SCCQG - Southern California Council of Quilt Guilds

Member Information The following links provide a listing of member teachers, their email addresses, and websites if provided. The council is providing this list of teachers as a service for member teachers and guilds. If you are a teacher and would like more information on how to get on the list, please send an email to quiltjmk@verizon.net.

Please note the teachers on this list are not endorsed by the council. Member guilds should always interview each teacher and seek references prior to contracting for their services.

 


Jeff Hold


Lily Marie Amaru
Email: 2lilymarie@express56.com

Lecture:
- A Sewing Journey
- Evolution of a Quilting Journey

Workshop:
- Scrappy Waves - Making a Beach Cabin
- Appliqued Wave Fan - Three Hour Workshop
- Waves to Circles - Two Day Workshop


Rob Appell
Email: rob@robappell.com
Website: www.robappell.com

Lecture:
- Rob Appell Making Waves... the
Adventures of a Surf Quilter

Workshop:
- Dancing Dots or RiverBugs
- Any of the progects from my
book


Marci Baker
Email: info@aliciasattic.com
Website: www.aliciasattic.com

Lecture:
- A Little Girl’s Dream to Award-Winning Quilter
- Designs to Quilt By
- Quantum Leap Quilting

Workshop:
- Taming the Tumbling Block
- Fabulously Easy Flower Garden
- Top Secret Bindings
- Everyone Foundation Pieces Easily
- Value-able Fabric / Color Confidence
- Not Your Grandmother’s Log Cabin


Linda Ballard
Email: Linda@letsquilt.com
Website: www.letsquilt.com

Lecture:
- Collections
- Charm Square Shuffle
- Discover the Possibilities
- Strip Poker

Workshop:
- 4 Patch for the 90's
- 9 Patch Medley
- A Gaggle of Geese
- A Timeless Treasure
- more...


Patricia Beaver
Email: run2menow707@aol.com

Lecture:
- Trunk Shows
- A Stitch in Time
- The Wonder of Redwork

Workshop:
- Crayon Quilts
- Crayons and Paper Dolls
- Penny Rugs
- Landscape Quilts
- Redwork


Don Beld
Email: donbeld@pacbell.net

Lecture:
- Perthina Bailey's Secret Treasure Map Quilt
- All American Heroes--American's Quilters Loved
- Road to Damascus--a Bible story quilt

Workshop:
- Civil War Soldier's quilts made easy--patterns
for the existing Sanitary Commission quilts and
hand piecing guidelines for making the quilts.


Phyllis Binkley
Email: PhyllisBinkley@yahoo.com
Website: www.landscapeArtQuilts.com

Lecture:
- Landscape Art Quilts

Workshop:
- Landscape Art Quilts


Janet Bottroff
Email: bluebirdquilts@att.net

Lecture:
- From Applique to Watercolor
- Water, Water Everywhere
- Counted Cross Stitch to Quilt

Workshop:
- Watercolor Heart
- Mini-Landscape Watercolor Quilting
- Learn to Hand Applique
- Counted Cross Stitch to Quilt Rose


Tammy Bowser
Email: tammie@mosaicquilt.com
Website: www.mosaicquilt.com

Lecture:
- Amazingly Contoured Quilted Photography

Workshop:
- Amazingly Contoured Quilted Photography


Lyn Brown
Email: SwanPub@aol.com
Website: www.LynBrown.com

Lecture:
All I Needed to Know, I Learned At Guild; Oops! I Made A Beautiful Quilt; Got Quilts: A Brief History; Quilts Through the Year

Workshop:
The Tortoise Quilt; Chains of Friendship (With a swap!); Concordia Blues; Camp Provencial; Seriographic Tulips; Quilt A Fish; Other patterns from www.LynBrown.com


Melinda Bula
Email: melbula@comcast.net  
Website: www.melindabula.com

Lecture:
- Developing the Artist within Through Quilts and Wearable Arts

Workshop:
- Fabulous Fusible Flowers


Katsy Chappell


Sylvia Q. Davis
Email: Sylviaquilts@yahoo.com
Website: www.easyquilts@yahoo.com/Sylviaquilts

Lecture:
- Stash Reduction
- Ethnic Fabric Quandry

Workshop:
- Hugs & Kisses Quilts
- Stained Glass Waal
- Card Trick Wall
- Kumasi Star Quilt
- African Triad Quilt
- Stack &3:3Whack for Wimps
- Harmonic Convergence
- More…


Barbara Dieges
Email: quilt@bdieges.com
Website: www.bdieges.com

Lecture:
- A Thread Runs Through It

Workshop:
- Bargello Twist
- Blended Triangles
- Blossomtime
- Fruite Medley Applique
- everending Scrap Quilt
- Nine Lives
- Sewfasst Patching
- now Crystals Applique
- Wild 'n' Crazy Triangles


Grace J. Errea
Website: www.amazingquiltsbygrace.com

Lecture:
An Art Quilter’s Magical Journey: A Trunk Show

Workshop:
-Value and Color for Quilters
-Photo Inspired Art Quilts. Create an Art Quilt from your Favorite Photo
-The Amazing Morning Glory Quilt – Turned Edge Machine Appliqué
-Sunset on the Beach – Turned Edge Machine Appliqué
-The Eagle Quilt – Free Edge Machine Appliqué
-Tuscan Landscape Quilt – Raw Edge Machine Appliqué
-Poppies on Ice Quilt – Raw Edge Machine Appliqué
-Flitting Butterfly – Take-away Machine Applique


Cathy Farris
Email: cathyfarris@yahoo.com


Jake Finch
Email: alljake@hotmail.com
Website: www.jakefinchdesigns.com

Lecture:
- Stepping into Creativity: A Dingbats Guide to Creating
- Making Quilts that Care
- 12 Steps to Recovering Money from your Fiber Addiction

Workshop:
- Covering the Basics
- Sketchbook Cover
- Flapped Journal Cover
- Bragging Rights Brag Book Covers
- Quilted Bed Shawl
- Concentration Quilt
- Wheelchair Quilt
- Everlasting Bouquet Quilt
- Hanging Wallet


Margot Silk Forrest
Website: www.sassyfeet.com

Lecture:
Love Shoes, Love to Craft? Getting Started With DIY Shoe Design (includes digital slide show)

Workshop:
Quilting-Fabric Collage on Shoes
Sassy Feet: Painting and Embellishing Your Shoes
ReVamp: Painting and Embellishing Purses


Marilyn Fromherz
Email: marilynstitches@verizon.net

Lecture:
- Trunk Show

Workshop:
- Celtic Kaleidoscope
- Art Vest


Linda Griffith
Website: www.organizedoption.com

Lecture:
"How to Organize Your Sewing Room"
"Create a Spectacular Sewing Room on a Budget"
"Small Space, Big Possibilities: Your Sewing Space Reinvented"
"The Efficient Sewer: Tips to Organize Your Time and Space"


Cathie Hoover
Email: cihoover@clearwire.net
Website: www.cathiehooverstudios.com

Lecture:
- Accept the Challenge
- The Past and Present Involvement with the Color Red
- Trunk show: "A Moo-ving Experience

Workshop:
- Wild & Crazy with EZ Curves
- Machine Reverse Applique and Eight Pointed Star Quilt
- Introduction to Machine Applique
- EZ Tricks of Machine Applique
- The Best Patchwork Sampler
- Wearable Art Vest


Ruth Horetski
Email: Ruthiesrags@aol.com

Lecture:
- The Mariner's Compass
An "Eye" for Color
- Antique Quilts
- Getting Starte
- The Finishing Touch

Workshop:
- Mariner's Compass
- Invisible Machine Applique
- Paper Piecing
- Ruthie's Rescue Quilts
- The Final Steps of Borders and Bindings


Rose Hughes
Email: fiberart@rosehughes.com
Website: www.rosehughes.com

Lecture:
- Trunkshow
- Color It Bold!
- The Organized Quilter

Workshop:
- Fast-Piece Applique
- Double-Quilt Applique
- What’s on Top? Embellishments
- What’s Next? Embellishments II
- Crayon Painting
- Cooking Up New Fabrics
- Art Quilt Dimensional Stitching
- The Dream Landscape (2 or 5 day)


Marjorie Johnson
Email: mjfabricart@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.marjoriefiberart.com

Lecture:
- Antique Quilts
- Landscape, Collage, & Story Art
- Quilted & Wearable Art Garments

Workshop:
- Collage, Landscape or Story Telling Quilted Piece
- Custom Workshops


Dalen Keys
Website: www.dalenKeys.com

Lecture:
An author and speaker. Has a number of topics relating to quilting and writing that are of interest to quilt guilds the most popular current talk is based on his book "Just A Quilt?" and is titled "Quilting, Creativity and Kids Books." Hist wife, Mitzie, has designed and published a quilt pattern based on "Just A Quilt?"

Workshop:
Dalen's wife, Mitzie, is available for workshops based on her quilt pattern titled "Chase's Quilt." She teaches the strip tube piecing method in this workshop.


Rami Kim
Email: kimrami@hotmail.com
Website: www.ramikim.com

Lecture:
- Folded Fabric Elegance
- Two by Two
- Fascination
- Asian Designs in a Modern World

Workshop:
- Folded Fabric Elegance
- 3-Dimensional Textured - Wearable Art Jacket
- Interlocking castle tiles
- The fifth dimension
- More…


Nadine Kirk
Email: nadinekirk@socal.rr.com

Lecture:
- A Reverse Applique Extravanganza

Workshop:
- A Reverse Applique Extravanganza


Stephanie Kleinman
Email: admin@easymade.com
Website: www.thefabricstudio.com

Lecture:
Fabric Printing Software


Smadar Knobler
Email: smadar@charter.net
Website: www.smadarsdesigns.com

Lecture:
- My SILK ROAD
- Soy Batik
- Silk painting


Workshop:
- Textile Painting
- Soy Batik Workshop
- Scarf Painting
- Wall Hanging


Jan Krentz
Email: jan@jankrentz.com
Website: www.jankrentz.com

Lecture:
- The Great Star Review!
- Quilts and Techniques!
- Design Inspiration from Everyday Life

Workshop:
- Colorwash Hunter Star
- Monet Water Lily Impressionist Quilt
- Diamond Landscapes Quilt
- Colorwash Diamonds Quilt
- Colorwash Diamonds Quilt


Diane Leighton
Email: DLEIGHTO@JUNO.COM

Lecture:
- What's Your Batting Average
- Finding More Time to Quilt

Workshop:
- Woodspile
- Machine Quilting
- Vested in Silk


Judy Leonard
Email: Jolly240@socal.rr.com

Lecture:
- One more couldn't Hurt!

Workshop:
- Antique Linen Shirts


Joy Lily
Email: joy@joy-lily.com
Website: www.joy-lily.com

Lecture:
- Dyeing To Tell You

Workshop:
- Dyeing for Quilters
- Northern LIGHTS
- Marbling Fabric
- Screen Printing Fabric
- Shibori Scarf Dyeing
- Silk Painting
- Improvisational Quilting


Lyn Mann
Email: quiltlyn@mindspring.com
Website: www.quiltsbylyn.com

Lecture:
- Head For the Border
- Slick Tricks
- Best Little Quilt Show in Town
- When Life Gives You Scraps
- Confessions of a "Skewed" Up Quilter

Workshop:
- There's No Such Thing as an Ugly Fabric
- Head For the Border
- Throw Tradition a Curve
- Dominoes
- Christmas Ivy
- Happy Birthday
- Skew the "A" Word
- Don't Fence Me In


Peggy Martin
Email: martins@martins.cts.com
Website: www.peggymartinquilts.com

Lecture:
- Beyond Tradition trunk show

Workshop:
- New York Beauty
- Evening Star
- Wishing Star
- Millennium Star
- Serendipity
- Palm Leaf
- Block Design
- Snowflake


Dixie McBride
Email: dixiemcbride@yahoo.com
Website: www.dixiemcbride.com

Lecture:
- GARAGE SALE HEIRLOOMS
- ON THE TREASURE TRAIL USA
- THE ADVENTURES OF A TRAVELING QUILTING TEACHER

Workshop:
- A COTTAGE IN THE GARDEN
- BLUE RIBBON HAND QUILTING
- CLASSIC HAND BUTTONHOLE APPLIQUE
- CLASSIC NEEDLE TURN HAND APPLIQUE
- more…


Norah McMeeking
Email: norah@cox.net
Website: www.bellabellaquilts.com

Lecture:
- Landscape Quilts: Design and Technique
- My Great British Adventure
- Bella Bella Patchwork

Workshop:
- St. Mark's Waqllhanging
- Woodland Waterfall
- Pieceful Leaves
- Stacked Sampler


Nancy Ota
Email: nancy@nancyota.com
Website: http://nancyota.com/

Lecture:
- Trunk show of quilts, garments and bags

Workshop:
- Sashiko, English piecing with silk, hand applique, hand quilting,
quilt drafting, Screen Play bags


Nancy Prince
Email: nancy@nancyprince.com
Website: www.nancyprince.com

Lecture:
- So What is Thread Painting All About

Workshop:
- Thread Painted Landscapes
- A Quick Peak at Thread Painting
- Creating Dimension with Thread


Leora Rankin
Email: info@aflembroidery.com
Website: www.aflembroidery.com


Sue Rasmussen
Website: www.suerasmussenquilts.com


Cindy Rinne
Email: cindy@fiberverse.com
Website: www.fiberverse.com

Lecture:
- Narrative Art Quilts
- The Silk Road - Oriental Inspirations
- Art Quilts by Design
- Solitude-Where Ideas Begin

Workshop:
- Anyting GOes
- Layers & Veils
- The Silk Road Oriental Scroll
- Plants, Seeds, & Roots
- Ocean Dreams
- Ice Dance/Winter Landscape
- Under a Cloud Bridge
- Two for One Treasure Trove


Jill Schumacher
Email: jillschumacher@frontiernet.net
Website: www.quiltmakertothequeen.com

Lecture:
- Creating Your Heirlooms of Tomorrow
- Sashiko – The Art of Japanese Stitching by Machine,
- History and Q&A on Machine Quilting


Workshop:
- Intro to Machine Quilting
- Mini Whole Cloth Wall Hanging
- Trapunto by Machine
- Quilt Your Quilt Design Layout 1 & 2 day workshops
- Come Quilt with Jill 2 day workshop
- Sashiko Sampler by Machine 2 day workshop Int to Adv level


Lujean Seagal
Email: LuSeagal@yahoo.com
Website: www.lujeanquilt.com

Lecture:
- Beyond Boring Borders
- Color & Design

Workshop:
- Beyond Boring Borders
- Color & Design


Judy Sisneros
Email: judysisneros@starstream.net
Website: www.judysisneros.com

Lecture:
- IMAGINATION & INSPIRATION
*New lecture available 2208 - after Cambodia trip

Workshop:
- 9 Patch Pizzazz; 9 Patch Pizzazz on Point; Textured Landscapes; Winding Paths; Rectangle Pizzazz on Point; Curves Around the Rectangle; To the 9's; Rectangles Behind Bars


Jan Steffen
Email: janicesteffen@roadrunner.com
Website: www.janicesteffen.com

Lecture:
- It's Hip to be Square

Workshop:
- Constellation
- Exploding Star
- Moody Blues
- Sassy Star
- Americana
- Megan's Feathered Star
- Crazy For Red
- Pineapple
- Prairie Claw
- Desert Star
- Homestead Star
- Megan's Sky


Marcia Stein
Email: marcia@marciastein.com
Website: www.marciastein.com

Lecture:
- Destinations: Travel-Inspired Quilts
- It Helps to Have a Camera: Finding Photographic Subjects and
Using Them in Your Quilts

Workshop:
- Still Life Applique
- Picture This!


Lisa Stewart
Email: lisa@CulturedExpressions.com
Website: www.lisashepard.com


Shelley Swanland
Email: shelleyswanland@gmail.com
Website: www.shelleysstudio.com

Lecture:
- Cathedral Windows and So Much More

Workshop:
- Cathedral Windows By Machine
- Parchment & Black Lacquer
- Berries Jubilee Table Runner
- Spring Blossoms Table Runner
- Star Puzzle Table Runner


Mary Tabar
Email: piecing@hotmail.com
Website: www.marytabar.com

Lecture:
- Embellishment Techniques
- Any Thing But Cotton
- Working Quilts and Art Quilts Musing

Workshop:
- Low Immersion Dyeing, and Direct Fabric Dyeing
- Fabric Painting
- Discharge Dyeing, and Direct Fabric Dyeing
- 3”,6” & 12” Go Quilt Go


Jane Tenorio-Coscarelli
Email: Quarteri@aol.com
Website: www.quarterinchpublishing.com

Lecture:
- Quiltabeast
- Life of a Designer
- In My PJ's

Workshop:
- Needle-turn Applique
- Cut-Away Applique
- Tri-Recs Star Piecing - The Pinata Quilt
- Speed Piecing I - The Tortilla Quilt
- Speed Piecing II - The Tamale Quilt
- Pattern Workshops


New Admin Test
Email: test@zbradesigns.com
Website: www.testnow.com

Lecture:
Test

Workshop:
Test


Peggy Timmons
Email: timmonsnb@earthlink.net

Lecture:
- Trunk Show


Ann Turley
Email: annturly@yahoo.com
Website: www.mysite.verizon.net/resw2sjh/annturley/

Lecture:
- Why Am I Buying Broccoli when All I want to Do Is Quilt?
- Confessions of the Quilt Police
- Just Quilts
-Out on a Limb

Workshop:
- Stained Glass Shuffle
- Mexican Star
- Scrap Happy
- Paper Pieced Mariner’s Compass
- Paper Pieced Feathered Star
- Seismic Activity
- Cords and Threads
- Making Faces
-Up to the Challenge


Cathy Van Bruggen
Email: patterns@cathyvb.com
Website: www.cathyvb.com

Lecture:
- Appliqué the Easy Way™
- No Time to Sew

Workshop:
All of our patterns are offered as workshops. Cathy teaches her time saving technique, "Applique the Easy Way", in all of her workshops. Classes can be taught for either needle-turn or machine applique. one or two day workshops available.

New Patterns and workshops added to our website:
Gecko's Passion and Fruit Medley.


Terry Waldron
Email: Terryannwaldron@earthlink.net
Website: www.terrywaldron.com

Lecture:
- From Piecer to Artist: A Trunk Show
- Discover the Real Artist Inside YOU!
- Color - It's Easy!

Workshop:
- Authentic Landscapes
- The Art Quilt: Using Bold Fabrics Boldly
- The Scavenger Hunt Art Quilt
- Cuddly Flowers in a Vase


Sharon Wilhite
Email: sharon@dragonladyquilts.com
Website: www.dragonladyquilts.com

Lecture:
Trunk Show

Workshop:
All patterns available as workshops:

Pieced Patterns:
-- Bigger Show Off
-- Fat Quarter Fun
-- Fat Quarter Fun, Too
-- Florentine Fantasy
-- Florentine Fantasy II
-- Garden Reflection
-- Kaleidoscope Quilts
-- My Snowglobe Collection
-- Oriental Fantasy
-- Reflection
-- Sara's Delight
-- Show Off
-- Tairu
-- The Florentine Table
-- Windows to the Soul

Apparel:
-- Kaleido-Jacket
-- Reflection Jacket
-- Sew Easy Jacket


Kimberly Wulfert
Email: quiltdating@jetlink.net
Website: www.antiquequiltdating.com

Lecture:
- From Folk to Folksy – Wild and Whacky Quilts & Quotes, 1840 - 1940 trunk show
- American Quilts?
- SpeedDating Your Members' Quilts
- Quilt Styles Through Time
- A Quilters Journey Through New England Past and Present

Workshop:
- Using Reproduction Fabrics, A New Approach
- Creating Antique Inspired Quilts
- Dating Your Quilts & Caring For Them
- How to Date 1900s Quilts, beginners to intermediate.


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