 Introducing
Sharla R. Hicks
Sharla Hicks gives lectures
and workshops on "quilting" and "computer quilting" that
are strengthened by her 25 year background in sewing, computer skills, and teaching
many types of arts and crafts. In 1981, Sharla taught her
first quiltmaking class and in 1990 added computer quilting to her repertoire.
Sharla brings 30 years of expertise in using the the sewing machine to teach good
piecing, applique, quilting, and embellishment. Sharla
returned to school 1988 and earned her Associate in Arts from Fullerton College.
As a quilter and teacher first and an art student second, she quickly
incorporated this education into her teaching. Her goal as a teacher is to help
each quilter find his or her own individual expression by using color and design
to create exciting quilts in both traditional and innovative styles. In
1994, Laguna Art Museum in Southern California asked Sharla to develop a hands-on
computer quilting lab in conjunction with the exhibit Lit from Within: Amish
Quilts from Lancaster County. She wrote a computer slide show defining what
made a Lancaster County Quilt unique in the Amish world and trained 13 computer
techs to man four computers during the duration of the four month exhibit. In
1996, 1997, and 1998 she staged the computer quilting lab with 21-35 techs and
7-9 computers at the Crossroads Quiltshow in Southern California (in conjunction
with Road to California Conference). Sharla continues to be an educator
and leader in the computer quilting world and has developed her Computer
Quilting Made Easy Books for today's quilting software to take the pain
out of learning the programs. To date, she has 5 books on the topic published
and has established an Internet Resource website for Computer Quilters to find
quilting software at reasonable prices and how-to information at their finger
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