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Candie Cooper & Katie Hacker

Candie Cooper is a jewelry designer with a passion for combining unique materials and color combinations, inspired by extensive travel and her years living in China. Katie Hacker is an artist and writer who started designing her own jewelry as a teenager. She now makes a living doing what she loves best - making jewelry and sharing her ideas.

National Quilters Circle Editors

Allie Aller

Allie Aller has been quilting non-stop for five decades. Her college design education has served her well as she’s explored landscape, traditional, stained glass, Memory, and crazy quilting. Her newest passion is combining vintage textiles in her quilts, along with “rescuing” (not to be confused with “restoring”) old quilts and bringing them new life with vintage enhancements. She draws from a lifetime of techniques and experience to continue to find new ways to make meaningful, functional, and beautiful textile works, combining past and present. Allie has published three books with C & T Publishing: Allie Aller’s Crazy Quilting, Quilting, A Little Bit Crazy—A Marriage of Crazy and Traditional Quilting, and Allie Aller’s Stained Glass Quilting. She has taught and lectured around the country, won awards in national shows, and mounted special exhibits of her work. She is currently focusing on studio quilt work, sharing her process, discoveries, and finishes on Facebook as Allison Aller, and Instagram @alliealler. A backlog of almost 20 years of blogging can be found at alliesinstitches@blogspot.com She lives in the country at the mouth of the beautiful Columbia Gorge in SW Washington State.

Kelly Ashton

Carolyn Beam

Carolyn Beam is an editor at Quilter's World magazine, quilt pattern designer, and contributor for National Quilters Circle.

Sherri Driver

Carole Fure

Carole Fure taught herself quilting when her children were small. Over the next few decades, her quilting style evolved to focus less on functionality and more on visual appeal. She began studying quilting masters and was fascinated by their use of color. Though she seldom used patterns, her work won awards such as the Viewers' Choice and Teachers' Choice at the Minnesota Quilt Show. She is especially proud of her quilts that incorporate 3D elements and geometric fiber art. Carole is the author of Surprising Designs: From Traditional Quilt Blocks and a wonderful contributor to National Quilters Circle.

Susan Guzman

Kelly Hanson

Sole proprietor of Quilters Anonymous Sewing Studio in Duluth, Minnesota, Kelly enjoys teaching students new techniques in the quilting arts. She specializes in traditional quilts and enjoys designing and creating memory and T-shirt quilts. She is a certified Quilt in a Day instructor, a certified Handi Quilter Long Arm quilter, a 2012 Recipient of IMQA foundation award, and administrator of the Quilters Anonymous Showcase Facebook page and the Quilter Anonymous web page. Currently, Kelly is busy taping segments for the Inspire Design Create educational quilting DVD series. Kelly continues taking classes in all aspects of quilting, equipping her to teach new techniques to her students. She looks forward to her new role as Managing Editor of the National Quilters Circle.

Diane Harris

Angie Hodapp

Angie Hodapp is a quilt designer, editor at Quilters Newsletter, and contributor for National Quilters Circle.

Ashley Hough

Ashley has sewn for years. Her mother taught her at a very young age. When first starting out, she stuck to mastering commercial patterns before venturing into creating her own. Her patterns have been featured in Sew News, Sew It All, and she has even been on Sew It All TV. Quilting is somewhat new to Ashley, but she dove in head first – coming up with an original design for her first quilt that included curved seams and hand appliqué! She was even lucky enough to have it featured in one of Quilty’s “This is My Quilt” episodes. Ashley loves all things crafty, from sewing to knitting, crochet to quilting, and everything in between. When she isn’t working on a new project or learning a different technique she loves teaching her passion to others.

ZJ Humbach

ZJ Humbach is a professional longarm quilter and pattern designer who owns and operates Dream Stitcher Quilt Studio in Nederland, Colorado. Her work appears in McCall’s Quilting, Quilters Newsletter, and Quiltmaker magazines. A former Quilters Newsletter editor, she wrote a longarm quilting column, “Finish Line,” for each issue. Now ZJ is a freelance writer for Quilters Newsletter and the Studio Arts Quilt Associates (SAQA) Journal. She also quilts regularly for Connecting Threads. ZJ has enjoyed machine sewing since age 12. She has a strong educational background in clothing construction, tailoring, and interior design plus a Master of Arts Teaching degree with an emphasis on curriculum development and adult education.

Dana Jones

Toby Lischko

Maple Island Quilts

Lorna McMahon

Kelly Hanson

Aurora Sisneros

Aurora grew up around sewing, her mother is a master seamstress who got her into sewing at an early age, and in turn, she got her mother into knitting and crochet after discovering it to be a more portable addiction. After spending 15 years as an IT professional, she realized that many women with high-stress responsibilities — either in the workplace or in the home — need a hobby in order to de-stress. It is her drive to inspire and support women to find their creative side through sewing and crafting!

Andrea Smith

Peg Spradlin

Robin Sruoginis

Laura Stone Roberts

Laura is a former assistant editor of McCall's Quilting and McCall's Quick Quilts magazines and is skilled in all types of piecing and appliqué. She began quilting as a new mom 30 years ago and soon landed a job at a quilt shop where she discovered the joy of being with other quilters and sharing what she'd learned. Laura began teaching some classes way back then, adding techniques as her skills grew. She has now been a quilting teacher for over 25 years. In 1997, she found herself in England without a guild, so she started one that grew to 52 members from 7 countries. That guild was a great source of camaraderie and fun and is still thriving today. When it comes to fabric, Laura loves batiks and florals and clear bright colors and her stash was epic. It had taken over a room and a half, and even though Laura gave fabric away to family and friends, the stash (and the mess) continued to grow. Until a couple of years ago, when she applied her mind and years of experience to pruning and organizing the accumulated 'treasure' of two decades. Happily her project was a smashing success and her stash remains organized, accessible, and pettable today. Laura still works as a contributing editor with McCall's Quilting in addition to being a freelance editor for book publishers and fabric companies. Her goal is to share her knowledge and love of quilting with others so they find as much joy in fabric and thread as she does.

Colleen Tauke

Colleen Tauke is a quilter, designer, and quilt educator with 40+ years of sewing experience. Of those, the last 17 years have been focused around quilting. Early in her quilting endeavors, she was challenged to piece a quilt that seemed daunting. Fussy cutting, Y-seams, strip piecing, hourglass blocks, a pieced border, and appliqué—all in ONE quilt. This was her first bed sized quilt that would later become a quilt shop sample and win third-place at the Iowa State Fair in the “My First Quilt” division. Since then, she was hooked!