Needle-Turn Appliqué Workshops
Blooming Flowers
All Levels
12" x 12"
Learn how to make perfect needle-turn curves and sharp points. You will learn how to make the 1/8" bias bars for the stems. You will also be able to make flower centers that appear to be stuffed. Embroidery enhances the flowers.
Friendship Flowers
Intermediate and up
21" x 21"
Learn the techniques for making several flowers using the needle-turn appliqué method. The flowers appear to have stuffed centers using my methods. Bias bars are used for the stems of the leaves in the corners. Embroidery enhances the designs.
Rhythmic Hues
Intermediate to Advanced
28" X 28 ½"
Experience the pleasure of needle-turn appliqué when you make this quilt. Learn the importance of light/dark relationship to balance your art and keep the eye moving. Notice how the 1/8" bias vein adds a graceful flow and pulls all the elements together.
Hand Appliqué Class
Cyclamen
Intermediate and up
16 1/2" X 21"
Learn to manipulate colors to bring life to this delightful bouquet of flowers. You will learn to make perfect concave and convex curves and sharp points. The stems are made from bias strips.
Hand Quilting Workshops
Drafting Feathered Quilting Designs
All Levels
Learn how to draw and design your own feathered quilting designs. It is fun and easy. Make your quilting design totally your own! No more looking in books or stores for a design that is never quite right. The first half of the workshop I will teach you the design technique. The second half you can bring your quilt in and I will help you decide on the design you can draw.
Trapunto
All Levels
Achieve the skill to add beautiful trapunto to your quilts with no markings on the top of the quilt. Trapunto adds another element to the quilt design and added beauty to the quilt.
Hand Quilting
All Levels
Preserve the art of hand quilting. You will learn how to mark your quilting design and the different batting types. I will guide you through the process of achieving even stitches by rocking your needle and how to save your fingertips while you are doing it.
Lectures
Tips On Making A Blue Ribbon Quilt
Discover the important details the judge is looking for so your next quilt will wear a blue ribbon. Within driving distance I will bring a trunk showcase and share my award winning quilts with you. For greater distances I will bring slides or a powerpoint presentation.
Stitched By Hand
Discover how my quilts come to life. This is a digital presentation on how I get ideas, design, dye fabric, hand appliqué and hand quilt.