About Us
The Origin Story
Quiltster was created by software developer Billy Niemeyer after years of growing up in the quilting industry alongside his mother, Judy Niemeyer, founder of Quiltworx. What began as a solution to help Quiltworx shops and customers better visualize quilt projects, eventually evolved into Quiltster, an independent online Quilt Planner and Marketplace designed for quilters and quilting businesses across the industry.
That unique combination of quilting expertise and software development helped shape Quiltster into a tool designed specifically for the way quilters actually plan projects.
While Quiltworx operates as its own company and Quiltster partners with many brands across the quilting industry, the early collaboration between the Niemeyer family and the Quiltster development team helped bring the platform to life.
While Quiltster has grown into its own independent company, the close collaboration between Quiltster and Quiltworx continues today, helping create tools and experiences inspired by the real-world needs of quilters, quilt shops, designers, and fabric companies.
Built Together with the Quilting Industry
Quiltster was shaped through collaboration with quilters, quilt shops, designers, educators, and industry professionals who understand the challenges of planning quilts, coordinating fabrics, and bringing creative ideas to life.
It's for Quilters
Experiment with fabrics and preview your finished quilt before buying supplies.
It's for Quilt Shops
Create kits without sewing samples, help customers choose fabrics, support classes, and inspire new ideas.
It's for Pattern Designers
Extend pattern visibility and offer quilters an interactive, memorable planning experience.
It's for Fabric Companies
Showcase collections with digital samples for catalogs, marketing, and shop planning.
Meet the Quiltster Team
The people behind Quiltster, working every day to support quilters and grow the platform.
Billy Niemeyer
Owner & Architect
Billy Niemeyer is the Owner and Architect behind Quiltster and founder of Giantsource, Inc.. Growing up in a quilting family gave Billy a unique understanding of the challenges quilters face when planning projects and visualizing fabrics. Inspired by a need his mother, Judy Niemeyer of Quiltworx, saw within the quilting industry, Billy developed Quiltster to make quilt planning more creative, intuitive, and accessible for quilters around the world.
Deborah Breckenridge
Marketing Director & Business Manager
Deborah serves as Quiltster’s Marketing Director & Business Manager, leading customer experience, industry partnerships, and brand strategy. From partner relationships to customer support and educational content, Deborah plays an active role in shaping the Quiltster experience to help quilters and industry partners get the most out of the platform.
Colby Palmer
Chief Technology Officer
Colby serves as Quiltster’s Chief Technology Officer, overseeing the development team and technical strategy behind the Quiltster platform. With expertise in startups, online marketplaces, and e-commerce technology, Colby plays a key role in transforming real-world quilting needs into intuitive digital experiences for quilters and quilting businesses.
Founding Industry Collaborators
Quiltster was built alongside leaders in the quilting industry. These collaborators continue to play an active role by helping guide, test and refine the platform today.
Judy Niemeyer
Owner & CEO of Quiltworx
Judy Niemeyer is the founder of Quiltworx and creator of a series of foundation paper-piecing techniques that help quilters of all skill levels create intricate, heirloom-quality quilts. Her vision for simplifying the quilt planning process helped launch the early development of Quiltster, giving quilters the ability to confidently move from planning to finished project through an interactive digital experience.
Judel Niemeyer
Business Manager of Quiltworx
Judel Niemeyer worked closely with the Quiltster development team during the early development of Quiltster’s Quilt Engine, helping refine the logic behind the platform’s automated yardage calculations. Her quilting expertise and attention to detail helped shape the accurate planning tools Quiltster users rely on today.
Brad Niemeyer
Pattern Designer of Quiltworx
Brad Niemeyer played an important role in helping transform technical pattern line art into Quiltster’s interactive digital quilting experience. His innovative approach to translating pattern structure into a visual planning system helped quilters confidently experiment with fabrics and color placement while maintaining an accurate representation of the finished quilt.
Built by the Industry. Powered by Quilters.
Quiltster continues to grow through the ideas, feedback, and support of quilters, quilt shops, pattern designers, fabric companies, educators, and industry partners.
Together, we’re helping quilters plan with confidence, explore new possibilities and bring more beautiful quilts to life.
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