Ask Helen Squire

Welcome! 
As a quilt teacher, designer of quilting patterns, guest lecturer, auctioneer, and Q & A columnist for three decades, Helen Squire has the experience to answer your questions on quiltmaking. From her early quilting book, Dear Helen, Can You Tell Me…?, to the Helen’s Hints column in American Quilter magazine, she has continued to provide quilting advice and quilting designs for today’s quilters in her own unique style.

Lectures and Workshops
Helen’s “historical” one hour lectures on quilting are often called “hysterical”! Her informative facts about quiltmaking are presented in a humorous, light-hearted manner meant to entertain, as well as educate, today’s audiences by acknowledging the talents and skills of yesterday’s quilters. Choose from three titles, “If Quilts Could Talk - Would We Listen?”, the traditional “Quilt Appreciation: How Quilting Makes the Quilt, and “Helen Squire Live!”. 

From beginner student to professional quilter, everyone wants to know more about quilting patterns! Helen’s quilting classes (and her quilting books) provide students with patterns for hand quilting, as well as the continuous line quilting patterns useful for machine quilting, including long arm machine quilting. As an experienced quilt teacher, Helen Squire can custom-plan her classes to the needs and skill level (beginner, intermediate, and advanced) of your individual group, guild, retreat, get-together, and/or quilt show and quilt convention. 

All day workshops, as well as half-day lectures/demonstrations are available. Choose from among five classes on quilting designs, including the more universal “Helen's Hints for Quilting UFOs”, a great crowd-pleaser with active audience participation. 

See the Lectures section of our site or call 1-270-559-7070 for information about bringing Helen to your area to give lectures, teach quilting classes, and provide workshops to your group. 

CDs and Books
Helen Squire is well known for her eight books in the Dear Helen series of quilting patterns. The American Quilter’s Society has released three companion CD-ROMs entitled Create & Print with Helen Squire: Hand & Machine Quilting, Helen’s Print & Use Quilting Patterns and Helen's Mix & Match Quilting Patterns. These CD-ROMs are in response to quilters nationwide asking for additional sizes and reversed repeats of their favorite quilting designs. See the Products section of our site for information about each of Helen’s quilting books and CDs.

Biography
An entrepreneur since 1973 when Quilt-In: Lessons* Supplies* Designs* by Helen Squire was incorporated, Helen has been an active participant in the growth of the quilt industry as a designer, lecturer, teacher, and television consultant. For the past ten years, she has written Helen’s Hints: Creative Quilting Designs for American Quilter magazine, and is best known for her Dear Helen quilting books - her eighth in the series was recently published - Quilting UFOs with Helen’s Hints.

Now retired from her position as vice-president of sales and marketing for the American Quilter's Society, Helen continues to design, teach and lecture while still maintaining a home and studio in Paducah, Kentucky, Quilt City, USA.

A national and international quilt teacher, lecturer, and emcee of quilting events, she is presently booking speaking engagements for 2009-2010 and beyond. Please contact her for a current fee schedule.