Amy Hamberlin started quilting just four years ago. Her passion for quilting and design motivated her to open The Quilt Shoppe in her hometown of Rigby, Idaho in 2006. She later started a pattern company, Kati Cupcake, named after her mother who kindled Amy’s creativity as a child. Her fresh new designs are catching the attention of both the seasoned and beginning quilter.

Amy is currently working on a book with Leisure arts to be published in the fall of 2010. Amy has three very busy children. When she isn’t sewing, you can find her at a baseball field, golf course or spray park spending time with her children.

Blog: http://katicupcakequiltingco.blogspot.com/

Anni Downs is an Australian Artist who has been designing whimsical patterns and books under the banner of Hatched and Patched since 1995. She is an avid hand sewer with stitchery and appliqué being her forte, using quirky images and a soft, almost vintage palette.

Anni was born and raised in Oberon, a small country town on the East side of Australia. She has always had a love of art and sewing, and after moving to the city and working as a Graphic Designer for some years, she and her husband felt the urge to move back to the country. Anni found time here to develop her own style and, with the help of the local quilt shop, started her own pattern business.

Now, 15 years later, Anni has 8 self-published books and over 100 patterns, and has recently been asked by Kansas City Star Quilts to publish a book with them. Eight years ago she opened a patchwork shop in a gorgeous old Inn where she spends much of her time working with two of her greatest joys - fabric and friends. She and her husband have two children, Samantha and Tim, plus a cat, Munch, and a newly acquired dog, Tillie. Whenever Anni isn’t working (playing???), she spends her time with her family or taking long walks around town with her head in the clouds thinking up her next design. Her first fabric range ‘My Favorite Things’ encapsulates what Anni loves most – soft warm colours along with her quirky images of home, best friends, family, garden, chocolate, shoes, and of course sewing!!

Website:   www.hatchedandpatched.com.au

Blog:  http://www.hatchedandpatched.typepad.com

Barbara Jones has been a quiltmaker for the past 24 years. She began teaching quilting classes ten years ago and continues today. She launched the QuiltSoup Pattern Company as an outlet for her quilt designs and has had her designs published in American Patchwork and Quilting’s Quilts and More, Quilt Sampler and the Australian Quilter’s Companion. Her first book is slated for release from Kansas City Star Publishers in July, 2009.

Barbara was born in Idaho and raised and educated in Utah. She is married and lives in Bountiful, Utah with her husband of twenty three years. She has one grown son, a lovely daughter-in-law and five beautiful grandchildren who often serve as inspiration for her quilt designs. She also enjoys art, dance, theatre, gardening and spending time with family and friends. She tries hard to stay out of the kitchen, preferring the sewing room to the grocery store!

Website: http://quiltsoup.com/

Blog: http://www.quiltsoupblog.com/

Beth has always lived in the Pacific Northwest. She has loved to draw since she could first hold a crayon. In fact, some of her earliest work was a mural of her entire family, belly buttons and all, on the wall next to her crib. Even then, her parents encouraged her as an artist. Beth studied graphic design at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.

Several years later and completely by accident she stumbled head-first into the Art Licensing business, and today her art can be found on all sorts of wonderful products. She spends her days happily drawing and painting in the Seattle home she shares with her husband and their furry family, easily inspired by a few of her favorite things: animals, gardening and nature.

Website:   http://www.artstuffltd.com/  

Blog:   http://www.artstuff.typepad.com/

Brenda Pinnick is an internationally known artist and designer who grew up in a very creative household where no mess was ever too much! With Fabric, art materials, found objects and creative license, Brenda was encouraged to break the rules and she’s been doing it ever since!  With formal training in both fine art and design, Brenda brings an aesthetic quality born out of a passion for color and pattern. Her stationery and scrap book products have sold in the millions in both the US and the UK, giving crafters beautifully inspired materials for surefire crafting magic. Adding textiles to her list of products which carry the Brenda

Pinnick name is a dream realized and comes from a true and authentic passion for fabric. “I was designing and sewing my own fashions since the age of 13.” She continued sewing into adulthood, fashioning her children’s clothing from up-cycled rummage sales using ladies and men’s clothing.

Website: http://www.brendapinnick.com/

Blog: http://www.brendapinnick.com/blog/

Sisters Pam Soliday and Janet Nesbitt opened the Buggy Barn in 1996. Their shop is located outside of Reardan, in the heart of Washington's wheat country, just 2 miles west of Spokane. The shop is in a century old carriage house, dubbed the Buggy Barn by the daughter of the family who homesteaded there. Pam and Janet are avid scrap quilters who love to mix prints and plaids and are known for their unique sense of color.

In addition to the retail shop, Pam and Janet also publish books and patterns and have developed their own quick and easy method of crazy quilting. They have designed several lines for Henry Glass including: Crazy about Hearts and Stars, Star Struck, In the Pink, Creamery Neutrals & Sunny Side Up, Pumpkin Spice, In the Pin and Farmhouse.
For their complete line of books, patterns and fabric, visit the:

Website: http://www.buggybarnquilts.com

I am a work at home Mother of 4. Two years ago I picked up my family and moved from Utah to the East Bay of California to support my husband while he goes to Chiropractic school. At that same time I started my own pattern business “Pink Fig Patterns” and launched my designs into the Quilting Industry. I have always had a love of design and art, but in the last 14 years found a new love of fabric and sewing.

When I had my first daughter seven and a half yrs ago I started sewing children’s clothing as an Indie designer in the boutique community and a new love for high quality fabric and unique prints was born. Ever since then I have been addicted to quilt shops and the vibrant and beautiful fabrics they carry. I have recently revisited my old lessons in art and my love of drawing. In between the hustle and bustle of pattern designing I have designed my first line of fabric, Miss Modd!

Website: http://www.pinkfigdesign.com/

Blog: http://www.pinkfigdesign.blogspot.com/

It’s all about your attitude!” Dana Brooks fills the room with spontaneous fun. Life is filled with emotions and passions both good and bad, therefore, it’s your attitude that will make a difference. Opening the doors to Lazy Daisy Cottage in St. George, Utah has brought a new dimension to her life and quilting passion. Dana’s creativity and marketing ability has made Lazy Daisy Cottage a destination place. In 2004 just one year after opening its doors the cozy little cottage was featured in American Patchwork and Quilting Sampler magazine. This was an honor. Dana currently designs patterns along with other creative ideas which includes: recipes, lessons and packaging ideas.

“Designing fabric is not just a dream it’s a dream that came true.” Having had support, encouragement and a best friend for the past 30 years, her marriage is definitely the kind everywoman deserves. At home her life is filled with fun and excitement, it is never quiet and if you know her personally, that is an understatement. Dana has 3 married children along with 8 grandchildren and more on the way! As a designer she promises “IT will never be dull or boring and you will only want to close your eyes for a second. ”Dana works quickly and if you pause too long you may miss the next new and exciting must have print in your life. So keep stitching, stashing, and searching to keep a happy attitude in your life…and if you are lacking add a splash of …She-dah!

Blog: http://lazydaisycottage.blogspot.com/

Dawn Heese is a third generation quilter and avid cross stitcher. She specializes in hand appliqué and hand quilting. She authored her first book, Geese in the Rose Garden in 2009 with Kansas City Star Quilts and is currently at work on her fourth book with them. She also runs a pattern company under the name of Linen Closet Designs which produces quilt and cross stitch patterns. Dawn’s designs have a vintage, folk art feel.

She lives in Columbia Mo. and shares her home with her two teenage sons, a Great Dane and a spoiled cat. She travels to speak and teach for guilds and quilt shops nationwide.

Blog: http://www.dawnheesequilts.blogspot.com/

Debbie is a Scottish artist living in New York City. After studying at St Martin's School of Art in London and specializing in textiles at Liverpool School of Art, she became a freelance fashion textile designer, working with companies such as Marks & Spencer and French Connection. Eventually, Debbie took a job near Manchester, England as an umbrella and accessory designer. Shortly thereafter, she was approached by a New York City textile design studio. After she refused the offer, her art director at the time (to whom she is forever indebted) quickly reversed her decision.

Today, fourteen years later, Debbie is completely rooted here with New Yorker husband Elliott, and their two delightful sons, Eli and Jules. After designing textiles for three years at the studio that brought her here, Debbie was promoted to art director. This sparked an exciting new phase in her career that led her to become a freelance artist once again. "I am more fulfilled now than ever. I feel grateful to be doing exactly what I love doing and I'm excited each day to discover what I'll come up with next." Whether creating art for Christmas or Halloween or Everyday, Debbie is inspired by the subtle, small, sometimes comic, sometimes touching things that make up a day.

A key ingredient in Debbie's art is her versatility. "Ultimately, I hope that the people who buy my art, feel in it the spirit of joy and harmony in the small things in life that I draw upon when creating it."

Website: http://www.debbietaylorkerman.com/

Debi Hron hails from a long line of artists. Her father started her young, equipping her with crayons and colored pencils, taking her out into the tree-laden forests of Florida. Today she can be found living out her dreams of a simple life in Vermont. Debi's inspiration comes from simple joys, relishing nature in her vegetable garden, treks through the forest and time with family and friends. When not outside she can be found at her drawing board creating whimsical designs for a variety of products.

Delphine is an English artist who works from her garden studio at her home in the beautiful surroundings of the Peak District in England. For 4 years Delphine studied surface pattern design at Art College before becoming a designer at a large well- known greeting card company.  After 8 years, gaining invaluable experience of working in a busy studio, Delphine decided to expand her knowledge and creativity by starting her own design studio.

That was 11 years ago and Delphine has never looked back since. Now with a huge portfolio of designs for companies such as Tri-Coastal, Paramount, Marian Heath, International Greetings and many more, her designs adorn a huge array of products from garden flags to Christmas mats.  When she is not busy painting away, Delphine is kept busy by her 3 gorgeous little boys and husband, not forgetting Milly her cat. Somehow Delphine also manages to find a little bit of time to indulge in her passion for all things edible, including making her own jams, chutneys and gins. Delphine is really excited to be back designing fabrics, where she began almost 20 years ago, especially children's patchwork fabrics, "I love designing for children, I draw inspiration daily from my three, very funny, little boys!"

 Website: http://www.delphinecubitt.com/

 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Delphine-Cubitt-Art/195069273858660

Heather Mulder Peterson is the Designer and owner of Anka's Treasures Pattern Company. Heather has been designing quilts since 1995. She has published numerous single patterns and is currently working on her twentieth book. Her work has been published several times in American Patchwork and Quilting Magazine. Her signature look combines traditional piecing with machine applique and a focus on good color.

Heather makes her home with her husband near Spicer, MN in a cottage on a lake. When not quilting and designing, Heather likes to read, knit and remodel/working on their home, lake activities, and spending time with friends and family. Take a look at Heather's website for more information on her books and More Patterns.

Website: http://www.ankastreasures.com

Blog: http://ankastreasures.wordpress.com/

Jacquelynne has always loved creating, and has worked in lots of different mediums- watercolors, acrylic paint, pottery, sewing clothes, cross-stitch, embroidery, cooking, gardening.... Her affinity for quilting began about ten years ago when she and a friend decided to take a quilting class as an excuse to get together once a week, and she has been hoarding fabric ever since!

The name for her pattern company, The Noble Wife, is taken from Proverbs 31 in the Bible, which describes a woman who is a wife, mother, savvy business woman, seamstress and gardener. The “wife of noble character” also “opens her arms to those who are poor, and extends her hands to the needy.” This verse inspired Jacquelynne to make hand made wool pins and donate the profits to a charity which gives sheep to poor families and teaches them to start a business. When asked if she is a “noble wife,” she replies with all honesty, “Some days are better than others!”

Designing fabric for Henry Glass has been the perfect opportunity to combine her passions- painting, quilting, and color, color, color! She runs The Noble Wife (with tremendous help from her husband and two daughters) from their 160 year old farmhouse in rural southwestern New Jersey. Jacquelynne’s line of quilt, wool & punch needle patterns, watercolor note cards, handmade wool pins and pieces of original artwork can be found on her website.

Website:  www.TheNobleWife.com

Blog: http://thenoblewife.blogspot.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thenoblewife

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/TheNobleWife

From potter, pottery painter/craftsperson, to collage artist, designer, and teacher, Jane Davies is about using color with passion and panache. Her use of strong, bold color combinations is what sets her apart from other artists. Davies, who studied ceramics at Bennington College in Vermont and the School for American Crafts in Rochester, New York, before opening her own studio in 1991, made her living selling her ceramics at craft shows and through galleries. She gradually transitioned into designing tableware, quilting fabric, paper goods, stationery, and other products for a myriad of prestigious manufacturers.

In addition, she has written three books: A Glaze of Color: Creating Color and Design on Ceramics (Watson-Guptill Publications, May 2004), Collage With Color: Create Unique Collages in Vibrant Color (Watson-Guptill Publications, October 2005), and Collage Journeys: a Practical Guide to Creating Personal Artwork (Watson-Guptill, November 2008). Jane is currently working on a book demonstrating projects in collage and fiber mixed media, and teaches workshops in collage, handmade books, card-making, and other paper/mixed media topics.

Hi, I’m Jess!  I’m a very loving mother and absolutely adore my sweet husband.   I LOVE to create.  It comes so natural for me and it’s a part of who I am.  So everything I do has ME written all over it!  My style is definite and distinct.  I started Bananafana as an outlet for my creativity.  I’m a mother of three small children, so I’m constantly creating things, partly as a hobby and mostly because my brain just doesn’t stop! 

Fabric and sewing have always been a huge passion of mine.  I began sewing as a child at  my mother’s side and always dreamed up and drew outfits that I would love to wear to school.  The detail in my drawings always went so far as to capture what the fabric for the clothing would look like.  It’s always been a desire of mine to design fabric and so I’m delighted to be able to finally share that with others.   I love color and I intend to always use a lot of it! 

My designs are sure to include elements that are glamorous, whimsical fresh and at times care free!  I’m ecstatic to share all of my spectacular and unique ideas through my fabric designs with others who share the love of sewing.  I hope I can inspire you to be creative and to share it with those around you.  Enjoy!

Jill Finley has been designing quilt patterns for over 10 years. Two years ago she launched her design business, Jillily Studio. She designs and sells quilt patterns, kits and notions. Her quilt designs depict her own fresh style. Jill loves using great color and texture with many fabrics and she usually adds a little appliqué to soften and finish each design. Her designs have been featured in several magazines including American Patchwork and Quilting, Quilt, and Quilter’s Home.

Jill says she is inspired by many quilting friends and family. She has been teaching quilting classes for over 10 years. “I love to share the joy and satisfaction that I get from playing with fabric with anyone who is interested, sometimes even if they aren’t!”  Jill is also the designer of a notions line, starting with her first new product, Jillily Studio Appli-Glue. It is an archival quality basting glue for use in appliqué. She hopes to bring many more notions to the quilting world in the future.

While Jill stays busy filling orders for patterns, notions and kits, she still makes time for new designs. Creating a fabric line for Henry Glass has been one of her favorite projects. “It is so great to see my designs actually become fabric. I love what I do, it is a joy to be able to create new designs and have others enjoy them too.” Jill loves to spend time with her family; working, playing, eating, reading, gardening, sewing, cooking, learning, and just being. She and her husband Randy live in Highland Utah. They are the parents of seven children and are blessed with two grandchildren. 

Website: http://jillilystudio.com/

Blog: jillilystudio.blogspot.com

Kari Ramsay of Fresh Cut Quilts Pattern Co. has been pursuing art and design nearly all her life. As a child she loved to sit at her mother’s side and watch her paint and sew. She soon began learning to paint from her mom and then continued on to sewing lessons. Her passion for creative design continued throughout her young life as she dabbled in photography, calligraphy, graphic art, pottery, sewing, drawing and painting. Kari attended the University of Oregon and majored in Fine and Applied Art. While there she met her future husband and they eventually married and moved to Utah. In Utah, Kari became a professional floral designer, and for over ten years designed and created floral arrangements and wedding flowers for many of Northern Utah’s elite customers.

When Kari had her first child in 1999, she left floral design for motherhood and began sewing for her family. Quilting soon became a passion for Kari and she began creating her own quilt designs with hopes of turning these designs into a business of her own one day. Fresh Cut Quilts Pattern Co. began in 2007 with little more than a few designs and a big dream. She named the business “Fresh Cut” as a play on words from her love of floral design, flowers, and her idea that quilts should be “fresh” and unique. Her business soon took off, and she continues to design patterns for the quilting industry. She continues to live in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in Utah with her husband and children. Kari is working on a new book “Tidbits” that will be released in May 2010, and is beginning is designing fabric Henry Glass & Co.. Look for her new fabric collection Called “Tidbits”.

Website:  http://freshcutquilts.com/

Blog: http://freshcutquilts.blogspot.com/

After falling in love with a sampler quilt pattern in the late 1990’s, Kim taught herself the steps needed to make it and was forever hooked on quiltmaking.  With one of the first quilts she made, became the winner of a contest sponsored by a national quilting magazine.  This in effect, turned her life down a whole new and unexpected path.

            Kim’s very favorite quilts have always been those sewn from simple tried and true patchwork designs, especially when combined with appliqué.  She loves designing and stitching these traditionally-inspired quilts, using modern techniques for the perfect blend of old and new.

            Kim’s work has been featured in numerous national and international quilting magazines. Her easy quiltmaking and invisible machine appliqué techniques led to an extensive national teaching schedule for several years until she retired from travel in 2011. In addition to authoring her “Simple” series of books with Martingale & Company, Kim has designed several fabric collections for Henry Glass & Co., Inc.,  enabling her to be involved in the full circle of quiltmaking from start to finish.  What a wonderful experience for a girl who began her journey wondering if she had what it took to make a single quilt!

 Website: www.kimdiehl.com

Laurie has loved to work with her hands for as long as she can remember. She loves cross stitch, embroidery, knotting, and painting. Quilting became her passion when she learned how to needle-turn appliqué. The possibilities are endless with appliqué when you have wonderful fabrics and colors. She designed her first quilt with the encouragement of her sister and friends and soon had quilts in the local quilt shops. She started her company, Rose Cottage, 15 years ago and has designed more that 40 patterns and has three books published with Leisure Arts.

Laurie and her husband have 4 children, one son-in-law and one darling granddaughter. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, close to her family and friends. She loves to travel with her husband and tries to use the colors and designs she finds around the world in her quilts. She has quilt ideas in mind and at least one or two quilts in progress all the time. She has taught classes since she began quilting and loves the wonderful people she meets in her classes and in quilt stores.

Blog: http://rosecottagequilts.blogspot.com/

Leanne Anderson, owner of The Whole Country Caboodle has been designing kits and patterns since 1992. She is located in Nashua, Iowa, where her design studio is nestled out in the country overlooking the beautiful Cedar Lake where she works side by side with her mom, Jan. Leanne is not new to the fabric industry as she has been designing fabric for the past 13 years. Her whimsical characters are generally the focus of her designs, both in fabric, patterns and kits. Leanne loves to work with color and finds a real passion in putting together prints, plaids and solids, where truly she feels that God gets the credit for her abilities. A few of her signature items are her "Caboodles in a Box" packaged in checkerboard boxes, her "Alphabet Soup Quilts" & "Rugs in a Mug" packaged in antique-style tin mugs.

When Leanne isn't designing, she is spending time with her husband Ed, or hanging out with grown children, Shelby, Tim (son-in-law), Talyor (with future wife Amy) and Kaytlyn with boyfriend Josh.

Website: www.thewholecountrycaboodle.com

Blog: http://thewholecountrycaboodle.blogspot.com/

Linda first gained notoriety as a designer of bright and funky quilts. Along the way, she has shown her diverse talents by authoring books, knitting, scrapbooking and by exploring other color ranges as well. The phenomenal use of color and texture in her work is what makes her designs so special.
After graduating with a BSC from the University of Toronto and working in the pharmaceutical industry for a few years, she and her husband moved to NJ for his job. Linda then taught herself how to sew and soon after, she designed her first pattern, Believe. She showed her patterns at her first Quilt Market when she was 6 months pregnant and it has been one awesome ride.

Since debuting her patterns to the world, she has designed fabric for Henry Glass & Co. in NYC. She has authored several books for Martingale/That Patchwork Place and Leisure Arts. Her work is seen in the wonderful pages of American Patchwork and Quilting, and Quilts and More.

Website: http://www.lindalumdebono.com/

Blog: http://lindalumdebono.blogspot.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/lindalumdebono

Website: http://www.littlequilts.com/

Blog:  http://www.littlequilts.blogspot.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Little-Quilts/152886285808

Lizzie B Cre8ive started out in the industry as a pattern company created by two women who share a PASSION for quilting. They have since become award-winning authors and fabric designers for Henry Glass. Coincidentally, these girls also share the same NAME! Elizabeth Hawkins....

Lizzie – (Liz) resides in Pennsylvania and loves the conception and design side of Lizzie B. She takes her sketchbook wherever she goes because she never knows when a quilt might pop into her head! She has a background in fine arts, with an emphasis on watercolor. When she’s not sketching, she’s busy stitching, blogging, facebooking, driving kids to and fro, singing, creating culinary delights, and laughing on the phone with Beth.

B – (Beth) resides in Arizona and enjoys the conception and design side of Lizzie B, but is also an amazing pattern writer. She can take even Liz's chicken scratch sketches and turn them into a work of art. Her background is in business and design. When she's not writing patterns, she's busy stitching, driving kids to and fro, facebooking, knitting, keeping her naughty dog out of trouble, and text shopping with Liz.

Cre8ive – Together Liz and Beth have found their niche in the quilting world. They strive for uniqueness in their designs that take on their fun upbeat approach to life. They look for inspiration in the things that they love and find comfort in (music and umm, chocolate?). They like to dream, laugh, and create...but there's nothing they like more than doing these things together. Meet the Lizzie B Girls!

Ever since Lucy can remember, walking into a fabric store triggered something in her unlike anything else. She finds the colors, textures and prints to be intoxicating, captivating and the perfect medium for limitless possibilities. Lucy has always been a creative soul, trying to mix passion with income.  This has included private sales of artwork, jewelry, re-worked vintage clothing, children’s illustrations and teaming up with four sisters designing and sewing quilted crib sets for private parties and online.

Lucy combined her love for design and fabric and launched Hot Scott Patterns, a boys sewing pattern company, at the 2009 International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX. Lucy resides in Highlands Ranch, CO with her supportive husband of 18 years and three sons. “I am finally in a place where I can harness and channel my artistic abilities to create something fun and useful for others to incorporate into their lives to enjoy.”

Website: www.hotscottpatterns.typepad.com

Blog: www.thedrizzledapple.blogspot.com

Margot Languedoc started her pattern company The Pattern Basket about five years ago. It was the love of fabric and my passion for quilting and teaching at a local quilt shop that started me on the road to designing. My designs have always been about simple, fun patterns that appeal to everyone.

I am thrilled that I have been able to connect with so many quilters - from young moms making their first quilt to experienced quilters looking for a new creative design. 

My studio is in the country home my family and I built on what once was a Christmas tree farm in Dunrobin, Ontario so I am surrounded with nature’s inspiration.  You can sometimes even find owls in my garden and deer wandering across my front yard.  I love everything the country has to offer, and every summer for a week or two we can’t resist heading down to Maine to enjoy the beautiful American countryside and the breathtaking beaches. 

Website:  www.thepatternbasket.com

Blog:  http://www.thepatternbasket.blogspot.com/

I’m from Dayton, Ohio and the daughter of a quilter. I have a couple of kids and numerous dogs. I have been quilting for 25 years and designing fabric for 5 years. I own Red Hen Fabrics in Marietta, GA, or rather it owns me! I live, eat and sleep quilting. The shop was started 6 years ago in the lower level of an old textile mill just off Marietta Town Square. This is quilt heaven, so we were busy right from the start with teaching, designing fabric and publishing magazine articles. Now we have grown to a 6000 sq. ft. barn complete with a shop dog.

That’s Cookie in the picture… spoiled rotten and loving it! We teach long arm quilting as well as the usual stuff and have a reputation as being the place where the party is going on. I love nostalgia and have embroidered since childhood, so Aunt Martha’s has a special place in my heart. We have interpreted some of their wonderful embroidery appliqués for the Busy Kitties line and I hope everyone enjoys it.

Website: http://www.redhenfabrics.com/

Blog: http://www.redhenfabrics.blogspot.com/

Mary Janestarted sewing at a very young age and made much of her own clothing. She loved to work with fabric, colors and design.  In the early 60's, The May Company and Seventeen Magazine had a contest. The objective was to create a table setting show casing your individual “style.”  Contestants could use anything in the store. How inspiring! WOW!  And don’t you know it Mary Jane won the contest. Her contest success was fuel to her creative fire and served further, to ignite her a love of textiles and design.

In 1993, Mary Jane opened The Christmas Shoppe as a means to sell her handcrafted, one-of-a-kind Santas.  By 1997, Mary Jane switched her focus to quilting.  This led Mary Jane to a life on the road selling fabrics at quilt shows, which made building an internet shop a natural.  ln 2OO8, the Holly Hill QuiltDesigns Pattern company was formed. To date, Mary Jane has designed 26 patterns under the Holly Hill QuiltDesign’s name.  Mary Jane has been published in 2 quilting magazines. She is currently working on a Christmas book with Leisure Arts due out in 2013. Now another dream for Mary Jane has come true. Mary Jane has designed her first fabric collection with Henry Glass & Co., Inc. called “Ninth & Vine”.  Holly Hill Quilt Design is located in Richmond, New Hampshire. 

Website: www.hollyhillquiltdesigns.com 

Blog: http://blog.hollyhillquiltdesigns.com

Claire Mitchard and Mark Everdell jointly founded Paper D’ Art in 1985. They met and worked together in a fledgling toy and gift company some years earlier. They currently reside in London. Mark and Claire anxiously printed the first greeting cards in the Paper D’ Art Collection and took to the road. They toured the length and breadth of the UK selling their first designs. Their ability to offer endearing imagery and compelling art and design enabled them to develop a thriving licensing business in the UK.

Reuben McHugh the artist and illustrator of this collection “Penguins on Ice” has worked with Paper D’ Art for more than a decade. Reuben, a freelance illustrator, works in a variety of mediums such as acrylic, oils, water color and digital methods. Rueben takes inspiration from film and music and believes that the Marx brothers film “Animal Crackers” should be watched at least once a year. His sense of whimsy is expertly portrayed in his characters and artistry. Rueben is married to Louise and has two daughters Carmel and Martha they reside in Bradford, UK.

PJ is a design artist who has taught and lectured throughout the United States over the past fifteen years.  She is an original designer having published over twenty-five patterns which are available through Checker Distributors.  She is currently working on her first book for Landauer Publishing called ‘”Sweet ‘n Sassy.”

 Being a previous quilt shop owner, of the oldest quilt shop in New England, and teacher, she is very well versed in the art of quilt making.  She teaches classes for all levels of quilters in traditional piecing as well as wearable art.  PJ is thrilled to be working with Henry Glass & Co., Inc. designing this fabric line.

Her latest accomplishment is a template set called “Sweet n’ Sassy” which is being produced and marketed by Creative Grid Rulers.  Another template is in the prototype stage that will allow individuals to make an eight-pointed star without any “y” seams. PJ resides in Springfield, New Hampshire with her partner and husband, Bob, and their two Persian cats named Princess and Bear.

Renae Allen established RGA Design LLC in 2006 and introduced her new Skillbuilder machine quilting products at The International Spring Quilt Market in 2007. She continues to develop new products which include fabric, books, CDs and DVDs for quilters who are interested in improving their machine quilting skills. As a Home Economics graduate from Brigham Young University, teaching others came naturally. Her business evolved from her passion for teaching and her love of fabric, sewing and quilting.

Renae began sewing in elementary school and has been stitching one thing or another since that time. She resisted quilting for years, wondering why anyone would want to cut big pieces of fabric into little pieces, sew them back together again and still not have something lovely to wear. That all changed in 1999 and now she wholeheartedly endorses the art of piecing and quilting, especially machine quilting. Renae and her husband, Andy, live in Brigham City, Utah. They are the parents of five children and grandparents to thirteen grandchildren.

Website: http://www.rgadesignquilts.com/index.php

Like most artists, the passion to create goes back to the earliest of memories. That is no different for Shelly. Homework papers turned in with doodles, hours in front of the television... not watching.. but drawing all the cartoon characters... and not happy just coloring from a coloring book.. nope.. she had to draw her own characters to color. From crayons to clay art just made Shelly happy. That is true today!

Shelly started her career in art years ago with polymer clay. Selling her characters at local craft shows and malls. Later she began designing, traveling and teaching. She has authored four books on working with the clay in which one of the books was with Disney on sculpting their characters. Gradually she made the transition back to her true passion.. illustrating! Now mostly illustrating, Shelly is driven with a vivid imagination and a strong passion to create, color, and paint!

Website: http://www.simplyshellydesigns.com/

Blog: http://www.shellycomiskeydesigns.blogspot.com/

Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/#!/SimplyShellyDesigns

The desire to share the joy of creativity is what prompted Vicki to begin designing quilt patterns as Quilts on the QT. Two years later in 2005, she changed the name of her company to WillowBerry Lane. Vicki lives at the end of a road in North Dakota with her husband, Dave, and their faithful Newfie, Tasha.

Vicki’s first fabric collection, WillowBerry Winter, was one of the top ten best selling collections in 2006. Vicki’s other internationally successful fabric designs include WillowBerry Whites & Lights, Romance Flannels, Cottage Romance, Full Sun, Full Sun II, Return to Romance, Return to Romance Flannels, WillowBerry Basics, and Basics II.

A Touch of Romance is Vicki’s best selling book. Liberty & Justice for All and Gorgeous Quilts for Gracious Living are also among her seven books currently available.

Website: www.willowberry-lane.com

Blog: http://willowberrylane.wordpress.com/
 

Wilma was born in the Dominican Republic, but grew up between this tropical Island and New York. She attended and completed her BFA in illustration at Parson’s School of Design in New York City. After graduation she began working in the children’s garment and textile industry. In 1994 she founded Racoon illustration. Three years later, she founded her independent line of greeting cards called Heavenly Greetings. The company grew quickly and launched into the licensing market. Wilma has had her work produced into children’s bedding, baby clothing, furniture, prints, scrap-booking, books and much more.

Her first collection for Henry Glass is a collection called “Wildflower Fairies.” These adorable fairies dance among butterflies and wildflowers. The collection includes a 24 x 44 inch panel that is perfect for the center of a girl’s bed quilt or as a wall hanging. Thrill a little girl by making her a twin bedding ensemble using the free project instructions. The twin sized quilt, pillow cases and dust ruffle will transform her bedroom into a delightful world of fairies and wildflowers.

Website: http://www.racoonillustration.com/