Authors: Author List
Gail Garber
Gail began quilting in 1980, little knowing what a major impact on her life her first class would have. Now she lectures and teaches workshops for quilt guilds and shops throughout the United States and abroad. She has written numerous magazine articles in the U.S. as well as Japan, New Zealand, France, and the United Kingdom. When she is not quilting, Gail is working as the executive director of Hawks Aloft, Inc., a New Mexico nonprofit organization that specializes in bird research and environmental education. Gail can often be found in the back country of New Mexico, studying hawks and conducting surveys of small songbirds. Hawks Aloft naturalists, accompanied by non-releasable raptors, visit New Mexico classrooms teaching young people about the importance of preserving the habitat for wildlife. Several of the birds in the program reside in large flight cages behind Gail’s home. Gail feels fortunate to be able to pursue her favorite activities in life, creating quilt designs, working with birds, and exploring the little-known and seldom-seen parts of her home state.
Website: http://www.gailgarberdesigns.com
Books by Gail Garber
Diane Gaudynski
Having slept under her grandmother's hand-quilted scrap quilts when she was a child, author Diane Gaudynski has loved quilts her entire life. However, she didn't learn how to do hand quilting until 1978. Then in 1988, she began machine quilting. A self-taught machine quilter, Diane makes traditional-style, everyday quilts with "Sunday best" quilting. Her style reflects her love of drab "mud" colors and simple elegant design inspired by antique quilts. Living in Waukesha, Wisconsin, with her husband and four cats, she finds the long, cold winters great for serious quiltmaking. An experienced teacher and lecturer, Diane loves to encourage beginners so they too can sleep under beautiful quilts. Diane has had nine quilts juried into the American Quilter's Society show in Paducah, Kentucky. Four of them won the Bernina Award for Machine Workmanship, and they are now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of the American Quilter's Society. She also received the Pfaff Master Award for Machine Artistry in 2001. She has written several magazine articles and has appeared on the PBS documentary "America Quilts" and "Quilt Central." In 2002, Diane's work was included in an international exhibit in Tokyo, Japan, called Thirty Distinguilshed Quilt Artists of the World. Her quilt THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY: AN AMERICAN MEMORY was judged a Masterpiece Quilt by NQA in 2002.
Website: http://www.dianegaudynski.net
Books by Diane Gaudynski
Karen Gibbs
Karen Gibbs is the owner/designer of The Quilt Studio, a multi-faceted design studio in Ballston Lake, New York, which includes a longarm quilting and design service and a pattern design division. Karen has a background in textile design, previously working in the River Art division of Eagle's Eye, a clothing manufacturer in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. Eagle's Eye was mainly known for their sweaters depicting holiday scenes with coordinating turtlenecks. Each sweater was graphed out, with designs broken down into little rectangles, each rectangle representing a stitch. During this time, Karen began teaching herself quilting, learning quickly what a rotary cutter was. Combining quilting with endless rectangles brought her to bargello. Karen’s family is a continual source of inspiration, looking at the world through her children's eyes. She is an active member of Wings Falls Quilters Guild, which according to her husband meets for the entire day on the second Saturday of every month!
Website: http://www.thequiltstudio.com
Books by Karen Gibbs
Linda S. Glantz
Linda Glantz has enjoyed quilting since 1977. Her involvement is universal. She is the founder of the International Sister Guild Partnership Program connecting quilt guilds throughout the world, coordinates a three-chapter guild called Country Neighbors, and co-chairs the Western New York Quilt Conference. Linda resides in Holley, New York, with her husband, Eric, and their two children. The entire family participates in her quilting business, Apple Country Quilt Shop, located just west of Rochester in Upper New York State.
Books by Linda S. Glantz
Daphne Greig
Daphne Greig began quilting in 1984 when she enrolled in a beginner class at the local shop. She jumped in with both feet to cover all the beds and many walls with quilts and now refers to her life before this time as "BQ"–Before Quilting. Daphne has had several careers including secretary, financial coordinator, and data analyst, but her career as a quilt designer, teacher, and author is the most fun and rewarding. She is an enthusiastic and patient teacher, encouraging her students to try new techniques and expand their repertoire of skills. Together with Susan Purney Mark, she has developed a successful pattern company–Patchworks Studio. They have designed, published, and marketed over 50 quilt patterns and coauthored two books published by AQS. Daphne regularly writes articles for several quilting magazines and teaches internatinally and online at Quilt University. Her work has been exhibited in Canada and the United States. Daphne lives with her husband, Alan, in North Saanich, a rural community near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Website: http://www.patchworkstudio.com
Books by Daphne Greig
Karen Griska
Karen Griska is a passionate and prolific quilt artist who made her first quilt at age 13, a charming one-patch. A self-taught quilter, she has now made over 200 quilts, all original designs. Her favorite part of the quiltmaking process is creating the design. Karen does not usually sketch a plan in advance, but prefers to develop the design as she works. The thrill of discovery fuels her passion for quilting. Karen created the Oregon Trail Quilt Challenge in which quilters make a small quilt using only a given bundle of fabrics and no pattern. “What,” she asks, “would you make if you were out on the Oregon Trail and could use only the materials you had on hand and the ideas in your head?” Karen gives lectures and workshop on Creativity in Quilting, Improvisational Sampler Quilts, and Dynamic String Quilts and teaches a variety of inventive classes utilizing selvages. You can read more about Karen at www.RealWomenQuilt.com in the Featured Quilter-Archives section. Karen and her husband currently reside in White Plains, New York.
Website: http://www.selvagequilts.com
Books by Karen Griska