QUILTsocial Winter 2015-15 Issue | Page 58

QUILTsocial bloggers 58 Jennifer Houlden Jennifer runs Quilts by Jen, a fantastic educational resource for quilters with many great free tutorials ranging from how to choose fabrics, understanding the value of fabrics, pressing, building Bargello runs, pinning, binding, sandwiching, couching, quilting, and much more. Check them out! http://quiltsbyjen.ca Nancy Devine Nancy Devine is a devoted user and collector of remnants, scraps, and vintage buttons. She lives in Aurora, Ontario, and can often be found working on her latest project, and playing around with her vintage (and much loved) Bernina machine. Find more of her work and musings on her blog. nancywhiskeynancyo.blogspot.com Christine Baker Christine has been designing and publishing quilt patterns for the last 10 years under the business name Fairfield Road Designs. Her patter ns range f rom f usible applique and piecing to felted wool applique and punchneedle. You can see all her patterns on her website. www.FairfieldRoadDesigns.com Elaine made her first quilt at the tender age of 13. The urge to quilt resurfaced when her daughter moved from a crib. The rest is history – she now teaches several days a week, makes quilts on commission and quilts for others on the long-arm. Elaine Theriault crazyquilteronabike.blogspot.com Kathy K. Wylie www.kathykwylie.com Kathy is a multiple international-award winning quilter specializing in appliqué techniques in a “contemporar y traditional ” style. She lectures and teaches all over the country at guilds, shops and quilt shows and is a CQA/ ACC Certified Quilt Judge. Her designs are available as individual patterns as well as in her book “Sewflakes: Papercut Appliqué Quilts”.