Tag: 10 Textile Techniques with Acrylic Inks

  • A trip to Denver and the Arapahoe Quilters

    A trip to Denver and the Arapahoe Quilters

    Last week, I flew out to Denver to teach a workshop with the Arapahoe County Quilters, but left a day early to get in a visit with my good friend and old art school roomie Tracy DuCharme who lives on a ranch south of Denver with a pack of llamas, a flock of chickens and…

  • 10+ Techniques with Acrylic Inks workshop in Sacramento

    10+ Techniques with Acrylic Inks workshop in Sacramento

    As much as I love traveling to fun places to teach, there’s nothing better than teaching close to home! This weekend I taught a 2 day class at Meissner’s Sewing in Sacramento. This is my second time teaching at Meissner’s, it’s such a great place for workshops. They have a nice big classroom with a…

  • 10+ techniques with acrylic inks in Mobile, Alabama

    10+ techniques with acrylic inks in Mobile, Alabama

    What a great week I had in Mobile. I have never spent any time in Alabama aside from driving through it on a road trip when I was 13 so it was fun to see this part of the country. The 3 day acrylic inks workshop was booked by a group of art quilters that…

  • 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…

  • 10+ Techniques with Acrylic Inks in San Luis Obispo, CA and a New Quilt for Yvonne

    10+ Techniques with Acrylic Inks in San Luis Obispo, CA and a New Quilt for Yvonne

    On August 12-13, I’ll be teaching a 2-day acrylic inks workshop in San Luis Obispo at SLO Creative Studio. I’m really excited about this not only because it’s a beautiful area of California and I get to visit an old high school friend, but also because it’s my favorite class to teach! There really is nothing better than…

  • I have so much to catch up on!

    I have so much to catch up on!

    I’ll try to get caught up over the next week or so, but it’s going to take several posts to get there. When I got back from Madison, WI, after close to 2 months on the road, I got together with a couple girlfriends for a fun day of wine tasting in Lodi, just south of…

  • A short detour to Madison to share my love of painting with acrylic inks

    A short detour to Madison to share my love of painting with acrylic inks

    When my old friend Pat Kroth found out that I was going to be in Omaha she asked if I could make a detour to Madison, Wisconsin and do an acrylic ink workshop with her  group the Madison Contemporary Fiber Artists. How could I refuse? I just wish it didn’t have to be such a short visit, I…

  • 6 days of art making with a Smiling Turtle in Omaha

    6 days of art making with a Smiling Turtle in Omaha

    What a lot of trips I have to catch up on, the last 2 months have been a whirlwind. Now I’m home for a bit and will try to catch up on a few before I fly to Denver on Friday for my college roommates wedding/art school besties reunion.   Back in April I flew to Omaha to…

  • My Fabulous Trip to Florida: Part two

    My Fabulous Trip to Florida: Part two

      I have so many wonderful memories of my time at the Focus on Fiber Florida retreat held at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach. I felt so spoiled when I saw the little cabin that was my home away from home during my time at the retreat.   This was my…

  • Woo hoo, I’m a cover girl!

    Woo hoo, I’m a cover girl!

    This is the image I just received of the next issue of Machine Quilting Unlimited that I wrote an article for. I was told that if you get a new subscription by February 10th, this issue will come with your subscription. To get 10% off your renewal or subscription on print issues, use promo code MQUSPECIAL to…

  • The very first Craft Napa retreat was a tremendous success!

    The very first Craft Napa retreat was a tremendous success!

    My car was packed to the gills when I drove away from my house for Craft Napa with my daughter Indigo, who was working as staff photographer for the event. We stopped on the way to pick up my recently retired mom (78 years old) who was signed up for a watercolor class with Jane…

  • Better late than never, right? My week teaching at International Quilt Festival

    Better late than never, right? My week teaching at International Quilt Festival

    I’ve been so busy the last couple weeks but things are finally slowing down enough to share about my time at festival. Teaching at International Quilt Festival is always a whirlwind of a week with lots of hard work and lots of good fun. I love catching up with so many friends all in one place. My week at festival started…

  • I guess it’s no surprise I love painting with acrylic inks and I love sharing what I’ve learned with my students!

    I guess it’s no surprise I love painting with acrylic inks and I love sharing what I’ve learned with my students!

      . and it’s so gratifying to know that the people I teach feel that too. Thank you Rocky Mountain Creative Quilters for inviting me to beautiful Colorado so I could share my passion for painting with you! 🙂 ~+~ I was very happy to see a nice review of my 10+ Techniques with Acrylic inks book in…

  • A working trip back to my childhood home

    A working trip back to my childhood home

    I had so much fun on this last trip. I flew into Boston and met up with my younger sister Beth who lives in Massachusetts. These paintings of my dads were hanging in Beth’s house. My dad was a Naval engineer, who designed steering mechanisms for nuclear subs, but he liked to draw historic houses with pen and…

  • 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…

  • 2 Days of Acrylic Inks with the Queensland Quilters

    2 Days of Acrylic Inks with the Queensland Quilters

    What a great time I had with the Queensland Quilters! We spent two days immersed in acrylic ink, creating some really amazing work. x One of my students Donna, is an amazing poet, after painting two beetles she proceeded to write an incredibly humorous poem to go with it, and then she did a reading…

  • Another International Quilt Festival has come and gone

    Another International Quilt Festival has come and gone

    It has taken me about a week and a half to recover from the last month and a half of travels and teaching, so I’ve been a bit slow to get back to blogging since I got home. I  have quite a few photos from my time in Houston, so I’m going to write several…

  • I am so excited about this!

    Join me for an Acrylic Ink Adventure at Quilt Camp in La Grange, Texas next June 7-9, 2013!!! organized by the wonderful folks at Quilts Inc. Spend a weekend filled with surface design exploration! Begin with creating colorful textured backgrounds, explore mark making with different kinds of stamps, draw with inks using quill type calligraphy and ruling pens. Paint imagery opaquely…