Quilting Designers & Teachers

Looking for tips about the top quilting gurus and teachers?  This section of the site is dedicated to letting you know who's at the top of the quilting heap!

Jenny Beyer is one of the most well-known quilt designers in the world. Her gorgeous designs have been catching attention and imagination since her first design won Good Housekeeping's "Great American Quilt Contest" in 1972. In addition to designing beautiful quilts, Ms. Beyer works with RJR Fashion Fabrics to design a number of fabrics created especially for quilting. Ms. Beyer has written a number of books that feature her designs and also stars in several educational videos.

Eileen Sullivan has over the past 20 years of quilting experience under her belt and regularly instructs others interested quilters in the topic of the fine art of this wonderful craft. In addition to teaching, Ms. Sullivan has created many different quilt patterns and has developed an exclusive technique for quilting. This revolutionary technique does not utilize templates Instead, the exclusive "sew and flip" method uses freezer paper as a foundation and the pattern into sections.

Elly Sienkiewicz is regarded as the leading expert on applique. This title is well based, since Ms. Sienkiewicz has been quilting for many years and has authored 17 books on the topics of quilting and appliqué. Ms. Sienkiewicz is currently working on two new publications to be finished by 2005 and 2006, both on the topic of applique. In additional to being an author, Ms. Sienkiewicz is owner and teacher of the Elly Sienkiewicz Applique Academy.