Cincinnati
The Original Creative Festival June 23-25, 2011

Pam Damour, The Decorating Diva
Known as the “Decorating Diva,” Pam Damour offers professional drapery workroom training to the trade. Co-author of Pillow Talk, Pam is generous in sharing the knowledge of her 27+ years as an interior designer and sewing professional. As a seasoned career speaker, she’s a member of SEA, ASG, and AQS. Pam travels internationally teaching her specialty techniques that have brought her years of continued business as the “Couture of Home Dec Sewing.” Producer of 13 how-to DVDs, national spokesperson for The Warm Company and Rowenta, Pam enjoys the hands-on aspect of the window treatment industry. She has developed a 12-part template system to make custom window treatments that are taking the industry by storm! Pam’s new projects include a fabric collection, a new book, and her own Web-TV show called At Home with the Decorating Diva. Pam lives on the shore of Lake Champlain in a log cabin, nestled at the foot of the Adirondack Mountains, where she teaches sewing retreats and her teacher certification programs.
Web site: www.pamdamour.com

Connie Crawford, Fashion Patterns by Coni
Connie Crawford is a licensed designer for Butterick Patterns and is owner of Fashion Patterns by Coni. She is a nationally recognized lecturer, fashion specialist, educator, and author of sewing and pattern books, including A Guide to Fashion Sewing, The Art of Fashion Draping, and Patternmaking Made Easy. Drawing on her 35 years of experience in apparel manufacturing and 23 years teaching fashion design classes in patternmaking, sewing and draping at The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles, Connie created her own pattern line with true-to-body fit from sizes X-Small to 6X.
Web site: www.fashionpatterns.com

Cynthia Guffey
Cynthia Guffey has been designing women's clothing and teaching sewing and fitting techniques for seventeen years. She owns an up-scale fabric store and custom dressmaking business in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and her designs have been worn everywhere from the opening of the Met to Acapulco. Cynthia has developed effective, practical, and simple fitting and construction techniques that she teaches throughout the United States. Her sold-out sewing seminars are filled with information that result in beautifully fitted, custom-look clothing. Her sewing seminars receive rave reviews because, as one of America's best sewers, she shows you how to save time by getting it right the first time. By using her creativity and talents in designing, sewing and writing, Cynthia continues to inspire sewing enthusiasts around the world.

Darlene Miller, Clothes For You
Web site: www.darlenemillercloz4u.com
Places will travel: International, National
Darlene Miller, teacher, author and designer, has revolutionized the lives of countless women by redefining the standards for choosing garment styles. Her book Your Shape, Your Clothes and You – Secrets of a Successful Wardrobe teaches women how to dress based on their triangle, square, circle or oval body shape. Her unique concept fostered the development of a line of basic patterns for each of the shapes. These patterns eliminate time consuming fittings to create garments that fit perfectly. Recently she has adapted quilting techniques for her patterns so garments not only fit well, they look fabulous as wearable art. Her patterns have been reviewed in Threads Magazine and Sew News.

Judy Kessinger
Judy Kessinger started her career owning and operating a small retail fabric store in Louisville, KY. She traveled nationwide holding seminars for Hancock Fabrics for over 25 years. She also designs and creates costumes for national and international figure skaters. With the encouragement of family and friends Judy started a sew business combining her art of teaching and fitting into the development and production of two patterns – one for Tops and one for Pants. Once you FIT the pattern, an entire wardrobe can be created. Sewing with just two patterns definitely takes the STRESS out of seamstress. She is known as the Fit Doctor, curing the ills of the sewing “blues.” Sewing is the easy part but it’s the FITTING that makes garments come alive and compliment the body – no matter the size – instead of just covering it! Her Web site is www.fitnicesystem.com and it has developed into another teaching tool for her “Sewing Sisters” to learn new and fun ways to use the two patterns. Judy has appeared on various TV shows showcasing her patterns and her methods of fitting. Judy has been blessed to have touched the lives of countless women, teaching them the tricks of looking and feeling fantastic by simply fitting themselves properly.

Bernadette Griffith
Bernadette "Bernie" Griffith is an internationally recognized educator and the Education and Events Manager for Juki America,Inc. This year, Bernie received the highest honor an educator can receive in the sewing industry. She was presented with the Master Certified Sewing Educator Award at the 2011 SDTA/VDTA Annual convention.
Bernie has authored numerous machine and software workbooks. Her projects and lessons have been published in several magazines, such as, Creative Machine Embroidery, CME Quilting & Embroidery, Sewing Professional, Designs in Machine Embroidery, and Embroidery Journal, covering embroidery techniques for quilting, home décor and clothing embellishment. If you are a "Quilt Central TV" fan, you may have seen Bernadette's appearances on the show.
Bernie has taught workshops, clinics and seminars for sewing, overlocking and embroidery techniques at numerous venues throughout the United States and Australia. Her relaxed teaching style makes learning new techniques fun and stress-free.

Debbie Wendt, Wendt Quilting
Debbie began her career as a home economics teacher. She took her first quilt class 24 years ago and has been quilting and teaching quilting ever since. In 2004 “American Quilter” magazine published her article “Teaching the World to Quilt”. The article shared her experiences of teaching Sudanese refugees to quilt in Cairo, Egypt, where she and her husband lived for eight years. Most recently her quilt and longarm quilting are featured in Barbara Chainey’s book “Fast Quilts from Fat Quarters”. She designed the tool “Brilliant Bindings” and self-published “Chenille Made Easy on a Longarm” and “Construction and Production”. She loves teaching all aspects of quilting.

Marilyn Doheny
Marilyn Doheny is a self made internationally famous, Contemporary Quilt Artist. She is a significantly published author having written over 30 books and patterns. Along with her specialty rulers, The 45 degree Kaleidoscope Wedge and her 9 Degree Circle Wedge Rulers she has transformed the world of quilting.

Marilyn's products sell worldwide, inspiring everyone with their ease of use and their unique visual drama! Marilyn also lectures for quilting conferences and guilds, sharing her enthusiastic approach to life as a quilter. She is an infectious dynamo. When sharing time in her company, you will be challenged, delighted and inspired to achieve new heights with your own quilting endeavors.

Marilyn is both a fabric person and a people person. She is enchanted and delighted to play with color and geometry, designing patterns and inspiring others with their appeal. She calls her mind "the night crew" as the designs just come to her in the night! Then, during waking hours, she invents streamlined techniques - which every skill level can easily use. They are "silly simple" enough for anyone to follow - so that everyone can make her designs easily. The breadth of her work is amazing and the look of her innovative patterns has become her "signature". She assures success for everyone who takes her classes or buys her quality books, patterns, and rulers.....It is Marilyn's weekly delight to receive letters and e-mails showing photos of proud quilters - around the world - standing beside their quilt, beaming with joy - and quite often featuring an award winning ribbon!

Marilyn was born and raised in Long Beach California the second of 4 daughters to the Wellman family. She moved to Seattle Washington as a young bride at the age of 18 with her high school sweetheart, Brian Doheny. While in Seattle, she became a quilter and the proud mother of 3 children. She began quilting in 1980, when the first of her 3 children was born. Her first and only quilting class was 8 weeks long and involved making one pinwheel pot holder. She actually never finished that potholder and before the end of her 8 week class, where the potholder would have been sandwiched, hand quilted and then bound, Marilyn was employed at a fabric store teaching quilting herself. SHE IS A DYNAMO!

Her most recent endeavor, undertaken in January 2010, is very exciting and involves a lifelong dream! Marilyn purchased an old historic Inn built in 1889. It is situated in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. It is called Marilyn's Melrose Inn - Artist Retreat Center. She intends to multiple herself by teaching professional quilters, shop owners and teachers, to have fun and make a living offering her classes via their skills. She will have retreats for non-professionals too! Productivity and fun will be the theme of each session. Everyone will go home with significant work accomplished and enough excitement to light up their lives.

Marilyn's motto - If you are not having fun,..then you are not doing it right!

Cathy Scovill
Cathy Scovill is the owner/manager of Batik Quilts. As a prolific designer of patterns featuring the use of fabulous batik fabric paintings, she has been published several times in McCall’s Quilting and McCall’s Quick Quilts. She loves to share her accumulated experience in classrooms and lectures where the student learning experience is compounded by “group learning.” Her business theme is “fast, fun, and easy.” She is the Queen of Instant Gratification. www.batikquilts.com; Eclecquilt@aol.com.

Debbie Heck
Debbie Heck started sewing at age 5 with the scraps from her mom's projects. She has made everything from scrap clothes for her Barbie dolls to wedding apparel for many, including herself. Nearly 40 years later she loves creating as much now as she did then. Debbie's passion is teaching others to sew creatively, quickly, and frugally. Both of Debbie's children, ages 7 and 5 are now sewing with her. A few years ago she started the SquigglyTwigs Designs e-pattern company as a means to teach others the easy and quick techniques she developed while creating clothing for her children. Her daughter is one of the SquigglyTwigs designers. Now she teaches classes at the library, her home, as a sewing coach online, and on her blog with her Tuesday's Tute Feature. Debbie is an adviser to the FCS Teen Board for 4-H in Clermont County, and was recently the presenter for the American Sewing Guild's online meeting.
You can see more about Debbie and SquigglyTwigs Designs at http://www.squigglytwigs.blogspot.com

Pam Folberth
Pam Folberth has a long family history in the world of sewing and quilting. She travels for Janome as a national educator. She is the second generation to own Sew-EZY, a cozy unique quilt shop. Pam’s approach to sewing is upbeat and fun with a wealth of knowledge.

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