Jess Cottrell

Jess Cottrell is creating a whimsical world with hand quilting. Her goal is to pass on the knowledge and love of hand quilting through her quilt patterns and the Modern Hand Quilting Collective. Although we didn’t talk about it in the interview, we as quilters know that the amount of orphan blocks laying around is…

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Claudia Porter

Claudia Porter is a self-taught quilter who has been quilting for over 30 years. She has been writing online tutorials and creating YouTube videos for about 10 years. Then 4 years ago she decided to make her passion for quilting and fabric crafts a full-time job and started Create with Claudia. In addition to all…

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Pola Quilting – Malgorzata Banjo

Meg of Pola Quilting had the idea and mission to teach others how to create beautiful things using fabrics which would otherwise be discarded. And so she began her Pola Quilting YouTube channel with easy to follow tutorials without rules and stress.  Now, she is ready to spread the love of upcycling by selling unique…

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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…

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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…

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