Collage Quilter- Emily Taylor

Emily is a self-taught artist, fabric designer and quilter. She has been a creative entrepreneur in both the home decor industry and quilt industry for 20+ years. Emily has been featured on QVC and has won multiple awards for her murals.

Emily first became involved with the quilt industry in 2009 as a fabric designer. She also developed a free quilt design website, PatternJam.com. For Emily, collage quilts represent the perfect fusion for art and quilting!

She is the author of Collage Quilter: Essentials for Success with Collage Quilts, and Take Flight: Fun with Textile Collage.

When not in her studio overlooking the beautiful Wasatch Mountains, Emily is an avid outdoor thrill seeker and loves to ski, mountain bike and hike with her husband and three children near their home in Sandy, Utah. See more of Emily's work or contact her at CollageQuilter.com

Hand Quilter Jerry Dunbar

Jerry was born and raised in SW Louisiana, Cajun Country, where he watched his great grandmothers, grandmothers, and great aunts participate in Quilting Bees. This sparked an interest in quilt making and in 1982, after inheriting his grandmother's 1951 Singer sewing machine, he pieced his first quilt.

Jerry's mom taught him the basic skills of hand quilting. Taking his first and only class in 1986, new techniques, ideas of design and color began to work their way into his quilting.

Still hand quilting, Jerry feels he is continuing the craft and traditions of his relatives.

Jerry's quilts have won Best of Show for Use of Color and Design and Hand Quilting at the AQF Festival of Quilts and also has quilts in the juried Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. Two newer quilts will hang in the National Men's Quilt Show in January, 2026.

Quilt Historian / AQS Certified Appraiser- Sandra Starley

Sandra is a nationally certified quilt appraiser, historian, researcher, quilt collector, lecturer, designer and instructor. She maintains an extensive collection of both antique quilts (early, unusual and masterpieces) and research materials and is active in the American Quilt Study Group and Quilt Alliance.

She presents trunk shows on quilt history / dating and antique quilts as material culture. She enjoys reproducing quilts from her collection, especially in small scale. She's won national awards for bother her antique reproductions and has been part of several traveling exhibits and has quilts featured in national quilt magazines and several historical quilt books.

Read her blog at utahquiltappraiser.blogspot.com