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Word Salad, Fashionistas & Girlfriends
Lecture (Zoom or In Person)
Fun, entertaining, and amusing with Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girl-friends and a few Angry and Not So Angry Women, I chronicle how quilting frames and tells the story of my real and imagined life and my love of storytelling that took me from fashion design to traditional, hand-pieced miniatures to quilts to sleep under to cartoon quilts to fashionistas and angry and not so angry women.
Fashionistas:
Paper Dolls For Grown Ups
(Optional -- With a Splash of Word Salad)
Workshop: Zoom (one hour pre-class + 4 hour class) or In Person (6 hours)
Use your imagination, fusible applique, conversational prints, free cutting and free motion applique create a small cartoon featuring your own unique fashionistas. Learn how to draw figures, style hair, create dresses, shoes and handbags.
Finished Project: 8" - 14" with one or more fashionistas.
Fees:
Lecture (Zoom or In Person) $400
Three Hour Workshop $400
Five Hour Zoom Workshop $600
Six Hour Workshop $700
Handout $8
(full color w/patterns & instructions)
General Information:
No design or drawing experience needed for any workshops. Just be open to new ideas, having fun and exploring creativity.
Word Salad
Workshop: In Person (6 hours)
Create your own found poem or story using words found in your fabric collection in this creative, playful and fun filled workshop adding your own fashionista storyteller or a preprinted figure to complete your story. Your poem or story can be as long or as short as you like.
Finished Project: 8" -- 12" finished piece with one fashionista.
Fashionista Postcards
Workshop: In Person (6 hours)
Create a whimsical postcard collection using fusible applique and conversational prints to design, outfit and accessorize your own fashionistas using free cutting and free motion quilting.
Finished Project: A collection of 3" x 4" postcards suitable for framing.
A She Shed Of My Own
Workshop: In Person (6 hours)
Using your imagination and sense of humor, create and decorate your own personal hideaway, real or imaginary, using fusible applique, conversational prints and free cutting. Thread and free motion quilting create texture and transform your fabric. Figure is cut from a commercial print.
Finished Project: 12" -- 18" or smaller wallhanging.
Not So Mindless Scrap Quilts
Workshop: Zoom or In Person (3 hours)
Using a glue stick or the sewing machine, create a wall hanging while exploring design possibilities of abstract or pictorial busy, bold and bodacious, large scale prints to make traditional blocks. Learn how to efficiently cut and piece blocks and then organize them so they sparkle.
Finished Project: 34" x 34" or larger wallhanging.
Backart On the Flip Side
Workshop: In Person (3 hours)
Explore creative solutions and experiment with new ideas for quilt backs that address fabric shortages, leftover strips and blocks, and enlarged design elements. (Backart - On the Flip Side, Leone Publications, 1991).
Finished Project: One day class - pieced quilt back; half day class - ideas and concepts only
2023 Lectures & Workshops
Quilt Festival, Houston, TX (In Person)
November 2, Creative Variety Forum: Word Salad Creating Found Poems
November 3, Friday Sampler: Japanese Cats for Your Amusement
November 4, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
2024 Lectures & Workshops
Annandale Quilters, Annendale, VA (Zoom)
January 17, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
February 21, Workshop: Word Salad
Citrus Belt Quilters, Redlands CA (In Person)
January 26, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
Sierra Gold Quilters, Volcano, CA (In Person)
February 14, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
February 15, Workshop: Fashionistas: Paper Dolls for Grown Ups
Riverwalk Quilters, Naperville, IL (Zoom)
March 12, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
Coastal Quilters Guild, Golita, CA (In Person)
March 14, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
March 15, Workshop: Fashionistas: Paper Dolls for Grown Ups
Kaleidoscope Quilt Guild, San Diego (In Person)
April 17, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
Amador Valley Quilters, Pleasanton, CA (Zoom)
May 11, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
Columbine Quilt Guild, Columbine, CO (Zoom)
June 10, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
Pine Needles Quilt Guild, Wrightwood, CA (In Person)
June 11, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
Ladies of the Lake Quilters, Lakeland, FL (In Person)
September 20, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
September 21, Workshop: Not So Mindless Scrap Quilts
2025 Lectures & Workshops
El Camino Quilters, Oceanside, CA (In Person)
May 1, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
May 14, Workshop: Fashionistas: Paper Dolls for Grown Ups
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