Take a moment to meet the instructors 2012

Susan Brittingham                               Riner, Virginia

 

Susan Brittingham is an experienced professional quiltmaker and instructor. She began her sewing career making garments before switching to quilts. 
Susan has been sewing since she was a child, and making quilts and patchwork since the 1983. She has travelled to teach throughout the eastern US for many years. In 2000, Susan joined the faculty of Quilt University, where she continues to teach quilting classes on-line to students from all over the world. Her areas of expertise include fabric landscapes, architectural and pictorial quilts and machine appliqué.
Susan's award-winning quilts have been featured in numerous publications throughout the years. She has exhibited in quilt shows and galleries regionally and nationally.
Susan lives in rural Floyd County, VA with her husband and two cats. Her web site is http://sbrittingham.freeservers.com

 

Barbara Cline                        Bridgewater, Virginia

 

Barbara’s parents owned The Clothes Line now Patchwork Plus where she taught advanced Bernina classes and was a sales clerk until she got married and had children. After her first child was born she quit working there and stayed home with her 5 children.  During these years she pieced and sold quilt tops gaining a lot of piecing experience.  Once her last child was in school she started working again at the same fabric store, this time as clerk and quilt teacher.

Barbara teaches a large variety of classes including a Saturday Sampler block of the month, Stack n Whack, classes on color, paper piecing, and machine appliqué, hand and machine quilting, strip piecing variation of star patterns and more.

She enjoys the challenge of making new designs and has marketed quilt patterns.  C & T Publishing is the publisher for her book “Star Struck Quilts” (released 2010), and a second book “Simply Triangles” (released January 2012. Barbara also serves on the Virginia Quilt Museum board. Barbara’s web page is: www.delightfulpiecing.com

Karen DuMont                                     Richmond, Virginia

A former dough artist for 35 years, Karen DuMont is now a prolific quilt designer. Her love of quilting is reflected in her bright, whimsical appliqué designs.  However, Karen’s pattern line, KariePatch Designs, includes both pieced and appliquéd designs for all levels of quilters.

Karen free lances for many quilt magazines, works with fabric companies, and teaches and travels presenting trunk shows to quilt guilds and shops.  Later this year Fons and Porter will be featuring Karen’s work on their television program.  Fons and Porter will be demonstrating her two fabric prairie point techniques and showing how to use them in a variety of ways.

A former native of St Louis, Missouri, Karen now resides in Richmond, Virginia with her husband, Richard DuMont.  They have three married children and seven grandchildren so Karen does not lack in loved ones to quilt for!

Learn more about Karen at: www.kariepatch.com

Paula Golden                                      Blacksburg, Virginia

Selected as the “Quilt Teacher of the Year” by The Professional Quilter Magazine, Paula is a co-author of “Quilts of Virginia:  Birth of America through the Eye of a Needle”.

Paula Golden offers a wide variety of workshops and presentations and is certified in administering the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.

Visit Paula on-line at  www.paulagolden.com

Annette Kennedy                       Longmont, Colorado

Fiber Artist, Annette Kennedy, is known for her detailed, representational pictorial art quilts.  After learning traditional quilting from her mother and grandmother in the ‘80’s, Annette moved on to art quilting in 2003 and started developing her current techniques.  She makes her quilt patterns from personally taken photographs.  After assembling the quilt top with fused, raw edged appliqué, Annette uses her “controlled hand painting” techniques to add details, shadows, and depth to her images.  Honing these skills and adding to them the use of good composition, simplification, exaggeration, contrast, and unity, Annette strives to improve her art. 

Annette has won many national awards on her quilts, including the Best Wall Quilt Purchase Award in the American Quilter’s Society’s Paducah, KY, show in 2009 with her quilt Mountain Chapel.  Many of her quilts are in private collections across the country.  To see examples of Annette’s work, see her website:  www.annettekennedy.com

Debby Kratovil                                       Fairfax, Virginia

Debby Kratovil was Special Projects Editor with QUILT Magazine for 15 years, with over 600 articles published. She has seen 25 of her quilts make the cover of quilting magazines. As she says, "I sew for the camera, making sure my quilts are very photogenic." Debby has authored two books and 9 quilting calendars and is a prolific quilter, designer, and illustrator.

Currently she designs and sews quilts for 3 fabric companies and is working on another book. She teaches for the Original Sewing and Quilt Expo which takes her to almost a dozen cities a year.

She likes to say, "I've never met a fabric I didn't like." She is on very good terms with her computer and sewing machines, which enable her to take a project from start to finish quickly. 
Debby lives in Fairfax, Virginia with her husband Phil and dog Belle. She has three grown daughters. Debby’s web page is: www.quilterbydesign.com

Kathy Sevebeck                            Blacksburg, Virginia

Kathy Sevebeck is an award-winning author, teacher and quilter. She has been sewing for most of her life and teaching for over 30 years. She is the author of Miniature Needlework and over 100 articles in national craft and sewing magazines.

Her wearable art garments are innovative and creative and several have won awards at quilt shows. Backed with clever and useful tips, innovative and original techniques, and very clear instructions, her classes are sought after and often include students who have taken other classes from this excellent teacher.

Kathy believes that everyone is creative in their own way. She is dedicated to individual attention and clear hands-on instruction. You always learn something new and useful in her classes. Kathy and her husband live on the top of Brush Mountain outside of Blacksburg.