Elsie Campbell

Elsie Campbell grew up with a needle in her hand in the small Mennonite community of Deer Creek, Oklahoma. After graduating from Northwestern Oklahoma State University at Alva she taught home economics, music and special education in public schools. She began exhibiting her quilts nationally in 1992 and has won such prestigious awards as: 1st place at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, 1997; Best of Show at Quilt America! in Indianapolis, 2000; the Mary Krickbaum Award for Best Hand Quilting at the National Quilt Association Show, 2001; and the American Quilter’s Society’s Excellence in Hand Workmanship Award, 2003.

Elsie is a freelance writer and editor, writing articles for Quilting Today, Traditional Quiltworks, Miniature Quilts, McCall’s Quilting and Quilter’s Newsletter magazines and wrote chapters for several volumes of Rodale Press’s Successful Quilting Library. Her quilts have appeared in numerous books and she is the author of Nine Patch and Snowball Quilts and Winning Stitches.

John Flynn

Montanan John Flynn is a prize winning quilter, author, designer and inventor of the no-baste machine quilting system and the Flynn Multi-Frame. With many years of experience leading quilt workshops coupled with his engineering background, John brings a unique blend of skills to the classroom. He is always challenging himself to make piecing and quilting techniques faster, easier and more accurate for his students. His lectures are always full of time saving tricks for you to learn.

Katie Pasquini-Masopust

Fiber Artist Katie Pasquini-Masopust has traveled the world teaching contemporary quilt designing. She has changed her style over the years, starting with traditional works, next creating Mandalas followed by dimensional quilts. She then moved onto landscapes, fracturing them and adding transparencies and color washes. Her most recent work is based on her acrylic paintings. She feels as if she has returned full circle to her beginning as a painter. Painting now with fabric, Katie teaches in a relaxed but energizing style, passing her extensive knowledge of design and the art quilt on to her students Katie has authored seven books to date. The most recent is Color and Composition. She has won many awards throughout her career, including the Silver Star Award at the Houston Quilt Festival in 2005 and Best of Show at The Pacific International Quilt Show 1994. Her quilt Rio Hondo was included in the 100 Best Quilts of the 20th Century.