Beverly  Gordon
Professor Gordon teaches courses in textile and fashion history and appreciation, material culture analysis, world dress, and global perspectives on design and culture. She is also an artist who primarily works on sculptural figures made with natural materials (bone, shell, etc.) and fabric. She has been teaching, making objects, curating exhibits, and researching textiles and related aspects of the material world and the designed environment for over 30 years.

Her research interests generally involve the meanings of objects in people’s lives, particularly in relation to women and the domestic environment. This translates to an involvement in the fields of textile and costume history; material culture; and folk, decorative, and design art. She has recently completed a comprehensive volume entitled The Fiber of Our Lives: Why Textiles Matter, and previous books include The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, Women’s Lives, 1890-1940 (2006); Bazaars and Fair Ladies: The History of the American Fundraising Fair (1998); Shaker Textile Arts (1980) and Feltmaking: Traditions, Techniques and Contemporary Explorations (1980). Her articles range from studies of individual artists to articles on the history and meanings of quilts, fashion (including blue jeans), dress-up costumes, beadwork, needlework and crepe paper. Her theoretical explorations include the meanings of souvenirs; the conflation of women’s dress and interiors in the 19th century; the underlying meanings of a “backstage women’s space;” and "The Hand of the Maker: the Importance of Understanding Textiles From the Inside Out."

Andrea Bishop
Andrea came to work at The Electric Quilt Company in 2001. Being asked to play with quilt design software and do geometry on her computer screen all day was a dream come true for this Applied Mathematics major from Bowling Green State University.

Frustrated by the fact that complex quilt blocks can be drafted in a few minutes but are actually hard to sew, Andrea recently released her own block library of over 500 Kaleidoscopes that are easily foundation pieceable for the beginning quilter. Her kaleidoscope flower quilt “Congregation of Poppies” is in the April/May 2009 issue of Quilters Newsletter.

Andrea’s patience and persistence with technical support and attention to detail earned her the opportunity to write many of the EQ’s software user manuals and edit instructional books written by other authors. She wrote the book that comes in the EQ6 box, all 300 pages of it, including the 6 instructional lessons. She also frequently posts free lessons, software tips, and designs on EQ’s website: www.electricquilt.com.

In addition to being EQ’s Webmaster, Andrea is now the company’s Software Educator. She is a regular face at quilt tradeshows and even on television where she has appeared on episodes of America Quilts Creatively, Quilting Arts, NowSewing.net, QNNtv.com, and Quilting with Shar.

When Andrea isn’t busy designing quilts, she’s busy designing websites, travelling, or singing. You can see some of her work at www.andrealeebishop.com.

Joen Wolfrom
Joen began quiltmaking in the early 70s after she left her career in the educational field to become a homemaker and a stay-at-home mom. Her interest in color and design surfaced in the early 1980s. She has taught and lectured in the quilting field, both nationally and internationally since 1981. Her guest international engagements include working in England, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

In the 1980s, Joen created commissioned textile art for many private clients and corporations. Her work is included in collections throughout the world. Joen is the author of eleven books and quilt-related products. Several of her books were bestsellers in the art/craft field. Her published works include Visual Coloring, Color Play, The Visual Dance, The Magical Effects of Color, Landscapes & Illusions, Make Any Block Any Size, Patchwork Persuasion, A Garden Party of Quilts, and the 3-in-1 Color Tool.

Joen is the owner of JWD Publishing, a pattern company that publishes patterns of quilts and other quilt-related projects by leading quiltmakers and designers.  Joen continues to create quilts, teach, lecture, judge shows, and write articles and books in the field of quiltmaking.  When Joen has leisure time, she enjoys photography, hiking, gardening, reading, or playing bridge―depending on the time, day, and season. 

Janet Jones Worley
Janet Jones Worley is a professional quilter, quilt designer, author, and teacher. While Janet loves designing, her first love is teaching. Her light-hearted approach to quilting makes her classes fun and exciting. She firmly believes "All Quilter's Go To Heaven" and that Chocolate is necessary to sustain life! Many of her designs can be seen in national and international quilt trade shows featuring Kaufman Fine Fabrics, P & B Textiles, RJR Fashion Fabrics, Benartex, David Textiles, Roc-Lon, Warm & Natural Batting, and Kreinik Metallic Threads.

Janet has a quilt on permanent display in the library of Peking, China. www.QuiltPatternsEtc.com features her quilt designs.

Nancy Christopherson
Nancy  Christopherson is a mother of two beautiful women and a loving wife of 32 years.  The better part of her adult life was spent in the competitive high-tech computer industry by day and building up a family that goes out and lives their dreams successfully by night.  After many years of being in the background of her daughters dream seeking, and consistently supporting them in their search of 'their place'; she decided it was time to find 'her place'.  After 25 plus years in systems administration she left behind the computer and replaced it with sewing machines.  She went back to her roots, her true love, her passion!!!  Quilting!! There she found her place in the dream world and has succeeded in creating living memories for many families on fabric.  Making memory quilts is her artistry.  A way for families to keep the past current and remind themselves of where they have been and where they are going.  Her desire is that her quilts are a lasting reminder in homes all across America of the journey a family takes, and how each becomes their own dream seeker! Nanc states, "I read a quote once many years ago that stated, "If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always gotten." I did something new, and boy did things go up!!! Nanc and her family live in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth Area.

Jodie Davis
Known for her cheerful embrace of color and her inventive techniques, Jodie is a teacher, designer of quilts and quilt-related products, and an award-winning TV host. Jodie’s passion is to spread the joy of making things.

As the author of thirty quilting books and a travelling teacher, Jodie looked to the airwaves to reach more people in her mission of spreading the joy of quilting. Right out of the box the very first episode of the show "Friends in the Bee" earned Jodie accolades as host and co-producer from her peers in the form of prestigious Communicator, Videographer and Telly awards.

Jodie found herself hosting and now at the helm of QNNtv, the internet television channel devoted exclusively to quilting.  The network now airs over 1000 shows on demand;  by far the largest library of quilting videos anywhere.  Jodie’s mission at QNNtv is to spread the joy of quilting with this most valuable venue ever.  Finally there is a place for quilters and will-be quilters to learn to quilt all day any day.  In addition to QNNtv, Jodie can be seen on public television, hosting on location episodes and guest segments of Love of Quilting.

QNE09 STATE & REGIONAL TEACHERS

Cathy Audley
Cathy enjoys dyeing, painting and printing on fabrics to reflect her creativity.  She has taught workshops and classes in Arizona, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska.  She is a member of the Olathe Quilters Guild, NSQG, AQS, the Heartland Quilt Network and the Kansas State Guild.  Cathy lives in Olathe, KS. She often teams up with her sister, Sue Chaffee.
www.sisterspeakquilting.com
caudely@swbell.net
910-390-6665

Linda Laine Banner
Although Linda had been sewing since the third grade, she had never seen anyone quilt until she followed her Air Force husband to Nebraska.  She joined the Omaha Quilters Guild during her first week in Nebraska!  Linda says that under the careful nurturing of many Nebraska teachers, her passion for quilting grew, as did a strong thread that binds her to this state and NSQG.  Linda now lives in Nashua, NH, where she teaches at her local quilt shop, Nashua Sew and Vac.  Her Maple Leaf Quilt captures the essence of foliage season in NH.
quilternh@mindspring.com
603-888-8885

Sharon Bohmont
Sharon has quilted for many years and enjoys all the processes from beginning to end.  She especially likes traditional piecing, applique’, miniatures and hand or machine quilting.  She lives in Schuyler, NE with her husband Wendell and two cats.  She is the office manager for her husband’s veterinary clinic.  In her spare time she enjoys gardening, teaching quilting, camping, traveling, and spending time with the grandchildren.
wbohmont402@q.com
402-352-2238

Arlen Brown 
Arlen is the co-owner of the Calico Cottage and S & A Machine Quilting in Hastings, NE.  He teaches locally and regionally, and has won several major awards at the Nebraska State Fair. Arlen retired from Sara Lee Bakery in 2004.  He began quilting after his wife, Sue, would not make a brown quilt for their bed.  He started with a rail fence quilt, and has progressed from there to challenging multi-pieced works of art.  He uses his carpentry skills to redesign many patterns and creates small gadgets to help him match seams perfectly.  He prides himself on his precise piecing – and the fact that he has no UFO’s.  He completes every quilt or wall hanging before moving on to his next quilting project.  (Is this a guy thing?)
sbrown1@unl.edu 
402-463-5202

Sue Brown
Sue is also a co-owner of the Calico Cottage and S & A Machine Quilting in Hastings, NE.  She teaches locally and regionally, and participates in local, regional, state and national quilt shows.  Sue graduated from UNL in 1972 with a BS in Home Economics Education and Extension.  She retired from University of Nebraska-Extension in 2008, Professor Emeritus.  During her Extension career in Adams County the 4-H Textiles and Clothing program flourished.  This led several young people to pursue careers in textiles, and produced several State and National “Make It Yourself with Wool” winners.  Sue uses a creative and humorous approach in presenting information about piecing quilts and life.
sbrown1@unl.edu 
402-463-5202
402-463-6767 (Shop)

Barbara Caron
Barbara is known to many of us as the Assistant Director of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum.  But did you know that Barbara Caron is also a quiltmaker, quilt designer, nationally-certified quilt instructor, and the author of two AQS publications, Tessellations & Variations (AQS 1995), and Navigating Compass Designs (AQS 1998)?  Her pleated pineapple quilt was also featured in A Quilted Christmas (AQS 1995).   Barbara holds graduate degrees in design, public administration and library science.
barbaraanncaron@hotmail.com
bcaron2@unl.edu
402-540-7819

Sue Chaffee
Sue Chaffee and her sister, Cathy Audley, together form a quilting duo called Sisterspeak.  They travel to guilds teaching workshops and giving talks.  Together the sisters have explored dyeing, painting, printing, wax batiking, foiling and discharging fabrics.   Sue started her love affair with quilting when she lived in Columbus, NE.  She is now a resident of Overland Park, KS, but still considers Nebraska her quilting home.  Sue’s quilts have been juried into the Denver National Quilt Show, AQS-Nashville and Road to California.  A former sixth grade teacher, Sue is the mother of 6, grandmother of 9 (with 3 on the way), and wife of one.
www.sisterspeakquilting.com    
drchaffee@everstkc.net
913-317-8393

Alice Cruz
Alice began sewing clothes by hand for her trolls in the mid-sixties.  Reaching official 4-H age (9) allowed her to start using a sewing machine, but handwork remains a favorite.  Her quilts range from traditional to “arty.”  She usually works in a “more is better” style, preferring many fabrics and complex and/or free-form work in her piecing, applique’ and quilting.  She operates a hand-dyed fabric business, DellaJane Hand Dyes.  She lives in Omaha, NE with her husband, Al, and their two daughters, Caitlin and Alyssa, a mini schnauzer, Casey, and a cat, Griffey. 
www.DellaJane.com
alice@dellajane.com
402-498-2793

Sheila Green
Sheila started sewing doll clothes in elementary school, clothing in junior high, and finally started quilting 13 years ago.  She has taught quilting to children and adults and has led workshops in the public schools, the Museum of Nebraska History and the International Quilt Study Center & Museum.  She is the NSQG Education Chair, Lincoln Quilters Guild incoming president, and a docent at the IQSCM.  She has been involved with Discover Nebraska since 2000, leading presentations, scheduling the schools and the volunteers.  She enjoys experimenting with new quilting and embellishment techniques and sharing what she learns with others.  Friends and family call the IQSCM her ‘home away from home.”  She loves researching the exhibitions and sharing the history of the art of quilting with the museum visitors, young and old.  Sheila lives in Lincoln with her husband, Ken.  They have two grown children and six grandchildren.  They enjoy traveling with their family and friends.
www.DiscoverNebraska.org 
SheilaGreen@windstream.net
402-483-0453

Paula Grotelueschen
Paula has lived in the same house for 32 years.  Let’s talk about serious secret stashes!  Paula team-teaches quilting classes with her friend and colleague of 25 years, Sharon Bohmont.  Paula and Sharon share ideas, develop their own styles, and together create a great teaching experience.  Paula loves all aspects of quilting – the colors, the shapes, the new patterns.  She also loves to cook, garden and read.  She and her husband farm near Schuyler, NE.  They have two beautiful grown-up children and one almost grown blue heeler puppy. 
cpgrote@earth-comm.com  
402-352-2839

Gloria Leonard Hall
Gloria Leonard Hall lives in Palmyra, NE, where she operates Grandma’s Quilts.  She first gained an interest in quilting as a young girl while watching volunteer ladies at her church work on a Double Wedding Ring quilt.  She says, “I watched them quilt and quilt and thought...Someday!”  In 1988 she was diagnosed with breast cancer.  That was the catalyst for making her dream of “quilting someday” a reality.  Since that time she has learned about quilts and quilting with a special focus on vintage textiles.  Gloria has taken seven national seminars in textile research.  She has also attended the appraisal school of Barbara Brackman and Terry Clothier Thompson and is a qualified appraiser.  Gloria collects, sells, teaches and researches vintage quilts.  She lectures on antique quilts, feed sacks, and aprons, nationally and internationally.  Gloria is active in the Lincoln Quilters Guild and two small quilting groups, Basket Cases and Celestial Quilters. She is also a member of NSQG, the American Quilt Study Group, and IQSCM. 
www.grandmasquilts.com
grandma@grandmasquilts.com
402-780-5773

Diane Volk Harris
Nebraska native and avid quilter, Diane Harris, is now an editor of Quiltmaker magazine.  Her UFO class was a huge hit at the Stuhr Museum in February 2008, so we have invited her to present an encore performance, and also give us an insider’s look at the quilt publishing industry. Diane lives in Littleton, CO.
dhstitches@gmail.com
720-252-4848

Christine Hause
Christine Hause of Lakewood, CO, is a twice-certified and award-winning Brazilian Embroidery teacher.  It has become a passion to share this easy stitching (and absolutely stunning thread colors) with anyone who wants to learn.  She enjoys teaching, and teaches over 100 classes every year, traveling all over the United States on a regular basis.  There are tips and tricks she will share with her students to make it fun for them to learn.  Because of this attention to her students’ learning, she is one of the most sought-after instructors for this type of embroidery.  Christine also is an accomplished quilter.  She was inducted into the Colorado Quilt Council Quilters’ Hall of Fame in 1997.  She is a member and past-president of the Arapahoe County Quilters, and a member of the Colorado Quilt Council, Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, The Applique’ Society, NQA, AQSG, AQS and IQA.  For further information and to see class samples, check out her website.
www.ChristineHause.com      
Hause1995@gmail.com
303-522-6866

Diana Honerman
Diana has always loved to sew.  As a little girl she designed and made doll clothes.  In college she majored in art and fashion design.  After the birth of her two children, she designed and made clothes for them, and now sews for her grandchildren.  Diana took her first quilting class in the mid-90’s and another quilt addict was born!  She teaches classes at quilt shops and quilt guilds.  This will be her fourth year teaching at QuiltNebraska.  Diana lives in North Platte, NE.
dlhonerman@charter.net  
308-539-1592

Claudia Kiser
Born and raised in Utah, Claudia Kiser learned to sew and quilt at a very young age.  As a college student, her art professor learned of her quilting talents and encouraged her to expand on the quilting process.  Several years later, she is now a quilt teacher, presenter and artist.  Claudia likes to do it all – from hand quilting to long-arm quilting.  In addition to quilt making, Claudia designs jackets and handbags.  A member of Calico Quilts and a founding member of Fat Quarters, she keeps very busy with family and friends in the Columbus, NE area.
cakiser@neb.rr.com
402-270-4400

Bonnie Kucera
Bonnie started her quilting career with the Nimble Thimble Quilt Guild at Aurora in 1985.  After years of sewing clothes she thought quilting would be a good way to use up scraps.  WRONG!  She found through quilting you actually acquire MORE scraps.  Bonnie is an active member of the Lincoln Quilters Guild and NSQG.  She won Best of Show awards at the NE State Fair in 1994 and 2000, with numerous other first place ribbons throughout the years.  Bonnie and her husband, Doug, live in Hickman, NE.
bdk905@galaxycable.net  
402-792-3191

Sherrill Lewis
Sherrill is the owner of The Bead Ranch in Stillwater, OK.  She is an award-winning designer of bead-embellished items, bead-woven tapestries, distinctive beaded jewelry and artwork, and cloth dolls.  She has been beading since the 1980’s, and beading professionally since 1994.  Sherrill has worked as a Bead Elf (pattern proofing and model making) for Suzanne Cooper in Second Looks and Far Away Places and Valerie Hixson in Blooming Beads.  Her work has also appeared in Fire Mountain Gems catalogs (1999, 2000), Beadwork magazine, and The Crafts Report (July 2003).    Since 2003, when she began following the quilt show circuit, Sherrill has spoken to and given beading demonstrations at shows in OK, TX, KS, AR, CO, and LA, and she has taught workshops in OK, TX, AR and now NE!  Sherrill teaches at Multi Arts Center and at her home-based studio in Stillwater, OK.   Sherrill is a member of the Colorado Quilting Council, NQA, Oklahoma State Quilters Organization, Crazy Quilt Society, Central Oklahoma Quilt Guild, Cimarron Valley Quilters Guild, Edmond Quilters Guild, Tulsa Dolling Dames, Stillwater Art Guild, Stillwater Writers’ Group, Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, Inc. and Friends of Multi Arts Center.
www.sherrillmlewis.com  
thebeadranch@aol.com
405-624-8717

Leslie Main
Leslie is a UNL graduate who taught middle school students for 10 years:  Family and Consumer Sciences, Human Growth and Development, and Textiles.  After 10 years, the desire for a new challenge developed.  Leslie had been creating, crafting, and quilting her whole life, so opening a quilt shop was a natural fit.  “It’s just like teaching, only we don’t have to grade anyone’s projects.”  Leslie has owned and managed Country Traditions in Fremont, NE for ten years.  She retired from quilting for others a few years ago, but teaches several of the shop’s  long-arm technique classes, passing on her lessons learned and her passion for quilting to others.
www.countrytraditionsonline.com    
leslie@countrytraditionsonline.com
402-721-7752

Angela McLean
Angela is a multi-faceted artist based in Aurora, NE.  She has a history/museum background and is also a pianist/composer.  Her company, Pieceful Dreams, combines her quilt designs and music.  As a quilt designer, she introduced her quilt kit, “Charmalade,” on QVC.  She also appeared on Aileen’s Creative Living and teaches “Kids Collage” through UNL.  She has produced four original music albums and a quilt exhibit DVD.  Her patterns and compositions are an eclectic reflection of her life experiences.  Her husband Robb, their boys Andrew and Nolan, and her manager Linda Hough, are sources of support and inspiration.
www.pieceful-dreams.com 
mclean@hamilton.net
402-694-2984

Kriss Moulds
Kriss Moulds of Seward, NE is an NQA-certified instructor who enjoys doing programs, classes and workshops around the state.  Kriss enjoys quilting of all kinds, but especially loves handwork and working with beginning quilters.  Kriss is a volunteer at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum, where she has also presented a class on Chintz Applique’.  In addition to quilting, Kriss enjoys reading American history and traveling.  She and her husband, a psychology professor, have three grown daughters and two grandchildren.
www.quiltsforlunch.com
kriss.moulds@ymail.com
402-643-3672

Peg Pennell
Peg began quilting in 1974.  In 1981, she joined the Omaha Quilters Guild and began entering her quilts in local shows and fairs.  She has won over 200 ribbons including Best of Show from the Nebraska State Fair, Cottonwood Quilt Guild and the Omaha Quilters Guild, Best in County from Douglas County, NE, an Excellence in Machine Quilting award, and a number of first place ribbons for her original designs.  Peg is now active in two local quilt guilds as well as being a charter member of NSQG.  Peg has made raffle quilts for the Omaha Quilter’s Guild, the Nebraska State Fair and NSQG.  Her work has been published in Quilters Newsletter Magazine, Quiltmaker, and other quilt magazines.  She has had quilts juried into the AQS show in Paducah, KY, the Primedia Gallery in Colorado, and the International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX.  She has self-published a line of her own original designs.  Peg began teaching in 1992 and enjoys many types of quilting, but specializes in machine techniques.  Peg’s classes are always run on a “we’re here for fun while we learn” format. 
www.pegpennell.com
isoqlts@hotmail.com
402-212-8569

Gloria Smith
Gloria has an interest in all forms of needlework.  She was introduced to the world of quilting 30 years ago.  She has worked at several quilt shops in Nebraska, where she taught classes and quilt retreats.  Her quilts have been selected to travel with challenge exhibits.  She is an active member of the Lincoln Quilters Guild.  Gloria operates a home-based long-arm quilting business.  She resides in Lincoln with her two cats, Button and Bobbin. 
402-489-0062

Peg Spradlin
Peg is an award-winning quilter who has been quilting out of her home in rural Cozad, NE on her domestic Bernina sewing machine for close to 20 years.  For most of that time she has been a home sewer for Quiltmaker, Quilters Newsletter, and Quilt It magazines.  She enjoys all aspects of quilting, including piecing and applique’, but her true love is quilting the top after it’s been pieced.  Peg teaches these techniques to classes in NE and AZ, where she spends the winter months.  Peg has had quilts and articles published in Quiltmaker, Quilters Newsletter, Quilt It, and Machine Quilting Unlimited. 
spradlin@cozadtel.net
308-784-4473

Joan Waldman
Joan has been quilting for over 40 years, and teaching others to quilt for over 30 years.  Although semi-retired, she still teaches classes locally and online at Quilt University.  Joan belongs to two guilds, CQC and CPQG. She is also a member of AQS, NQA and NSQG.  Joan says she enjoys trying out all the techniques she didn’t have time for while raising a family.  Joan lives in Platte Center, NE.  Enjoying retirement with her husband, Harold, is now high on her priority list. 
quilterj@frontiernet.net
402-246-3311