PREVIOUS SPEAKERS

 May 16, 2023
Jenny Lyon
​Jenny is a fiber artist, author and teacher from northern California. Her work focuses on free motion quilting on whole cloth and her work has juried into a variety of shows and galleries. Jenny teaches and lecture s on free motion quilting across the country. She loves to inspire her students to find joy and confidence in free motion quilting their own quilts!​ quiltskipper.com

April 18, 2023
Kitty Oliver
Have you ever wondered: what the judge is looking for, why your favorite quilt didn’t win a ribbon, how you can improve so your work starts winning?

Tammy Silvers
Auriphilosophy
February 2023: Tammy shared projects and photos aimed to inspire and expand the use of Aurifil threads. She lives in Acworth, Georgia, and has been quilting since 1991. She has a background in art and literature. Tammy’s quilt designs are regularly published in quilt magazines and she designs project to showcase several fabric lines, including Northcott, Free Spirit, Maywood, Dear Stella and Timeless Treasures. She also designs fabric for Island Batik and has an Aurifil thread line that coordinates with her Island Batik line. https://www.tamarinis.com/

Marjan Kluepfel
"Evolution of an Art Quilter / Quilted Fabric Workshop"
January 16, 2023: Marjan spoke about her quilting journey beginning in home country, the Netherlands. She presented her nontraditional approach to quilting, where her ideas and inspiration come from, how her work has evolved over the years, and why she does what she does. 

Workshop: Sculptured Flowers

Arlene Arnold
"From Kentucky to California by Wagon Train"

​October 18, 2022: Arlene came to the world of quilting in 1975 during the Great Quilt Revival for our nation’s Bicentennial.  With her degree in art, Arlene entered the fabric world with enthusiasm. Using a 1”x2” picture of a Log Cabin quilt she saw in Better Homes and Gardens magazine, she drafted the pattern and being a novice and not knowing what she was doing, she made enough 12” blocks using 1” strips to cover two king size beds!  Since that time she has gone to win Best of Show and many blue ribbons for her work.

​Today, Arlene’s focus in quilting runs in the area of Pre-Civil War quilts to those from the Depression.  She has quite a collection of antique and vintage quilts that she uses to lecture on and share with other quilters.  Arlene also makes her own patterns using these quilts for inspiration.  And yes, she still uses graph paper and a pencil!Arlene belongs to two quilt guilds, several on line quilt study groups and three California area groups, SCCQG, NCQC and Quilt Guilds of the North Quarter.  When not playing in the quilting world Arlene can be found on her tractor farming 20 acres of walnuts and raising her beloved English Springer Spaniels on her ranch in Colusa, CA.

Arlene Arnold

Pat Fryer "Villa Rosa"
September 20, 2022: Pat’s retirement from the quilting business has been impossible for her to achieve. Not long after closing up shop and moving to a beautiful hillside in Northern California, which she calls Villa Rosa, she came up with the idea for quilt patterns on a card. Now, besides publishing patterns, running an online shop and doing shows, she also has a retail store in an industrial area of Grass Valley. Her staff includes local talent, and family members and designers from across the country. Pat has been sewing since the age of ten and got her degree in Textiles from UCDavis. She has owned quilt shops for over 30 years. Pat taught quilting at her shops and the local college
Villa Rosa patterns by their nature are simple and easy to finish. They are fun to make and the projects get done—great for giveaways and donation quilts. “Fun and done” is Pat’s motto.​

Patricia Belyea
"The Alluring World of Japanese Yukata Quilts"
September 21, 2021: Join Patricia Belyea took us on a virtual tour of the Tokyo Quilt Festival. Then we got swept away to a chusen-dyeing workshop with elaborate hand-dyeing process. Patricia finished with a trunk show of her quilts made with Japanese cottons and talks about how the fabrics inspired her quilt compositions. Bio: A creative quilt maker, speaker and teacher, Patricia co-owns Okan Arts wit her daughter Victoria. The small family business imports vintage Japanese textiles for adventuresome quilters. Patricia is the author of East-Meets-West Quilts, a book about making improv quilts with Japanese fabrics. 

January 2021
​Lyric Kinard Workshop
Check out these projects submitted by workshop participants.

Susy Nash

Sara Goer

Lauretta Crites

Katie Pasquini Masopust

Lisa McKissick

Carol Ziogas, Sashiko

Jennifer Rapacki

Laurel Anderson

Colleen Pelfrey

Linda Ballard

Christine Barnes

Sujata Shah

Laurel Anderson
Rob Appell
Linda Ballard
Christine Barnes
Mel Beach
Patricia Belyea
Annamaria Brenti
Karen Boutte
Mary Boyer
Tracey Brookshier
Kim Brownell
Melinda Bula
Caryl Bryer Fallert
Dora Cary
Trudy Cleveland
Sally Collins
Sheila Collins
Lauretta Crites
Joe Cunningham
Ellen Anne Eddy — www.ellenanneeddy.com
Rosemary Eichorn 
Heidi Emmett  — designsbyheidi.wordpress.com/
Karen Flamme   —   www.karenflamme.com
Carrie Fondi  —   www.alohaquiltdesigns.com
Sara Goer — http://sarahgoerquilts.com
Becky Goldsmith   —   www.pieceocake.com
Donna Greenwald  —  www.donnagreenwald.com
Cara Gulati  —  www.doodlepress.com
Jane Haworth  —   www.janehaworth.com
Harriet Hargrave
Julie Hirota
Cathy Hoover  —  cathiehooverstudios.com
Connie Horne
Rita Hutchens  —  www.ritahutchens.com
Rami Kim  —  www.ramikim.com
Marjan Kluepfel
Jan Krentz — www.jankrentz.com
​Vicki Johnson
Marjorie Johnson
Lynn Koolish
Esther Latino
Don Linn, Mr. Quilt
Beth Lonnquist
Debbie Maddy — www.calicocarriage.com
Material Girlfriends — www.materialgirlfriends.com
Nancy McDonald
Ruth McDowell  —  www.ruthbmcdowell.com
Merrill-Lee Designs
Lyn Mann  ––   www.quiltsbylyn.com
Peggy Martin — www.peggymartinquilts.com
Katie Pasquini Masopust  –– www.katiepm.com
Lisa McKissick  –– ​ cosmoquilts.com
Sandra Mollon  ––  www.sandramollonquilts.com
Julia McLeod — ​ https://silkandsalvage.com
Mike McNamara — www.macquilts.com
Cindy Meyers
​Kitty Oliver
Denise Oyama Miller: http://deniseoyamamiller.com
Susy Nash
Cindy Needham — www.cindyneedham.com
Collen Pelfrey — www.collenpelfreyquilts.com
Judy Coates Perez  ––  www.judycoatesperez.com
Kitty Pippen
Slyvia Pippen — www.sylvia-pippen.com
Pixeladies
Jennifer Rapacki
Jennie Rayment ––  www.jennierayment.com
Fern Royce ––  www.fernroycequilting.com
Linda Schmidt
Jill Schumacher
Sujata Shah –– therootconnection.blogspot.com​
Ann Shaw
Tammy Silvers
Louisa Smith
Diane Steele
Heidi Steger
Susan Sprague
April Sproule — sproulestudios.com
Donna Thomas — www.donnalynnthomasquilter.com
Lisa Thorpe — ​lisathorpe.com
Sandy Turner — www.sandyturner.com
Carol Ziogas — theardentthread.com
Meri Henriques Vahl — meriartquilts.com/meri-henriques-vahl/
Laura Wasilowski — artfabrik.com
​Sarah Whiteford
Claire Witherspoon — clairewitherspoon.wordpress.com/
Lynn Wilder — sewnwildoaks.blogspot.com
Martha Wolfe