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Mary Lou Casada has been steadily quilting for 17 years, although her earliest quilting experiences were in her childhood with a grandmother and great-grandmother who were prolific bee-quilters. Mary Lou is president of the Mountain Laurel Quilters in London, KY and winner of the 2007 Best Hand Quilting award at the Laurel Festival of Quilts. She is a self- professed Queen of the Quilting Gadgets (she loves trying new tools and techniques), and she favors traditional quilts with a folk, country or historic flair. Mary Lou can be found teaching at her club, her favorite shop (Paula’s Quilting Pantry in East Bernstadt, KY), and wherever else her threads lead her. She is a wife and homeschooling mother of 3 children, Emily, Sam and Will. |
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Polly Taylor
A retired elementary school teacher, Polly is a much admired and respected quilt instructor. She is making her fourth appearance at the Redbud Quilt Festival and is very popular in this area. She is the founder of QUILTFEST in Jonesborough, TN and is the previous owner of Tennessee Quilts. She is a certified Eleanor Burns teacher and teaches regularly at quilt shops SOMEWHERE SEWING in Johnson City, TN and PIECE GARDENS in Ashville, NC. She also teaches at the Mountain Quiltfest in Pigeon Forge, TN and at the Virginia Highland Festival in Abingdon, VA. She conducts quilt retreats for quilting enthusiasts at her log home on the Nolichucky River between Jonesborough and Erwin, TN. She has a home based business, POLLY’S FEEDSACK PRINTS, and is also a collector of feedsacks. She teaches many vintage quilt patterns. |
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Melissa Burton Girdler
A charter member of the Material Girls Quilt Guild, Melissa has served as both vice president and president. She is a member of the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society and the American Quilter’s Society. She has served on the Kentucky Interested Quilters and the Jabez Quilt Seminar committees. Melissa has been sharing her passion for quilting with others through instructing for four years, teaching at the Jabez Quilt Seminar, the University of Kentucky Extension Service and various guilds. Her home is in Science Hill, Kentucky where she lives with her husband William, and daughter Virginia. Her goal as a quilter is to pass on her enthusiasm for this great American art form to anyone who is willing to learn and have fun while doing so. |
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Shirley Lips
A practicing quilter and teacher for more than 25 years, Shirley has recently relocated to Greenback, Tennessee – “The Foothills of the Smokies.” Her career began in the early 1980’s in Wisconsin when the revival of quilting was in its infancy. She developed and taught a variety of quilting classes for the Fox Valley Technical Institute in Wisconsin. When her profession as a high school counselor took her to Germany, she continued to be active in the quilting community there. During her 21 years in Germany, Shirley attended and participated in quilting events in Germany, France and the Netherlands. To share her love of quilting and to do her part to insure that the tradition of American quilting continues to the next generation, Shirley offers a variety of quilting classes and workshops at area quilt shops, on quilting cruises, and at other quilting events. |
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Maureen Sellers A dynamic instructor and author who makes every class she teaches loads of fun, Maureen is also appearing at the Redbud Festival for the fourth time. Not only does she teach quilting classes, but she is renowned for her musical abilities on the dulcimer. Maureen has been sewing and quilting for over 40 years and loves traditional and very modern quilting and piecing. She is up to date with the latest fabrics and trends in the quilt and craft world. She has created her own line of patchwork and embroidered designs featuring the Appalachian Dulcimer. She teaches classes all over the United States, both quilting and dulcimer. She is currently living in New Albany, Indiana with her husband Bill. Her Website is:
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Terry White
Terry has taught creative needlework classes in public libraries, museums, schools, shops and quilt guilds for over 30 years, traveling across the country. She has been teaching free-motion embroidery and embellishment techniques since 2001. Her work has been published in books and magazines many times. The American Quilters Society released her book, “A Guide to Threadpainting for Beginners” last fall. She is a designer of machine embroidery collections and has appeared on numerous national television shows. She has won many awards and her works travels in exhibits across the country. She has developed techniques for decorative work as well as, exploiting the wonderful stitches programmed in sewing machines and has also developed a simple technique and tool, the “Beadle,” for beading by machine. Be sure to check out her website: www.threadpaint.com |
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Cheryl Witt
A retired Extension Agent , Cheryl has been teaching quilting and sewing classes for over 37 years. Since retiring from the University of Kentucky four years ago, she has been busy teaching quilting classes in several counties in southeastern Kentucky and at statewide seminars. She lives in Mt.Vernon, Kentucky. |
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Vivian Ann Wright, Vivian, a native Kentuckian, resides in Knoxville, Tennessee and is proprietor of “Mammaw’s Thimble,” a fabric and quilting mecca. She has extensive knowledge of the latest fabrics, quilt patterns and notions and teaches classes at her shop on Papermill Drive. Her love of hand embroidery certainly shows in her work and she makes the underside of the embroidery look as good as the top side. Vivian is dynamic teacher and will entertain you as she teaches. She began her sewing and quilting career as a young girl and continues to produce beautiful quilts and wearable art. She has been a vendor at the Redbud Festival since the beginning. Look for her shop at the Vendor’s mall inside the Union College gym. |
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Other Instructors Appearing in 2008
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Our Featured Instructor: Jeananne Wright Jeananne grew up on a ranch in northeastern Colorado and has always appreciated and respected the calmness, serenity, and patterns of the prairie. She made most of her clothes before going to college, and the Wards catalog, for its fabric, was her favorite book. Jeananne and husband Ted are retired school teachers and have three grown and married children, two sons and a daughter, and six grandchildren, including triplet girls born in 2002. In addition to teaching, she owned antique stores in Denver and Central City for thirteen years. Family, church, friends, appraising and lecturing about quilts, volunteering, and golf keep her happily busy. She made her first quilt in 1963, before she had children and now enjoys making reproductions of old quilts for books and exhibits. She is an avid collector of old quilts and an historian and researcher and has written for both Quilter's Newsletter Magazine and Quiltmaker. Jeananne has curated exhibits, including Primedia Galleries, and the Western Nebraska Museum of Art. Her antique collection has been exhibited many times in Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska. Be sure to catch at least one of Jeananne’s lectures and see the past history of quilts come to life. She dresses in costume for the time period in which she is lecturing.
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Sisters Susan Rice & Sandy Ramsey learned to do stained glass about 4 or 5 years ago. They decided that we wanted to learn how to do it and got some supplies and books and taught themselves. They also have made and sold thousands of wood crafted items over the years. Sandy also makes quilts and the baby quilt top behind Susan is one of hers. They have recently learned to make jewelry. The sisters have many hobbies and are very gifted in them. Both of them agree that if they didn't keep learning new things, they would soon be very bored. Pictured at right is Susan. Sandy is the photographer. |
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