Look Who’s Coming to Cambridge
Amanda Evans
New Zealand
Amanda’s designs have a strong graphic element, combining many traditional techniques to create modern quilts anyone would love to create or own.
Amanda Murphy
United States
Amanda is an international teacher, pattern designer, and fabric designer for Contempo of Benartex.
Annie Unrein
United States
With a focus on practical and useful projects, Annie's patterns appeal to sewists of all ages and levels and serve as a great base for classes.
Bethanne Nemesh
United States
Bethanne has a passion for teaching others to love the art of free motion machine quilting.
Catherine Mcdonald
New Zealand
Catherine loves colour and fabric, and creates her own hand dyed and hand treated fabrics.
Charlotte Scott
New Zealand
I am deeply inspired by the unique culture, flora, and fauna of Aotearoa and by trying to capture its distinctive colours.
Cherie Gurney
New Zealand
Cherie likes to explore and push boundaries with her own designs using fabric, thread, dye and paint.
Chris Jurd
Australia
Chris’s work encompasses all styles with an emphasis on a strong colour palette and foundation piecing.
Clare Smith
New Zealand
Clare Smith is a textile artist and costume maker based in Wellington.
David Owen Hastings
United States
David is a modern quilter, graphic designer, print and textile artist. He creates richly layered contemporary artwork and modern minimal quilt and textile designs.
Debby Williams
New Zealand
Debby has been honoured with many national level quilt awards for her unique designs and meticulous attention to detail.
Deborah Boschert
United States
Deborah Boschert is an artist, author and teacher. She creates art quilts with layers of fabric, paint and stitching.
Deborah Louie
Australia
Deborah makes unique quilts with the emphasis on colour, quilting texture and decorative stitch applique.
Dianne Barnden
New Zealand
Dianne loves to teach and has a love of Kaffe Fassett fabrics. Recently she’s been experimenting with scrap quilts.
Dianne Southey
New Zealand
Dianne has created a series of forty Strip Club patterns using 2.5” fabric strips and designed and created many other quilt patterns and designs.
Donna Ward
New Zealand
Donna's passion is working with contemporary fabrics, combining precision piecing and appliqué with detailed machine quilting.
Helen Stubbings
Australia
Helen has inspired countless students to explore their creative potential, embracing both traditional and contemporary approaches.
Irene Blanck
Australia
Irene enjoys teaching all aspects of needle-turn applique. She is now expanding into prepared edge applique using Polyfuse or wash-away paper.
Jemima Flendt
Australia
Jemima specialises in modern, fun designs that pack a punch.
Jo Hollings
New Zealand
Jo is fuelled by the passionate love of textiles, threads and drawing.
Her mantra is ‘If it can be drawn, it can be stitched’.
Lois Parish Evans
New Zealand
Lois uses many techniques including raw edge applique, stencilling, stamping, hand colouring and painting, thread painting, and free motion quilting.
Lorena Uriarte
Australia
Lorena is known for her original designs, bold use of colour and clever hand and machine sewing techniques.
Lorna Tomes
New Zealand
Lorna has a lifetime's experience of exploring fabric painting and free motion quilting, and exploring many ways of colouring and decorating fabric.
Luke Haynes
USA
My background is architecture and fine art, so my quilting is informed by the design community and the histories of painting and sculpture.
Mary Jane Sneyd
New Zealand
Mary Jane creates realistic collaged textile works, specialising in nudes, people and portraits.
Merrilyn George
New Zealand
Merrilyn George is an award-winning, contemporary artist. Her work is influenced by events in history, Maori art and the rich mountain environment in which she lives.
Nicholas Ball
United Kingdom
With a passion for improv quilting, Nicholas' aesthetic is an organic one, preferring to sew without the use of patterns or templates
Rachel Rattan
New Zealand
Rachel has a fine arts background which has helped her to embrace Nancy Crow’s philosophy of no rulers and to go wild with the rotary cutter.
Rachelle Denneny
Australia
Rachelle loves the challenge of creating a quilt and since entering her first competition in 2005 has won over eighty awards both nationally and internationally.
Robyn Burgess
New Zealand
Robyn specialises in hand applique, all things Japanese and now slow stitching. She has taught all levels of quilters, from beginners to experienced.
Sheila Christensen
New Zealand
Sheila has won awards for her quilts including Shooting Stars, Shifting Strata and Purple Haze.
Shirley Sparks
New Zealand
A love of fabrics and thread led Shirley to careers in both the fashion industry and as a textile teacher at intermediate and secondary levels.
Sonya Prchal
New Zealand
Creating art quilts capturing New Zealand's beautiful animals and scenery has been my passion since moving to Northland 19 years ago.
Sue Roper
New Zealand
Sue has gleaned her knowledge from many others. She’s not afraid to experiment and take risks. A ‘mistake’ is just a lesson.
SusanClaire Mayfield
New Zealand
Susan’s innovative and creative quilting techniques have inspired countless quilters.
Suzanne Howie
Australia
Suzanne is a textile artist involved in the design, teaching and sharing of the Japanese technique of sashiko and boro.
Veruschka Zarate
United States
Veruschka has a deep love for modern, vibrant and inspirational foundation paper pieced quilts.
Wendy Williams
Australia
Her work is happy, colourful and achievable for makers at any level of experience.
