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Teaching Region: United States, Canada, and selected Foreign Countries

Judy Niemeyer is an international instructor known for her foundation paper piecing techniques and quilt patterns. Her company, Judy Niemeyer Quilting Inc., has published over 100 foundation paper pieced quilt patterns over the last 15 years. Her quilts a..Read More

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Carin grew up in the South Puget Sound area of Washington State where she spent many happy hours rummaging through her mom’s fabric scrap bags and teaching herself to sew, starting with doll clothes and then progressing on to clothing of her own includi..Read More

Teaching Region: Northwest

Carol began sewing clothing but began quilting with a flip and sewing log cabin. She was a 4H sewing leader for 10 years.  As her two chi..Read More

Teaching Region: West – California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Hawaii, and international.

As a quilter, Catherine has 20+ years of quilting experience. She began teaching at local shops in 2006, starting with a beginning quilting series. With 4 years of teaching under her belt and great eye for color, she opened her online shop and began doing..Read More

Teaching Region: Willing to travel anywhere!

Cathy Moore is located in Middleton, Idaho, about 1/2 hour west of Boise, Idaho.  Cathy owned a quilt shop in Rochester, Washington, from 2010 to 2019 before she moved to Middleton, ID.  Cathy's Certified Judy Niemeyer shop is now  an online shop. C..Read More

Teaching Region: Utah (Mountain West) and willing to travel

Cindy is so excited to be a part of the Quiltworx team of Certified Instructors and share her passion for all things quilting!! Cindy was born and raised in Minnesota, where she was introduced to sewing at a very young age.  She remembers taking a bas..Read More

Teaching Region: Home Base is Oregon, but will Travel to where ever people like to make beautiful Quilts, U.S. and Beyond

It was a quiet day in the middle of winter 1999.  I awoke from a catnap with this un-deniable urge to make something…..mind you sewing was not on the ‘un-deniable urge‘ list but crafting something was….I had been walking around this Obje..Read More

Teaching Region: Puget Sound Region

I have been sewing my most of my life, whether it was clothes, curtains or stuffed animals. Sewing has made me feel fulfilled; it’s been a stress reliever and a very enjoyable career. In 1994 I took my first quilt class and found my passion. My love of ..Read More

Teaching Region: Willing to travel

Hi! My name is Gina Schaefer also known as Auntie, Mama., Mrs. Schaefer and just recently, Gina. I like be in north eastern Colorado. I live on the prairie not in the mountains. Sunshine and fields of crops are my scenery. I began my quilting journey a..Read More

Teaching Region: California, have suitcase, will travel anywhere

Quilting is in Jeanette’s DNA. Both her grandmother and mother were hand quilters. Jeanette still has a nine-patch quilt made by her grandmother that was given to her as the oldest grandchild. She cut pieces for her mother using scissors, which we all k..Read More

Teaching Region: Nevada, California, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming

Josephine has been an avid quilter for many years. Three friends gave her a quilt as a gift which introduced her to our wonderful world of quilting. After that she was hooked! She says her “first few quilts were examples of everything not to do when mak..Read More

Teaching Region: Oregon, Washington, California. Anxious to travel and teach

Being creative and sharing with others are the things that spark JudyQ’s engine. From the youngest recall as a child throughout her entire professional career she has surrounded herself with an always reaching desire to expand her knowledge base in the ..Read More

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Julie comes from a large family of creative and artistic women. She recalls sitting on her mother’s lap at a very early age watching as her mother made their clothes come to life. Julie started sewing her own clothes at the age of 12 and received her fi..Read More

Teaching Region: Utah, California, happy to go anywhere!

A native Californian, Karen started sewing at the age of 9, when her mother enrolled her in a summer sewing class at the local Singer store.  She continued to sew through junior high and high school, taking more classes in clothing construction and tailo..Read More

Teaching Region: Montana and Beyond

I started sewing as a participant in 4-H as a 9 year old many years ago.  I sewed clothing for several years and just a couple of very simple quilts to enter in the fair as a teen.  When I was expecting my oldest son (now 24), I made his first quilt –..Read More

Teaching Region: Washington, Oregon, willing to travel

Hello from the beautiful Pacific Northwest! I am a military wife, married to James, with 3 grown children and 8 grand kids.  I live in Longv..Read More

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I've been on my quilting journey for the past 34 years. Over the years, I've learned skills from many different authors, magazines and television
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Teaching Region: California and Nevada but also Worldwide!

It was the late ’70’s when I first took a quilting class. I made two king sampler quilts entirely pieced and quilted by hand. Back then, very little machine quilting was done so for years, doing everything by hand was my method of choice. Even though ..Read More

Teaching Region: Willing to travel to all 50 states and beyond.

Patsy was born and raised in the Central San Joaquin Valley of California. A California native, Having sewn since the 7^th grade, like any new grandmother, she was eager to start making garments and projects for her new grandchildren! During ..Read More

Teaching Region: Idaho, Northwest, Willing to Travel

Sandy is an avid quilter, enjoying all types of projects she makes for friends and family.  At the urging of a friend in 2016, Sandy completed her first Quiltworx pattern, Prismatic Star, and really enjoyed Judy’s approach to paper piecing.  She was t..Read More

Teaching Region: Colorado & Wyoming

I started quilting in 1970ish.  I hand pieced 9-patch blocks for a doll quilt as part of a history project/book report on quilting.  Needless to say the report was finished on time; the 9-patches are still waiting to be finished many years later (my mom..Read More

Teaching Region: Central Valley California, Nevada

I come from a long line of women in my family who sewed, knitted, and/or crocheted. I remember sitting next to my great-grandmother as she knitted clothes for my Barbie; going to the fabric store with my aunt to buy patterns and fabric; and helping my mom..Read More

Teaching Region: Based out of Montana - willing to travel

Vida has always been a “Maker”. It started with her first counted cross stitch piece at the age of 14. She grew up surrounded by other passionate makers watching her mother sew and her grandmother crochet as well as making bobbin lace. In 2015, with e..Read More