Bari Ackerman, Danville, CA; is a self-taught textile artist and product designer of vintage inspired looks for modern women. She has been designing and selling handbags to local boutiques and many online stores. Her line also includes belts, brooches, aprons, and home goods.

Karla Alexander, Salem, OR; is author of several books including Stack the Deck, New Cuts for New Quilts, and her newest book, Color Shuffle!, published by Martingale. She also publishes many of her own patterns under the name Saginaw Street Quilt Co.

Alex Anderson, Livermore, CA; is currently co-host, along with Ricky Tims, of www.thequiltshow.com and co-creator and executive director of the new magazine, The Quilt Life. She is also the former host of Simply Quilts, and author of numerous quilting books published by C&T Publishing.

Rob Appell, Morro Bay, CA; brings a fresh, young feel to his quilts. Manager of The Cotton Ball quilt shop in Morro Bay, Rob designs patterns, teaches classes, and has also designed fabric for FreeSpirit and appeared on Simply Quilts.

Paula Benjaminson, Ottowa, ONT, Canada; has lived in Africa for the last few years. She works with hand-carved wood blocks, paints, and stencils, printing her own fabric and garments.

Colleen Blackwood, Pendleton, OR; likes to take traditional blocks and rearrange them, then add her own touch to develop new quilt patterns. She is now publishing these patterns under the name Laughing Lizzies Patterns.

Alma de la Melena Cox, Sisters, OR; artist and author of Collage Fusion: Vibrant Wood and Fabric Art Using Telamadera Techniques, brings fabric and paint together on wood to create luminous mixed-media artworks. She has been featured in Quilting Arts and Cloth Paper Scissors magazines.

Pam Dinndorf, St. Cloud, Minnesota; designer of Aardvark Quilts patterns. Pam’s original patterns are inspired by vintage quilts, then updated with today’s fabrics using simple methods, to appeal to both traditional quilters and those new to quilting.

Karen Flamme, Oakland, CA; A touch of whimsy, vibrant colors, innovative designs, and embellished surface design techniques are Karen’s signature. Author of Fast, Fun and Easy Fabric Flowers published by C & T Publishing, she also designs for her pattern line, Cutting Edge Patterns.

Janet Fogg, Lake Oswego, OR; is an imaginative and prize-winning quilt artist. Her initial background is traditional quilting, with a career as an art director and graphic artist—this shows in her quilts, which are traditional as well as innovative.

Sally Frey, Fortuna, CA; loves working with hand-dyed wools and designs penny rugs using these wools. She also has a great admiration for antique quilts and comes up with her own designs based on these. Sally’s pattern company is Kenmar Designs.

Johanne Gibson, Redmond, OR (winters in San Clemente, CA); is our resident landscape quilt artist, translating a favorite photo into a beautiful wall hanging. She also likes to work with large-scale prints and “fracture” them into a beautiful quilt.

Karin Hellaby, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; is always looking for the easiest, quickest, and most accurate patchwork methods as she makes quilts, owns and manages her own quilt shop, and writes many books on quilting, including Sew Simple Logs, Fast Flying Geese Quilts, and Sew Simple Pineapple.

Rose Hughes, Signal Hill, CA; is a self-employed fiber artist, creating and selling her work. She also teaches, lectures, and has written her first book, Dream Landscapes: Artful Quilts with Fast-Piece Applique, published by Martingale. Her work is shown nationally under the name RavenSpeak Quilts.

Ruth Ingham, Sisters, OR; is an expert on quilt conservation and restoration, and an insurance qualified quilt appraiser. Ruth is always working on a new quilt using fabrics she has gathered in her travels around the world.

June Jaeger, Prineville, OR; has a very recognizable quilt style, making many one-of-a-kind western style quilts using lots of batiks and featuring animals in each one. June publishes her original designs through Log Cabin Quiltworks.

Jan Bressler and Lou Shafer, Philomath, OR; our “resident” sister team, they work together and run their own quilt shop, JanniLou Creations, located in an old movie theater building. They are experts at working with Judy Niemeyer’s paper foundation patterns, plus they develop their own quilt patterns to teach.

Judy Johnson, Sunriver, OR; designs quilts and teaches on her own, and also collaborates with her daughter, Catherine Conkey. Judy’s use of fabrics is exciting to see in her quilts. Her background in mathematics shows through in her designs.

Sarah Kaufman, Bend, OR; has a passion for the folded log cabin technique and loves to teach these classes. Sarah and her vast collection of folded log cabin pieces are shown in her new book, Behold the Fold, available in July, 2010.

Katie Pasquini Masopust, Santa Fe, NM; travels extensively lecturing and teaching her contemporary quilting theories and techniques throughout the world. Paints have been added to her most recent works. Her latest book is Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter, published by C & T.

Sue McMahan, Bend, OR; is a collector of old quilts and gets some of her design inspiration from these. She makes many quilts using Asian fabrics, and that is reflected in her designs; often made with flying geese, which she loves to teach.

Vivienne Moore, Salem, OR; has a love for miniature quilts and has made many. Her classes have all the tips to help you create these small quilts very accurately, using paper-piecing skills. Vivienne publishes her patterns as Vivienne Moore Designs.

Joanne Myers, Bend. OR; has such a wide background and knowledge of quilting that she can answer any question, solve any problem, and come up with great ideas for layout and setting of quilt blocks. She has entered several quilt shows with her Double Wedding Ring quilts.

Jeannette DeNicolis Meyer, Portland, OR; teaches, lectures, and writes about surface design and art quilts. Her quilts have been shown in several national and international shows, and have appeared in Fiberarts, Surface, & Art/Quilt Magazine, to name a few.

Judith Baker Montano, La Veta, CO; is best known for her crazy quilting and embellished embroidery artwork, which she has turned into a contemporary art form. A few of her books include Crazy Quilt Handbook, 2nd Edition; The Art of Silk Ribbon Embroidery, and Elegant Stitches.

Hilde Morin, Portland, OR: born in Caracas, Venezuela, Hilde uses her innate ability for color and fiber art in her quilt pieces. She exhibits at local and international galleries, teaches in the Portland area, and also in Cordoba, Argentina.

Sue Nickels, Ann Arbor, MI; has been teaching machine quilting and appliqué techniques nationally and internationally for many years. Her books include Machine Appliqué: A Sampler of Techniques, and Machine Quilting: A Primer of Techniques.

Tonye Belinda Phillips, Camp Sherman, OR; started hand-appliqué projects years ago and has not stopped since. Between her appliqué quilts, folk art quilts, and hand quilting, plus her new book Hand Appliqued Quilts, Tonye always has something going.

Denyse Schmidt, Bridgeport, CT; is known for her simple graphics and rich colors, both in quilts and in her line of address books, stationery, photo albums, and more. She brings her off-beat, modernist approach to traditional patchwork, reflected in her patterns and her book, Denyse Schmidt Quilts.

Kathy Shaker, Bend, OR; Our resident surface design and embellishment technique instructor at The Stitchin’ Post, Kathy has organized and produced challenges for the Sunriver Quilter’s Guild annual show.

Barbara Shapel, Washougal, WA; is a contemporary art quilter who uses machine appliqué techniques to create designs that look very complex. She uses a wide variety of thread play in her machine quilting.

Sue Spargo, Uniontown, OH; was born and raised in South Africa. Her folk-art quilts, bags, and pin cushions reflect this. Ginger Grove is just one of her many books and patterns available.

Lawry Thorn, Sisters, OR; is our resident mystery quilt teacher. Lawry has worked at The Stitchin’ Post a long time, and teaches many classes including Absolutely Beginning Quilting. Some of her quilting patterns are available through Stitchin’ Post Publications.

Ricky Tims, La Veta, CO; has successfully blended two diverse passions into one career – quilting, and his skills as a pianist and composer. He is known as an enthusiastic, encouraging teacher, a talented and spellbinding speaker, and a celebrated musician.