Create on Maui: A Quilter's Retreat is the brainchild of Dee Conlon of Dee's Quilt Designs. After years of encouragement by friends in the quilting and tourism industries, she decided that 2015 is the year to start this venture. In addition to Dee, several Hawaii-based quilt designers and teachers will be lending a hand in making Create on Maui a success. We hope you will join us!  Dee Conlon Dee has been a quilter since the mid-1970's, and turned to teaching and designing quilts after leaving behind her life as a computer consultant and moving to Maui in 2001. Along with her patterns, magazine articles and books, Dee is also known for her unique Maui Hand Dyes, many of which have been used by renowned quilters and fiber artists. As the technology for wearable electronics has evolved, Dee has begun to incorporate lights in her work.  Kathleen Kastles
Born
and raised in Denver, Colorado, Kathleen Kastles' quilts pull
together several life threads. Her sewing career commenced when
as a girl aged six, a women gave her a bag of fabric scraps, asking
Kathleen if she'd like to make doll clothes from them. Kathleen
went on to make clothes for her family. Kathleen earned a B.A. from
Colorado State University, majoring in painting. A career in
art photography was followed by a Psy.D. degree from the University
of Denver and she became a psychologist. Upon retirement,
Kathleen and her husband moved to Maui to be near her son and his
family. |