Kansas Professionals:
Teachers & Lecturers:
Cathy Audley  & Sue Chaffee *
Kathy Caswell  *
Kathy Delaney  *
Deborah Divine  *
Carol Elmore  *
Nancy Graves & Judy Robb  *
Bryan Grove  *
Karen Hansen  * 
Reeze L. Hanson  *
Martha S. Heimbaugh  *
Deanna Hodson  *
Nancy Hornback  *
Tresa Jones  *
Judy Lyon & Angela Meadows  *
Julie McEathron  *
Tony Munoz  *
Judy Oberkrom  *
Mindy Peterson  *
Jeanne M. Poore  * 
Debra Rowden  *
Terry Thompson  *
Libby Wallis  *

Longarm Quilters:

Iowa Professionals
Ilene Bartos
 

Wisconsin Professionals:
Teachers & Lecturers:
 

Arkansas Professionals

Caroline has taken many classes pertaining to antiques and contemporary values. She gives written appraisals for all types of quilts and quilted textiles by appointment only.

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Calico Cutups Guild, Bella Vista, AR
Wichita, KS; Tulsa,OK; Leavenworth, KS; Pittsburg, KS &  Springdale, AR shops

Lectures & Workshops

Closets, Shelves, Trunks & Under the Bed, entertaining, enlightening and inspiring you to use your own quilts for decorating your home.
The 4-Patch/9-Patch, learn to utilize even the smallest pieces that keep multiplying in your sewing room.
Blue Ribbon Quilts, Here We Come!, demonstrates how a judge sees and chooses the prize quilts.
Log Cabins and More, the history of log cabins and exciting ways to use this block in your quilts.
Scrap Quilts are Happy Quilts, presents lots of ways to use up some of the scraps in your ever growing collection.
30s Quilts Keep Turning Up, view a collection of 30s quilts and learn ways you can reserve, repair or even finish your treasures.
Sunshine in My Garden, wash away technique with finishing blocks as you go. Uses lots of fabrics from your stash. 6 Hours
Don't Be a Wall Flower, Build a large pillow using foundation piecing. 6 Hour
Gift Ideas with Log Cabin Techniques, several small gift ideas. 3 Hour
Fabulous Foundation Piecing, simple beginner to advanced techniques for foundation piecing. 6 Hours
Log Cabin Near the Courthouse Steps, a stunning bed-size or wall quilt, using both patterns. 6 Hours
Pineapple Mantel Cover & Table Runner, a very easy technique with stunning results. 6 Hours
Tender Loving Care for Old Quilts, guided through the steps of repairing and stabilizing old textiles. 3 Hours
String Pieced Stars, make a scrap quilt using piecing techniques to build 8-pointed stars. 6 Hours
In the Closet? Make Memories, small project using men's neckties and batiks as a remembrance of days past, but not forgotten. 6 Hours

Quilt Judging
Appraisals
Commission Quilts, custom quilt making.
Finishing and Repairs

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
AQS, NAQA, QUILT of NW Arkansas, Bella Vista Calico Cutups

Appraisals: Oklahoma Pow Wow, Little Balkans Quit Show, Quilters' Haven

Workshops &

4 Block Quilt: Patterns offered and techniques used in making quadrant quilts as they did in the 1840's and beyond.
Mock Appraisals: Student bring pieces and discussion is held on what we look for in an appraisal.
How Do I Become an Appraiser: Just what do you have to do to become certified as an appraiser of quilted textiles. What do I need to know before pursuing this path of study? How do I get that information? Can I study on my own and achieve what I need? Each of these areas will be discussed as well as the route to certification.
Trunk Show: Quilts from my collection are brought and discussed. The focus of the quilts may be your choice - Memory Quilts, Antique Quilts, Varied Technique Quilts, and Block Exchange/Fabric Exchange Quits.

Those Funky Princess Feather Quilts: A couple of years ago I started collecting Princess Feather quilts. Not the pristine ones that we think of but ones that are 'funky', takeoffs on the Princess Feather. I have had patterns drafted and friends are making replicas of these quilts, so the originals as well as the replicas will be presented. A very interesting and entertaining lecture.
Should I Quilt That Old Top or Blocks?: Advise so to whether nor not to quilt an old top or blocks. If it is okay to quilt it, some suggestions on how and what to use will be offered. If it is not okay to quilt, how to preserve and yet use.
 

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Calico Cutups, Q.U.I.L.T., Nyte Tyme Guild, KS Quilters Organization.
 

Lectures &

Trunk Show - includes quilts large and small, many techniques used, spanning from 1880s to present day. Funny and interesting stories enhance this show.
Scrap Quilts Only - A wide range of scrap techniques are encompassed in this presentation.
How to Have a Blue Ribbon Quilt - Tips and tricks from a judge and what attracts their eye, and what places it in 2nd place almost immediately.
Arrange, Arrange and Manage to Hide - A dream of a studio on a shoestring budget.
Why Did I Save All This Stuff? - A humorous collection of blocks, strips and pieced from an addicted quilter.
 To Repair or Despair and Maybe to Share - Tips for finishing blocks and tops of the past. How to repair or restore your grandma's quilt.
30s Quilts Have Character! - Ways and Means to survive, both mentally and physically.
Friends Are Forever - A collection of signature quilts and blocks. Ideas are given for how to quickly or not so quick make a wonderful keepsake.
Where Do we Go From Here? - Half square and quarter square triangles and how to arrange them with ease. 1 day workshop
Bow Tie Without the Knot - Three methods of building bow tie blocks with an emphasis of making a friendship or memorial quilt. 1 day workshop
Color-You Too, Can Do It - Select fabrics and make blocks by gluing color chips to paper. 1 day workshop
Mixing Log Cabin with Courthouse Steps - A stunning bed size quilt or a wall quilt variety using both patterns. 1 day workshop
Clean Up That Sewing Room - Organize your scraps for future use and "what you can make out of a mess"! 1 day workshop
Light in the Darkness - Wash away technique with finishing blocks as you go. 1 day workshop

Flock Of Birds - a Sally Schneider technique of rapidly building small blocks which connect together to make an all over pattern. 1 day workshop
Building a Strong Foundation - Pieced friendship blocks in a hurry for a family reunion, wedding reception, party, etc. 1 day workshop
The Strip-and not Las Vegas - Build large blocks of 8-pointed stars, divided by sashing. 1 day workshop
The Bar - Use old blocks in your stash or create new blocks, design on-point format and choose appropriate fabrics for bars and triangles to finish design. 1 day workshop
Log Cabin for All Occasions - Placement of value and color with various borders. 1 day workshop
Vegetable with No Bugs - pieced vegetable made easy.
Four in a Four in a Four - Fabulous product using simple 4-patches. 1 day workshop
Trip Around the World - Old-fashioned design using modern techniques and speed piecing. 1 day workshop
Corners in Familiar Cabins - Make a wall quilt using small scale log cabin design and adding additional interest. 1 day workshop
Building on the Family Reunion Photos - How to take photos on fabric and build step by step from the signature outside border, making all the pieces balance in color, value, scale and unity. 1 day workshop
Texas Star in Arkansas - Large quilt with Texas Star set on point in the center square, and log cabin blocks in the triangular corners. 1 day workshop
Texas Star in Arkansas II - Large star in center with folk art appliqué flowers and birds in setting square and triangles. 1 day workshop
Flower Garden Rewards - Pieced flowers and leaves using foundation methods. 1 day workshop

Nebraska Professionals:

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
IQA; AQS; Nebraska State Quilters Guild

Lectures &

Follow the Patchwork Road
Small Quilts: Miniature Heirlooms
String Piecing: Old Blocks - New Blocks
Collecting and Using Toy Sewing Machines

Small Quilts Made Easy
Stars, Stars and More Stars
Pineapple Quilts
Virginia Reel Wall Hanging
Creative Fabric Painting
String Piecing: Building on Tradition
Postcards, Trade Cards and Fun
World's Easiest House Block
Starry Night Wall Hanging

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Bits-n-Pieces Quilters, Gibbon, NE; Country Crossroads Quilt Guild, Kearney, NE; Nebraska State Quilt Guild
 

Oklahoma Professionals

Lectures / Workshops

History of Beads and The Care and Feeding of Beads in the 21st Century

History of Crazy Quilts, The Quirks and Fables of its Eclectic Journey

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Walnut Valley & Jubilee Quilters-OK, AQS, NQA, and IQA

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Jubilee Quilt Guild, Ponca City
 

Ilene's book, "Mapleleaf Quilts", was released in March 2008 by Martingale.  In her book she teaches 9 techniques for making points

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
DesMoines Area Quilters Guild, Central Iowa Textile Artists (CITA)

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska State Quilt Guilds;  Olathe Quilter's Guild; AQS

Lectures & Workshops:

Sisterspeak: our quilting journey. This is a trunk show in which Cathy and Sue take you on a fun tour of their learning experiences in the art of quilting.
Altering Fabric: dyeing, printing, painting, batik “Making Blah Fabric Look Brilliant. ”This is an exploration, with many examples, of the techniques of changing fabrics. We examine the use of painting, dyeing, hand batik, printing, discharging, and more. Learn the fun ways to make a piece your very own.
Bobbin Work: sewing “upside down” You can use heavier thread to make designs stand out. Add texture and dimension to your quilts. Either learn the process with making samples, or make a project with a “Bag of Flowers”.
Fabric Printing: we will teach the art of using found objects to print your fabric. Especially fun and rewarding is printing with leaves, vines and feathers. This workshop can also be a play time where you experiment with many different printing styles, or choose one of two projects: 1. Printing a shirt; 2. making background for appliqué.
Mola Made Easy: Learn a reverse technique to achieve striking results layering fabric.
Postcards: The newest craze in quilting is fun and fast! We will show you the ins and outs of making your own post cards that you can send in the mail for many different occasions, or form an exchange group with friends.
Machine Trapunto: Love those dimensional quilts you see in the shows? We will teach you how to achieve beautiful results with an easy method of trapunto.

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Heart of Kansas Quilters Guild; Prairie Quilt Guild; teaches in her home also.

Workshops & Lectures:

Journal Quilts: your life in quilts
Color Me Unique: presented with humor and personal insight.

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Starlight Quilter's Guild; Prairie Point Quilt Shop, Shawnee, KS
 

Workshops & Lectures:

The Dysfunctional Quilter - Laugh and learn with the Midwest's most dysfunctional quilter.
Cats' Cradle - an 18" wall hanging, uses paper-piecing for the 3-cat center and flying geese border.
Iris and Ivy - combines machine-pieced irises and hand appliquéd ivy in a 36" wall hanging
Clematis - a 34" wall hanging combines piecing and appliqué to create a flower-covered trellis.
Holiday Wreaths - a simple machine-pieced and appliquéd wall hanging, sports ribbons, bells, and a bit of decorative stitching.
Septuplets - designing & paper piecing 7-pointed stars
Appli-anything - creating and sewing your own designs.
Visit her website www.wellberry.com for a complete listing of workshops and lectures.

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
The Greater Kansas City Guild; Kaw Valley Quilt Guild; Harper's Fabric & Quilt Company and American Quilters Society (AQS)

Workshops & Lectures:

If the Shoe Doesn't Fit, Then Go Barefoot! - An uplifting lecture and trunk show encouraging more creativity in all aspects of our lives. Research on creativity and life event is used to empower the audience to take what file has given them and make it work, especially in quilts. A variety of quilts illustrates this eclectic sense of adventure and ongoing development of color and design sense. Slides are included showing sites of design inspiration for the original "Jewels of the Plaza" pattern. A scavenger just is enclosed in this wall hanging pattern.
Playing In Your Scrap Bag with Paper Foundation Piecing -
We'll begin paper piecing a simple Courthouse Steps pattern, and then play with easy variations which can all fit together into any size project, from baby quilt to king-size. This is a great project to study color, values and contrast while playing in your stash.

Quilting Basics
Paper Foundation Piecing
Needle-turn Appliqué
Strip Pieced Lone Star
Mariner's Compass- drafting, sewing
Color
Hand Trapunto - techniques
Blended Irish Chain (strip piecing)

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Silver Needles Quilt Guild, KQO, AQS

Workshops & Lectures

Deborah presents a motivational and humorous trunk show, "My Life in Miniature", of selected miniatures and small wall hangings from her collection including quilts made by the famous Caryl Bryer Fallert, Ann Pfahl, etc. and not-so-famous herself.
Folded Flowers - A workshop based on techniques from Kumiko Sudo's books, Fabled Flowers and Fantasies and Flowers.

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Blue Valley Quilt Guild

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Konza Prairie Quilters Guild, IQG, AQS

Workshops & Lectures

The Kansas Landscape as Design - a simple design process focused on the visual elements of the Kansas landscape will be explored. A variety of fiber collage and quilting techniques will be demonstrated and used to create wall hangings that celebrate the beauty of Kansas nature.

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Konza Prairie Quilt Guild; KQO; AQSG; All About Quilts, Manhattan, KS.

Workshops & Lectures

Quilt Appraisal Facts and Fallacies - Carol uses quilts from her own personal collection to illustrate the points of this lecture and will also do individual appraisals after this lecture.
History of Quilt Making from 3400 B.C. to the Present - Carol uses a combination of quilts and pictures to illustrate quilt history.
Life and Quilts of Ida Stover Eisenhower, Mother of Dwight D. Eisenhower - This is a slide lecture featuring Eisenhower family history and quilts made by Ida Eisenhower.
Gone to the Dogs - Quilts and fabrics featuring canine friends - trunk show with some slides.
Aprons In Our Lives - Discusses the history of aprons from 1830's to present. She brings her apron collection to illustrate this lecture.
Dating Antique Quilts and Fabrics - participants bring antique quilts or tops they want identified and Carol brings fabric, quilts and tops from her own collection.
Hand Piecing Miniature Quilts from Vintage and Reproduction Fabric - Carol teaches hand-piecing techniques that are adapted to miniature or small quilts in this workshop.
Creating Your Own Scottie Collectible - Pieced Scottie block for pillow bases in vintage fabric.

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Prairie Point & Quilter's Haven
Blue Valley, Kaw Valley & Greater Kansas City quilt guilds

Workshops & Lectures

Machine Quilting - Beyond the basics.
Advanced Machine Quilting
All on a Bernina - not a longarm.

Workshops & Lectures

Designing with EQ5 & EQ6 - classes, workshops and programs.
Color for Quilters -classes, workshops and programs.
Table Runner Tesselations: classes and workshops on using Tesselations and simple machine appliqué.

Guild Affiliations:

Blue Valley Quilters Guild and the Mo-Kan Machine Quilter's Guild.

Lectures & Workshops:

Painting on Fabric
Dye Painting & Fabric Painting, Intro. & Comparison
The Growing Garden
Fabric Painting 1
Fabric Painting 2
Fabric Marbling
Free Motion Quilting
Creative Mystery Projects and more
Martha’s approach is fresh, enthusiastic, inspirational, and hands-on.

Workshops & Lectures

Everything Old is New Again - about using vintage linens with current fabrics to create new heirlooms. She also teaches you to use new techniques for time honored talents. For example: machine vs. hand embroidery.

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Prairie Quilt Guild of Wichita

Guild & Shop Affiliations:
Sunflower Quilt Shop, Hiawatha, KS
Quilt Lover's Guild, Seneca, KS

Guild & Shop Affiliations:
Kaw Valley Quilter's Guild, American Sewing Guild; Sewing Educators Alliance; Stitch-on, Lawrence, KS
 

Workshops & Lectures

Sewing Basics
Basic Machine Quilting
Stashbust'n PJ pants
Clearing out your Scraps

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Quilters Guild of Parsons

Lectures & Workshops:

One Male's Viewpoint of the Quilting World
The Four W's of Mystery Quilts: Who, What, When, Where
A Summer Quilt: 'Folded Variable Star'
Curing Curve-a-phobia
The Ugly Log Cabin

Lectures & Workshops:

The Whole Shebang, in our original fast - paced show, we'll bring out our Sample Quilts and un-roll all our patterns.
Special Quilts Are Easy with MeadowLyon - with our newest quilts and instructions, we'll explore how to use our distinctive patterns.
Specialty: Machine Quilting Patterns

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Prairie Point Quilt Shop - Shawnee, KS and Beadazzler, Overland Park, KS; Bead Renaissance shows; Blue Valley Quilt Guild, KC Fiber Guild, Kansas City Bead Society, Kansas Quilters Organization, Missouri State Quilters Guild, and Kansas Art Quilters

Lectures &

Beading Techniques
Crazy Quilting
Denim Duds
Fabric Landscapes
Silk Ribbon Embroidery
Beginning Embroidery
Crazy Quilting

Fabric Boxes
Beginning Silk Ribbon
Advanced Silk Ribbon
Beading on Fabric
Beads and Threads
Brick Stitch Bag
Spiral Bracelet

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Olathe Quilter's Guild, Blue Valley Quilt Guild; Prairie Point & Needle Nest

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Starlight Quilter's Guild; Quilt Sitters Circle; Heartland Quilt Network; Legler Barn Quilters; Kansas Quilters Organization; Missouri State Quilt Guild; National Quilt Association; American Quilters Society; Prairie Point Quilt Shop - Shawnee, KS

Lectures &

Prize Winning Quilts - What Judges Look For
Scraps, Scraps and More Scraps- Trunk show
You Can Too - Personal history Trunk show
Kansas City Star Revisited - about the Kansas City Star Patterns
All Star Review - Trunk show of star quilts with history of pattern
Red, White and Blue - Trunk show of personal collection
Cats Cradle
Double Star Twist
Flowers in my Garden
Flying Geese in the Cabin
Four Garnett Crowns
Friendship Snowball
Grandma Addie's Star
Grandmother's Quilt - postage stamp star
Heartland Star
Kaleidoscope--Large and Small
Kansas Spirit
Maple Leaf
Memory Lane

Morning Star
Mystery Snowball
New Horizons
Old Maid's Puzzle
Potato Chip - one patch
Quick Flying Geese Star Puzzle
Starry Path to Freedom
Stars Over the Pines
Star Steppin'
Seeking the Light
Spooling Around the Logs
Stitch/Flip Bow Tie
Tall Grass Morning Star
Tall Oaks Falling Leaves
Tea Party by the Lake
Traveler's Star
Up and Away to the Future
Victorian Cut Glass
Winged Square
Zingy Log Cabin

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
American Quilters Society; Heartland Quilt Network; International Quilters Organization; Kansas Quilters Organization; Missouri State Quilters Guild; Kaw Valley Quilt Guild; Austin Area Quilt Guild - Austin, TX; West Michigan Quilt Guild - Grand Rapids, MI; Prairie Point Quilt Shop - Shawnee, KS

Linda's Quilts Appear In: Quilt & Embellish in One Step; Kansas City Quiltmaker’s; Hearts and Flowers

Lectures &

What....is Needle Magic?
Needle Magic? - quilt & embellish in one step
Random Hearts - Appliqué, quilt & embellish in one step
Quilting with Beads - Bead, quilt & embellish in one step
Delightfully Victorian
Fractured Snowballs
Knitting with Fabric
Star Dance
Wild, Wonderful Wedges - The Ultimate Stash Buster
 

Antique Illusions
Chintz Baskets
Elegant Embellishments
Evening Lilies
Flannel or NOT
Fall Shadows
Let the Sun Shine In
Nagano '98
Night Flight
A Novel Idea
Stairway to the Stars
The Weekend Quilt
Skill Improvement Workshops:
Accurate Rotary Cutting
Creating an Heirloom Quilt: Fine Hand Quilting
Machine Piecing with Precision
Picture Perfect Binding

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Kaw Valley Quilters' Guild; Harper's Fabric & Quilt Company

Lectures & Workshops:

Collecting Your Quilt History - Deb will divulge some anecdotes about how she put together her new Kansas City Star book, Quilters' Stories. Together, you will explore ways to gather information. Everyone can collect quilt history.

Published:

Quilting a Poem: Original Designs Inspired by America's Most Beloved Poets, 2003, Kansas City Star Books, with Frances Kite.
Our Favorite Quiltmakers: Susan McCord, 2004, with Barbara Brackman and Shauna Christensen, Sunflower Pattern Co-operative
Quilters' Stories: Collecting History in the Heart of America, spring 2005, Kansas City Star Books

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas quilt study;  American Quilt Study Group, American Quilters Society, Olathe Quilter's Guild and the Nebraska State Guild

Lectures & Workshops:

A Quilt Collector’s Trunk Show - Approximately 25 vintage quilts from Libby’s collection will be shown as she provides information about the origins of the quilt patterns and how to decorate with quilts.
If Quilts Could Talk! - Have you ever seen a signature quilt and wondered who the women were? Libby wondered when she purchased an Album Block quilt with embroidered blocks. Libby will guide you through the thrill of discovery she experienced as she pieced together the history of four generations of the Miller family, abolitionists who migrated from South Carolina to settle in Free State Kansas.
Fabric Postcards
Finishing Your Quilt - Hanging Sleeves and Quilt Labels - Everyone has a quilt story; a special memory, a special quilt, or what remains of one. Libby can help you preserve your quilt’s history with the following services:
Quilt Display ~ Quilts are meant to be seen, not stored away for the next generation. Libby can add a hanging sleeve to your quilt so that it can be hung on the wall for display.
Quilt Labels ~ preserve what is known about your quilt for future generations. Libby will document information known about your quilt on a fabric label sewn onto the back of your quilt.
Quilt Identification ~ Libby will research your quilt, identify the pattern name and probable sources of the pattern and prepare an archival quality document for your records.
Quilt Restoration ~ Does your special quilt need some TLC? Libby will consult with you concerning various alternatives to preserve, restore, or recreate your quilt or quilt fragment.

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Flower Valley Quilt Guild, Missouri State Quilters Guild, Loose Threads Quit Guild, Quilters Caboodle Quilt Shop, and Cornet Quilt Fabrics

Lectures & Workshops:

Trunk Show: From Polyester to Published
Color for Quilters
Heirloom Machine Quilting
Easy Appliqué Design
Hand Appliqué without Tears
Precision Machine Piecing
Free-motion Heirloom Machine Quilting
Machine Quilting II: Okay, I Can Stipple, Now What?
Color for Quilters
Rose Wreath
Star, Strips & Squares
Strips on Strips
Crazy Squares
Crazy Squares & Strips
Retreat:
Color by Number (one or two-day retreat)

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Mo-Kan Machine Quilters
Sew Bee It, Kearney, MO; MQX, NH; HMQS, Salt Lake City, UT; MQS, Overland Park, KS

Lectures & Workshops:

Stenciling and stamping with inks
Paintstiks
Fabric dying
Art quilts
Color Your Quilt - adding color after your quilt has been quilted
Free motion machine quilting
Quilting for the rest of us - piecing that allows for mistakes using patterns

Lectures & Workshops:

Indian Paint Brush - quick wall hanging for your home.
Red Hat Ladies - wall hanging with embroidery & machine piecing
Let's Trade Cards - fiber artist trading cards
What's Your Bag - take used purses and make it an expression of you.

Lectures & Workshops:
Trunk show, with samples and patterns.

Guild / Shop Affiliations:
AQS; Block-by-Block, Carthage, MO; Bittersweet, Joplin, MO

Guild / Shop Affiliations:
Quilters Guild of Greater Kansas City, Nimbel Thimbles, Mo-Kan Machine Quilters Guild
 

Lectures & Workshops:

Machine quilting
Designing continuous line patterns
Care & maintenance on your machine
So what's the difference in continuous & custom
How do I choose quilting designs for my quilt top

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Nitetime Needlers, Blue Springs, MO

Lectures & Workshops:

Beginning Hand Appliqué - This class focuses on the process and technique as opposed to design and color.
Open Cutwork Appliqué / Hawaiian Style - Class covers the basics of this style, learn how to set-up their block and use needle-turn appliqué, reverse appliqué and the effects of light dimensional additions to designs.
Block of the Month Patterns

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Country Patchwork QG, Booneslick Trail QG, Missouri State Guild, AQS, IQA

Lectures & Workshops:

Competition Quilts
Crazies - Then and Now (new)
Foundation Paper piecing - from her pattern line "Log Cabin Geese", "The Feathered 'T", "Marshall Mystery", "Miniature Pineapple", "Miniature Dutchmans Puzzle", and "Carolyn's Autumn Leaf".
Hand Appliqué
Crazy Quilting
All classes are full day, and include the onion-skin complete pattern. Other workshops can be developed, according to your needs, in appliqué techniques. Betty teaches in a 4 start area from her home.

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Susie Q's Quilt Shop, Eureka, MO

Guild/Shop Affilations:
Booneslick Trail Quilters Guild, AWSG, MEQM, MAQS

Lectures & Workshops

Quilts as American Folk Art-a trip through the rich past of American quilting.
They Didn't Have Much But They Sure Had Plenty-a look at the scrap quilts of our predecessors through the quilts, diaries, & journals of past quilters.
Three Points of View: Historian, Appraiser, and Judge-a look at how quilt are viewed differently & similarly when looking at them through the viewpoint of these three positions.
Creating Sparkling Sets-intended to stimulate new & creative ideas for putting your quilts together with spark & sparkle.
Carrie Hall-"the blocks, the woman, & the work"-insights into the woman who undertook the daunting project of constructing a block from every known & published pattern of her era.
Cheap Tricks-hints & short cuts, especially some really cheap replacements for some of the expansive tools & gadgets we all seem to collect.
English Medallion Quilts-an introduction to the style of quilt first brought to our shores by our English cousins & which had an important early influence of the style quilt popular in the last quart of the 18th Century & the first half of the 19th Century.

Perkiomen Nine Patch-a variation of the classic nine patch quilt, a traditions in the Perkiomen Valley of Pennsylvania.
Classic English Medallion-an overview of the classic style of English Medallion style quilts.
Masterpiece Lone Star-construct a Lone Star top approximately 60" square, reminiscent of those you admire from the nineteenth century.
Broderie Perse-a technique from the early 19th century which allowed American women to make the most of the very expensive imported chintz decorator fabrics.
Mariner's Compass-no block design holds more fascination than the mariner's compass.  The class combines drafting and construction.
The Fine Art of Hand Quilting-make a sampler of quilting designs in a 15 inch pillow top.  Designed to sharpen your quilting skills, achieve smaller more even stitch & help you develop good quilting.
The Great American Sham-a short course in whole cloth design, both process & project oriented, intended for a bed pillow sham.
The Eternal Triangle-explore the endless options of quilts made essentially from right angle triangles.
Village Commons-an adaptation of the traditional "Boston Commons" pattern.
Hidden Signs-a workshop in cutwork, needle turned appliqué.
Quilt Planning-(new) Planning your quilt should be your first thought not the after thought that often comes when you try to decide how to complete the quilt.
Creating Sparkling Sets-a design workshop to stimulate new & creative ideas for putting your quilts together with spark & sparkle.
Tricky Hand Piecing-there are some tricks which can make the work go faster.
Basic Pattern Drafting-learn to draft traditional quilt blocks.
Advanced Pattern Drafting-you will learn to draft more complicated designs, including some based on eight pointed star variations.
It's Not a Quilt Until It's Quilted-it is called a quilt in anticipation of quilting, but they never seem to tell you how to get those lovely designs onto your quilt top.

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Ozark Piecemakers Quilt Guild (Springfield, MO); As the Needle Turns (appliqué group in Springfield, MO); Show Me Your Stitches (Appliqué Society Chapter in Springfield, MO);
Uncommon Threads (art group in Springfield, MO); American Quilters Society; National Quilting Assoc.; International Quilting Assoc.; The Appliqué Society; The Baltimore Appliqué Society; Professional Assoc. of Appraisers of Quilted Textiles
 

Lectures

Color & Design for Quiltmakers
Simply Amish - their history, lifestyle and quilts - trunk show
Quilts with Great Edges - trunk show
Is There a Winning Quilt in Your Dreams?
How Did I Ever Get Here?
Making Do - Surviving the Great Depression - trunk show
Protecting Tomorrow's Treasures Today - trunk show

Let's Go Fishing (6 hours)
Quilts with Great Edges (6 hours)
Elegant Victorian Purses (6 hours)
Simple Crazy (6 hours)
The Basics of Machine Appliqué (6 hours)
The Basics of Hand Appliqué (6 hours)
Puttin' on the Ritz with Dimensional Appliqué (6 hours)
A Sampler of Crazy Quilt Stitches (3 hours)
The Basics of Hand Quilting (3 hours)
Christmas in Hawaii (3 hours)

Guild & Shop Affiliations:
Flower Valley Guild, Abbey's Sew & Vac

Lectures & Workshops:

Scrap Quilts
Sampler Quilts
Rotary Cutters the Next Generation
Trunk Show

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Missouri State Quilters Guild (MSQG); Missouri State Fair; AQS; NQA; Heartland Quilt Network (HQN); Piecemakers Quilt Club, St. Clair, MO; Patches Etc. Quilt Shop, St. Charles, MO; Bits 'n Pieces Quilt Guild, Ballwin, MO; Piecemakers Quilt Guild, St. Clair, MO

Lectures and Workshops:

Rotary cutting and machine piecing - various quilt patterns
Grandma Quilter Skits - humorous presentations
Self published patterns - Fabric Wallet/Purse and My Favorite Jacket workshops

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Appletree Quilting Center; Booneslick Trail Quilters' Guild

Lectures & Workshops:

Documenting Your Quilts Your Way
Quilt Stories -- The Finishing Touch
Discover Your Creative Power

Free Motion Quilting
Thread Painting
Landscape Quilting

Carmen enjoys focusing on beginner level classes that introduces the love of quiltmaking to people. She hopes to help establish good habits and a solid foundation for all beginners.
 

Guild/Shop Affiliations:
Thimbles-n-Threads Quilt Guild, Ozark Piecemakers Quilt Guild, As the Needle Turn Appliqué Grp., The Appliqué Society, NQA, AQS, MSQG

Lectures & Workshops:

Perfect Piece-work - Learn the basics of perfect piecing.
Color Therapy - Understanding & using color to express your creativity.
Beautiful Bindings Basics - Focuses on traditional styles of edge treatments & techniques.
Beautiful Bindings & More - Learn fun specialty edge treatments.
"Easy" Machine Quilting - Basic machine quilting using your home sewing machine.
"Quilt As You Go" - Another fun class that teaches piecing and quilting all at once.
Quilter "How-To" Workshop - Covers the basic of rotary cutting, using rulers & other tools.
Quilter Zen! - Workshop focuses on personal health & wellness to improve your quilt life!
"Dead" Quilt Lecture - Learn how to avoid causing untimely quilt death! A light hearted look at card and repair of old quilts.
Can this quilt be saved? - Bring your "dead" quilt for evaluation & learn basic repair techniques.
Quilt Preservation & Repair - How to properly care for your heir loom quilts.
The Art of Dating Quilts - Learn the basics of how to determine dating old & new quilts.

Specialties

Quilt Restoration - Repair work of you family heirlooms whether old or new.
Piece work - From finishing your UFO's to creating custom quilts.

Scope of Service:

Basting - For those who want to do hand quilting.
Large Panto / Large Overall Stipple - One application over the entire quilt.
Small Panto / Small Stipple / Block Quilting - One application over the entire quilt, only with smaller stippling.
Custom Quilting - Feathers / Multiple Block Designs / Free-hand - This custom service includes two treatments per quilt - one for the body (center) and another for the border plus turning fee.
Stitch-in-the-ditch / Cross Hatching / Circles - This custom service encompasses a wide variety of custom techniques and applications: cross hatching, straight-line stitching, small background meandering, fans, outlines, multiple designs and patterns on individual blocks, designs from stencils and templates, your own motifs and creations, precise tissue paper transfers, etc.
Additional Charges:
Turning quilt to complete border design.
Machine sewing binding to quilt with Gammill.
Machine sewing binding to quilt with home machine.
Hand sewing binding down (to complete quilt).
Basic thread charges and custom thread charges.
Batting charges vary with type used.
Additional charges apply to supply backing or do piecing.
Rush charges and shipping.

Guild Affiliations:
International Machine Quilter's Association (IMQA), the Missouri State Quilt Guild and Partners in Patchwork Quilt Guild

Scope of Service:

Quilting - based on style and size
Basting
Binding - sewn on front
Custom designs
Pantograph designs