JEN ALEXANDER
Bountiful, UT
jen@quilttopstop.com

Jen is an award-winning quilter who has been professionally machine quilting since 2004. She started teaching machine quilting and machine maintenance in 2006 to quilters of all skill levels. Jen began selling A-1 Quilting Machines in 2007. She loves what she does because of the creativity and the people she gets to work with. Jen lives in Utah with her husband, JC, and their three children, ages 7-17 years. www.quilttopstop.com

RENAE ALLEN
Brigham City, UT
renae@rgadesignquilts.com

Renae has been teaching machine quilting since 1999, and is well known for her Skillbuilder products. A Family and Consumer Science graduate, Renae’s business, RGA Design, evolved from her passion for teaching and love of fabric, sewing and quilting. Renae has taught and presented around the country, helping newcomers and old timers develop machine quilting skills. Her products are sold internationally and she designed the Patriot Dream fabric line for Henry Glass. www.rgadesignquilts.com

PATRICIA BARRY
Racine, WI
pat@bydesignquilting.com

Pat is a professional quilter and loves to share her knowledge with others. She teaches privately, regionally, and nationally and has been a guest quilt artist on Linda Taylor’s “The Quilting School.” Pat also writes books, articles and quilting manuals. She designed the Sweet Set line of quilting machine templates for Creative Grids. You will see her at most major quilt shows, either teaching or demonstrating new innovative products for quilters. www.PatBarryQuilts.com

BOBBIE BERGQUIST
Rindge, NH
joe@quilterstreasure.com

Bobbie & Joel are quilt makers, manufacturers and educators, who keep things simple, quick and fun. Bobbie wanted to make a stained glass quilt; Joel created her fabric. Traveling, they meet quilters from all over the world. Exposure to 35 shows a year, they gain insight into trends; keeping classes, products, workshops, seminars, lectures on the cutting edge. Bobbie's physical and medical limitations meant she had to simplify techniques. What was a necessary modification for one made quilting easier and less stressful for all. Bobbie & Joel bring these talents into the quilting world by modifying popular traditional quilting methods – making them easy to perform. www.quilterstreasure.com

CAROL BLEDSOE
Gardnerville, NV
carol@sewezquilting.com

Carol has been teaching quilt-related classes for over 10 years. She began quilting in 1994 and learned early on that it is OK to think outside the box. She passes that philosophy on to her students. www.sewezquilting.com

IRENA BLUHM
Antlers OK
bluhmirena@yahoo.com

Making quilts for shows became a passion for Irena ever since she started entering quilt contests in May of 2005. Join her as she shares her experience in the struggle of making award-winning pieces. She will try to explain the best way she can, what it takes to make a winner, the way she understands it. Find out what is so special about her work that is winning awards in many national and international quilt competitions, and has been published in several quilting magazines. www.irenabluhmscreations.com

KIM BRUNNER
Farmington, MN
kimmyquilt@aol.com

Two-time “Machine Quilting Teacher of the Year” award winner Kimmy Brunner is the producer of top-rated instructional DVDs, beautiful quilting patterns, and high-quality quilting tools. A frequent contributor to quilting magazines and a frequent guest on quilting television and radio shows she is a popular and sought-after teacher at national and international quilt shows. www.Kimmyquilt.com

PAM CLARKE
Spokane, WA
Sales@HomeStitches.com

Pam has been longarm quilting since 1988, she is the owner of Designs with Lines a technique that she developed in the 90's using registration lines as a guide to create custom quilting. She teaches all over the USA and several international countries. She has self published over 20 sketchbooks and self-produced 12 instructional DVD's. www.homestitches.com

DUSTIN FARRELL
Cambridge Springs, PA
countrystitchin@verizon.net

Dusty is a longarm quilt artist. His quilting ranges from everyday quilting for customers to show quality. He has been awarded top prizes at multiple shows around the U.S. Dusty is a “no holds barred” quilter who has lost the rule book somewhere along the way. Dusty's mottos are: "If I can draw it I can quilt it," and "the imperfect perfect.” www.cscountrystitchin.com

MYRNA FICKEN
Laurel, MD
myrnaf@q.com

Myrna has traveled and taught at quilt shows and other quilting events all over the United States as well as at various international events. She has won many awards with her work over the years and was nominated for Teacher of the Year in 2007. Her work has been published in books and magazines in the quilting trade. Myrna also has several longarm quilting DVDs available. She brings a fresh outlook to her classes and techniques and she encourages students to be progressive and innovative. www.aquilterschoice.com

LEE FLETCHER
Kennesaw, GA
lee.fletcher@sulky.com

Lee grew up with a mom who was a dressmaker and embroidery artist. Sewing has always been a passion. As a Sulky National Educator, she has the privilege of teaching fabulous embellishment techniques and all kinds of fun projects. www.sulky.com

CATHY FRANKS
Carmel, IN
cathyfranks@indy.rr.com

Cathy has been quilting for over 30 years and longarm quilting almost 20. She is a dynamic teacher who thinks that sharing her knowledge in a simple to understand way but fun and exciting way is why she loves to teach. She has won numerous ribbons, written many articles for magazines and taught nationally as well as internationally. She uses many visual aids and samples so that the students can easily see the subject. Quilting leads to friendship and sharing. www.cathyfranks.com

CARMEN GEDDES
Eagle Mountain, UT
carmen.tensisters@gmail.com

Carmen Geddes resides in Eagle Mountain, Utah. Together with her husband Patrick, they have three sons, two daughters, and six grandkids. Carmen teaches many quilting and sewing classes all around the country and has recently been hooked on longarm quilting! She is currently an educator for Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff. Carmen has been a guest on MaLiss Rae Hawley’s “World of Quilts” and “America Sews” with Sue Hausmann. She has taught classes at HMQS, Road to California quilt show, Houston Quilt Market, and has been published in Quiltmaker magazine. www.tensisters.com

PEGGY GELBRICH
Yamhill, OR
peggy@yellowhousequilter.com

Teaching and sharing the art of quilt making is Peggy’s passion. She especially enjoys the time spent with fellow quilters. Peggy is always looking for the techniques that make a seemingly difficult quilt design easy. She teaches all types of machine piecing as well as handwork including needle turn appliqué and hand quilting. Her patience and teaching style earned her a nomination for the 2009 “Teacher of the Year” for Professional Quilter magazine. www.yellowhousequilter.com

RENAE HADDADIN
Sandy, UT
renaequilts@gmail.com

Renae loves to quilt! ...and loves to share that passion with others. Renae is always looking for new ways to challenge herself personally and professionally and believes that her physical, emotional and spiritual condition have a great impact on her quilting. Many of her quilts are entered in competitions and she has won numerous quilting awards...but her biggest thrill isn't winning. She considers the best part of quilting exploring the unlimited possibilities that the art affords and the friends that she has made along the way. www.quiltsonthecorner.com

SUZANNE MICHELLE HYLAND
Salt Lake City, UT
suzanne@quilterstouch.com

Suzanne has always loved sewing, quilting, and crafting. Suzanne’s company, Quilters Touch, reflects her belief that quilters touch the lives of others through the comfort, warmth, and charm of their quilts. Suzanne developed Machingers ™ Quilting Gloves and a unique technique for tight ¼”binding by machine. Her videos and classes help quilters finish their quilts beautifully through interpretive design, freehand free-motion techniques and innovative machine binding. www.quilterstouch.com

JUDY LYON
Lansing, KS
judylyon@yahoo.com

Living worldwide with her Army husband has sparked Judy’s interest in varied cultures and art styles. She started designing machine-quilting patterns professionally after first creating an original design for her son’s Rainforest quilt. Discovering her special gift, she has loved designing patterns ever since. MeadowLyon offers a wide variety of non-repeating “Pictograms” as well as pantos, borders, and blocks. Their specialty patterns add an extra layer of interest to any quilt.

KAREN MCTAVISH
Duluth, MN
kmctavish@designerquilts.com

Karen McTavish has been teaching professionally since 2000. She has been quilting on a longarm since 1997 fulfilling her two passions: Heirloom Trapunto quilting and Wholecloth. Karen specializes in crafting award-winning quilts using techniques which allow any machine quilters to replicate traditional hand-quilted effects. She has been featured on Simply Quilts, and writes articles for national quilting magazines and journals. Karen is also judging quilt shows and lectures across the country. Karen is the author of 5 books, “Quilting for Show 1 & 2,” “Whitework Quilting,” “Mastering the Art of McTavishing” and “Secrets of Elemental Quilting.” www.designerquilts.com

CHERI MEINEKE-JOHNSON
Corinth, TX
contact@cheriscrystals.com

Cheri was introduced to quilting in 1966. This was the beginning of her trademark style using one fabric, fussy cuts, repeats, the non-degree ruler, appliquéd circles and beads to create original quilts. In 1998 Cheri started a new trend using hot fix crystals on the quilts. She learned early on that she was a “quilter” who didn’t quilt, thus her partnership with Linda V. Taylor. Since then, they have won numerous top awards as a team at both local and national quilt shows. Cheri teaches workshops and presents lectures on her unique and refined techniques and the hot fix crystals. She approaches quilting the same way she lives her life – add a little sparkle to accent the positive and appliqué over the negative! www.cheriscrystals.com

SUE PATTEN
Hagersville, Ontario, Canada
suepattenquilts@yahoo.ca

Sue Patten of Ontario, Canada has been traveling throughout Canada, the U.S. and Europe teaching and educating the art of longarm quilting since 2001. Her unique style of quilting has won both herself and her clients many awards and ribbons. She is the author of “Quilting Possibilities... Freehand Filler Patterns.” Sue’s work appears on magazine covers and has been featured in many other books. She has appeared on many TV quilting shows. She designs patterns for numerous companies and has several new thread lines. Sue’s high energy classes and unique free-motion designs are sure to inspire you to quilt “outside the box” and let your quilting reflect who you really are!!! www.canadianquilterschoice.com

CLAUDIA PFEIL
Krefeld, Germany
post@claudiapfeil.de

Claudia is addicted to the world of quilts. She runs a quilt shop and the APQS Showroom in Krefeld, Germany, and is willing to fly across the ocean to teach students interested in free motion quilting. Her award-winning quilts are well known for her opulent quilting style and her love for embellishments. Her classes are filled with new ideas, encouragement, enthusiasm and a lot of fun! www.claudiapfeil.de/index.php?article_id=29&clang=1

PAULA REID
Palmdale, CA
paula@battsintheattic.com

Often described as an "artist with a sewing machine," Paula Reid is a custom heirloom quilting specialist.  Paula made her first quilt in April 1990, three weeks after attending the Glendale (CA) Quilt Show with her best friend, Mary Ponce. She taught her first machine piecing class two years later, but found that her heart was captured by the quilting process.  Machine quilting on her first Bernina machine was her very favorite way to spend time. She has vigorously attacked the stacks of tops residing in many quilters' homes. In 1993, Paula opened her machine quilting business and since then she has quilted over 1,400 quilts, all on her regular home machines.  Paula expanded to national teaching a few years later when appearances on "Simply Quilts" brought her to the attention of a larger audience.  Now spending weeks at a time on the road, she has decided that nothing is more fun than sharing ideas with the quilters she meets on her travels. www.battsintheattic.com

VICKI SHETTER
New London, WI
vicki@softscrap.com

Vicki has a diversified background in clothing construction, special occasions and bridal wear, historical and theater costuming, wearable art, quilting and home decor. Vicki has taught classes at colleges, seminars, guilds, and Quilt Shows across the country. Vicki and her husband Mike, a professional photographer and Photoshop professional, started the web based company Soft Scrap® in 2006 and produced a DVD showing the Soft Scrap® process. Soft Scrap® has been featured in Quilting Now magazine. Together Mike & Vicki have published over 12 design booklets. www.softscrap.com

PATRICIA SIMONS
Water ford, WI
patricia@quiltersrule.com

As Quilter's Rule developed the Design Tools line, Patricia has developed a knack for designing different quilting patterns. She looks forward to sharing her techniques to help you develop your own style and expertise. Patricia represents the family owned and operated business, Quilter’s Rule and attends over 20 quilting shows a year. www.quiltersrule.com

DEONN STOTT
Heber, UT
deonn@quiltscapesquilting.com

An award-winning quilt maker and designer; teacher, author and longarm quilter; Deonn is passionate about every aspect of quilting! Known for her precision in workmanship, she loves teaching both youth and adult quilting classes which always include time-saving tips, tricks and tools to improve technique and ensure success. Her motto: “If there is an easier way, let's find it!" www.quiltscapesquilting.com

GEORGIA STULL
Harrisonville, MO
heartlandquiltworks@gmail.com

Georgia hails from America's heartland in Missouri. She has sewn for most of her life...everything from wedding gowns to home interiors. Then she bought a Gammill Statler and it’s all about quilting now! Georgia quilts professionally full time. She was one of the very first Gammill certified Creative Studio trainers and is certified in the latest version. Georgia is also a member of the Creative Studio Elite Beta Team. www.heartlandquiltworks.net

LINDA V. TAYLOR
Etna, WY
linda@lequilters.com

Linda is a highly awarded professional longarm machine quilter whose work has been displayed in many venues and published widely in quilting magazines and books. Linda has been quilting for over 35 years and is known and respected as one of the pioneers and innovators of the art of longarm quilting. She has her own PBS television show named “Linda’s Longarm Quilting.” Linda wrote “The Ultimate Guide to Longarm Machine Quilting” produced by C&T Publishing Company. She maintains an intense teaching schedule, and has been honored with longarm Teacher of the Year award several times around the country. www.lequilters.com

RICK TAYLOR
Etna, WY
rick@lequilters.com

Rick Taylor (husband of Linda V. Taylor) has been involved in the longarm quilting machine business for 17 years. He is one of the directors of Rocky Mountain Electric Quilters, LLC., authorized dealers for the Gammill machines. He produced the first DVD on troubleshooting and maintenance on the Gammill quilting machines. Through the years, his extensive knowledge and experience working on the machines has earned him an impeccable reputation in the industry. He is able to impart this "know-how" to others with his easy going and easy-to-understand manner. www.lequilters.com

SALLY TERRY
Paducah, KY
sally@sallyterry.com

Sally’s an innovator and award-winning machine quilter. Her "ah-ha" techniques are industry standards. Her feathering book, “Hooked On Feathers” was #1 with AQS and she just released her fifth book, “Pathways From Quilt Top To Quilted.” Sally has been machine quilting and instructing over 12 years. Her philosophy is "You don't have to copy me to be successful – it’s within YOU.” Sally will just show you where to find it and give you tools." www.sallyterry.com

JAMIE WALLEN
Kalamazoo, MI
jamiewallen@sbcglobal.net

Jamie entered the quilting community with a background in Fine Arts. After a longarm purchase in the late 90’s he began to develop his own style of quilting. During this time he developed a large and loyal community of piecers throughout the USA who wanted him to put his unique style of work on their quilts. In 2003 he began teaching workshops and classes throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. In 2005 Jamie headed back to his roots of fine art with the longarm. He has developed a new series of quilting techniques he calls Thread Fusion, and continues to teach nationally and internationally. www.jamiewallen.citymax.com

JUDY WOODWORTH
Gering, NE
jwquilts@yahoo.com

This international award-winning quilter brings enthusiasm and clarity of subject to each of her classes. She is the author of “Freemotion Quilting” published by AQS, and has written for many of the quilting magazines, including a quarterly article for On Track magazine. Judy has also appeared on “The Quilt Show,” “Quilt It,” “The Long Arm Quilting Show,” and Linda Taylors's “The Quilting School.” She is a mother of five children, married 45 years. www.judywoodworth.com

MINDY WYLIE
Mifflinville, PA
mindy@angelthreadsquilting.com

Mindy Wylie (formerly Caspersen) has been a professional machine quilter for more than 11 years. She has produced several machine quilting instructional DVDs, created patterns and tools for machine quilting and self-published books. She has been a representative for Nolting Manufacturing, Hinterberg Designs and IntelliQuilter. Her quilting designs are available through DigiTech Patterns. Mindy resides in Pennsylvania with her children. www.atqsales.com.