Educators and Courses
Our Educator Program is designed to accomplish two very important goals. First to introduce your customers to the wonderful world of YLI decorative threads and ribbons and next, but most important, to increase your sales and profit. All our educators are nationally known and recognized experts in their fields. Each has been published and enjoys an outstanding reputation for their technique and creativity. Our classes are hands-on workshops designed to teach your customers the skills required to successfully use YLI products in all their projects.
Laura has been machine quilting for more than twelve years. Her sense of color and design is rivaled only by her quilting technique. She has won the prestigious Bernina Award for Machine Quilting, as well as a purchase award from the American Quilting Society in Paducah. She has also been published by Rodale Books and has a line of quilting patterns published by YLI.
Cost: $400 per day, plus expenses - 2 - 3 hour workshops
Since teaching herself to quilt in 1971, Cathy has distinguished herself as a teacher, lecturer, and quilt show judge. She has been published in virtually every quilting publication and has written books on quilting and silk ribbon embroidery published by the American Quilting Society.
Cost: $400 per day, plus expenses - 2 - 3 hour workshops
Susan spent ten years of her life as a floral designer which explains her flair for creating silk ribbon flowers on the machine. She has been teaching the art of Silk Ribbon Embroidery by machine for the past three years. She has taught for Bernina, Pfaff at Martha Pullen and now for YLI.
Cost: $300 per day, plus expenses - 2 - 3 hour workshops
Merry is an award winning quilter and silk ribbon artist. Her work has been published in several books including Quick Sew Fleece by Martingale and Co. and Embellishing With Silk Ribbon by Esther Randall. The Detroit Historical Museum has, and continues to display her beautiful works. Her expertise covers a wide array of needle art including Silk Ribbon, Crazy Quilting, Applique and Pieced Quilts.
Cost: $350 per day, plus expenses - 2 - 3 hour workshops
There are rare artists synonymous with their craft - Esther Randall is one of those. For many years, Esther has made silk ribbon embroidery a focus of her creativity. Her work has been featured worldwide and her two books have been runaway best sellers. Esther has taught virtually thousands of stitchers all over the world. In fact, much of the popularity silk ribbon enjoys today can be contributed to Esther and her work.
Cost: $400 per day, plus expenses - 1 - 6 hour workshop or 2 - 3 hour workshops
Bonnie's list of awards and recognitions are much too lengthy to list here. She has taught throughout the US and her work is part of some of the most prized private collections in America. Her Kaleidoscope Quilts and her use of embellishing and applique have been widely recognized. Her quilts have been seen in such publications as American Quilters Society Magazine, Quilting International and Quilters Newsletter.
Website: http://home.ptd.net/~bmccaffe
Email: bmccaffe@prolog.net
Cost: Lecture $300, plus expenses - Workshop (4 - 6 hours) $500 per day, plus expenses
Teacher, Designer, and Artist, Debbie brings a sense of style and drama to her work that is unequaled. Through her love for crazy patchwork and embroidery, combined with her technique and knowledge of clothing design, Debbie brings new meaning to the term Wearable Art. Her book Crazy Rags, published by That Patchwork Place, is in its second printing.
Website: http://www.deborahbrunner.com
Email: deborah@deborahbrunner.com
Cost: $360 per day, plus expenses - 1 - 6 hour workshop or 2 - 3 hour workshops
April has been a freelance sewing educator for over ten years. She has been a contributing designer for Sew and Serge Terrific Texture and A Creative Needle Christmas books. She writes a bi-monthly column in Creative Needle titled Marketplace and her new book Deco Serging from Dragon Threads, is a resounding success. She has instructed at Martha PullenŐs School of Art Fashion, The Rocky Mountain Sewing Festival, as well as numerous dealers and guilds. Although best known for her work on the serger, April is also an accomplished heirloom sewer and educator.
Cost: $300 per day, plus expenses - 2 - 3 hour workshops
Designer Linda McGehee has a diverse sewing background with 40 years experience from making garments to handbags, piecing to heirloom, surface manipulation to combining a variety of methods into a sampler of various techniques. Linda has traveled the globe demonstrating and lecturing from her books. Her audiences include trade and machine conventions, consumer shows, guilds, shops and television. She also produces Ghee's Sewing Escapes several times a year. Linda has designed and created garments for the prestigious Fairfield Fashion Show, Statements, Capitol Imports, and Better Homes & Gardens. These garments are works of art combining many of the techniques from her books. On My Way to the Mardi Gras, from the Fairfield 1996-1997 Show graced the front cover of Craft & Needlework Age Magazine, October, 1996.