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  Instructors
Marianne FonsMarianne Fons is co-founder of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting magazine, which has a circulation of over 320,000. With Liz Porter, she has hosted hundreds of episodes of the popular public television series of the same name. Fons and Porter are authors of many best-selling quilting books, including Quilter's Complete Guide, considered by many the "bible" of quiltmaking.
Jean NolteJean Nolte is the editor of all the Fons & Porter magazines, and is also the editorial director of "Love of Quilting" on public television. She has been quilting for nearly thirty years, and is always excited to try a new technique. Her fabric stash contains more yardage than she could possibly use in a lifetime, but she is having lots of fun trying. When not quilting, she loves to travel, knit, or spend time with her family.
Carolyn BeamCarolyn Beam is an award-winning quilter, has been published in numerous quilting magazines, designs quilt patterns for her own company, teaches and lectures nationally and is Creative Editor for Quiltmaker.
Jo MortonJo Morton is a quilt artist, fabric designer, teacher, author, lecturer and student of our ancestral quilt making. Her use of color, design and fine stitchery give her quilts the feeling of being made in the 19th Century. These quilts complement both the country and contemporary setting. Her work is included in private and public collections across the country. Jo presents re-creations of antique quilts, imitating colors and styles of period pieces, using an antique quilt as a source of inspiration, she creates an interpretation - a quilt that might have been made in the 19th Century. Jo sold her quilts at juried Folk Art Shows in Pennsylvania, Virginia and New England from 1988 through 2003. Jo's quilts have been published in American Patchwork & Quilting, Quilters Newsletter Magazine, McCall's Quilting, Quiltmaker, Love of Quilting, and Early American Life. She has appeared on HGTV's, Simply Quilts program #603 and on Love of Quilting that airs on PBS, program #1408. She publishes her quilt designs through "Jo Morton Quilts" and has published 18 books through 2009. Ask about "Jo's Little Women" Club at your favorite Quilt Shop, an olde fashioned gathering making a small olde looking quilt of-the-month and needful things. In 1998 she licensed some of her quilts to Heart of America, who published framed art prints of her quilts, which were available in country stores. They sold their business in 2008, so the license terminated. She lives in Nebraska City with husband Russ and three cats.
Dawn CavanaughSince 1994 Dawn Cavanaugh's custom freehand quilting has been winning awards for her clients. In 2007, several of those quilts hung in the Museum of American Quilter's Society in Paducah as part of the Fons and Porter exhibit, and the Regional Guilds exhibit. Her work has appeared in publications such as "A Century of Quilts", Quilters Newsletter Magazine, American Patchwork & Quilting, Leisure Arts, House of White Birches and more. Dawn also designs patterns, most recently contributing to 505 Quilt Blocks, by Meredith Publishing. She has experience as a machine quilting judge, and has shared her expertise through teaching at Machine Quilter's Showcase, Machine Quilters Expo, Longarm University, MQ Innovations, Quilting on the Waterfront, L.A.C.E., Canadian Machine Quilters Showcase, Australasian Machine Quilting Conference, and more. Dawn was awarded the prestigious "Machine Quilting Teacher of the Year Award" for 2008 at the 2009 Machine Quilter's Exposition. Dawn continues to educate quilters across the world as a regular columnist for Fons and Porter's Love of Quilting magazine, and through her position as the National Education Director for APQS.
Nancy MahoneyAuthor, teacher, fabric designer, and award-winning Quiltmaker, Nancy Mahoney has enjoyed making quilts for over twenty years, during which time an impressive range of her beautiful quilts have been featured in many books and in over 80 national and international quilt magazines, with more books and patterns always in the works. She has, also, created over 75 quilt patterns for a number of fabric manufacturers. Nancy has designed five fabric collections for P&B Textiles and is working on her next fabric collection which will be available Spring 2010. She has authored nine books that have been published by Martingale & Company. Her bestselling books include, Appliqué Quilt Revival (2008), Ribbon Star Quilts (2008), and Quilt Revival (2006). Nancy's next book Treasure from the 30s is due out Fall 2010. Nancy enjoys exploring new ways to combine traditional blocks and updated techniques to create quilts that are easy to make. Nancy believes quilt making should be fun. Her goal in her workshops is for students to enjoy the process of making a quilt as much as they expect to enjoy the project.
Sherri Bain DriverIn 1987, Sherri turned her lifelong love affair with fabric toward quilting, and since then she's been involved in many aspects of the quilting world. Her quilting awards include prizes from such shows as International Quilt Festival (Houston), The National Quilting Association, and Pacific International Quilt Fest. Passionate about teaching, she has developed a variety of classes encompassing beginning to advanced techniques. Several of Sherri's beginning students have gone on to careers in quiltmaking and designing, as well as becoming award-winners themselves. Many of her designs have been published in magazines, including McCall's Quilting, McCall's Quick Quilts, Quiltmaker, and Quilters Newsletter. Sherri lives in Northglenn, Colorado, and is Associate Editor for McCall's Quilting.
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