Linda Luggen
Quiltmaker, quilt teacher, lecturer, designer, NACQJ Certified Judge and currently NACQJ Secretary, Linda Luggen has spent over thirty-five years sharing her knowledge of quilts and quiltmaking. She designs many of her own appliqué patterns. Her color sense and multi-layer techniques have led her to a new world of freedom in creative appliqué designs that she loves to share.
Her quilts have won awards nationally and have been published in Lady’s Circle Patchwork Quilts, Great American Quilts and Quilting Quarterly. Her home and quilts were featured in Romantic Homes. Her article on judging was published in the NQA Quilting Quarterly and in the Vic Quilter (a Victoria, Australia quilt magazine). She wrote an article for Quilters Newsletter Magazine about Sunshine Joe Mallard, a quilt artist who spreads influential messages through his quilts. She was also a guest on the Pat Sloan radio talk show. She has taught seminars and lectured nationally. At a Cincinnati Fall Flower Show at Coney Island she was the featured artist, displaying 20 quilts pertaining to flowers and nature.
She has served as Secretary, Vice-President and Program Coordinator, and President of the Ohio Valley Quilters Guild. She worked as co-facility coordinator for the Sew Near To My Heart Quilt Show in Cincinnati.
Linda is a judge for the National Association of Certified Quilt Judges and has served as Nominating Committee Chairman and Chairman of the Midwest Judges Retreat. Currently she is Secretary for the NACQJ.
Kimberly Einmo
Kimberly Einmo is an author, award-winning quilter, designer, international instructor and quilt judge. She has won many prestigious awards including Best Modern Quilt for “Fire and Ice” in 2014. She has written six best-selling books and hosted five very popular online courses on CRAFTSY. Kimberly is a featured EQ Artist for the Electric Quilt Company and has proudly represented several prestigious groups as one of Janome’s top Artisans, as a Bernina Ambassador, and as a Pfaff Sewing Star. She loves to travel and has visited almost every state in America and travelled the world extensively to lecture and teach. Most of all, she loves to meet quilters from around the world and share her joy and passion with everyone. Next, Kimberly is excited to design a fabulous new fabric line!