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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
Central Coast Quilters, Arroyo Grande CA (In Person)
April 25, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
April 26, Workshop: Fashionistas: Paper Dolls for Grown Ups +Word Salad
Santa Clara Valley Quilt Association, Campbell, CA (Zoom)
May 22, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
May 23, Workshop: Fashionistas: Paper Dolls for Grown Ups
Parajo Valley Quilt Association, Santa Cruz, CA (Zoom)
June 12, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
June 10, Workshop: Fashionistas: Paper Dolls for Grown Ups
Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, England (In Person)
August 3, Demo: Word Salad
August 4, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
August 4 & 5, Workshop: Fashionistas: Paper Dolls for Grown Ups
August 5, Demo: Dupioni Silk Necklace and Earrings
August 5, Workshop: Japanese Cats for Your Amusement
Canyon Quilters, San Diego CA (In Person)
September 18, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
9/23, Workshop:Fashionistas: Paper Dolls for Grown Ups + Word Salad
Valley of the Mist Quilt Guild, Temecula, CA (In Person)
October 10, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
October 11, Workshop: Fashionistas: Paper Dolls for Grown Ups
North Cities Quilt Guild, Yorba Linda, CA (In Person)
October 24, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
October 23, Workshop: Fashionistas: Paper Dolls for Grown Ups
Quilt Festival, Houston, TX (In Person)
November 3, Friday Sampler—Japanese Cats for Your Amusement,
November 4, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends jjjjj
2024 Lectures & Workshops
Sierra Gold Quilters, Volcano, CA (In Person)
February 14, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
February 15, Workshop: Fashionistas: Paper Dolls for Grown Ups
Kaleidoscope Quilt Guild, San Diego (In Person)
April 17, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
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