fees:

lecture                                    $350

one day workshop                    $600

two day workshop                  $1200

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.

 

 

 

 

fashionistas:

paper dolls for grown ups

a one day workshop

 

Using your imagination, fusible applique, conversational prints, free cutting and free motion applique, create a small single frame scene featuring your own unique fashionistas.  You will learn how to draw figures, style hair, create dresses, shoes and handbags.

 

Finished Project:  8" - 14" finished piece with one or more fashionistas that can be framed.

a she shed of my own...

a one day workshop

 

Using your imagination and sense of humor, create and decorate your own personal hideaway, real or imaginary, a cottage or a cabin or anything else, using fusibile applique, conversational prints and free cutting.  Use thread and free motion quilting to create texture and transform your fabric.  Figure is cut from a commercial print.

  

Finished Project:  18" x 18" or smaller wallhanging.

fashionista postcards...

a one day workshop

 

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 fashionista and her she shed

a two day workshop

 

This fun and playful workshop combines Fashionistas: Paper Dolls

for Grown Ups and A She Shed of Her Own and your own found poem using words found in your fabric or your own using free motion quilting.  Day 1 is design; Day 2 is sewing.

  

Finished Project:  18" x 18" or smaller finished wallhanging  that can be framed or hung.

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word salad

a one day or half day workshop 

 

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" x 14" finished piece with one fashionista.

 

backart on the flip side ...

a one day or half day workshop

 

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

 

2019 lectures & workshops

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LA County QG, Downey, CA. June 29 Lecture 

   June 20 Workshop: Paper Dolls for Grown Ups 

San Fernando Valley QA, Northridge, CA. Jul 7 Lecture

   Jul 9 Workshop: Backart on the Flip Side

TLC Quilters, Covina, CA. July 11 Lecture

SLO Quilters, San Luis Obispo, CA Aug 12 Lecture

Orange Grove QG, Fountain Valley, CA Aug 14 Lecture;

   Aug 15 Workshop: Paper Dolls for Grown Ups

Almond County QG, Paso Robles, CA. Sept 6 Lecture

   Sept 7 Workshop: Paper Dolls for Grown Ups

South Bay QG, Torrance, CA. Nov 19 Lecture

   Nov 20 Workshop: Word Salad

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2020 lectures & workshops

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Orange County QG, Orange, CA.  May 12 Lecture; May 13 Workshop:  TBD

Crazy Quilters QG, Laguna Woods, CA.  Feb 12 Lecture

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2021 lectures & workshops

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Surfside Quilters, San Clemente, CA. Oct 12 Lecture; Oct 13 Workshop:

  TBD

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