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Teacher Biography
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Teachers are
listed alphabetically
A star * indicates a new teacher for
2008.
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Brian Hicks
Nolting Longarm Maintenance, Pateros, WA
Peoquilter@ncidata.com
I have taught machine maintenance for a number
of years. I try to get the students to not be
afraid of their machine, but rather understand
the machine. I use actual machine, plus power
point presentation to emphasize points & ideas.
I installed stitch regulators prior to selling
Nolting and Intellistitch and Intelliquilter. I
have worked on all major brands. I taught high
school shop for 5 years and am use to working
with a class of varied backgrounds.
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Shannon Hicks
Piece & Joy Quilting, Pateros, WA
www.pieceandjoyquilting.comShannon M. Hicks is an internationally renowned
teacher and nominee for "The Professional
Quilter" teacher of the year in 2003. Her
quilting and quilting designs have been
published in several magazines & her work has
won awards throughout the U.S., as well as
England's "National Quilt Championship." Her
energetic, encouraging & lighthearted style, as
well as over 8 years of successful teaching
experience has made her classes a favorite among
quilters, throughout the U.S., Canada and
England.
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Dave Hudson
Diff'rent Strokes/Patternman
www.patternman.com
Dave Hudson started out in the quilting business
as a builder of quilting machines. After a short
time he began demonstrating and selling them at
fairs, home shows and quilt shows. He has done
this in France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Korea,
and Canada, as well as all over the US. In 1995
he and his wife opened their own shop in Kansas
to do custom quilting. Along with quilting, Dave
has been designing continuous line quilting
patterns for the past 18 years. Many of the
patterns have been created as special orders for
his customers. If you have a quilt that needs a
special design, ask Dave and see if he can come
up with one. Because of this he has been called
the "Pattern Man".
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Elaine Huffman*
Pleasant Valley Quilting, Long Meadow, MA
www.elainehuffman.com
Elaine has quilted for over 23 years and has
been a professional longarm quilter for over 11
years. Elaine's work has been in many quilting
magazines and has won numerous ribbons at quilt
shows. Elaine had a quilt (pieced by Lorie
Stubbs) displayed at the Rocky Mountain Quilt
Museum. Elaine was interviewed for the article
"Marketing a Machine Quilting Business" in
Professional Quilter Magazine. Most recently
Elaine had a quilt in McCall's Quick Quilts.
Elaine teaches quilting, longarm quilting,
business skills for longarm quilters and gives
guild presentations on machine quilting. Elaine
is known for her sense of humor and her
lighthearted and enjoyable teaching style.
Elaine publishes books and patterns available
through
www.elainehuffman.com and retailers.
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Judy Irish
Wild Irish Rows, Arlington, WA
www.wildirishrowsquilting.com
Sewing & quilting has been a part of my life for
many years…although my long-arm business only
began late in 1997. After starting my long-arm
business, I also began to teach quilting, which
I love, and also quilt for several authors'
books. I feel very privileged to quilt for
Kaffe Fassett, Liza Prior Lucy, Linda Poole,
Sara Nephew, Joan Shay, Karen Combs and Marilyn
Doheney and now for Freddy Moran. This has been
a fabulous experience as I have made many
wonderful friends and many opportunities have
opened up to me. I count it a great privilege
to be able to share some of the things I have
learned in my quilting journey with my
students. I feel we all learn from each other,
student and teacher alike.
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Page Johnson
The Quilting Page, Rosemount, MN
pagej@frontiernet.net
Page began quilting at age 7 and has made it a
life long passion. She is an award wining
quilter from Minnesota. She gained a strong
background in sales and marketing through
property management and training of her sales
force. She took the step to home based business
in 2001 and blended creativity with marketing
skills to quickly build a thriving quilting
business. Her business plan included many of the
tips and techniques of sound marketing
strategies discussed in her class. She is also a
driving force in the development of Machine
Quilters Business Manager realizing the need for
a system that can give her the data she needs to
make these proactive business decisions.
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DeLoa Jones
South Haven, MI
www.deloasquiltshop.comDeLoa Jones has
been an avid quilter for 28 years. Born in the
midst of Pennsylvania farmland, quilting and
quilts have always been a part of her life.
DeLoa has been teaching all aspects of quilting
for 26 years and started her longarm career 9
years ago. DeLoa enjoys teaching the free motion
longarm techniques that she has developed over
the years of experience of doing customer
quilts. She has won at many national shows and
has started to teach internationally. DeLoa is
the mother of eight children and a new
grandmother of one.
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Karen McTavish
Duluth, MN
www.designerquilts.com
Karen McTavish has been quilting
on a longarm since 1997 fulfilling her two
passions; Heirloom Trapunto Quilting and
Whole-cloth. Karen specializes in crafting
award-winning quilts using techniques which
allow 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 the author of 5 books, Quilting for Show 1 &
2, Whitework Quilting, Mastering the Art of
McTavishing and Secrets of Elemental Quilting.
She has been a full-time professional longarm
quilter since 1997, supporting her family
through her craft. Karen lives on Lake
Superior’s North Shore, quilting and teaching
throughout the country and privately in her
storefront "McTavish Quilting Studio". She has
two children, Ally and Storm. Her website,
gallery, and storefront is at
www.designerquilts.com
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Kay Oft
Mountain Top Quilting, Damascus, OR
mntopquilting@comcast.net
After retiring from a career in education, award
winning quilter Kay Oft has been able to follow
her "dream career" in the quilting world as a
designer, patchwork and longarm instructor and
published author. Kay has been fondling fabric,
playing with color, and creating a full range of
garments and home-dec items since she was a
little girl playing with her first sewing kit as
she completed projects in Brownies and 4-H
clubs. After getting her first longarm she
opened her studio doors to customers in 2001.
Kay has developed her own personal style of
quilting as she continues to grow in knowledge
and skill, searching for ways to help each quilt
top "sing a new song."
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Mary Nordeng
Pieceful Settings, Rose Creek, MN
http://community.webshots.com/user/nordeng
Mary Nordeng has been a longarm quilter for 8
1/2 years. She is an award winning quilter and
has been published in numerous books and
magazines, including The Quilter, American
Quilter, Quilt It Two-Block Quilts, and
Australian Patchwork and Quilting. She currently
quilts for Pam Bono Designs as well as a large
customer base and has quilted for Superior
Threads. She also made her teaching debut at MQS
2008. Mary enjoys teaching and is delighted when
her students experience that "light bulb" moment.
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Sue Patten
Patten That Quilt Inc., Townsend,
Ontario, Canada
www.canadianquilterschoice.com
Sue Patten of Ontario Canada has been traveling
through out Canada, the United States 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 an AQS Author of
Quilting Possibilities... Freehand Filler
Patterns, has had her work appear on magazine
covers and been featured in many other authors
books. She has appeared on such TV shows as
America Sews with Sue Hausmann, The Quilt Show
with Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson and Linda
Taylor Quilts. She designs patterns for Golden
Threads, Huskvarna, Viking, and Pfaff, and
Cactus Punch, 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.
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Ron Paul
Houndholl'r, Lolo, MT
houndhollr@aol.com
Since 1989, Ron set up his wife's first stand-up
quilting machine he has been fascinated with the
mechanics of all brands of movable quilting
machines enough to become a Gammill dealer in
2000. Always happy to share information and to
service other brands which lead to Ron and his
wife Laura Lee Fritz to be the coordinators for
the hands-on longarm classroom at Houston
Festival each fall. they live in the Bitterroot
Valley of Montana with their hound dogs in one
of the best fly fishing places on earth.
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