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Bob Purcell is President and owner of superior threads and the only self-certified master thread therapist in the world. He worked in Japan for 10 years and speaks fluent Japanese. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a Masters Degree in business Administration in 1984. His background is in product development, customer service, and quality control. Bob loves to teach. he taught for many years at a private school and also at the college level. Since 1999 he has educated thousands within our industry and has had many articles published in various industry magazines. He got involved in the thread business to support his wife's (Mother Superior) quilting addiction. And he knows most of the places women stash fabric.

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Marjorie has been quilting since 1969 and teaching quilting since 1999. Marjorie likes to develop new techniques which she then enjoys sharing with co-quilters. She is author of "Painless Paper-Piecing" and designer of many quilt patterns.

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Cindy Roth has been involved with sewing and quilting most of her life.  She worked many years as a seamstress before discovering quilting over 20 years ago.  She has taught quilting/piecing classes of all types for many years in her local area.  In 1995 she bought a longarm quilting machine and started her own quilting business Needles in Motion.  She has taught at the Machine Quilters Showcase for 11 years.  She is the founder and Director of Longarm University® and Innovations – a Machine Quilting Conference®. Cindy has authored several longarm quilting instruction books and designed many templates to make longarm quilting more creative and efficient.  Cindy was a 2006 Teacher of the Year Nominee from Professional Quilter Magazine. In addition to teaching classes in her home studio she travels around the country teaching others how to use their longarm quilting machines and how to make their longarm quilting business more profitable.  Cindy lives in the Seattle, WA area, has three adult children and three grandchildren.

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Kim Stotsenberg is an award winning quilter, teacher and author of the book "Just Leaf It".  Kim started quilt making in 1991.  Soon after she started teaching piecing techniques and designing her own quilts.  Kim opened her longarm quilting business in 1999.  Kim lives in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains with her husband and two dogs.  You will find Kim enthusiastic and willing to share her know how to all.

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Sally Terry has been sewing since she was three years old and has been in the Professional Longarm Quilting field since 1999. Her home is in Paducah, Kentucky. She is the author of three books, including "Pathways to better Quilting" published by AQS, three videos, and teaches many different classes for both traditional sewing machines and longarms. She is also a Janome Instructor. Her pattern packs, "Terry Twist(®)" designs, template and stencil sets are popular for their grace and ease of execution. Her blue ribbon winning quilts have appeared in American Patchwork and Quilting magazine and Better Homes & Gardens Quilt Lover's Favorites, catalogs and more. Sally packs her classes with volumes of information that can be used by quilters of all skill levels. Full of ideas, creativity, ingenuity and fun, Sally shares all her secrets with her students.

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Sharon Tucker has been sewing for as long as she can remember. After high school she started a career in fashion retail, quickly learning about merchandising, marketing, buying inventory and customer service. After years of various craft endeavors, Sharon discovered quilting and was bitten by the bug. Her first quilt was self-taught and after a six week sampler class there was no stopping her. Another move had Sharon leaving the big city and full time work. After arriving in a town of 160 in the Fall of 2004, Sharon decided to take the plunge and opened Grass Roots Quilt Studio in Grass Valley, Oregon in the Spring of 2005. Living where the local quilt shop is a 90 mile round trip, Sharon quickly learned the value of samples and the Internet for marketing her quilting. She continues to upgrade her skills and add to her sample kit!

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Debbie is a home economics teacher by profession.  She adds 21 years of quilting experience to every stitch, class and lecture.   She is a  nationally recognized teacher at the Houston Int. Quilt Festival, MQX, MQS and Innovations.  In 2004 “American Quilter” Magazine published her article “Teaching the World to Quilt”.  The article shared her experiences of teaching Sudanese refugees to quilt in Cairo, Egypt, where she and her husband lived for eight years.  Most recently her longarm quilting and a quilt are featured in Barbara Chainey’s book “Fast Quilts from Fat Quarters”.  She designed a tool “Brilliant Bindings” and self-published “Chenille Made Easy on a Longarm” and “Construction and Production – Making and Binding a Quilt on a Longarm, Midarm or Shortarm”.  She loves teaching all aspects of quilting.

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Ione Ewert Whitney started machine quilting, on her home sewing machine in the 1960's and in 1991 started quilting on a longarm and has been quilting on a Gammill machine ever since. Ione has been teaching quilt making at Tacoma Community College, Gig Harbor Branch since 1994 and at quiltmaker getaways at the Pacific Ocean and Diamond Lake, OR for several years. She is an instructor at Machine Quilters Showcase in Illinois, "Innovations, a Machine Quilting Conference" in Seattle area, and has been teaching at Longarm University since it began in 2000. And the dream continues.....

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