Finishing Festival with Some Flash
My last class at festival was Heavy Metal Play Day which focuses on learning a variety of ways to emboss and color metal. We worked on aluminum and copper with the creative metal tool kit from from Walnut Hollow. So many fun samples!
A Fiesta of Ornaments
Teaching my class on how to make Fiesta Ornaments is always so much fun because you get a little taste of everything. We paint, do a little quilting and decorative stitching, sew metal and do some beautiful decorative embossing, and at the end of the day students go home with a beautiful ornament and the [...]
Painting Imagery With Textile Paints
The next class I taught at festival was painting with textile paints. In this class we use Pebeo Setacolor textile paints and cotton fabric. In this class students learn to paint backgrounds, use freezer paper masks, paint gradations, paint lines, dots and details, and glaze paint to create more visual depth, among many other things.
2 Great Tsukineko Inks Classes at Festival
I’m long over due posting about my week teaching at International Quilt Festival in Houston (I’ve been focused on trying to find a place to live) but I’d like to start off by saying I had a fantastic time in Houston and my students produced incredible work. I taught two classes on painting with Tsukineko [...]
It’s done!
I returned from Houston on Sunday afternoon, packed up the rest of my belongings and the movers showed up tuesday morning. I gave our lawyer power of attorney to attend the closing and by 4:30 in the afternoon I handed the keys over to the new owners of our loft. I’m on the road now [...]
