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Kathy McNeil is a fearless quilter (would you cut up your wedding dress?), and as a longtime critical care nurse, she is very aware of the health benefits of quilting.  She uses a variety of techniques to create the effects she desires.  Need a color that you don’t have?  Kathy shows how to heat set crayons to create any fabric color you need.  She achieves different looks depending on whether she sets them while wet or dry.  She then shows how to build a landscape or pictorial quilt by creating collage units.  This allows her to move around the elements before finalizing the design.  Her choice and use of fabrics will change the way you look at them.  Her unique style extends to elements of her home as well.  Then, Ann Harwell creates precision cut and pieced masterworks, inspired by nature and images from the Hubble telescope.  She shares her technique for piecing with pins directly in the seam.