Teacher Members

The NEORQC member teachers are as varied, talented, and qualified as can be found anywhere. We have nationally recognized teachers, authors, and pattern designers. If you need a teacher for your guild, read through this list and visit their websites and email addresses for more information on their specialties and qualifications.

Elizabeth Bauman

  • Elizabeth Bauman is a costume designer and a theatre teacher at Hiram College.
  • She loves making quilts for local and national contests.
  • Her style is figurative and whimsical with traditional patterns combined.
  • She also loves antique quilts, and has a large collection.
  • Her theatre background and her love of quilting combine when she performs one of her several prepared lectures to local quilt guilds, historical societies, and other groups.
  • Elizabeth will present her Quilt Lectures in person, but Zoom is also available as an option for many of her presentations."
  • For more detailed information, click on the link below to open her brochure. Elizabeth Bauman, Quilt Artist and Speaker brochure.
  • 2189 Lincoln Avenue, Lakewood, OH 44107
  • 216-209-1171
  • Contact Form email: Elizabeth Bauman 
  • Email: baumanea@hiram.edu
  • Membership active thru 1/15/2025

Sandi Blackwell

  • Published author, teacher, and lecturer.
  • Owner of custom order quilt business for over 30 years.
  • Creator of the "Square-agonals" quilt technique.
  • Has had four books and dozens of patterns published on my technique.
  • She is online "Craftsy" instructor of two classes.
  • Has lectured/taught on cruises, Ireland, Germany and across the country.

Information on Sandi Blackwell, click on the following link www.stitchedbuy.com

Cindy Kay Casciato

Please feel free to contact me for guild programs and workshops. I will send you a complete list of current workshops with description of project, supplies and pre-cutting information.

    • Offering lectures on the Modern Triangle Method along with a Trunk Show.
    • The Color Lecture has been retired.
    • Available for workshops.
    • Check the website for more information: www.quiltwithcindy.com

Email address - permission to publish: cindycasciato@gmail.com

Lucy Kulbago | Sew4Service

  • You can reach Lucy Kulbago, President and Founder of Sew4Service, directly via e-mail at sew4service@gmail.comSew4Service Sewing Studio (a NEORQC Service Member)
    30515 Euclid Ave
    Wickliffe OH 44092
  • Lucy Kulbago, Executive Director of Sew4Service
    email lucy.kulbago@sew4service.org

    Lucy teaches beginner sewing, quilting and crocheting classes.
    Lucy teaches all ages, in schools, libraries, and the Sew4Service Studio.
    You can bring your own sewing machine and  learn how to use it to complete a project.
    See our website for a complete listing of classes.

  • NOTE: Also listed under the "Shop & Service Member" tab of the NEORQC website.
  • Membership active thru 1/15/2024

Judy Lattavo

  • Judy Lattavo, Teacher, at The Quilting Bea
  • Membership active thru 1/15/2024

Ginger Mangie

 

  • Ginger's designs are original and unique to her particular style of stitching.  Her original quilt designs have won numerous regional and national awards both for technique and design.  Today, she provides instruction on numerous embellishment techniques.  Her patterns and designs are all original.  Lectures and trunk shows weave both family and American history into quilts that tell a story.​

    ​Ginger holds a degree in Home Economics and a Master’s Degree in Education teaching Human Ecology for over 35 years.  

    She is a member of the Stan Hywet Needlework Guild in Akron, Ohio," "That Quilt Group I Belong To" in Canfield, Ohio, and a needlework teacher at "With Needle in Hand" needlework shop in Boardman. She teaches, travels, and gives lectures and programs.

  • NAQ Certified Teacher specializing in hand embellishment
  • Lectures and Programs include:
    • Sewing Your History
    • Handbags 1875 to Present and Women's Roles During Those Eras
    • Presidents' Quilts
    • Embellish With Relish
    • Oh, Those Pea Pickin' Pincushions
  • A trunk show of vintage Redwork, blue work and Sunbonnet Sue quilts. A little history is provided as well as my updated, embellished version of the bonnet girls.
  • Membership active until 1/15/2024

Linda G. Miller

  • Linda has over 20 years of experience in the Quilt World, and is willing to share what she has learned in the art.
  • Contact her for classes in:
    • Unusual piecing (The Giant Dahlia and Double Wedding Ring)
    • Long arm Machine Quilting (demo style available in her studio on Nolting PRO Longarms)
    • Quilt Show Management and Quilt Show Judging
    • The IntelliQuilter Computerized Quilting System
  • Guild presentations are available as well, and include both trunk shows of quilts and PowerPoint presentations
  • Contact Linda directly to develop a presentation to fit your guild's needs.

Clare Neff

Cindy Oravecz

Cindy Oravecz lectures and teaches about embellishments on quilts, clothing and embroideries. Learn ruching, stumpwork embroidery, ribbonwork, metalwork embroidery, crazy quilting, beading, embellished wool, precision cutting for happy sewing, color therapy for comfortable fabric choices and other unusual ways to embellish with her original patterns, tools and books. Cindy has taught sewing throughout the world in the last 30 years and has appeared on HGTV's Simply Quilts with Alex Anderson. She is the owner of Quilter's Fancy in Cortland, Ohio.

Megan Sorn

Megan Sorn received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Columbus College of Art and Design. She has worked in the arts in various fields ever since. She has painted murals & decorative finishes, created stained glass, and done computer animation and pottery.

Eventually her love for quilting overshadowed the rest, and she has been teaching and doing custom long arming for the last 8 years. She recently opened a brick-and-mortar store in Cleveland Ohio, called Imagine That & More, so that she can train others to free motion quilt their own pieces. Her passion in life is to give others the courage, freedom, skills, and tools to be their most creative selves.

  • Teacher at Imagine That & More, 3756 Rocky River Drive, Cleveland, OH 44111
  • Phone: 
  • Email: Megan Sorn
  • Website: www.imaginethatnmore.com
  • Membership active thru 1/15/2024

Victoria Stauffer

Victoria has 15 years of experience as a seamstress. She is always learning new tips and tricks of the trade, and enjoys teaching what she learns to others. She specializes in beginner classes, enjoys machine applique and creative design.

Kori Turner-Goodhart

  • Teacher from Olive Grace Studios, 2627 Youngstown-Kingsville Road, Cortland, OH 44410
  • Email: missolivegrace@gmail.com
  • Website: www.olivegracestudios.com
  • Membership active thru 1/15/2024

Kathy Wolf

  • Quilting for 30+ years
  • Works with art quilts and thread painting
  • Teacher at 2015 & 2016 NEORQC Getaway
  • Provides trunk shows and classes of thread painting techniques using fabric panels.
  • 1732 Lilly Lane, Alliance, OH 44601
  • 330-821-1477
  • Email: Kathy Wolf
  • Membership active thru 1/15/2024

Carole Wooten

  • Founding Member & Vice President of Common Threads Quilting Guild
  • Past President and Secretary of NEORQC
  • Lecturing and Teaching since 1991
  • Classes at your location or small classes at my home.
Lectures (1-1/2 hrs)
  • Collecting, Dating & Preservation of Antique Quilts
  • The Many Waysof Applique
  • What Do I Do with that Fabric I just had to Have?
  • Making Your Quilts Unique YOU
  • The Quilt Story
  • History of Crazy Quilting
  • Quilting Through the Seasons
  • Antique to Modern Tools & Toys
  • Is there a Baltimore Album Quilt in my Future?
Classes: 3-6 Hrs and Class Series
  • Basic Applique
  • Dimensional Applique Flowers Miniature Baltimore Album
  • Crazy Quilting by hand or machine
  • Woven Baskets/Crazy Quilt pineapple mini or pillow

 

  • 624 Ridgeview Drive, Seven Hills, OH 44131
  • Email Address: Carole J. Wooten
  • Membership active thru 1/15/2024