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Laura took her first quilting class in 1987 and was instantly hooked. She soon began producing quilts to sell at craft shows. Laura has been teaching for seven years and enjoys sharing her enthusiasm for quilting and seeing her student’s satisfaction in their accomplishments. Her classes cover a variety of techniques on the machine, including piecing, quilting, and applique.
Laura designs her own patterns and markets them under the name Plum Tree Quilts. She is also a professional quilt designer for Red Rooster Fabrics.
Laura’s quilts have appeared in Fabric Trends, For Love of Quilting and British Patchwork and Quilting magazines and in Jennifer Chiaverini’s book, Return to Elm Creek.
Laura and her husband, Ray, live in Midlothian. They have two grown children. She can be contacted at plumtreequilts@aol.com.
Kathleen Chrisman has been making dolls for over 25 years. She started in high school by using patterns available at the fabric stores. She made dolls as gifts for friends and family.
Several years later she did an online search and discovered how much doll making had changed over the years. Delighted by the changes, such as articulated fingers and armatures, she started designing her own line of patterns.
Kathleen discovered beading about 6 years ago and can't seem to make anything without adding beads to it. Most of her new work incorporates beads into the finished piece. She says she can’t help it, beads are addicting!
She is the founder and Executive Editor of Dolls United Interactive Magazine, a unique CDRom magazine for doll makers.
She is now teaching doll and bead classes locally and across the country.
Patsi Deans began a love affair with needlework as a young child at her mother’s knee. Almost before she learned to read and write, Patsi learned hand sewing, knitting, and crochet. While sitting on books she learned to sew on her mother’s sewing machine and has been sewing ever since! Over the years she has worked as a needlework teacher and a manager for a Bernina sewing machine store. While living in southwest Virginia, Patsi began teaching regionally and has continued for about 20 years. She loves to help quilters find their creative side and believes that classes should be fun as well as informative. After moving back to the Richmond area in 2002, she quickly found a chapter of the Richmond Quilt Guild to join and began teaching locally.
Estelle Porter, former elementary and secondary school
art teacher and art museum administrator, has been quilting professionally
since the late 1980's. She admits that she is totally addicted to quilting
which competes with her other love, gardening. Although she enjoys all
types of quilting she is best known for her house portraits. She says
creating them allows her to combine both addictions.
Her portraits, known for their amazing detail and realism, have been featured
in American Quilter Magazine and Quilter's Newsletter Magazine. Her quilts
have been displayed at numerous local and national shows including IQF,
Houston and AQS, Paducah.
She constructs the portraits with machine applique and reverse applique
but also utilizes other quilting and embellishment techniques to achieve
"painterly" effects. Her works include commercial, hand-painted,
hand-dyed and discharge-dyed fabrics, embroidery, trapunto, and free-motion
quilting. She views each portrait as an opportunity to experiment with
new techniques and materials and enjoys sharing her knowledge with her
students.
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Detail of House Portrait by Estelle Porter
Cynthia Stockdon has been sewing for 34 years, ever since she was big enough to reach the pedal. A VCU Fashion Design graduate, she worked as a Dressmaker/Designer for individuals, theater and dance groups, retail establishments, and a museum. Cynthia has been teaching sewing since 1997. She has taught Beginning and Advanced Sewing at J.Sargeant Reynolds, The American Sewing Guild, Henrico County Adult Education, and Quilting Adventures.
With a background in home economics, art, counseling
and 29 years in education, Diana needed a new direction when it came time
to retire. Quilting became her passion. Her quilting style continually
evolves trying new techniques, products trends and ideas. She has taught
at a variety of quilt shops and presented workshops at local guilds. She
has exhibited at several national quilt shows winning awards. She encourages
her students to free their creative spirit, expand their skills, enjoy
the process and have fun!
Vicki Welsh loves doing anything that involves using fabric and thread. She has been sewing one thing or another for 40 years. She is experienced at garment, quilt and home dec sewing, quilt designing and longarm quilting. She became obsessed with fabric postcards over a year ago and participates in various online swaps. You can keep up with her sewing projects at vickiwelsh.typepad.com.
All text and images copyright 2004-2007 Joyce R. Hartley.