Fashionistas:

Paper Dolls For Grown Ups

Workshop: Zoom (one hour pre-class + four hour class) or In Person (6 hours)

Use your imagination, fusible applique, conversational prints, free cutting and free motion applique to create a small single frame 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.

A She Shed Of My Own

Workshop: Zoom (one hour pre-class + four hour class) or 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.

Fashionista Postcards

Workshop: Zoom (one hour pre-class + four hour class) or 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.

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.

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.

Backart On the Flip Side 

Workshop: Zoom (one hour pre-class + four hour class) or 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