Bill Kerr ~ Oak Park, IL

Bill Kerr is co-owner of FunQuilts along with his wife,Weeks Ringle. He is passionate about teaching design to quilters and expects his students to be both exhausted and exhilarated at the end of each day. His interest is in helping quilt makers develop the ability to give form to their own ideas rather than teach them how to make quilts that look like his. He hopes to become the little voice in your head that coaches you to make design decisions long after his workshop is over.

He uses his art degree and graduate design degree to create quilts and design fabric that are expressive of the time in which he lives. Bill and Weeks’ work has been featured in O:The Oprah Magazine, Metropolitan Home,TIME,The New York Times, Interior Design, Country Living, American Patchwork & Quilting and dozens of other publications. At their FunQuilts studio in Oak Park, Illinois, Bill and Weeks have designed more than 100 fabrics for FreeSpirit.Their fabrics and their three books, Quiltmaker’s Color Workshop,The Modern Quilt Workshop, and Color Harmony for Quilts, are available internationally.They have written and designed for American Patchwork & Quilting and Quilts Japan.

Currently they are designing and marketing Many Hands Blankies which are made in Chicago at CARC, a job-training organization for developmentally disabled adults.