Teacher Member Information and Listing

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

ScissorsBetsy Bauman is a teacher and artist whose love of fabric, drama and history led her to the theatre and a career as a costume designer. She brings her knowledge of fashion history and sewing construction together with her sense of color, line, and shape to help the actors tell a story that will express something universal about what it means to be human. These are the same things that draw her to working as a quilt artist.

“I am inspired by the history and tradition of quilting, and I collect antique quilts to study and to enjoy. This respect for the past is the springboard for the quilts I make. Although I use the same basic structure as quilters from the past, I am not trying to decorate a bed or provide warmth, but rather I seek to tell a story or express an idea. My quilts are playful and whimsical, and I think viewers will see my theatrical background in them, as well.”

Betsy began making quilts in 2000, and since then her quilts have been juried into national exhibitions such as the American Quilter’s Society shows at Paducah, Lancaster, and Grand Rapids, Quilt Odyssey in Hershey, PA, as well as shows in Vermont and Indiana, and locally at Lake Farm Park, the Rocky River Reflections of Nature Shows, and Mutton Hill in Akron. She also lectures on Quilt History and other quilt-related topics.

  • 2189 Lincoln Avenue, Lakewood, OH 44107
  • 216-209-1171
  • Email: baumanea@hiram.edu
  • Membership active thru 1/15/2026

Cindy Kay Casciato

ScissorsPlease 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 new lectures and a Trunk Show.
    • Pre-Cuts with Cindy
    • 10-12 quilts with Demos and techniques

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

Melissa DeLisio

Melissa is a Fiber Artist who practices a wide variety of surface design techniques including traditional Turkish marbling, hand painting, Shibori, cyanotype and eco dyeing. She has been marbling over 18 years.

She has appeared in four episodes of Quilting Arts TV and her work has been published in Quilting Arts Magazine, Belle Amoire Magazine and Mingle Magazine.

Every piece of fabric created is uniquehttps://www.neorqconline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Melissa-DeLisio-Bio-Information.pdf and one of a kind.

Melissa is available for guild programs and teaching workshops.

Additional Bio Information is available here: Melissa DeLisio Biography Information

  • 7117 Garden Place Drive, Poland, OH 44514
  • 330-720-3768
  • Email: melissadelis@yahoo.com
  • Membership active thru 1/15/2025

Leslie Gicei/Josie Prokop, Teacher Through Hidden Stitches

Leslie Prokop and Leslie Gicei design and teach their quilt patterns through Hidden Stitches, LLC.

Josie has over ten years of experience and Leslie has been sewing for fifty years.

Josie resides in North Royalton, OH and Leslie resides in Broadview Heights.

Heidi Herzog-Dietz, Teacher Through Appliques, Quilts and More

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K. C. Howell, Teacher Through Little Red Quilt House

KC has twenty years plus in the Quilt World (has quilted since 1976 with time off for college). She is willing to share what she knows and is active in her guild.

KC is able to teach: general piecing techniques, unusual piecing: Giant Dahlia, Double Wedding Ring, paper piecing

Available for guild presentations and workshops.

Contact the Little Red Quilt House to set up a presentation or workshop that fits your needs.

Lucy Kulbago | Sew4Service, Teacher through Sew4Service

  • 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 1/15/2025

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 1/15/2025

Diane McElwain

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  • PO Box 247, Randolph, OH 44265
  • Phone: 330-807-2393 
  • Email: McElwainQuilts@gmail.com
  • Website: To be furnished at a future date by D. McElwain
  • Facebook: McElwain Quilts
  • Membership active thru 1/15/2026

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.

Laura Nolletti

  • Experienced quilter and teacher, Laura Nolletti has won numerous "Best of Show" awards at the local and state level.
  • Paperpiecing, One Block Wonders, and Bargello style quilts are some of her favorites.
  • She offers workshops and guild presentations.

Cindy Zlotnik Oravecz

  • Teaches how to create quilts and clothing with dimension and texture using ribbons, fabric, hand embroidery, French trim and embellishments.
  • She has taught across the U.S. and Europe.
  • She has appeared on HGTV"s Simply Quilts.
  • She is owner of Quilter's Fancy, a quilt and embellishment store in Cortland, Ohio.
  • She has authored 4 books and created two rulers on her dimensional surface techniques for fabric and ribbon flowers on quilts.
  • Around her hometown of Cortland, she is just known as the person to talk to if you want to talk quilts.

Terry Simon, Teacher Through Simon's Sewing

  • Teacher through the Simon's Sewing

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 1/15/2025

Victoria Stauffer, Teacher Through Pomegranate Place Ltd.

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.

Kathy Wolf

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  • Quilting for 30+ years
  • Works with panels using self-taught thread painting
  • Taught at NEORQC Getaways 2015, 2106
  • Provides trunk shows and classes of thread painting techniques using fabric panels.
  • Belongs to Sew Happy Carnation Quilt Guild, Alliance, OH
  • 1732 Lilly Lane, Alliance, OH 44601
  • Email: Kathy Wolf
  • Membership active thru 1/15/2026