TNNA Winter Show Teachers
| Carol Algie Higginbotham
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| An Embroiderers' Guild of America, Inc. certified teacher in Blackwork and a Japanese Embroidery Center approved teacher of Traditional Japanese Embroidery, Carole has taught locally and at regional and national seminars. Carole has commissions for the Nixon Presidential Library, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, antique dealers and private patrons. Carole was awarded the EGA Pacific Southwestern Region Educator's Award of Excellence, and has received many ribbons from needlework shows.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
ST106 - Pansy in Blackwork
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| Cynthy Anderson
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| Cynthy started to teach in 1988 when she opened her fabric and craft shop in Southern California. She taught primitive folk. Deciding to close her store she submitted her designs to Folk Art Treasures and Country Design magazines and was featured several times in both magazines. She began teaching crazy quilting and embellishment at local quilt and needlework shops. Cynthy has shown her work in several galleries in Southern California. Her mission is to educate that working with needle and thread can be a work of art - not to be afraid to use something different in your needlework - whether it be ribbon, lace, beads or a new finer. Color and texture is a gift to the soul and spirit.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
NT103 - Whimsical Beaded Flower
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| Denise Bean
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| Denise is the founder and Director of Design and Product Development for Dancing Fibers, LLC, distributor of Diakeito, Pakucho and Dancing Fibers yarns. Denise has 20 years of experience as a university professor teaching apparel design and production and as a professional designer and patternmaker in the fashion industry. Her background includes a doctorate in Textiles and Apparel, and studies in both Japanese and South American knitting and design techniques, textile design and painting.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
Sold Out - TT212 - Knitting Andean Style
TT307 - East Meets West: Japanese Patterns Made Easy
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| Judith Beers
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| Judy is the co-founder/partner of Sudberry House. She has taught classes to the needle arts and quilting industries at the TNNA, INRG and Spring and Fall Quilt Markets. With the design team at Sudberry, she developed this new technique for using beads in an innovative way!
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
NT102 - Beaded Window and Beaded Trapunta Eyeglass Case
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| Gwen Blakley Kinsler
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| A passionate crocheter and veteran crochet promoter at TNNA, Gwen is the Founder of CGOA and a nationally known teacher who is a Certified Craft Yarn Council Crochet Instructor. Her newest book, "Kids Can Do It Crocheting," is geared toward ages 8-12, but has been praised by adults for the clarity of its instructions. Her love of crochet is infectious and you will come away with a new cro-attitude!!
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
FT203 - Chic Crochet: Fashion Patterns Sell Yarn
ST105 - One World: Easy Crochet With Himalaya Yarns
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| Cat Bordhi
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| According to Stephanie Pearl McPhee, “Cat’s mission is to make you a more creative, free-thinking knitter who problem-solves and experiments with vigor and fearlessness. The best part? She can.” Cat teaches and inspires more than a 1,000 knitters a year in classes and retreats all over North America and has mentored other successful knitting authors. Her Youtube knitting tutorials reach many 1,000s more, and her ground-breaking books, Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles, A Treasury of Magical Knitting, A Second Treasury of Magical Knitting, and New Pathways For Sock Knitters have reached well over 100,000 knitters. Coming next: a book on Houdini socks!
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
TT214 - Mittens, Hats, Sleeves, Socks Soar on 2 Circular Needles
Sold Out - FT114 - New Ways To Knit Socks, Inspired By Ancient Footwear
Sold Out - ST114 - Felted Moebius Basket or Bowl
NB114 - Bring New Knitters & Free Publicity Into Your Shop
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| Gwen Bortner
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| Gwen has been teaching since 1986 and is a recognized name at national venues such as TNNA, Stitches and TKGA since 2003. Since childhood, Gwen has dabbled in all of the needle arts with knitting finally taking center stage during her college years. Prior to opening her business Knitability, LLC (www.knitability.com), Gwen was a business consultant and trainer providing services to businesses both large and small. Gwen's passion is the company's motto "Taking knitters to the next level."
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
Sold Out - SB104 - Create Classes and Increase Profits
NB104 - Share Your Passion - Teach!
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| Gayle Bunn
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| Gayle Bunn studied Fashion Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. From 1986 to 1999, she worked for Coats Patons in Canada as a pattern-writer then design manager. From 1999 to 2003 she was design manager for Spinrite (Bernat, Lily and Patons). Gayle has taught classes at the college level and several classes to consumers and trade. She is presently a freelance designer in Canada working for many North American yarn companies and her designs have appeared in Vogue Knitting, Knit It, Family Circle Easy Knits, Knit 1 and Knit Œn Style. Gayle recently completed designing a book of fashion crochet designs for MQ Publications and is planning another crochet book for 2006.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
FT116 - Hooking You Up
FT207 - Now You're Hooked
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| Susan Burge
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| Susan Burge has been teaching, designing, and authoring books and stitch guides for 38 years - 30 as the owner of Designing Women. She has designed many of the Ribbon Floss fibers, such as Shimmer Blend. Her ideas and adaptations of stitches and techniques create unlikely effects from this line of threads as well as the new Spark Organdy. Susan believes in practicality - and that needlepoint should be fun!
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
ST110 - Strip Please! Show It All! Do It for Money!
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| Chris Bylsma
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| Chris retired from a career in marketing communications and advertising to pursue her artistic passion, knitting and texture play, at home in Madison, WI. Instead, she is having a wonderful time teaching workshops coast to coast (and beyond) for TNNA, retail shops, guilds and conferences and has her own line of knitting patterns available only through retail yarn shops (www.chrisbylsmadesigns.com). Noted for her Crayon Box Jacket, wearable classic designs with a contemporary flair and her love of color, Chris' approach to knitting is that the process should be just as enjoyable as the end product and designs with that in mind. She encourages knitters to
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
TT202 - The Madly Plaid Vest
Sold Out - ST102 - Bridging the Gap: Knit Weaving
Sold Out - NB116 - The Best Kept Secrets of the Most Successful Shops
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| Luana Campbell
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| As head finisher at Needlework Unlimited, Minneapolis, MN for more than 25 years, Luana has seen most of the needlework challenges that can present themselves. She has used these experiences to learn and improve her finishing skills. Luana has developed new finishing techniques for customers as well as for needlepoint designers. For 10 years she was a volunteer textile conservation technician at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts working on the conservation of historical tapestries.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
FT112 - Needlework Blocking
Sold Out - FT205 - Finishing Open Minisock Ornaments
Sold Out - ST117 - Stand Up and Be Noticed
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| Ann Caswell
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| Ann Caswell has been teaching needlework since 1979. She specializes in threads, working with over 300 different types. Ann's designs have appeared in books and magazines and she has experience in both retail and wholesale. She has taught for needlework shops, companies, and guilds across North America and England, including ANG, EGA, Callaway Gardens and NAN. Ann has also appeared in programs on PBS and HGTV. She was Design Coordinator for Metallic Thread Embroidery, and the Project Designer for Stitching a Legacy. Ann co-authored The Thread Thesaurusus, part of the Thread Technique Team.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
TT218 - Let's Get Real Techniques
TT312 - Fun Stuff Techniques
FT104 - Let's Get Real Techniques
FT202 - Fun Stuff Techniques
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| Lily Chin
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| Lily is an internationally famous knitter and crocheter who has worked in the yarn industry for over 25 years, as a designer, instructor, and author of books on knitting and crochet. She has created garments for the collections of designers from Ralph Lauren to Diane von Furstenberg. Her work has been on the backs of celebrities and super models. She was named a “Master Knitter” by Vogue Knitting International. She is regularly cited in media across the U.S., include the Late Show with David Letterman, CNN, the NY Times and more. Lily Chin has lived in New York City all her life and has been involved in some aspect of the fashion industry since age 13.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
TT201 - Chic, Shapely Chevrons for Both Knitting and Crochet
ST101 - Button Up
NT101 - Crocheted Tips, Tricks and Hints
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| Therese Chynoweth
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| As Product Manager for Dale of Norway, Therese divides her time between editing Dale's Norwegian patterns for the US and designing and handling pattern questions. She combines her degree in graphic design and experience as an assistant knitwear designer at JH Collectibles with her love of texture, color and handknitting when designing. Her creations use a variety of knitting techniques in an engineered way to work finishing details into a garment as a part of its construction. Therese has taught a variety of intermediate and advanced techniques classes at yarn shops and consumer events as well as TNNA. She's also a freelance knitwear designer having designs appearing Interweave Knits, Vogue Knitting, Knitter's, knit.1, Knit Simple and Cast On. Self-taught at much of what she knows about knitting, Therese has a special interest in traditional knitting and other handwork techniques.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
NT118 - Navigating Knitting Charts I
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| Catherine Coleman
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| World renowned needlework designer Catherine Coleman and her husband Robert Coleman work together at Coleman Cottage Designs to design, create and produce some of the most unique needlework designs in the universe. Much in demand worldwide as a teacher, Catherine's designs have been featured in a number of North America needlework magazines. She is best known for her elegant and innovative designs, clear and concise stitch guides and finishing techniques.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
ST120 - "Eltham Road"
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| Ruth Dilts
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| Ruth has been working in the needlework field since 1980. She has managed retail shops and taught classes for many different levels of students in the U.S. and England. Ruth is a sales representative for several companies and a designer with her own line of charted designs. Threads and textures have always fascinated her. Ruth has taught for ANG and EGA as well as many shops. She currently lives in Virginia and teaches for Needlewoman East and The Point of It All.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
Sold Out - NT107 - Which Witch
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| Edie Eckman
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| A former yarn shop owner, Edie has her hands in many aspects of the fiber arts--teaching, writing, designing and editing. Her knit and crochet designs have appeared in many magazines, yarn company publications, pattern leaflets and books. She is the author of The Crochet Answer Book. She travels extensively teaching at conventions, shops and guilds.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
TT213 - Learn to Crochet
TT308 - Intarsia Without Fear
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| Candace Eisner Strick
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| Candace has immersed herself in music and knitting most of her life. Now retired from 16 years of teaching cello, she concentrates on designing, writing, and teaching knitting. She is the author of six books, her designs and writing have been published in every major knitting magazine in the country, and she has taught nationally and internationally since 1998. She is the creator of her own line of yarn, Merging Colors, as well as her own line of patterns, Strickwear, which can be found in yarn stores and catalogs across the country. Candace's students say they not only love learning from her classes, but thoroughly enjoy her sense of humor as well. Appropriately, "strick" means to knit.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
Sold Out - FT118 - The Geometry is in the Bag
FT209 - Mrs. Rabbit Knit Muffates, You Can Too
ST118 - Love Handles
NT117 - Little Beaded Bag
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| Cynthia Ellner
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| A returning TNNA instructor in the business field, Cynthia Ellner, President of the Financial Education for Women as well as President of California Pension Administrators and Consultants, Inc., has been an administrator, record keeper, and consultant working on all types of qualified and non-qualified retirement plans for indiviuals, corporations, and financial institutions since 1969. Ms. Ellner has an extensive background in personal finance and financial management. As an accomplished lawyer and business owner, she is a sought after commentator on issues regarding pensions and retirement and has authored numerous articles for national and local publications.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
TB203 - Business Basics of NeedleArts Ownership
TB301 - Bridging the Customer Service Gap Between the Owner and the Employee
FB103 - Business Basics of NeedleArts Ownership
FB201 - Bridging the Customer Service Gap Between the Owner and the Employee
SB103 - Hiring, Firing and Employment Law Topics
NB111 - Hiring, Firing and Employment Law Topics
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| Candi Jensen
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| Candi Jensen has been a knitting and crochet designer for almost 25 years. Her designs have been widely published in magazines such as Vogue Knitting, Family Circle Knitting & Crochet, Interweave Crochet, Better Homes & Gardens Knitting & Crochet, Woman's Day, Good Housekeeping and many more. She has also appeared on many television programs including "Knitty Gritty" and the "Carol Duval Show". Her books include "Candy Tots", "Hooked on Crochet", "Candy Babies", "Knit Scarves", "Candy Blankies" and her two latest, "Crochet Scarves" & "Crochet Bags".
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
ST111 - How To Sell Crochet To Your Customers
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| Anni Kristensen
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| Anni is the owner of Himalaya Yarn, started in 1996 as a cottage industry based in Nepal. Anni has started and worked with cottage industries all over Asia for the past 30 years. With Himalaya Yarn she combined her love of helping people start their own businesses and her life long love of knitting. She loves to work with the handspun natural fiber yarns that are made for her in Nepal and designs most of the patterns for Himalaya Yarn.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
TT310 - Knitting With Himalaya Yarn Recycled Silk
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| Teresa Layman
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| Teresa Layman has been a licensed designer for the Vogue Pattern Company for over 14 years. Her design hallmark is the fine details that give her projects a very special heirloom quality and make each project a joy to make, give or receive. Currently, Teresa holds the titles of: Queen of Knotalot, Sheriff of Knottingham and Chief Knothead.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
FT113 - Know Your Knot
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| Joan Lohr
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| Joan Lohr has been a designer of custom stitch guides and counted needlepoint for Rainbow Gallery for many years. She has taught for TNNA, INRG and needlework shops both regionally and nationally as well as for local chapters of ANG and EGA. She has worked in needlework shops and therefore has firsthand knowledge of the wants and needs of shop owners.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
Sold Out - NT107 - Which Witch
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| Joe Martinez
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| Joe is the developer of the Total Retail Solution POS software. He grew up working in his parents' store which specializes in embroidery, quilting and knitting/crocheting. He received his degree in Computer Science from Cal Poly State University; and as his senior project, he developed the TRS software initially for his parents' store. With the in-depth knowledge of the industry, he was able to tailor the software to the specific needs of these types of stores. After nine years in business, Joe has built a reputation for the product as the most acclaimed POS system for the creative industries.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
NB120 - Point of Sale for Better Business Management
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| Maureen Mason-Jamieson
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| Maureen is a freelance handknitting designer who teaches at yarn stores, guilds, Stitches events, Camp Stitches and TKGA events across North America. She regularly contributes patterns and articles to Knitter's Magazine, Interweave Knits, and Cast On. Her designs may be found in yarn stores across the U.S. and Canada and on her website, www.kinverknits.com.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
TT217 - Seamless Top-down Tops
TT311 - Gettin' Edgy
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| Jeff Milchen
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| Jeff co-founded the American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA), an organization dedicated to helping launch local Independent Business Alliances that help independent, locally-owned businesses thrive and stop corporate chains from displacing hometown business. Since organizing (in 1998) the nation's first IBA in Boulder, CO, Milchen went on to form AMIBA, which helps provide local Alliance organizers with tools and resources to help them succeed. Eighteen more IBAs have formed nationwide in the first three years of AMIBA's work. Milchen's columns on business, democracy and civil rights have appeared in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and thirty other newspapers and magazines.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
NB112 - Strength in Numbers: How Independent Business Alliances Can Help your Business and Community
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| Annie Modesitt
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| Annie has taught knitting and crochet classes at TNNA, TKGA Fiber Arts Market and at Knitting Guilds and Yarn Shops across North America. Her designs have been seen in Vogue Knitting, Interweave Knits, Knitters and many other magazines. She is the author of Confessions of a Knitting Heretic, Knitting Millinery, Twist & Loop (Potter, Oct 2006) and Men Who Knit And The Dogs Who Love Them (Lark, Jan 2007).
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
Sold Out - FT211 - Tiered Color & Cable Sweater
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| Rick Mondragon
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| Rick is the Editor of Knitter's Magazine. His philosophies cover the simplicity or needle arts when you have the right focus and approach.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
TT216 - Knitting Back and Forth
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| SuZy Murphy
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| SuZy has written 5 books, SuZy's Small Stitches, SuZy's Darn Stitches, SuZy's SuprpriZe Stitches, SuZy's Lite Stitches, and SuZy's Portable Stitches. She will be introducing a new book at this market. She does models for several artists. She was a recipient of the TNNA Jubilee Award in 2005. She was also awarded the 2006 ANG Literary Award. Her teaching stresses the freedom to be innovative with stitches and threads while having fun.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
FT111 - Let the Artist Do the Work
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| Judy Pascale
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| Judy, a native of Connecticut and a life long knitter, launched her career as a professional knitting instructor and designer in the early 1990s. She has professionally sold her unique knitwear under the name THE JUDITH COLLECTION both privately and at juried shows. For several years she was employed at a yarn shop where she taught knitting classes and assisted numerous customers with their knitting and finishing problems. She is now exclusively teaching knitting and design classes with the emphasis on customizing desired fit. Her teaching experiences include the XRX Stitches Conventions held throughout the country. She has also taught at The National NeedleArts Association (TNNA) as well as numerous workshops at an array of different yarn shops and guilds. Judy is an active member of the Nutmeg Knitters and the Soundview Knitting Guild both in CT and the Big Apple Knitting Guild in New York. Most importantly, Judy has joined the ranks of other talented members of the knitting community whose explosive interest is creating a renaissance for the ageless art of knitting.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
FT119 - Beaded Belts
Sold Out - FT210 - Beaded Envelope Purse
ST119 - Beaded Cell Purse
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| Kathy Paterson
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| Kathy has taught a variety of needlepoint classes to TNNA, ANG and EGA groups as well as her local needlepoint shop. Her earliest memories are of her mother with some form of needleart in hand and, at an early age, Kathy was taught just about every method of using needle and thread. With a B.A. in Fine Arts and over three years' experience in the needlearts business, Kathy's handpainted canvases and stitch guides are recognized for their innovative use of color and contemporary style.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
TT204 - October 31
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| Janet Perry
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| Janet has been doing needlework almost constantly since 1970. She loves that needlepoint allows her to combine an addiction to threads of all kinds with a fascination for the process of taking designs and rendering them on the grid of counted work. She specializes in creating distinctive stitch guides for handpainted needlepoint canvases. Janet is constantly stretching the bounds of needlepoint and then applying these ideas and techniques to projects which are for beginning and intermediate level stitchers. She is the Needlepoint Pro columnist for Cross-Stitch and Needlework. She also is editor of a monthly needlepoint newsletter.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
FT102 - The Wishes Collection
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| Rosalie Peters Bourque
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| Rosalie is a designer, author and teacher. She has created many needlework designs for every taste and budget. The designer has authored and co-authored numerous booklets and pamphlets on needlepoint for basic, intermediate and advanced needlepoint, bargello, pulled thread, creative stitchery and cross-stitch. She has specialized in traditional designs and antique adaptations. Rosalie started designing needlepoint in 1970 and began operating as Shariane Designs in 1971. For five years, this company was the primary supplier of needlepoint to Bonwit Teller as well as numerous shops across the country. She has lectured nationally and has sponsored needlepoint seminars in Asheville, North Carolina where she spends the summer. Rosalie is a member of the American Needlepoint Guild and Embroiderer's Guild of America. She was listed in the 1981 and 1982 editions of "Who's Who of American Women."
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
Sold Out - NT106 - Creative Stitchery-Hydrangea
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| Mary Polityka Bush
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| Mary Polityka Bush of Piedmont, California, has been a professional needlework designer since 1983. Her work has been featured in many national magazines including Piecework, The Needle Worker, Better Homes & Gardens Special Interest Publications, McCall's Needlework, Needlepoint Plus, Cross Stitch & Country Crafts, and Cross Stitch & Needlework. It has also appeared in books and in kit form. Mary has been profiled in Cross Stitch & Needlework, The Needle Worker and Needlepoint Plus. An instructor since 1986, Mary has enjoyed enthusiastic response to classes she has taught for needlework industry and guild groups, at shops and cross stitch festivals.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
ST108 - Needlepoint A Mitten
NT108 - Needlepoint a Mitten
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| Marnie Ritter
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| Marnie has been a teacher, lecturer, judge and designer of the art form known as Embroidery for over thirty years. Her forte' is to continuously discover new and innovative techniques combining the above mentioned embroidery skills which she cheerfully shares with her students in an enthusiastic manner. Over the years Marnie has taught across the country for guilds and seminars. In 1990-91 she was the Co-Host for the public television series "The Needle Workshop". She has continued to work with Shay Pendray on the "Needlearts Studio" for PBS. Marnie is the Author of "Marnie Ritter's Canvas Patterns" Book 1 & 11 and "Embroidery My Way" in 1992, '93 and '94. A new book is on its' way.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
TT208 - Sew Together!
FT120 - Needlepainting on Canvas
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| Becca Robinson
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| Since 1994, Master Business Coach, Becca Robinson has been helping organizations realize their goals in terms of growth and customer satisfaction. Her professional, action-based coaching, dynamic presentations and customized training have challenged thousands of professionals to increase their communication, confidence, productivity and performance on the job. Becca recognizes that instruction must complete a task. She also addresses how people feel about their work, themselves and their relationship with others. Becca's extensive experience includes working with Corporations, CEO's, Doctors, Professionals, Sales Teams and Entrepreneurs including such companies as Morgan Stanley, International Coaching Federation, Lewan and Associates, Colorado Association of Realtors, Society of Telecommunication Consultants, Title America Inc., ReMax REal Estate, Kentwood Real Estate, Price-Waterhouse Cooper, The Denver Coaching Federation, TNNA, LIT and National Association of Organizers.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
TB209 - It's Okay To Be a Jerk
TB306 - Top Performers Are Coached Not Managed
FB109 - Passion, Skills & Failure - Everything You Need to Know to Start & Succeed in Business, But No one Would Tell You.
FB204 - Staying Out of the "O" Zone
SB109 - Top Performers Are Coached Not Managed
NB109 - Passion, Skills & Failure - Everything You Need to Know To Start & Succeed in Business But No One Would Tell You
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| Elisabeth Ryan
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| Lis teaches nationwide including TNNA, EGA, ANG, and has attended Callaway Gardens School of Needle Arts twice. Lis has been the proprietor of Stitches, Etc., in Westlake, Ohio for eleven years and is now concentrating on developing a larger curriculum for the retail business. Lis' professional teaching techniques and suggestions for general business subjects are discussed during classes as an added bonus that retailers can take back with them to their customers and stores.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
TT313 - Indian Girl Mini -Stand-Up
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| Julia Snyder
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| Julia grew up in her local needlepoint store where her mother, Patsye Hardin, worked. She started stitching at the age of four and has not stopped since. She has designed and taught classes for ANG, EGA, Needlepointers, Destination Dallas Market, TNNA Market, judging at the State Fair of Texas for several years and been a part of the Beaux-Arts Auction at the Dallas Museum of Art. She has been teaching for the past 12 years, since she and her mother opened Key Stitches. Along with stitching and teaching, Julia stays busy writing stitch guides for designers and clients. Some of the designers are Melissa Shirley, Strictly Christmas, Painted Pony, A Collection of Designs, Ewe Eye & Friends and The Studio. She wanted to put a book together that used most of the stitches that she used on a daily basis and include facts that so many stitchers do not know or have forgotten. So with collaboration over the last four years, 176 Amazing Stitches was born; and with the great success of it, book two will be out in June 2007.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
TT210 - Strictly Christmas Cabanna Santa
Sold Out - FT110 - Strictly Christmas Cabanna Santa
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| Jan Stahl
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| Jan is the owner of the very successful shop Crafty Lady in Macomb, MI. She served on the TNNA Board of Directors and is very proactive in educating the public regarding the needle arts.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
Sold Out - NB116 - The Best Kept Secrets of the Most Successful Shops
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| Elizabeth Talledo
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| Elizabeth is a designer/teacher with a BFA in Fine Arts and owner of Dames of the Needle and Finger Work. She teaches finishing, counted thread work, needlepoint and wool applique. She has been teaching finishing, decorative stitch and developing classes for local shops for 17 years. She has taught for EGA, ANG, Sampler Guilds and TNNA trade shows.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
TT207 - Beards, Hair & Fur- OH MY!
TT305 - Tassels & Cording
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| Cynthia Thomas
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| Cindy, The Needle Artisan, loved to play with material scraps in her grandfather’s tailor shop as a child. Out of this grew a love of all things needlework related. She learned to embroider at the age of six and began teaching needlework while in high school. She has taken numerous ANG and EGA sponsored classes. She currently teaches two open stitch classes a week and has taught at the local, regional and national level. Her work has appeared in Needlework Retailer and Stitcher’s World. She has over 100 commercial available stitch guides and has written hundreds of custom stitch guides.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
TT302 - Puttin' On the Glitz
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| Kennita Tully
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| Kennita is a freelance knitwear designer whose work has appeared in every major knitting magazine in this country such as Knitters, Interweave Knits, Family Circle and Vogue. She has also contributed articles to Cast On and INKnitters as well as designing for yarn companies. She now also designs and teaches for her shop,Wildflower Yarns and Knitwear, in Manhattan, KS.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
Sold Out - NT119 - Exploring Stitch Patterns for Felting
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| Phillipa Turnbull
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| Phillipa specializes in historic British crewel work, and her traditionally designed kits are now popular in many American shops. She is a designer, embroiderer, tutor, lecturer and author and teaches regularly at TNNA shows. Phillipa teaches and lectures in Castles, Country Houses and at Embroiderers' Guild Conventions in Great Britain and Ireland and in July 2005 was the International Tutor at the Koala Needlework Convention in Australia.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
NT105 - Historic British Crewel Work
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| Carol Ventura
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| While Carol served as a Peace Corps volunteer in highland Guatemala, she was inspired by the colorful tapestry crocheted shoulder bags made there. Since that time she has explored the design potential of the technique, developed a system of diagramming patterns and created a variety of flat and three-dimensional projects which she shares in her books Tapestry Crochet, More Tapestry Crochet and Bead and Felted Tapestry Crochet. For more information about Carol or tapestry crochet, please look at her Web page at www.tapestrycrochet.com.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
ST116 - Tapestry Crochet Necklace Pouch
NT115 - Tapestry Crochet Beaded Basket
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| John Waddell
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| John Waddell has been stitching for over 35 years and is a member of EGA, EAC, ANG and NETA. For the past eight years he has taught weekly open stitch classes in two different retail shops and developed and taught project classes for these shops. Currently he teaches three classes per week. He has completed numerous teaching assignments with both EGA and ANG Guilds locally in the Houston area and nationally. He has participated in numerous classes taught in the Houston area and at national seminars by national teachers and at Callaway Gardens, American Needlepoint Guild (ANG), Embroidery Association of Canada (EAC) and Embroidery Guild of America (EGA). John has taught classes at the national ANG and EGA Seminars, at Calloway and at The National Needlework Association (TNNA). Two articles of his were published in Needlepointers magazine March 2002 and July 2004. He is the past President of the National Embroidery Teacher’s Association (NETA).
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
TB206 - "Excel"-Ent Stitch Diagrams
TT304 - Luscious Lily
FT117 - Laid Fillings 101
FT208 - Background Enhancement
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| Joyce Renee Wyatt
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| Since learning to knit and crochet at the age of nine, this skillful knitter, crocheter, designer and teacher has gone on to win many awards. She designs for yarn companies and has seen many of her exciting designs and articles published in national magazines. She has taught many workshops and classes for West Coast knitting/crochet guilds, TKGA, CGOA, TNNA, Crochet Renaissance, and Stitches West 2003. Joyce Renee enjoys teaching crocheters to take a new approach with their crocheting. She also introduces exciting and innovative knitting techniques to crocheters, and helps them to adapt those techniques into crochet. She is a certified knitting and crochet instructor with the Craft Yarn Council of America.
Classes offered at TNNA Winter Show:
FT115 - Magic Square Patchwork Pizazz
Sold Out - ST115 - Catch the Garter Stitch
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