Jacquie Gering

Kansas City MQG

Since discovering quilting five years ago, Jacquie has become a passionate quilt maker and designer. She is known for her "out of the box" designs and unique style. Her work has been featured in both national and international publications, and she is the co-author of Quilting Modern: Techniques and Projects for Improvisational Quilts. Jacquie is a passionate advocate for modern quilting and brings 30 years of teaching, staff development and leadership experience to the Modern Quilt Guild Board. As co-founder and former president of the Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild, she helped build a dynamic, vital guild and her experience in guild structures, membership and programming is an asset to developing the MQG at the national level. She is now a member of the Chicago MQG. Jacquie blogs and shares her quilting knowledge on her popular blog, Tallgrass Prairie Studio and lives in downtown Chicago with her husband and black lab, Bruno.

Email: jacquie@themodernquiltguild.com

Cheryl Brady

Kansas City MQG

Cheryl brings to the MQG board twenty plus years of organizational coaching and partners with education and non-profit groups, often facilitating strategic plans that enable organizations to create a preferred future while being responsive to diverse members. She is happiest when creating, either in the world of ideas or the arts. She currently serves as scholarship/grant chairman of the Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild. Cheryl lives in Kansas City with her husband who is befuddled by the accumulation of fabric and is the proud mom of a son and daughter.

Susanne Woods

Board Secretary, Individual Member

Susanne has been a quilter since college. She has almost 20 years of book publishing experience including initiating the launch of Stash Books for C&T Publishing, leading the creative department at Interweave Books and joining Craftsy as their Category Manager in quilting. Always at the forefront of innovation, she was asked to join the MQG board for her quilting industry knowledge, early identification and support of the Modern Quilting movement, and ability to communicate the goals of the MQG within the context of the quilting industry as a whole. She lives near Boulder, CO with her husband and two young boys. She blogs at beyondthekids.com and tweets at @craftyeditor.

Email: susanne@themodernquiltguild.com

Carole Lyles Shaw

Region 4 Rep., Sarasota MQG

I am a quilter, quilt pattern designer, teacher and writer. I am the co-founder of the Sarasota Modern Quilt Guild and I run the Florida Modern Quilt Retreat. My quilts have been published and exhibited in the U.S. and internationally. Modern quilting inspires me to be free, creative and bold!

Carole represents Region 4 on the Board of Directors.

Email: carole@themodernquiltguild.com