About the 2007 Faculty

Pamela Allen

Pamela Allen hails from Canada. Although she has taught classes in many mediums at Queens University, she has worked exclusively in fabric since 2001. Pamela has exhibited and taught internationally. Among her many awards is a First Place Art Quilt in the 2005 Road to California.
www.pamelart.com

Cindy Blackberg

Cindy is from Maryville, Tennessee. Her quilts are based on traditional pieced quilts. She specializes in handwork. Her quilts have been featured in many national publications. She has won the IQA award for teaching excellence and was selected for the Circle of Excellence” in 2005 as one of the country's top designers.
www.cindyblackberg.com

Kim Churbuck

Kim works as an illustrator, designer, and teacher. In addition to writing and designing a number of books about quilt labels, she has designed a line of fabric, and teaches workshops around the country. She has a business with her mother in Davenport, Iowa.

Rachel D. K. Clark

Rachel D. K. Clark is a contemporary folk artist, teacher, and sewer. Eclectic fabric mixes, vibrant designs, and a keen sense of humor characterize Rachel's work. Her garments and quilts can be whimsical, political, or make a personal statement. She has had many one-woman shows, been featured in national magazines and television shows, and has her own pattern line.
www.rdkc.com

Susan K. Cleveland

Susan’s enthusiasm is contagious and students appreciate her well-written instructions and individual attention given in every workshop. Her quilts have received awards at many prestigious shows. Susan’s style is unique as she incorporates precision piecing, thread work, prairie points, beads, and piping into her work.
www.piecesbewithyou.com

Nancy Eha

Nancy’s quilts can only be described as “obsessively beaded”. She is inspired by the quilters she meets while teaching, and is in continual awe of what can be created by hand and needle.
www.beadcreative.com

Robbi Joy Eklow

Robbi lectures and teaches internationally and has won ribbons in major quilt shows across the U.S.. She writes a quarterly column in a national magazine as the “Goddess of the Last Minute”. She also is the author of Free Expression: The Art and Confessions of a Contemporary Quilter and has recently designed a line of fabrics.
www.robbieklow.com

Cindy Erickson

Certified as a judge by NQA in 1998, Cindy has judged at Paducah and NQA. As a quilter she has made commissioned quilts and samples for international companies. She has also co-authored a line of patterns and books.
www.cindyerickson.com

Beth Ferrier

Although Beth lives in Michigan, she has taught all over the world. She has her own publishing company from which she has published dozens of patterns and four books. Her latest book is But Wait! There's More Hand Appliqué by Machine . She has also demonstrated her techniques on two national quilting shows.
www.applewoodfarmquilts.com

Sandi Irish

Sandi has been quilting for 16 years. She is also the owner of a pattern company. Besides designing patterns, she has worked with fabric companies designing both fabrics and commissioned quilts for their ads.
www.irishchain.com

Billie Lauder

A popular guest on a television quilting show, Billie has presented many of her Quick Tricks. She is always developing new ways to make traditional blocks easy to piece, and gets students excited to make a quilt. She is also known for her great mystery quilts.
www.easymade.com

Diedra McElroy

Diedra McElroy is better known as Didi. She was raised in Tahiti and is passionate about the unique style of appliqué quiltmaking there. Her background in Biomedical science is utilized to help people learn hand quilting and hand appliqué in an orthopaedically correct way.
www.thatperfectstitch.com

Barbara Olson

Barbara is a national and international award-winning quilt artist and teacher. Her quilts have appeared in many publications and exhibits around the world. “In The Beginning”, one of her quilts, was chosen as one of the Best 100 American Quilts of the Century. She is also the author of the book, Journey of an Art Quilter.
www.barbaraolsonquiltart.com

Jennifer Perkins

Jennifer became an NQA certified judge in 2004 and has judged in various state shows since then. Some of her quilts have appeared in national shows and magazines. She is the owner of a quilt restoration business and has taken the AQS quilt appraisal course.

Rick Petersen

As a graduate of Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Rick has spent his life creating things. About nine years ago he discovered polymer clay and has been expressing himself through this medium ever since. Rick has taught doll making locally, and has had his work published in a national magazine.

Jackie Robinson

Best known for her detailed, yet easy to make, pieced quilt designs, Jackie is and international teacher who has authored 12 books and over 100 patterns. Her quilts have been exhibited at numerous shows. She now lives in scenic northwest Montana.
www.animas.com

Linda S. Schmidt

Linda is both a quilter and garment maker. In the wearable arts field she has been a Fairfield Designer and a ribbon winner at Paducah. Her quilts have appeared in many national and international magazines and books and have won numerous awards. Notably, she was Artist in Residence at Asilomar and Professional Quilter's 2003 Quilter of the Year.
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Mary Sorensen

Mary specializes in traditional fine hand appliqué done from original patterns. Her distinctive design style is characterized by elegant formal lines, complex layering of small pieces, and an emphasis on using a myriad of fabrics to create visual texture and excitement. Her flawless technique and humorous, hands-on approach to teaching have motivated students to return to handwork with enthusiasm. Mary teaches and lectures throughout the U.S. and designs and markets a full line of appliqué patterns.
www.maryappliques.com

Karen K. Stone

Karen is and award-winning quiltmaker and inspiring teacher known world-wide for her spiky blocks (think New York Beauty) and freeform appliqués, both done in a riotous assortment of fabrics. Her popular quilts have been exhibited nationally for the past decade and she runs a pattern business from her home and studio in Dallas, Texas.

Ricky Tims

Ricky is known in the international world of quilting as an enthusiastic and encouraging teacher, an award-winning quilter, and a talented and spell-binding speaker and pianist. His quilts have been displayed worldwide, and are highly regarded as excellent examples of contemporary quilts with traditional appeal. Ricky began designing and making quilts in 1991, and was recently selected as one of “The Thirty Most Distinguished Quilters in the World”.
www.rickytims.com

Tracy Trevethan

After learning the finer points of clothing construction and textile science in college, Tracy was introduced to fabric dyeing and has explored the many avenues to bring her passions together. She has been teaching quilting since 1993, and has published 20 quilt patterns with more coming in the future. Tracy loves every step of the quilt making process from designing the quilt, to creating the fabric, and then bringing it all together with piecing and machine quilting.
www.tracytrevethandesigns.com