Judy Allen and her twin sister Joanne Flood - New York State and New Jersey - of http://www.judyallenfeathers.com/ . Their specialty is how to digitize the beautiful "Judy Allen Feather style". Judy is the author of the book "The Art of Creating Feathers". Please visit their website and contact them for training schedules / private classes and workshops.
Michele Hawley - Glenfield, NSW Australia - of http://www.michelehawleyquilting.com/
Michele wrote the addendum in the Art and Stitch User Guide about patterns inspired by Stained Glass windows and the use of the Magic Square. Please visit her website and contact Michele for training schedules / private classes and workshops.
Our Certified Teachers:
Julie Crossland - Hudson, New Hampshire - at http://www.juliecrossland.com
Julie is gifted in many aspects of quilting and uses Art and Stitch to create pieced quilt blocks. Her half square triangle patterns are used in many settings and blocks. She continues to explore new patterns and plans to offer them through her website. Visit her website and contact her for classes or training.
Janiece Cline - Kansas City, KS
Janiece shows in her "Back to the Basics Addendum" that anything can be an inspiration to create continuous line quilt patterns with Art and Stitch: Photos of buildings, flowers, signs in a shopping mall, parts of fabrics - anything. Just trace and play.
Susan Smith - Bainbridge Island, WA
Susan shows various ways to make applique patterns in Art and Stitch. Want to learn how to do raw edge applique or even turned edge applique on your longarm? Susan walks you through the techniques in Art and Stitch step-by-step, showing how to use motifs instead of a blanket stitch to finish the applique edges.
Susan is a Certified Teacher for Statler's Creative Studio as well. If you're interested in classes / workshops on Art and Stitch, Statler Creative Studio or PVM, visit her website
Janiece lives in the Kansas City area, frequents Colorado, Nevada, Texas and Florida and is more than happy to travel elsewhere to teach Art and Stitch techniques.
Please contact her at: janiece.cline@gmail.com if you are interested in setting up training classes in your area.
Linda Matteotti - Tempe, Arizona
Linda lets you play with TrueType Fonts and Dingbat Fonts in Art and Stitch. She shows how to create continuous text designs and how to turn Dingbats into quilt patterns. Linda has also digitized a very nice and useful font that can be opened from the Library.
Linda is a Handi Quilter educator. For class information please visit her website:
Mary Beth Krapil - Orlando, FL
Mary Beth's Specialty is creating borders and matching corners in Art and Stitch.
She explores the various types of borders and shows different ways to create matching corners.
Mary Beth is a Handi Quilter educator. For more information please visit her website www.redbearquilts.com.
Are you interested in becoming a Certified Teacher for Art and Stitch? Please scroll down to the bottom of this page for information how to apply.
Krys Swirydczuk - Mesilla, New Mexico
Specialty technique: digitizing dimensional designs (Trapunto) in Art and Stitch.
Krys' love of quilting and her long standing familiarity with digitization provide a unique background that allows her to take the quilting software to its limits. As a certified Art and Stitch teacher she hopes to help students learn the basics, and feel comfortable enough and excited enough to step beyond those basics to embrace the depth and great functionality of the Art and Stitch software.
For more information about her classes, please visit her website
Leona McCann - Menlo Park, CA
Specialty technique: digitizing Celtic Knots in Art and Stitch.
About a year ago Leona fell in love with Art and Stitch. She found a perfect way to learn the software by starting a blog promising to show a new design every day. Everyone could see how quickly the designs got better and better. Inspired by her Irish roots, she started working on a method to digitize Celtic Knots. It took many late hours, sleepless nights, but she did it! She found a method to create knots as in this example as one continuous path, perfect for longarm quilting.
For more information about her classes, please visit her website
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Certified Teachers Program
Art and Stitch - Certified Teachers Program
We invite teachers to apply for the Certified Teachers Program for Art and Stitch:
Owners of Art and Stitch who have teaching skills, experience in teaching digitizing or longarm quilting and who are willing to spend 4 weeks on an online training we offer free of charge are welcome to apply. As Art and Stitch is a "top of the line" product, we want our teachers to provide high quality classes to their students.
We encourage every teacher to develop his/her own "specialty", a special technique or way to use Art and Stitch. Goal of this Specialty is that a variety of classes can be offered for Art and Stitch at quilt shows, so that multiple teachers won't be each other's competition.
Download the PDF document for more information about our Certified Teachers Program.
Looking forward to your application.
Loes and Theo van der Heijden
Artistitch v.o.f., Netherlands
Lynne Blackman - of Blackman Quilt Studio, located just east of Philadelphia in Mount Laurel New Jersey is a professional machine quilter and Certified Creative Studio Instructor.
Specialty Technique: Art and Stitch - Enhancing Creative Studio.
Lynne is Certified trainer for Gammill - Statler Creative Studio. She teaches how to get the best out of the two wonderful worlds: Art and Stitch and Statler´s Creative Studio. Her addendum to the User Guide describes tips and tricks to let the two programs become your best friends. The addendum will be added in the next available update of Art and Stitch.
Anne Hurlburt - of Scandia, Minnesota (located on the outskirts of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area) creates and sells quilting and piecing designs through her website, http://www.scandiaquiltstudio.com
Her Specialty Technique is Applique Design Beyond the Basics. Her addendum (to be added to the next available update of Art and Stitch) describes how to draw all pieces of the antique Ohio Rose quilt pattern and turn those into applique in Art and Stitch, plus various tips how to add background quilting and how to stitch it all.
Anne is available to teach Art and Stitch classes in Minnesota and the surrounding states.
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