Authors

Cheryl A Adam

Trained in architectural engineering, Cheryl started quilting as a hobby in 1982. She turned to quilting as a profession in 1990. Since then she has designed and made quilts for fabric companies and quilting magazines. She enjoys designing quilts and drafting the patterns, which she finds easy because of her educational training. For the past six years, she has taught classes in local quilt shops and guilds. Published works include: "Off Center Patchwork."

Betty Alderman

Betty Alderman has been designing patterns for quilts since 1992. With a background in fine arts and a lifelong love of sewing, quilt designing seems to suit her perfectly. She markets her patterns under the name Betty Alderman Designs. In addition to teaching at guilds around the country, Betty is a quilt collector. She enjoys speaking about her antique quilts, imparting interseting facts and stories about her collection. When she is not busy with her quilt design business or traveling to a teaching engagement, Betty is at home with her husband, Fred. While they will testify that the New York summers are delightful, Betty and Fred try to enjoy a little sunshine during the winter months by traveling south in their motor home.

Judy Allen

Familiar with every feature of the quilted feather, Judy Allen focuses a great deal of her workshop instruction on this popular motif. A longarm quilter, trainer, pattern designer, and author, her quilting experience is as multifaceted as the feather design itself. Before quilting, Judy was a china painter. She incorporated her painting skills, such as curved crosshatching, into quilting. Judy's Quick Quilting, her longarm business, has been in operation since 1990. She hosts five-day training workshops, in her home, on the fundamentals of the feather design, basic to advanced machine skills for planned or freestyle quilting, as well as teaching how to create your own designs. She also travels nationally teaching her feather drawing techniques.

Marta Amundson

Marta Amundson is a wildlife advocate and professional quiltmaker who exhibits throughout the United States and abroad. She writes articles on quilting for books and magazines in the U.S., Sweden, Australia, and Britian. Known as the "Quilting Cowgirl," she teaches innovative machine quilting techniques around the world. She was chosen in 1995 and 2002 to receive a Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship and won the grand prize in the 2001 American Folk Art Museum International Competition. The author earned a bachelor of arts degress in visual art and art history from Albion College in Michigan and has an associate degree in science from Central Wyoming College. She is a passionate fly-fisherwoman, as well as an avid skier.

Faye Anderson

After completing her BFA in advertising design at the University of Denver, Faye Anderson worked in public relations, owned and operated fabric and clothing stores, and was art director for a ski-country publication. She discovered the excitement and pleasure of quilting in 1980 and soon began designing quilts and quilted clothing. Her work has won numerous awards, including the American Quilter's Society "Best of Show" award in 1986 for SPRING WINDS and the First-Place Award in Professional Applique in 1988 for MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME TO SEW. Faye current teaches quilt and clothing design and hand applique throughout the US, and travels world-wide to study textiles and folk art.

Frieda Anderson

Frieda Anderson is a quilt artist, teacher, lecturer and author. She has been making quilts for over 30 years. She has a bachelor of science degree in art history with a minor in ceramics and an associates degree in fashion design. Frieda travels frequently to lecture and conduct workshops for quilt groups throughout the United States, and she has had articles in numerous magazines. Frieda is one of the founding members of PAQS, Professional Art Quilt Alliance, a networking group that meets in the Chicago area once a month. Since early childhood she has been making art. She says, "My parents always encouraged me in all my artistic directions. My inspiration comes from the world around me. As an artist, I try to reflect what is important in my life, my environment, and my family. Much of what I am making is the direct result of my daily walks in the woods with my dog, George."

Lois E Arnold

As a third generation quiltmaker, Lois Arnold has lived with quilts all her life. A "country girl" at heart, Lois loves to be surrounded by antiques and traditional quilts, but she makes both traditional and innovative quilts. She enjoys using a variety of techniques and sets up challenges for herself on each project. Her passion for the pursuit of perfection in patchwork has earned her the title of "Princess of Perfection" among her quiltmaking friends. Lois began teaching quiltmaking in 1980 when friends asked her to teach them to quilt. Since that first class, she has taught in a variety of shops and class settings. Her greatest thrill is to see what she calls "the great aha" as students catch on. Lois resides in Chandler, Arizona, with her husband, Gary. In addition to quilting, she enjoys reading mysteries, entertaining, looking for great antiques and trying to keep flowers alive in the desert sun.

Bobbie Aug

Bobbie Aug became involved with AQS in Paducah, Kentucky, at the 1989 American Quilter's Society Show. She was in the first group tested and certified as quilt appraisers by AQS. Bobbie serves as a member of the AQS Appraiser Certification Program Committee. She learned to sew on treadle sewing machines in Illinois. Bobbie Aug was inspired by the quiet, dignified beauty of nineteenth-century quilts and began making quilts 30 years ago. She became a quilt dealer, quilt collector, quilt shop owner, and quilt show consultant and producer, focusing on anything related to quilts and quiltmaking. Bobbie lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with her husband, Norm. Their family includes son Tony, daughter Carrie, Brittany spaniels Angel and Sandie, and a nasty cat named Phannie. Published works include: "Vertical Quilts with Style" and "Charm Quilts with Style."

Mimi Ayars

A native of Delaware, Mimi Ayars, Ph.D., calls herself a "hardy Texas transplant." She caught the spirit of quilting in the 1976 revival while living in the Chicago area, once belonging to five guilds concurrently. Her first quilt, STARS AND STRIPES, was selected for a show of bicentennial quilts at the Museum of the American Quilter's Society in 1991. Dr. Ayars has taught sociology at nine universities in six states. She retired in 1991 to pursue two hobbies: writing and quilting. Her articles on quiltmaking have been published in the "National Quilting Association's Quilting Quarterly" (formerly "Patchwork Patter"), and "Quilt World." Published works include: "Jacobean Applique: Book I, Exotica" and "Jacobean Applique: Book II, Romantica."

Annette Baker

For the past 20 years, Annette Baker (along with Klaudeen Hansen) has visited quilt shows across the country to find the up and coming stars of quilting to be featured in the AQS Quilt Art Engagement Calendars.