Tag: International Quilt Festival Houston

  • Teaching at International Quilt Festival

    Teaching at International Quilt Festival

    I’m a bit late getting this blogpost written, but my life has become a lot busier now that I’m working in the makerspace 4 days a week. I’m also furiously prepping for my upcoming trip to New Zealand, organizing a teaching trip to Australia next July, getting things ready for a full exhibit of my…

  • Blessing in the wind: making prayer flags at quilt festival

    Blessing in the wind: making prayer flags at quilt festival

    I’ve been really looking forward to sharing the photos from the Prayer Flags class with you, not only because it is such an optimal time to make them with all the turmoil over the election among other things, but because the flags my students made came out amazing!!!   We began by creating colored fabric using acrylic…

  • Tea for 23

    Tea for 23

    At Festival on Wednesday I taught Tea & Ephemera, this is a fun class with momentary periods of creative frenzy. Here everyone is printing thermo-fax images on their fabric. This is followed by drawing on tea bags, collaging them along with a variety of other printed and textured papers onto fabric, painting and coloring the tea…

  • The long and winding road

    The long and winding road

    I’m long over due in sharing about my time at Quilt Festival in Houston, but I’ve been having a hard time writing about something that was so fun and happy when I feel like I’ve been hit with a ton of bricks. I’ve run through dozens of first paragraphs in my head over the last week trying…

  • International Quilt Festival is coming…

    International Quilt Festival is coming…

    and there’s just 2 days left for online registration (October 7), but that doesn’t mean you still can’t sign up for classes when you get there. I’m teaching 3 classes this year, one of them twice, and it’s very likely I won’t be teaching at festival next year since I’m scheduled to teach in New…

  • 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…

  • Succulent Love

    Succulent Love

    I have always loved succulents and cacti. Years ago when I lived in Los Angeles, I had a pretty big collection, but I had to give them away when I moved across country. Now that I’m back in California and in a drought, I’ve given up my thirsty garden and have been accumulating succulents again.…

  • Are you going to IQF Houston this fall?

    Are you going to IQF Houston this fall?

    I am! and I think the festival catalogs are in the mail, so I wanted to give you a heads up on the classes I’m teaching this year. Wednesday, Oct 28 Painting with Tsukineko All Purpose Inks -6 hours In this class you’ll master blending and shading, mixing colors, creating light and dark colors, learn how…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • International Quilt Festival, Houston enrollment starts Monday!

    International Quilt Festival, Houston enrollment starts Monday!

    Check out the class catalog, it’s that time already! I have a really full schedule again this year with 6 classes and a lecture. and Enrollment starts July 15th. Monday, October 28 Color Theory #123 Do you find yourself choosing the same ‘tried and true’ color combinations over and over? Do you want to learn how to mix exactly the color…