Category: student work

  • Come along on a virtual tour of New Zealand with me

    Come along on a virtual tour of New Zealand with me

    Now that we’re all house bound, I can’t think of a better time to do some armchair traveling, so follow along with me over the next couple months while I share weekly posts on each location I visited on my trip to New Zealand. I left Sacramento on January 27th, after 2 years of planning…

  • This weeks agenda: winding down from Craft Napa and gearing up for New Zealand!

    This weeks agenda: winding down from Craft Napa and gearing up for New Zealand!

    Wow, another great Craft Napa is over. I love having a place like Craft Napa where I can teach both textile and non-textile themed workshops, since I really enjoy both. I have been unpacking and repacking, tying up loose ends and finalizing trip details non-stop this week, but before I jump on a plane I…

  • Painting and A Spot of Tea in Sonoma County

    Painting and A Spot of Tea in Sonoma County

    I had a lovely diversion teaching two workshops in Santa Rosa last weekend, oblivious to the horrors unfolding in other parts of our country until I returned home. On Thursday, I drove to beautiful Santa Rosa, a small city in Sonoma county about 2 hours from Sacramento, that I lived in for 3 years in…

  • My weekend with Tea and Llamas

    My weekend with Tea and Llamas

    Last weekend I flew to Colorado to give a lecture and teach a workshop. My trip did not get off to a good start because my flight was delayed 6 times since the night before LAX had a 3 hour power outage which screwed up the schedule for any plane flying threw LAX, which is…

  • Fiesta Ornaments just in time for the holidays

    Fiesta Ornaments just in time for the holidays

    I taught my last workshop of the year at Meissners Sewing in Sacramento this weekend and it was so fun to teach my holiday inspired project of Fiesta Ornaments. I began teaching this as a workshop after I wrote an article for the first issue of Quilting Arts Gifts Magazine in 2007. Since that article…

  • Quilting in the Garden

    Quilting in the Garden

    Last week I taught a workshop in Livermore, California in conjunction with a show called Quilting in the Garden at Alden Lane Nursery. In this workshop we used textile paints to paint floral imagery on fabric. We covered painting backgrounds, smooth gradations, glazing, painting fine details, how to avoid paint bleeding, and many other things. It’s kind…

  • Slo times with Acrylic Inks

    Slo times with Acrylic Inks

    As I prepare to drive to Redding this morning I wanted to pull together the last of my post about my trip to San Luis Obispo to teach 10+ Techniques with Acrylic Inks. I’ve been facebook friends with Janet Mease for a number of years, so it was really fun to meet her face to…

  • Just when you think you’re up for a bit of down time, life happens

    Just when you think you’re up for a bit of down time, life happens

    Wow, it has been an action packed 3 weeks since I last checked in. I had two teaching trips and then made an unplanned trip to San Diego right after I got back from Denver, because my step dad David collapsed and hit his head at the Del Mar race track on his way to collect on…

  • Tsukineko inks in the foothills

    Tsukineko inks in the foothills

    I had a great time teaching in Auburn, California last week. Auburn was an old gold mining town, an hour northeast of Sacramento, up in the foothills of the Sierra. It’s a lovely town built on rolling hills dotted with Redwood trees overlooking the valley below, with a nice little historic Old Town. I gave a lecture Monday evening and…

  • A lovely 3 day retreat in the Hudson River Valley and a fun and fast trip to Houston, Texas!

    A lovely 3 day retreat in the Hudson River Valley and a fun and fast trip to Houston, Texas!

    I was so excited to teach at the Hudson River Valley Fiber Arts workshop an hour from Albany, NY, a week ago. Many of my friends have taught at there, and I’ve always heard the best things. The Greenville Arms was built in 1889 and consists of a large 3-story house with a dining room,…

  • My trip back to the third coast

    My trip back to the third coast

    I flew to Chicago to give 2 lectures and teach a day and a half Tea & Ephemera workshop for the Prairie Star quilt guild in St. Charles, Illinois. Before heading out to the burbs, I reunited with a group of good friends that regularly met for dinner at my old loft. Our group initially started meeting for artist play dates, and a potluck…

  • My road trip to Fresno, CA… 3 days after returning from Australia

    My road trip to Fresno, CA… 3 days after returning from Australia

    I used to look at the crazy schedules of my friends who also teach and wondered how they coped with big trips back to back, but now that I find myself occasionally in the same boat, the answer is; you just do it. When you love making art, teaching and need to pay the bills, there really isn’t…

  • The Creative Textiles show in Canberra

    The Creative Textiles show in Canberra

    I’ve been so busy since I came back from Australia. 3 days after I came home I was on the road to central California to give a lecture and teach a workshop and for the last week I’ve been catching up with my kids, dealing with an on going health problem of my daughter, spending some time…

  • A blast of creativity and fun in my workshops with Unique Stitching

    A blast of creativity and fun in my workshops with Unique Stitching

    The last 3 weeks have been a whirlwind. I taught 2 classes with Unique Stitching, 3 classes at the Creative textiles show in Canberra, flew home from Australia on May 5th then drove to Fresno on May 8th, where I gave a lecture and taught a painting class. I’m just now catching my breath and able to…

  • My week in Austin

    My week in Austin

    What an amazing trip I had to Austin, Connecticut and New York, then unfortunately immediately on my return I got the flu, but I’m happily on my way to wellness again and ready to start sharing my adventures with you. The weekend I arrived in Austin, I taught two classes with the Austin Area Quilt…

  • Getting manic about the metal and having fun embossing it too

    Getting manic about the metal and having fun embossing it too

    One of the great perks about teaching on the road is that I get to travel to some really cool places and meet wonderful people along the way. When I was in Brisbane I gave a couple lectures to the Queensland Quilters guild and met the lovely woman on the right Anne Andrews at the…

  • Painting with Tsukineko Inks at Festival

    Painting with Tsukineko Inks at Festival

    Another great day was had in the ever popular Tsukineko inks class. It was a full class with 25 students who produced a lot of really beautiful work. Painting classes can be a challenge because there are a variety of skill levels and comfort zones in the same room. The biggest hurdle is to help…

  • It was a day filled with amazing paintings

    It was a day filled with amazing paintings

    Each morning I get a horoscope in my email. I generally take these with a grain of salt and just think of it as a fun way to start the day, but this one was just the thing to read before my painting class. I think ‘I‘ turned out to be the ‘right‘ person, because…