterations, including swim and action wear, accessories for fashion and interior design, quilting and crafting. Using sewing machine, serger and embroidery machines. We also explore the use of specialty threads in the detailing of their creative projects.
e-mail: hepwortr@ican.net
Kit Vincent
www.kitvincent.com - my website
http://art-at-work.blogspot.com - my blog
United States
Alabama
Janet Jones Worley
Specialty:
e-mail: jjworley@aol.com
Barbara Randle
Specialty: crazy quilting, innovative ways to bring crazy quilt techniques into your quilts, home and wardrobe
e-mail: b.randledesigns@mail.com
California
Deb Karasik
Specialty: Paper Piecing from beginning to advanced, machine quilting on domestic machines and the HQ16, quilt design with EQ6
e-mail: deb@quiltmavens.com
Diane Ricks
Specialty: fabric painting and dying, free motion embroidery and 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
www.californiafiberandmusic.blogspot.com
e-mail: sslesinger@roadrunner.com
Sharon Wilhite
Specialty: traditional quilting and clothing as well as innovative quilting
e-mail: Sharon@DragonLadyQuilts.com
Colorado
Kate Cox
Specialty: free motion drawing, appliqué, surface embellishment, design creation
e-mail: katecox@wildblue.net
Lynda Fairies
Specialty: Creative machine and hand embellishment, crazy quilting, fabric collage and art to wear as well as traditional quilting skills
e-mail: brault@noao.edu
Georgia
Sharon Serrano Ahmed
Specialty: art quilting, non-traditional quilting techniques and thread play including thread painting and drawing
www.sharonserranoahmed.blogspot.com
e-mail: sharonahmed2000@yahoo.com
Illinois
Shelley Brucar
Specialty: raw-edge appliqué, needle felting, free-motion quilting
e-mail: Shelley@handmade-memories.com
Jacque Davis
Specialty: Surface design, machine quilting and helping students translate their ideas into designs for a quilt
e-mail: Jacque@jacquedavis.com
Indiana
Bob Adams
Specialty: Art quilting, discharge, the art of the line. Design for the art quilter. In addition to travel Bob offers classes in his private studio
e-mail: BobTxtlArt@aol.com
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
Terry White
Specialty: Threadpainting, embellishments, beading by machine and contemporary quilt design
e-mail: rscwhite@adelphia.net
Kentucky
Peggy Welchert
Specialty: machine and hand piecing and appliqué, hand smocking, color theory, free motion embroidery, hand and machine embellishments
e-mail: peggywelchert@gmail.com
blog: magicthimblecreations.blogspot.com
Massachusetts
Susan Bleiweiss
Specialty: Mixed media fiber art including, journals, vessels, purses and quilts
e-mail: suebemail@yahoo.com
Michigan
Kathy Jenaras
Specialty: Teaching the next generation of quilters and fiber artists. Basic sewing and machine embroidery
e-mail: metaxa2@aol.com
Sherry Peterson
Specialty: Traditional and contemporary quilting, fabric books and fiber art
e-mail: Peterson@tc3net.com
Elsie Vredenburg
Specialty: paper piecing, celtic machine appliqué, machine quilting and free-motion embroidery
e-mail: elf@netonecom.net
Missouri
Juanita Yeager
Specialty: All Levels of quilting by both hand and machine. Composition, design, embellishment and mixed media
http://www.juanitayeagerartquilts.homestead.com/
e-mail: iyquilts@mchsi.com
New York
Priscilla Kibbee
Specialty: wearable art, embellishments and thread painting
www.priscillakibbee.citymax.com
e-mail: pkibbee@aol.com
Leni Levenson Wiener
Specialty: All aspects of quilting and sewing (beginner to advanced), art quilting and clothing, threadpainting
e-mail: leniW@optonline.net
North Carolina
Eve Agee
Specialty: All machine needle arts including thread painting, quilting, bobbin work, decorative stitches, cut work and creative garment embellishment and construction
e-mail: eveagee@charter.net
North Dakota
Terri Stegmiller
Specialty: art quilting, embellished fabrics and free motion embroidery
e-mail: steg3675@msn.com
Oregon
Nancy Goldsworthy
Specialty: demystifying threads for both domestic and longarm machines, embellishment, crazy quilting, wearable art
e-mail: ninepatchquilting@comcast.net
Virginia
Linda Stewart
Specialty: Art to wear, couture construction and alterations
www.LindaStewartCoutureDesigns.com
e-mail: lstewartcouture@bvunet.net