Tag: workshops

  • Join me for a workshop in 2025!

    Join me for a workshop in 2025!

    After taking a year off from teaching workshops on the road, I have two 5-day Ink, Print, Repeat workshops on the books for 2025. I can’t think of a better time to spend knee deep in creative mode making beautiful dyed and printed fabrics. Ink, Print, Repeat Explorations in textile pattern design using DIY acrylic…

  • Changes…

    Changes…

    2023 Happy NEW Year!!! I wanted to update you on my future of teaching in-person workshops on the road. A lot has changed over the last several years as the pandemic has lingered and we re-evaluate how and where we spend our time and energy. And we need to get used to the idea that…

  • New opportunities to get creative together!

    New opportunities to get creative together!

    Dare I say it out loud? I think we are finally coming to the end of the pandemic in the US and we can start getting together again and make stuff. YAY!!! I have 2 very exciting gigs on my calendar this year. The first one is at Prochemical and Dye, in Fall River Massachusetts…

  • Painting the hive

    Painting the hive

    My recent bee hive painting began with a piece of canvas that I had painted in a range of warm colors using fluid acrylic paint. Then I used a stencil to paint a pattern of hexagons over it in warm yellows, oranges and ochres mixed with some white, also using fluid acrylic. Then the canvas…

  • New Zealand 2020!

    New Zealand 2020!

    Kia ora! No place speaks to my heart so clearly, and fills me with as much inspiration as New Zealand, and with the help of Kerry Glen of Tulis Textiles, I’m planning a teaching there for February 2020. New Zealand’s pristine rocky beaches and rolling green hills remind me of Sonoma county, Northern California where…

  • 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…

  • Wanna jump start your creativity?

    Wanna jump start your creativity?

    Check out this roster of great teachers! offering lots of great quilting and mixed media classes. I’m thrilled to be teaching again at this super fun retreat. Here’s what’s on my Craft Napa schedule: Paint and Printapalooza 2-days Thursday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm Make your own personal fabric line! Learn a variety of techniques for creating…

  • 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…

  • You win some and you lose some, it’s all about perspective

    You win some and you lose some, it’s all about perspective

    BUSHWHACK Bushwhack: to cut a path through dense vegetation.  Inspired by patterns in nature, I saw each block like plant cuttings scattered on the ground. 40’ x 40” You may remember when I posted some progress photos of this quilt several months ago. I started to make it for sheer pleasure, but as I was sewing…

  • Is it just me? or do you also feel like time is flying by at break-neck speed?

    Is it just me? or do you also feel like time is flying by at break-neck speed?

    I’ve been so busy for the last couple months and unfortunately for me it’s not going to let up for several more weeks. Since the last time I posted, besides celebrating both my son and his girlfriends birthday, I had 2 teaching trips, designed an apron, am now preparing supplies for my classes at International Quilt Festival in Houston…

  • 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…

  • Feeling the love and creativity

    Feeling the love and creativity

    On the eve of Valentines’s day, I hope you’re feeling the love. Valentine’s day is the ultimate creativity infused holiday where we create a card, a gift or experience to express our love for those special people in our lives. I’ve been making a few, but more on that later, first I want to tell you…

  • Spend a week immersed in the ultimate creative exploration using Acrylic Inks with me!

    Spend a week immersed in the ultimate creative exploration using Acrylic Inks with me!

    Oh my gosh, what could be more wonderful than crisp cool mornings, fall colors, and uninterrupted creative time in the Great Smoky Mountains for a whole week! Sounds like heaven to me and it’s coming up soon! October 12-18, I will be teaching an  Acrylic Ink Textile Adventure at Arrowmont, and I keep thinking of new techniques to…

  • Exploring new directions with a variety of media

    Exploring new directions with a variety of media

    Recently I used acrylic inks to bring new life to a couple ‘finished’ pieces that, to put it simply, felt unfinished. I really love the way they look after adding a larger, more colorful, image. Each piece now has a dominant focal point painted with acrylic inks on top of a subtle, mainly monochromatic, background that was created with a variety…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • My bags are packed and I’m almost ready to go…

    I’m off to Australia for two weeks to teach 2 painting classes with Cecile Whatman of Unique Stitching and teach 3 workshops and demo techniques at The Creative Textile Show  2-4 May in Canberra. With Cecile, I’ll be teaching one of my favorite two day classes 10 Techniques with Acrylic Inks, 26-27 April. These are a few finished pieces I made from…

  • Highlights of the Brisbane Quilt and Craft Fair

    Highlights of the Brisbane Quilt and Craft Fair

    What a great show! It was really wonderful to be at the Brisbane Quilt and Craft Fair the week following teaching in the Sunshine Coast and the 2 day workshop for the Queensland Quilters, because it felt like a steady stream of friends kept stopping by to say hi. Sue Duffy and Brenda Wood were…