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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
Handout Fee (full color -- 1 page) $3
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!
2026 Lectures & Workshops
Hemet Valley Quilters, Hemet, CA (In Person)
October 27, Lecture: Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girlfriends
2025 Lectures & Workshops
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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