Alison Glass is a surface and space designer living in Virginia with her husband, daughter, and son. Aspiring to create a career for herself, Alison started a design business in 2007 focusing on space remodels and custom home decor pieces. Her love of color and shape and the combination of the two eventually lead to the decision to pursue surface and fiber design. Alison designs fabric for Andover Fabrics, creates patterns and art prints, and teaches within the industry.
Alison is inspired by the multitude of details in the world, both natural and those made by artisans, particularly in urban architecture. She is passionate about the ideas of making choices that are consistent with who a person is, being increasingly comfortable with ambiguity, and continuing to move forward and live in the new. She loves to talk about these ideas, as well as art, design, architecture, color, kids, okay, pretty much anything, with anyone who cares to talk! She is incredibly grateful to her husband and kids, for who they are, and for their enthusiasm and support of her work, as well as the amazing varied and interesting friends she is meeting along the way who are a constant source of inspiration and new possibilities.
Amy Friend is a trained Art Historian and former Museum curator who currently spends her days designing patterns, quilting and sewing while caring for her three children. Paper piecing, as well as modern traditional quilt design, bring her the most joy. She has designed for Sizzix, ThermOWeb and Art Gallery Fabrics as a part of their design teams. She works as an independent quilt designer for BasicGrey. Her publications include McCall's Quick Quilts, American Quilting, Blocks To Die For, and Playful Little Paper Pieced Projects. Amy was a founding member and first president of the Seacoast Modern Quilt Guild.
www.duringquiettime.etsy.com
Spring 2015 Author
Amy is a passionate quilter who's been addicted to patchwork since she was 12 year's old. She launched her blog and online pattern store, StitcheryDickoryDock.com, in 2010. Amy's work has been featured in The Denver Art Museum, Fat Quarterly Magazine, Australian Quilter's Companion Magazine, American Patchwork & Quilting Radio, Moda Bake Shop, Sew Mama Sew, and more. She taught the popular 2012 Craftsy Block of the Month online video series, and also hosts a yearly BOM series on her blog called The Sugar Block Club. Her newest class on Craftsy is The Twisted Irish Chain. Amy also enjoys teaching classes at Fancy Tiger Crafts. She lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband and 4 children.
Andrea is a designer and self-taught quilter living on the East Coast of Canada. Since childhood, she has always had an interest in making. Her training in architecture has allowed her to understand the design process from a variety of approaches. Her training in life, mostly by her two young boys, has taught her about the beauty in mess. Quilting has become the medium where Andrea explores her interests in material, geometry and place.
Spring 2015 Author
Anna is a mom to two crazy but incredibly inspiring little girls {her noodleheads}. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband, her daughters and her beagle, Pepper. She loves to sew and be creative. Anna grew up sewing with her mom. It definitely wasn’t Anna's favorite thing to do, but she loved being able to create. Having two daughters gave her the drive to start sewing more and after discovering the blogging world in late 2008, she never turned back. In her free time Anna is usually having fun creating, discovering new techniques, and making her house a home. She blogs at www.noodle-head.com
Carolyn Friedlander is a designer working from her hometown of Lake Wales, Florida, an environment she enjoys for its warm weather, few distractions, and potent community of quilters and crafters. In her work, she draws inspiration from features of the Florida landscape—its long leaf pines, palmettos, water, scrub land, sand—as well as her background in architecture. You can follow Carolyn and her work on her website and blog.
Elisabeth began fabric collecting years before she even started quilting. Since then, her quilts have hung in the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show and at local county fairs.
Photo by Lehua Noelle Faulkner
Emma Jean Jansen has been in the patchwork and quilting industry for more than 13 years, owning a shop in the goldfields region of Victoria, Australia. She studied textile design at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and is currently designing fabric for the Australian company Ella Blue, available from Charles Parsons. She blogs at emmajeanjansen.com.au and lives in Australia.
Heidi Staples published her first book, Sew Organized for the Busy Girl, in 2015. She is a fabric designer for Penny Rose Fabrics/Riley Blake Designs and lives in Texas hill country, where she sews, designs, and enjoys making beautiful things.
Jacquie is a passionate modern quilt maker and designer. She is known for her innovative "out of the box" designs, striking message quilts and unique style. Her work has been featured in both national and international publications as well as several books. Quilting Modern: Techniques and Projects for Improvisational Quilts is her first book. Jacquie is a leader in the modern quilting community and is a member of the Chicago Modern Quilt Guild, former president of the Kansas City MQG and on the Board of Directors of the Modern Quilt Guild. She blogs and shares her quilting knowledge on her popular blog, Tallgrass Prairie Studio and lives in Chicago with her husband and black lab, Bruno.
Jeni has been sewing since she was 11 years old, and loves nothing more than to be surrounded by fabric. She graduated with a degree in Marketing and Studio Art, and is currently living in Wisconsin with her husband and pet bunny, George. She self-publishes sewing and quilting patterns for the everyday maker. Jeni regularly shares projects and tutorials on her blog, InColorOrder.com. She is always looking for ways to be creative everyday, and simply enjoys living a handmade life. In addition to sewing, her hobbies include knitting, baking, and collecting vintage kitchenware and linens.
Photo by Michael Hanna
Nicholas Ball is a 33 year old fabric addict from Cardiff, South Wales. He has taught improv quilting both nationally and internationally, contributed projects and articles to the UK's leading publications and was co-presenter of the QNNTV show 'Quilt Monkey'.
Nichole began her quilting journey in 2003, when she taught herself how to make a baby quilt from tutorials online. She is a charter member of the LAMQG and her quilt designs have been published in Quilt Scene, Quilty and Modern Patchwork, Make It! Patchwork and Modern Patchwork Gifts.
Photo by Lehua Noelle Faulkner
Nichole lives in scenic Bucks County, Pennsylvania with her husband and two boys. She began creating embroidery hoops designs in 2012 and has shared her images on Instagram (@wildboho) where her colorful, accessible style has inspired thousands. She describes her work and style as a free-spirited blend of chaos and control and invites stitchers to be unafraid of bending the rules.
Shea Henderson is owner of the pattern company Empty Bobbin Sewing Studio. She is a former middle school math teacher turned sewing pattern designer– two careers that are, surprisingly, not so different from each other! Her work has been published in Modern Quilts Unlimited and Quilts & More magazines and she is a contributor to the book Modern Baby. Shea is one of the founding members and former president of the Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild. When not designing, Shea can be found teaching a group of friends and neighbors the craft of sewing. She lives in Kansas City, MO with her husband and three young children. She blogs at emptybobbinsewing.com
Svetlana lives in The Netherlands with her husband and three children. She is a self-taught sewist, quilter and pattern designer, as well as an occasional screen printer. She is a Blueprint instructor and enjoys sharing her creative journey with thousands of fans in a variety of mediums.
