Tag: International Quilt Festival

  • Tuesday: Tsukineko All Purpose Inks

     All my classes at festival were full with 25 students and such a treat to teach, so much incredible work was produced. This is the work of the youngest student I have ever had in any of my classes at festival, beautiful! huh? She’s 17, from England and a total delight. I was so lucky…

  • Back home from International Quilt Festival

    My first night in Houston I met up with a few of my favorite witches Susan Bruebaker Knapp and Robbi Eklow. Our coven gathered in the bar at the Hilton and then went to dinner over at The Grove. It was a special night since it was the start of my week at festival and…

  • It’s that time again!

    On All Hallows Eve, I fly to Houston for a week at International Quilt Festival. With so much luggage I will have to skip the broom this time and travel by more traditional methods on Southwest airlines. To get into the swing of things Monday night, Indigo and I will be having dinner with a coven…

  • Surviving the Runway Long Beach: The Fascinator

    Pokey’s latest theme for Surviving the Runway, at International Quilt Festival, was inspired by the hats worn for formal occasions in Britain, such as the royal wedding, called a fascinator. All the participants were given a flocked black fedora to fashion into a fascinating head piece. The Tim Gunn’s for the event were: Jane LaFazio,…

  • A Spot of Tea in Long Beach

    My last class in Long Beach was Tea & Ephemera, where everyone works with drawing and painting on tea bags, collaging; printed abaca paper, decorative art papers, napkins and old garment patterns, bits of text from books and foreign newspapers and iron on ink jet transfers made with TAP. Then another layer of visual texture…

  • Heavy Metal in Long Beach

    Heavy Metal Play Day is a day of fun and exploration; embossing and adding color to metal in a variety of ways, working with both aluminum and copper. It was another great workshop at International Quilt Festival. Tweet

  • Tsukineko Inks at International Quilt Festival, Long Beach

    My first day teaching at festival, I had a full class with 24 students and a lot of wonderful work was produced using Tsukineko’s All Purpose Inks. We always start by using a dry brush method; dipping the fantastix tool in to the ink and working on white fabric and then progress to using paint…

  • Hanging The Space Between Exhibit

    Wednesday morning, Leslie, Jamie and I packed a van and a car full of quilts, suitcases and supplies for teaching and headed to Long Beach to check in to the hotel and hang The Space Between exhibitthey curated. We hung 40 quilts in record time, it probably helped that I’m so tall I could skip…

  • Come play with Decolourant at Festival in Long Beach

    I’m flying south to meet up with my good friends Leslie Jenison and Jamie Fingal today! Then we’re off to Long Beach for Festival on Wednesday! Thursday night July 28th, at 7pm, at International Quilt Festival, I am doing a Make it University workshop using DeColourant.  DeColourant Discharge & Color Sampler We’ll make freezer paper templates and…

  • Woo hoo! Just got notice

    Oh Deer, Look What’s Become of me! will be heading to Houston for International Quilt Festival! Tweet

  • Are you going to International Quilt Festival Long Beach?

    Are you going to International Quilt Festival Long Beach?

    July and International Quilt Festival, Long Beach will be here before you know it. I am so excited, I love being in Southern California and teaching in Long Beach. The class catalog is out and registration has begun, so I wanted to let you know I will be teaching three classes this year. Thursday, July…

  • Houston International Quilt Festival 2011

    Between delayed blizzard mail and working on several writing projects I am finally getting around to announcing my classes for International Quilt Festival in Houston this year. I am so excited to tell all the people who tried to get into my Tsukineko Inks class in Houston last fall but didn’t, that I am teaching…

  • Thanks everyone for another great year at festival!

    A few random photos Melly, Lindsey, Jane, Me, Leslie, Jamie and Pokey Jane and Me Robbi and Laura Leslie Pokey and Me Melly Pokey Frances, Robbi and Rachel Nina Leslie  Salvador Melly  Me  Leslie, Melly, Jane, Helen, Pokey, Lindsey, Me and Jamie in the Quilting Arts booth Thanks Houston! See you next fall.

  • IQF Day 5 Part 2: Surviving the Runway- Carmen Miranda Style

    All the photos in this post are by Nina Perez The Surviving the Runway Action League Pokey, Melly, Me, Jane, Jamie and Leslie While channeling Tim Gunn, our job is to pass out supplies to participants for creating their wearable item, assist in challenges and design consultation. We take this job very seriously. . Melly…

  • IQF Day 5 Saturday Part 1

    Barb Forrister and Kathy York stopped by to say hi after I finished my session of Open Studios Saturday morning. Leslie, Me, Pokey and Jamie stopping for another photo op Kristin Rodriguez owner of Fiber on a Whim and Jane Davila, who always have booths next to Make It University are always up to some…

  • IQF Day 4

    IQF Day 4

    Friday began with demoing free motion quilting and promoting my new DVD; Design, Paint & Stitch in Open Studios. Art quilter, blog friend and fellow art school college alumni Kristin LaFlamme stopped by to say hello with her daughter Katja.   Me, Melly and Australian art quilter Sue Dennis after Melly’s lecture on inspiration. In…

  • IQF Day 3

    On Thursday I participated in the Mixed Media Miscellany which was pretty interesting. Two hours of live continuous demo to 240 people circulating in one of the convention center ballrooms, set up with tables for about 20 artists all demonstrating different mixed media techniques. Sorry I don’t have any photos, I totally forgot to take…

  • IQF Houston Day 2- Color Theory

    Wednesday I taught color theory.  I have had an online version of this class running for the last couple years, so it was very interesting to do the class for the first time to a room full of students. I really didn’t know how much we would be able to accomplish in 6 hours considering…