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Word Salad, Fashionistas & Girlfriends
Lecture: In Person or Zoom (1 hour)
Hilarious! Fun! Entertaining! Amusing! A colorful and playful celebration of women, femininity, their lives, friendships and romantic relationships, real and imagined that reflect my love of novelty fabric, storytelling, strong women, run-on sentences and traditional quilting. All told through single and four-frame cartoon quilts and larger than life-sized Angry and Not So Angry Women.
Fees:
Lecture (Zoom or In Person) $450
Six Hour In Person Workshop $700
Four Hour Zoom Workshop* $500
One Hour Add On Demo $150
Handout Fee (full color -- 1 page) $3
*Taught In 2 Sessions:1 hour + 3 hours
General Information:
No design or drawing experience needed for any workshops. Just be open to new ideas, having fun and exploring creativity.
Sewing Machines Optional!
Fashionistas:
Paper Dolls For Grown Ups
With a Splash of Word Salad
In Person Workshop Only (6 hours)
Create your own found poem and tell your story using your imagination, fusible applique, conversational prints, free cutting and free motion quilting to create a single-frame cartoon quilt featuring your own unique fashionista. Learn how to set a scene, draw figures, style hair, create dresses, shoes and handbags.
Finished Project: 8" - 14". No UFOs!
A Fashionista & Her Cottage
In Person Workshop Only (6 hours)
Using the House on the Hill block, your own unique Fashionista, along with
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.
Finished Project: 12"x12" or 8"x8"
No UFOs!
Fashionistas:
Paper Dolls For Grown Ups
Zoom Workshop Only (4 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". No UFOs
Word Salad
Zoom Workshop Only (4 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" No UFOs!
Not So Mindless Scrap Quilts With a Splash of Backart
In Person Workshop (6 hours) or
Zoom Workshop (4 hours)
Using glue or a sewing machine,
explore the design possibilities of abstract or pictorial busy, bold and bodacious, large scale prints while making traditional blocks. Learn how to efficiently cut and piece blocks, then organize them so they sparkle. Continue using wild fabric for your back, binding and border.
Finished Project: 34" x 34" or larger.
One Hour Add Ons
Demo Only. In Person or Zoom.
*Word Salad*
*Not So Mindless Scrap Quilts*
*Cats for Your Amusement*
Learn how to make small cats ideal for a paperweight or gift. Includes fabric selection and detailed demonstration of construction techniques. Pattern included in handout.
2025 Lectures & Workshops
Antelope Valley Quilt Guild, Lancaster, CA (In Person)
January 19, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
Los Angeles County Quilt Guild, Downey, CA (In Person) February 19, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
El Camino Quilters, Oceanside, CA (In Person)
May 13, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
May 14, Workshop: Fashionistas: Paper Dolls for Grown Ups
Quilt Show Reno, NV (In Person)
June 7, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
All American City Quilt Guild, Santa Maria, CA (In Person)
September 10 (Evening), Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
Santa Maria Valley Quilt Guild, Santa Maria, CA (In Person)
September 10 (AM), Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
September 11, Workshop: Fashionistas: Paper Dolls for Grown Ups
East Bay Heritage Quilters, Albany, CA (Zoom)
September 29, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends October 25, Workshop: Not So Mindless Scrap Quilts
Bear Valley Quilters, Los Osos, CA (In Person)
November 14, Workshop: One Fabric Three Ways
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