Louisa Austin Woodworth lives in Long Lake with her husband Jerry and daughter Lydia. Her son, Uriah, is a marine. She is a sixth generation Long Lake native. She has sewn, quilted and experimented with everything in between since she was nine. She has settled (but not exclusively) in the area of mixed media textile art. Her main sources of inspiriation are her ancestors, who were guideboat builders, guides and artists and the awesome Adirondack Landscape.
She has won several awards in national quilt shows and began teaching art quilt classes in 1999. She also had a piece selected for the two year “Common Threads” exhibit at the Adirondack Museum.
Her pieces are ever-evolving. She is never done experimenting and incorporating new ideas and techniques into her work.
Linda Jones-Bennett. Even at a young age sewing has held great interest for Linda. What started as making simple items such as pillows and aprons quickly developed into sewing garments and window treatments.
However, upon moving to the North Country in 1993, Linda's interest in sewing turned into a passion for quilt-making. Cultivated by the membership of two North Country Guilds she soon began teaching this art throughout the area. Now, over the course of the past 17 years, Linda has become a respected quilt maker and quilt making instructor throughout Eastern New York State. Her work has been featured at The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, NY, the Town of Johnsburg Library in North Creek, NY and the Tahawus Club in Newcomb, NY. She also serves as a judging assistant at the Vermont Quilt Festival, an annual event held in Burlington, Vermont each summer.
Shea Carr Bio:
Born and raised in Long Lake,
Shea Farrell Carr has been making baskets since 1992. She taught high school for several years and
took ownership of Adirondack Basket Case from her mother, Patty Farrell, in
2009. She lives in Troy with her husband and two young
children.
Pat Flath, a retired professor of Chemistry at Paul Smith’s College, has been quilting for seventeen years. She is a member or The American Quilter’s Society and the Pine Tree Quilters of Saranac Lake, and is a past President of the Champlain Valley Quilters’ Guild of New York. Her quilts have been displayed in Vermont Quilt Festival Shows, Champlain Valley Quilt Shows, Cabin Fever Quilt Shows, Old Forge Art Center, North Country Community College, Champlain Valley (of Vermont) Quilt Show, New York Quilts and the Schweinfurth Quilt Show. Her Baltimore Twist quilt has won numerous awards, a blue ribbon at Vermont Quilt Festival, blue ribbon and Judge’s Choice at Champlain Valley (of Vermont) Quilt Show, honorable mention at Schweinfurth, second place at New York Quilts, third place at Old Forge and has been juried into the American Quilter’s Show in Paducah, KY. She has been teaching all levels of quilt classes at quilt shops in Hogansburg, NY, Plattsburgh and for the Champlain Valley Quilters’ Guild. For many summers she has attended quilting workshops at North Country/Adirondack Quilt Camp and Quilting by the Lake, Morrisonville, NY. Pat has been on the organizing committee of the Adirondack/North Country Quilt Camp held in Paul Smiths, NY and Saranac Lake, NY. She has also organized quilting retreats at the Wadhams Conference Center in Ogdensburg, NY.
Joan Ford
On February 8, 2003, Joan Ford took her first quilting class and was hooked! Since then, Joan has completed about 3-400 quilts. But who’s counting!
Early on, collaborative designs appeared in Fons and Porter’s Love of Quilting and Quilts with Style. Joan also worked with Janet Wecker-Frisch, fabric illustrator to design and create quilts that were published in Fast-Finish Panel Projects for Kids on the Go! and Celebrate a Cozy Christmas.
In 2006, Joan established her company, Hummingbird Highway. She teaches workshops, featuring the popular ScrapTherapy® pattern series which helps quilters relieve the guilt of a growing scrap fabric stash.
A thorough overview of the process is detailed in the book ScrapTherapy®, Cut the Scraps! published by The Taunton Press.
Joan also designs a monthly pattern series, Snap Sack® Small Quilt Kits, which are small seasonally-themed wall hangings. Both ScrapTherapy and Snap Sack patterns are broadly distributed to your favorite quilt shop.
As owner of Hummingbird Highway, LLC, Joan
designs in her home studio and office. She also lectures and teaches workshops
throughout the country. Joan, her husband, Dave, and their two pet birds live
in Syracuse, New York.
Jean Mooney Lives in Greenfield Center with her Irish setter companion “Riley” (who doubles as her quilting partner). She has one Daughter, McKenzie and one Granddaughter, Allison Jean. Jean is the Comptroller at Whiteman Chevrolet in Glens Falls where she has been employed for the past 24 years. She enjoys quilting, family, live music, outdoor summertime activities, cooking, but cleaning and laundry...Not so much.
Jean is also employed at Patti’s Quilting where she enjoys working the shop and sharing her quilting experience with others in Patti’s classroom. She is a primary educator at Patti’s and has been teaching the Beginning to Machine Quilt class series at Patti’s for the past 16 Months. These classes have been the longest running and most popular series of classes at Patti’s and still boast a waiting list of over 60 people. Jean says that she gets re-inspired every time one of her past 150+ students come into the shop with a quilt that they have done using the techniques covered in class.
Although not formally trained or published, Jean is well known in her local community. She has a good result with her own quilting and her laid back easy going style makes it easy for her to relay her techniques to others. What works for her might not work for you but she will insist that while in class you at least try her methods.
Jean enjoys knitting, crocheting, needlepoint, as well as hand and Machine embroidery but her true obsession is with quilts. Although Jean has quilted for over 20 years she didn’t start quilting her own quilts until 6 years ago. After losing her husband unexpectedly Jean found herself with half the income and twice the amount of free time. After some subtle nudging from her dear friend Bonnie, she decided to try to quilt her own quilt. Not only was the process rewarding to Jean but she found it extremely therapeutic and a cost effective way to stretch the quilting funds allowing her to buy more fabric! Today Jean will tell you she would much rather quilt than piece.
It has been written that chair height, good posture and all those types of things are important, but Jean believes that first you must have a good basic quilting knowledge, be comfortable and want to machine quilt. Once you have accomplished that, the rest is just practice.Jessica VanDenburgh - Bio
Jessica VanDenburgh was born and raised in upstate New York. Her grandmother taught her at a young age how to sew and encouraged her creativity. She discovered quilting and bag making in 2005 and started making bags for friends and family in 2007. From there her company, Sew Many Creations was born. Originally the company focused solely on making custom bags but has now grown to include patterns that are sold through local quilt shops. As a quilter, Jessica uses techniques she learned for cutting and sewing in her simple bag patterns. Her laid back approach to teaching makes students feel at ease. Her classes are full of fun facts, tips, tricks and lot of laughter. Jessica lives in Guilderland with her husband Eric and their 3 dogs.
Lois Ann Wiegert, originally from the mid-west, moved to Glens Falls, NY in 1974 with her husband, five sons and one daughter. She was taught to sew by her mother (a very talented seamstress) as a small child – first doing hand work then on to the sewing machine.
Lois is a retired Registered Nurse, having worked at St. John’s Hospital in her home town of St. Louis, Missouri and also Glens Falls Hospital, locally. Teaching has always been her main focus in her nursing career and upon retirement she transferred her teaching skills to general sewing, garment construction and quilting. She is a Certified Sulky Instructor and has won numerous awards for embroidery and thread techniques.
Presently she works at Patti’s Quilting and Fabrics in Glens Falls teaching new owners all about their Janome Sewing and embroidery machines. Lois is one of Patti’s main educators and teaches a variety of different techniques as well as beginner and advanced quilting classes. She enjoys teaching her quilting friendship group, one on one sewing instruction and sewing with her friends and her daughter’s friends. She is looking forward to helping her students learn the basic principles of quilting, how to enjoy the process and leaving with at least one completed project.
Lois taught two beginner quilting classes at Long Lake Quilt Camp in 2011 and is looking forward to the 2012 Quilt Camp where she will be teaching a two day class called “Stack, Wack and Shuffle Crazy Quilt”.