Marlene (Baerg) Oddie

Marlene (Baerg) Oddie is an engineer by education, a financial services systems professional by experience, a project manager by profession, and a quilter by passion. She believes in the KISS method and has incorporated this into her company name. I think Marlene was so wise when she first started quilting on her new longarm. She…

Jo Westfoot

Jo Westfoot is the owner of The Crafty Nomad.  She loves to sew and quilt and generally ‘make stuff’!  She has a passion for free motion quilting and loves to share her skills with other quilters to help them improve their patchwork and to learn the joy of free motion.  Jo has been told that…

Michelle Freedman

How many quilt brains do you have? Michelle Freedman describes her 3 quilt brains during our chat. I found it interesting that even after working all day for Maywood Studio as a quilt designer and a few other responsibilities, she is not ready to stop working on quilts when she goes home. Quilting is also…

Staci Wendland

Staci Wendland has been a maker for as long as she can remember.  If there’s a technique she hasn’t tried, it’s probably on her to-do list. Staci started a blog, Crafty Staci, to share her crafting adventures.  She finds that people who haven’t tried it before are occasionally hesitant to take that first step into…

Nic Vaughan

Nic Vaughan is a quilt pattern designer from Perth, Australia, with a passion for hand piecing and vintage quilt blocks.  She discovered her life’s passion “late’ in life.  That hasn’t kept her from stepping out and putting her designs out there with a good dash of shyness and trepidation but also a dollop of courage! …