February 2011  -  As contracts come in, we are please to announce some of the wonderful teachers that will be part of the MQX Educational Experience.  Just like MQX East, MQX West will host the best of the machine quilting industry including Sharon Schamber, Linda Taylor, Sue Patten, Karen McTavish, Deloa Jones, Kim Brunner and more than 30 more teachers to choose from.  Over 100 classes will be offered.

In addition, MQX is proud to announce these new instructors to MQX.  

Gail Garber

Bold, colorful, and stunning geometric designs with flying geese galore – that’s how you know you’re looking at one of Gail’s quilts! Her style has become immediately recognizable because of her talent for combing vivid colors with intricate piecework. Her geometric star quilts and pictorial quilts have won awards at shows throughout the U.S. and have been featured in publications worldwide. Students love her ability to make these designs achievable even for novice quilt designers. Visit her website.

Bonnie McCaffery   

Bonnie McCaffery has been quilting for almost 30 years with her quilts exhibited across the country and appearing in a myriad of print publications. She has appeared twice on Simply Quilts and has written 3 books – “Fantasy Fabrics”, “Fantasy Floral Quilts”, and “Portrait Quilts.”  Bonnie specializes in kaleidoscope quilts, free form applique quilts, dimensional quilts, layered quilts, Fantasy Fabric, Fantasy Floral quilts, Painted Faces and her newest venture – DoodleZenDotZ. Visit her website.
 

                    
Claudia Pfeil  

Claudia started her career in teaching patchwork and quilting after her first son was born in 1992. As longarm quilter she purchased APQS Millennium in 2005 to play with different textures, structures and motives like feathers and leaves. Completely addicted to the world of patchwork and quilting, Claudia has won numerous European and international awards. She studied Design of Textiles at the local university and worked in an atelier drawing designs for interior textiles for several years. Claudia also runs the APQS Showroom and Training Center in Krefeld, Germany. Visit her Website

Norma Riehm

Norma has dabbled in a lot of crafts and sewing arts for 35 years. She is a longarm quilter that has discovered a love for making art quilts developing her own method of fiber layering, quilting, and embellishing to create stunning pieces of art. Norma has won awards at national quilt shows and is currently teaching advanced longarm machine quilting and fiber layering on domestic machines. She also travels to give trunk shows for guilds and sewing groups.

  David Taylor

David Taylor was born in Peterborough, New Hampshire, in 1963. As a Navy brat, he was relocated a few times up and down the East Coast of the U.S. along with his three sisters and two brothers. David completed his high school and college years in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. He  currently lives in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

David's first quilt design was in 1999, a fundraiser quilt collaboration for Strings Music Festival in Steamboat with friend and professional long-arm quilter Madeleine Vail of Clark, CO. Madeleine encouraged him to keep after it. Following a visit to Houston in 2001 for the International Quilt Festival, David's obsession with fabric turned into an obsession for quilting as art.

Now, a decade into his quilting journey, he has exhibited his work internationally and teaches at numerous venues throughout the year.

David Taylor has been the recipient of the Fairfield Master Award for Contemporary Quilting from the International Quilt Association (2006), the Brother Wall Machine Workmanship Award from the American Quilters Society (Paducah, 2008), and a two-time Best of Show winner at the IQA's Spring Festival in Chicago (2007, 2008).

For more information, visit www.davidtaylorquilts.com.

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