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 Bennett.  Since moving to the Adirondacks in 1993, 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 Johnsburgh Library in North Creek, NY and the Tahawus Club in Newcomb, NY.

Rae Peer has been teaching appliqué and hand quilting for the past twenty-five years.  Her work toured with the American International Quilt Show, and her appliqué pieces have been published with “Custom Quilt Designs.”

She worked as a quilt designer and consultant at Country Cretions a store owned by Karen Pfaff (whose family invented the Pfaff Sweing Machine). Rae also taught summer classes in applique and hand quilting at the 1800 House Museum on Nantucket Island, MA.   Currently she is teaching appliqué and quilting techniques in a series of weekly classes in Bolton Landing, NY.

 Shea Farrell Carr was born and raised in Long Lake.  She has been making baskets since 1992.  She worked as a high school history teacher for several years, and has recently acquired Adirondack Basket Case, which was founded by her mother, Patty Farrell.  She lives in Troy, NY with her husband and two small children.

Wenda Coburn is a mother, a teacher, a volunteer project organizer, and a quilter! She has been sewing since childhood and quilting became an expression of her own individual creativity. As a quilt teacher and a volunteer coordinator she has helped plan many service oriented projects, including quilting at the jail!

Since that beginning, her passion for sewing, design, quilting and instruction has grown. In 1990 she started Just For Ewe Sewing providing a variety of services from traditional tailoring services to dress making and custom drapery design. Enthusiastic about helping others to experience the joys of sewing, she began teaching sewing and quilting techniques in 1998.

After a search for perfect piecing techniques, Wenda found that the Square in a Square tools were successful time after time. In 2004, she became a certified Square in a Square® instructor and product distributor. In 2007, she was awarded Square in a Square® Diamond Certification. Look for Wenda’s quilt pattern in Jodi Barrows 2007 Square in a Square® book "Moving on with Diamonds."

Wanting to finish quilts herself, one more search led to easy machine quilting techniques that gave a beautiful finish. "Quilting with training wheels" became a signature saying used in many of her popular Machine Quilting 101 classes. This class led to a development of Quilt-As-U-Go! techniques, quilts, & workshops that combine the piecing and quilting, and are wonderful for a quilter who wants to increase their skills.

In 2006 Wenda began quilting at home with a Short-Arm quilting frame. She soon learned that there was no education or resources for the home short-arm quilter and began teaching local groups. In 2009 Wenda quilted a New York State Fair blue ribbon quilt on her short-arm system. Along with the popularity of these classes, Just For Ewe began selling tools for the short arm quilter. All tools are tested on a 9" harp machine. Now the quilter does not have to waste money or search all over for the correct size tool.

Wenda regularly teaches near home at Calico Gals quilt shop in Fayetteville, NY and travels throughout the United States and Canada teaching workshops. She lives near Syracuse, NY with her husband, daughter, and doggy daughter and 2 cats.

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.

Bev Stellges, a retired teacher from Northwood School in Lake Placid, NY, has been quilting for twenty-five years.  She is a member of 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 and a past chairman of the CVQG quilt show. She has also been a judge for three years at the international show AArt Quilts@ at the Schweinfurth Museum in Auburn, NY.  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, Northwood School library, the Schweinfurth Quilt Show and juried into the American Quilter’s Show in Paducah, KY.  Her AThe Lord did well when he put the loon and his music in the land@ wallhanging was displayed for a year in the traveling Adirondack Park Centennial Quilt Show.  For many years she has taught all levels of quilting classes at the LPCA, North Country Community College in Saranac Lake and at quilt shops in Saranac Lake, Plattsburgh and Hogansburg, NY, and for the Champlain Valley Quilters’ Guild.  Bev has been on the organizing committee and has taught classes at the Adirondack/North Country Quilt Camp held in Paul Smiths, NY and Saranac Lake and has organized quilting retreats at the Wadhams Conference Center in Ogdensburg, NY.

Kris Gregson Moss - Kris is native to the Adirondacks, having been born in Ticonderoga just after WWII. : )   She is the oldest of the seven Gregson children, and assisted her mother, Carol, in raising them all. Such experience led to a lengthy teaching career that spanned 4 decades, and ranged from elementary education and science to special education and art. Now retired, she is either happily playing with fabric in her Shirt Factory studio in Glens Falls, leading art quilting workshops, or riding across the country with her husband in their motorhome.

"I am a fabric artist whose compositions address color and form. The pieces are enhanced by the movement of colors along with the texture and luster of the fabrics, quilting, and threads. The shapes over which the fabrics are spread and attached allow for a myriad of interactions between color and form.  Inspiration is everywhere: pieces of fabric, nature’s changing vistas, flowing currents, imaginary forms that need building, and statements that need shouting.  I rejoice in all the visual stimulation that I can gather, re-form and set out for you, the viewer."