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The Magic of Appliqué a La Carte

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2/11-2/13

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Tues/Wed: 2/12 -2/13

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Thursday: 2/14

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KELLY KOUT		JOANNE PARKS
KATHY McNEIL		KATHY WYLIE

	KELLY KOUT
Email	kellykout@verizon.net
For more information about Kelly and her work you are invited to contact her at her email address.

I've been interested in quilts since I first slept under them as a child in my great aunt’s home in Pennsylvania but did not begin making them until I retired from the United States Navy Nurse Corps in 1992. My first post-retirement “mission” was to sign up to take a Sampler class and I’ve been quilting ever since. I began teaching appliqué and other hand quilting techniques in 2002 and am currently teaching my fourth year long Baltimore Album Program. I was thrilled to be the group leader for the “Affection’s Tribute” quilt included in Elly’s "Beloved Baltimore Album Quilts" and displayed in Houston in 2010. I live in Bowie, Maryland with my husband and two “puppies” who see to think every quilt I make is for them!

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	KATHY McNEIL
Email	walrusdesigns@aol.com
Website	www.kathymcneilquilts.com
For more information about Kathy and her work you are invited to visit her website.

Kathy McNeil is an internationally award winning quilt artist, teacher, judge and designer. Sewing thousands of little scraps of fabric together by hand, she create quilts that look like paintings. Her pictorial and traditional quilts are frequently featured in museums, magazines, calendars and international shows. Many of her quilts are in private collections. www.kathymcneilquilts.com for more information.

Publications

• 500 Art Quilts by Lark Books. 2010

• 2010 New Quilts from Old Favorites, National Quilting Museum book

• Fon’s and Porter Magazine. 2009, 2011

• Machine Quilting- January 2010 Quilting the Pictorial Quilt

• Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine: April 2010 Front to Back Pictorial Quilting, December 2007 Featured artist 2002 December cover Photo, April 2007, May 2004, January 2004, December 2003, Photo Finish 2008

• American Quilter’s Society Engagement Calendar 2005, 2007

• Quilter Magazine Photo finish 2008

• American Quilter: 2007 Spring, 2003 Winter

• Adoption Today, August 2006

• Quilt Life December, 2010

• Storm at Sea New Quilts from Old Favorites: Book AQS 2000


*First Kisses!* Kathy had the amazing good fortune to watch a seal being born while teaching at Asilomar this year. It's one of those, "Oh. God I remember what that felt like" pictures.

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	JOANNE PARKS
Email	gjad@aol.com
For more information about Joanne and her work you are invited to send her an email
About Joanne - I have been teaching appliqué for more than a decade and doing appliqué since 1976. I take a low stress approach and love helping students to approach complicated appliqué from the standpoint of making it approachable and yielding a successful result. I try to come up with several different ways of doing things to give people choices on how to approach challenges. This class will be fun and hopefully people will take from it techniques that will be useful in whatever appliqué they choose to do in the future. Oh, and I believe in the Zen of Appliqué: be at one with your block. If you are fighting it, something is wrong.)

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	KATHY WYLIE
Email	kathy@kathykwylie.com
Website	www.kathykwylie.com
For more information about Kathy and her work you are invited to visit her website.

Kathy started quilting in 1994 and within four years was teaching quilting classes. She began with a small group of ladies in her church group and then started offering workshops at a local quilt shop. She now lectures and teaches all over Canada at guilds, shops and quilt shows and is a Certified Quilt Judge by the Canadian Quilters’ Association.

Kathy began showing her work in 2002 and has received recognition in Canada as well as internationally, including the 2011 Bernina Machine Workmanship Award at the American Quilter’s Society Show in Paducah Kentucky. Her work has been published in magazines, including Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks Special Issue, and in her first book with C&T Publishing, called “Sewflakes: Papercut Appliqué Quilts”. Kathy specializes in appliqué techniques in a “contemporary traditional” style. She has explored her fascination with papercut appliqué and its possibilities for incorporating hidden images. Now she is intrigued with ironwork and is finding new inspiration there for intricate appliqué designs.

As Kathy has developed as an artist, her work has taken on a distinct focus. Using Biblical imagery and spiritual themes, Kathy's quilts are a reflection of her relationship with God and her journey of faith.

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*The Appliqué Academy, The Appliqué Academy llc & Elly’s Appliqué Academy are all registered names of The Elly Sienkiewicz Appliqué Academy^®llc

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