Mark Lipinski

Mark Lipinski

Mon. - Thurs. Aug. 17-20, 2009

Class: "Mystery With A Twist"
www.marklipinski.com
$ 60 surcharge

The Bio
Or, who is that guy named Mark Lipinski?

You will be hard pressed to find a more entertaining lecture personality and enjoyable quilting class than one taken with national quilt teacher and quilt designer, Mark Lipinski. Called the bad boy of quilting, Marks' no holds barred, brutally honest, riotous PG-13 talks are half quilting and all stand-up comedy. As a designer, Mark's work has been seen in McCall's Quilts, McCall's Quick Quilts, Quiltmaker, American Patchwork and Quiltings Quilts and more, The Quilter and Fabric Trends magazines and has been a guest on HGTV's Simply Quilts.

He has also launched a line of his own quilting patterns, called The Quilts of Pickle Road. Mark has been commissioned to design products and workshops for IslandBatiks (Bali and California), M&S Textiles (Australia), Langa Lapu (South Africa), Wrights EZ Tools, Libas Limited Silk and the Prym Dritz Company. Mark has also designed a line of fabric for Troy, named Katmandu, which made it's debut at the Fall 2007 Houston quilt market.

His work with a senior citizens group won the "Viewer's Choice" award at the The State Guild of New Jersey Quilt Convention (the largest all volunteer show on the East Coast) and had been commissioned by The National Council of Jewish Women to design, teach and construct a quilted huppa (a wedding tent or canopy) project for the group which has been completed.

A veteran, Emmy Award nominated and Cable Ace Award winning, talk show producer and programming executive, he worked on shows such as Oprah, The View, The Joan Rivers Show, Attitudes and Ricki Lake (to name but a few). Mark has also conceived and developed an innovative magazine for quilters named Mark Lipinski's Quilter's Home, which is published by CKMedia and is available on newsstands and by subscription.

Locally, Mark is the past Vice President of the State Quilt Guild of New Jersey, the past Vice President and Quilt Airing Coordinator for The Common Threads Quilters, and member of The Nubian Heritage Quilters, The Garden State Quilters and The Brownstone Quilters.

On a national level, Mark is a member of the Quilt Professionals Network, Studio Quilt Art associates, and the American Quilter's Society.

A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mark has called home to San Francisco (where he was a social worker at The Childrens Hospital of San Francisco and headed up the milieu program for the Adolescent Day Treatment Center), Miami, Chicago, and Manhattan.

Mark and his family moved from the hustle and bustle of New York City into a historical 1864 fixer upper in Long Valley, New Jersey where he raises honey bees and laying hens when hes not being called to his design studio (where his family will one day find him dead and crushed by the too many bolts of fabric and years worth of magazines and books that he has, cant throw away,
and will never use).