Meet Your Host
Manon Hunt
Motif Building Made Simple
Stack, Build & Design Your Own Quilting Motifs
Manon is a professional longarm quilter and educator with over two decades of experience in the quilting industry. She’s helped thousands of quilters move past the uncertainty of the “quilt as desired” stage. She is the host of the Move the Needle: Machine Quilting Summit and creator of Motif Builder Academy, where she focuses on helping quilters build ideas, develop their own approach, and move their quilts forward.
Through this summit, she’s brought together 22 quilting experts to share their ideas, approaches, and real examples — so you can start seeing what’s possible for your own quilts and find a direction that works for you.
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Meet Your Speakers
Brandy MaslowskiÂ
The Quilting Finish - A Judge's Perspective
Brandy Maslowski is a quilt artist, educator, and NACQJ certified quilt judge based in Summerland, BC, Canada. She specializes in helping quilters transition from traditional quilting into expressive art quilting — guiding them from technically capable to creatively confident and artistically distinct. Through online quilt education, one-on-one creative mentorship, and the award-winning Quilter on Fire Podcast, Brandy helps quilters develop a recognizable artistic voice and a sustainable creative practice rooted in self-care. She is the author of children's book Kristy's Quilt and is known internationally in the quilting community as Quilter on Fire. Quilters who work with Brandy stop making work that looks like everyone else's and start making work that is unmistakably their own.
Adelle Pears
4 Straight Line Designs You’ll Use Everywhere
Adelle is the longarm quilter and designer behind PearPaw Quilting, where her passion for texture, movement and creativity is stitched into every design. After spotting a longarm machine and being completely bewitched, she had her first machine on order before she had even pieced a quilt—an early sign of the enthusiasm she still brings to her work today.
With over seven years of longarm experience, Adelle enjoys exploring everything from free motion and ruler work to computerised quilting, embracing the unique possibilities each approach offers. Alongside quilting for clients, she designs original quilt patterns and digital pantographs to help quilters achieve beautiful, professional finishes.
Through her work and teaching, Adelle is passionate about making longarm quilting feel approachable, inspiring and full of creative potential.
Adria Good
How to Draw, Design and Quilt Hearts, Swirls and Stars
I love free motion longarm quilting! It has been a wonderful skill to learn. I have been able to work from home and homeschool my kids. The Lord has blessed me in so many ways. He has given me this talent and I'm excited to be able to share it with you through YouTube and now to teach online courses. I can't wait to help you reach your goals!
Becky Jorgensen
Stop Letting Quilt Blocks Sit—Learn Your Walking Foot and Finish a Cute Project Today
Becky found her start in the quilting industry through her blog patchworkposse.com in 2007 and continues to love sharing video tutorials and quilting projects. Her quilts have been featured by numerous publications including Primitive Quilts Magazine, Andover Fabrics, and Micheal Miller Ambassador 2023. Along with the books Crafty Little Things to Sew and Embroider Your Life. Becky also designed and sells the Patchwork Planner to help quilters keep their projects in clear view and get done what they have planned, making this year the year of finishes. Her motto of 'never sew alone' is what inspires her and the passion for teaching and building quilty connections with others is the reason she began an online quilt group over 6 years ago - Patchworkers Plus. This is where she shares her exclusive patterns with members, introduces them to designers from the industry and chats live every month - helping quilters from around the world connect and build friendships.
Beth Ann WilliamsÂ
Easier Machine Quilting with a Walking Foot
Beth Ann is a quilting educator, author, and YouTube instructor who has been teaching since 1997. She specializes in helping quilters get confident, consistent results on home sewing machines by simplifying thread & needle choices, setup, and machine quilting techniques that make it easier to manage the bulk of the quilt. Her clear, practical approach helps students understand what’s happening at the machine so they can troubleshoot problems, reduce frustration, and enjoy the quilting process.
Esther FrenzelÂ
Wishbone Design
Esther Frenzel is an online free motion quilting teacher who specialises in intermediate to advanced designs. She quilts on a domestic sewing machine and a longarm and teaches using both machines. Her designs range from edge to edge designs, grid designs to border designs like ribbon candy and wishbone.
Esther is also a high school teacher with 27 years of experience. She works in a Dutch bilingual high school where she teacher various art classes.
Hailey Young
Walking Foot Quilting for Beginners: How to Set Up, Stitch, and Quilt 3 Easy Designs
Hailey Young is the creator of Hailey Stitches, a go-to resource for beginner-friendly quilt patterns and no-math quilting tools. She’s helped tens of thousands of quilters simplify the quilting process through her tutorials, digital products, and printable cheat sheet membership. Her work focuses on eliminating confusion so quilters can confidently start and finish their quilts.
HollyAnne Knight
Foundations in Free Motion Quilting
HollyAnne Knight is founder of String & Story, a quilting education company based in Duluth, GA. HollyAnne has been teaching free motion quilting and more for nearly ten years, and she loves to guide you to quilt with confidence. HollyAnne is the founder of Quilting Rockstar University which includes all the education you need to finish your quilts on your machine. When HollyAnne isn’t quilting or teaching, she can be found adventuring with her Hubster, John, and their boys, Jem and Ian, and her dog Havana, settling in for a home cooked meal and kitty snuggles, or out for a run training for her next marathon.
Jackie BrownÂ
Quilting with Rulers
Jackie Brown is a long arm quilter and instructor dedicated to the art of free motion quilting. Through her business, Jackie’s Machine Quilting, she provides comprehensive online classes and tools designed to help both domestic and longarm quilters build confidence and precision.
Jane HauprichÂ
Beyond The Swirl
I am an award winning longarm quilter that specializes in free motion custom quilting. I have been teaching since 2015 at local quilt shops, national quilt shows and international quilt shows. I love to share my passion of free motion quilting with others. I first started free motion quilting on a domestic sewing machine, so I love to teach on both sit down machines and longarm machines.
Jo WestfootÂ
The Quilting Finish - A Judge's Perspective
Hi, I’m Jo.
I’m a patchwork and quilting educator and pattern designer based in the south of England. My style is bold and bright, modern traditional. My favourite part of the quilt making process has got to be the free motion quilting! I love experimenting with free motion quilting designs and thread weights.
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I’m thrilled that hosting classes in my online sewing school allows me to help hundreds of quilters from around the world gain skills and confidence to free motion their own quilts! I also teach a wide variety of other patchwork & quilting technique classes in my online sewing school and Quilt Hive Academy membership, breaking the techniques down into easy step by step processes. known internationally in the quilting community as Quilter on Fire. Quilters who work with Brandy stop making work that looks like everyone else's and start making work that is unmistakably their own.
Julie Plotniko Â
Free Form Fantasy Ferns
I am a quilting instructor, blogger, and designer from Parksville on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
I’ve always been drawn to the beauty and tactile nature of cloth, and I don’t remember a time when I didn't sew.
My love affair with quilting began in the mid-70s, and I have taught all things quilting for over 40 years.
Teaching credits include Quilt Canada 2016 and 2017, 2022, and 2025, in-person and virtual workshops and presentations for quilting guilds and groups throughout Canada, Free Motion Quilting Summit 2025 (Mary Go Round Quilts), Sewing and Craft Shows, Victoria, Abbotsford, and Toronto, children’s classes, community adult/senior education, and teacher professional development.
In addition, I also have over 25 years of experience within the sewing industry, working and teaching with the dynamic team at Snip & Stitch Sewing Center in Nanaimo, BC.
Through my blog and social media, I share weekly new, free motion quilting designs, educational materials, free patterns, highlights from recent classes, class notes, links to important events, a student gallery, and more.
For added fun, “Julies Name Game” invites the public to suggest and vote on what to name each new Free Motion Quilting design.
I have also written Blog posts and projects for QUILTsocial and QUILTsocial Magazine, plus projects and articles for A Needle Pulling Thread magazine.
Best known for my classes in all types of machine quilting, precision piecing, and scrap quilting, I’m passionate about teaching and strive to create a relaxed learning atmosphere where students feel free to express their own artistic voice.
I believe that seeing a student go from tentative beginnings to confidence in themselves and their abilities is one of life's greatest rewards
Kat
Scribble Trees - A Playful Free Motion Exercise
Hello, I'm Kat of Secretly 60 quilts, and I go hard on my granny hobbies. Flowers, cats, puzzles, tea, baking, you name it. Quilting, however, takes the proverbial cake. My primary focus is on free motion quilting and free motion embroidery, often inspired by flowers and nature seen on my daily walks.
Katie Bock
Combine Feathers & Ruler Work to Quilt Borders, Half, and Setting Triangles
My love of sewing/arts and crafts began when I was 14 years old and my mom started teaching me plastic canvas, cloth dolls, soft animals, and making her own outfits. It wasn’t until a year later that I began the journey into quilting when she helped me to make my first quilt from the small wreath pattern out of the book ” Quick Watercolor Quilts” by Dina Pappas.
Over the years my quilting evolved to include both hand/machine applique, crazy quilting and traditional patchwork from various quilting patterns, books, online classes, and even my own designs.
From the Fall of 2016 through till the end of 2019, both my mom and I, along with several talented quilters who came on board from all over the world started our very own online quilting magazine called “Our Quilting Journey” which was published on Magcloud.
In the last couple of years since the magazine ended, I have been keeping busy working on both new cloth doll and quilt patterns, teaching online classes, longarm quilting, and ruler work.
Kellie Kaczmarek
Can I quilt overall designs (E2E) at home?
I am a Canadian quilter, business owner, wife, mother and new motorcycle rider! I have been quilting for a short time but have jumped in with both feet! I purchased a longarm after quilting for approximately a year and needed “rulers” to keep me within the lines, so to speak, so I made them!
I am fortunate to have experience in, and access to CNC Milling equipment, as well as a variety of software programs that enable me (along with my math guru hubby) to create machine quilting rulers that will do just what I want them to. I really enjoy coming up with new ideas that make ruler work fun and accessible for all quilters.
I love sharing my love of ruler quilting so have come up with many different classes to teach others just how fun ruler quilting can be! I teach both in person and on Zoom, which allows me to share with people all over the world!
Lyndelle Newey
Does Size Matter?
How Scale Changes Everything in Free Motion Quilting
Lyndelle is the Aussie quilter, longarm professional and online educator behind The Quilt Room based in Melbourne, Australia. With over ten years of experience in free motion and longarm quilting, she’s built a reputation for making quilting concepts approachable, practical and fun. She quilts on a Bernina Q24 and teaches free motion quilting through her online courses. Lyndelle is thrilled to be teaching at the Move The Needle Summit and helping quilters go from unsure to confident in their quilting.
Melissa MarginetÂ
Tips for Successful Walking Foot QuiltingÂ
Melissa Marginet is a lifelong Manitoban and passionate quilter who credits her creative beginnings to her grandmother, Louise Marginet. Melissa’s quilting journey took off in 2001 with a Log Cabin class that sparked a lasting love for the craft.
She’s deeply involved in the quilting community, belonging several groups.
As a dedicated teacher, she emphasizes a DIY approach to quilting, encouraging students to find their own path and adapt techniques to suit their style. Melissa has authored three books on walking foot quilting, two pattern books, as well as numerous individual patterns.
Nicholas TurcanÂ
Butterfly FeathersÂ
Nicholas Turcan is a creative powerhouse with a passion for quilting that’s as bold as his designs. He began quilting in 2012, drawn in by the artistry and expression it offered. One project quickly turned into many, and before long, quilting had become more than a hobby—it became his entire life!
As his skills grew, so did his desire to connect with others through quilting. Nicholas began working part-time at a local quilt shop, where he immersed himself in fabric, technique, and design—and discovered a love for teaching.
Whether helping someone choose their first pattern or guiding a class through free-motion quilting techniques, he found that sharing knowledge was just as fulfilling as creating.
By 2020, he made the leap into longarm quilting full time. The timing aligned with a global shift toward online learning, and Nicholas embraced the opportunity to teach virtually. What started with a few Zoom classes grew into a full slate of workshops, trunk shows, and video tutorials, reaching students across North America and beyond.
In early 2021, he moved into a dream studio on Vancouver’s Granville Island. The expanded space allowed Nicholas to launch his own custom filming setup, host virtual classes and serve as a base of operations for teaching. His workshops are known for being fun, relaxed, and encouraging—creating a safe space for quilters of all levels to explore their creativity and build skills with confidence. In 2025 he has found a new "forever" home!!! The Mystery Stitch Designs Studio Located at 319-8188 Manitoba St. in South Vancouver.
Today, Nicholas is a sought-after educator and mentor in the quilting community. Through Mystery Stitch Designs, he helps quilters tap into their creative potential, whether they’re just starting out or ready to master advanced techniques.
Sam Alberts
Swirl Your Way to Pebbles
I grew up in Northern British Columbia, Canada, on a farm in the bush. I spent most of my life working as a bartender until I went full-time in my longarm studio in 2018. I began sharing my quilting in the form of educational presentations in 2020 and have had the privilege of teaching alongside notable teachers such as Susan Smith and Bethanne Nemesh.
I launched my YouTube Channel in 2023 and have been really loving sharing on that platform (I'm sticking around for sure!).
I've had quilts I quilted hang at QuiltCon 2022, AQS Daytona Beach 2024(3rd), AQS Paducah 2024(1st quilter's choice), Quilt Canada 2024 (YouTube Video), and 2025 (2nd in Abstract). I'm pretty new to the show world, but I am looking forward to the future and some awesome projects.
I have aspirations to travel to the UK, Australia, Japan, South Africa, and Brazil to see all the quilts! I would also love to share my insights and perspective at these amazing international shows.
Learning everything the hard way was ridiculous, and I really hope you take some time and check out my courses. I want to share with you what I’ve learned and help you learn a whole lot faster.
Tia Curtis
Intro to Custom Quilting
Tia Curtis is an internationally acclaimed quilter, teacher, and pattern designer with a passion for sharing her love of sewing. An award-winning artist, her work has been featured in numerous publications, and she has collaborated with fabric manufacturers, designers, authors, and magazines as a freelance quilt maker and designer.
Tia’s teaching is rooted in her distinctive quilting style, which blends modern design with influences from Welsh and American Traditional techniques. She incorporates improv piecing, appliqué, and patchwork to help students explore both structure and creative freedom in their work.
Known for her relaxed, approachable teaching style, Tia creates an encouraging environment where students of all skill levels feel comfortable experimenting and growing. She believes that quilting should be both expressive and enjoyable, and she shares practical techniques, tips, and creative insights that make learning accessible
and fun.
Whether introducing foundational skills or guiding more advanced exploration, Tia empowers students to develop their own voice through color, texture, and design.
Based in Kansas, Tia spends her days quilting and teaching, always with several projects in progress—and plenty of ideas to share.
Vendulka BattaisÂ
Tips and Tools to Plan Your QuiltingÂ
Vendulka has dedicated 15 years to the art of professional quilting. For 13 of those years, she operated her own fabric shop while also teaching. After closing the shop, she now devotes herself entirely to her true passion: teaching. With numerous awards and a qualification as a quilt judge, Vendulka provides a distinct viewpoint on quilt competitions. She offers engaging talks and workshops, both in-person and online, and is available for bookings by groups and guilds.
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