Tag: Tsukineko Inks

  • A trip to teach in Marin and a Threads of Resistance update

    A trip to teach in Marin and a Threads of Resistance update

    I just taught a workshop over the weekend at the Marin Needle Arts guild in San Rafael, CA which happens to be the town my friend Cara Gulati lives. Cara kindly offered to let me stay over to avoid a 2 hour early commute from Sacramento and the opportunity to hang out. Cara and I met…

  • 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…

  • Tsukineko inks in Redding, California

    Tsukineko inks in Redding, California

    Last week I drove 150 miles north of Sacramento to teach Tsukineko Inks in Redding, CA. It was wonderful to see so many art quilters in this area. As I teach in California, I’m starting to notice that it appears to me that there are more traditional quilters in the urban areas and art quilters in…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Gone to Carolina

    Gone to Carolina

    The first class I taught in Charlotte was Tsukineko inks. Wonderful students and wonderful work! . After class my host Debbie Langsam (right) and I drove to Moorseville to have dinner with my friend Karen Newman Fridy (left), who I first met about 7 years ago when my ex was working in Winston-Salem. We had…

  • Bee-lieving in productivity and abundance

    Bee-lieving in productivity and abundance

    Spring is all around us here with trees blossoming everywhere you look, I can’t help but feel inspired and after teaching in Visalia and before preparing for my next teaching gig in Amador county with a group of Northern California art quilters, I had a strong desire to paint. I knew I wanted my work…

  • Oh Canada! Your quilters put on a great show

    Oh Canada! Your quilters put on a great show

    Jan Krentz and I welcome you to the city of Niagara Falls This was my first trip to the Toronto area of Canada, I’ve been to the east and west sides of Canada, but that was many years ago, back when the border was less daunting. I had a relatively easy crossing, but after talking…

  • Teaching Tsukineko inks in Peachester, Australia

    Teaching Tsukineko inks in Peachester, Australia

    This is the very talented and lovely Bernadine Hine, a well known Aussie art quilter and she is the one I have to thank for the opportunity to teach in the town of Peachester (population 452) up in the mountains an hours drive north of Brisbane. This 125 year old town hall was the location of…

  • 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…

  • Fantastic 3 day Unique Stitching retreat in Canberra

    Fantastic 3 day Unique Stitching retreat in Canberra

    3 tired but happy teachers: Sue Dennis, Cecile Whatman and Me What a great retreat Cecile organized, and on very short notice too, I think she pulled off organizing and booking it in 3 months and it was a huge success! I was still transitioning to a time zone 7 hours different from my own…

  • The Australasian Quilt Convention

    The Australasian Quilt Convention

    This is the Royal Exhibition Building, the home of the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne. It was built in 1880 with a brick structure and wood interior, it has two floors and is in the shape of a cross. There’s no heat or airconditioning, and since fall was well underway it was a bit cool…

  • Tsukineko Inks at Road

    Tsukineko Inks at Road

    This is Gina, who was our one woman entertainment committee in the Tsukineko inks class, she has a fantastic sense of humor and kept us laughing all day, and she’s not only funny, she’s very talented too with a winning quilt in the show.     In this class we always start the day by…

  • 2 Great Tsukineko Inks Classes at Festival

    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…

  • Thursday: Tsukineko Inks Again and Dinner at 8

    On thursday, I taught a second Tsukineko inks class at festival and the good news is if you were trying to get in and didn’t, I had such a big waiting list, I have been invited to come back and teach it again in Houston next year. Dinner at 8 Sue Dennis, Rachel, Sue Bleiweiss,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Tsukineko All Purpose Inks in St. Paul

    My Tsukineko Inks class was a large one with 25 students. In this class I teach two different techniques for applying the inks to fabric.  In the first half of the class we use a dry brush method with the Fantastix applicators that are dipped into the ink. Using the Fantastix pen tools are kind…