Tag: workshops

  • International Quilt Festival Long Beach: Day 1

    It was really great being back in Southern California, such a nice break from Chicago’s humidity and I love catching up with so many friends here. My first class at festival was Mixed Media Painted Fabric, we had a cavernous room to spread out and work in. I really enjoy this class because, each person uses the…

  • An Ornamental Fiesta

    Try your hand embossing and sewing metal, painting fabric and quilting. This is a fun class loaded with techniques. Inspired by Mexican tin folk art, these fun and festive ornaments incorporate painting with textile paints, quilting, embossing and sewing metal. an ornament can even have doors. Here are some examples of the beautiful ornaments made by students in…

  • A trip to DeKalb, IL

    I have lived in Chicago almost 5 years and sadly I had not been more than 30 miles west of the city, until Thursday when I drove out to give a lecture and teach a workshop to the DeKalb Country Quilters guild. It was a challenging drive with one of the freeways under construction slowed…

  • Tutorial Tsunami day 4 the wave hits shore

    A tutorial for printing on tea bags I have a large bowl that sits on my counter that I toss my tea bags in after I use them. When it gets to the point where it is overflowing, kind of like now, I tear each one open and dump out the tea. Then I flatten…

  • I have 2 New Workshops at Create!

    It looks like  Create is really taking off and classes are filling up. My workshop Tea and Ephemera filled last week and as a result of its popularity, another Tea & Ephemera class has been added on Thursday night! Tea & Ephemera Your mixed media cup will runneth over when you join me Thursday evening…

  • Mixed Media Painted Fabric with the Rose City Quilters

    The Rose City Quilters of Palmerston North booked me to come to New Zealand to give a lecture at their Quilt show, judge their quilt challenge (yikes, that was out of my comfort zone, not that giving a lecture is but at least I have done that a few times) and give a workshop. These…

  • Auckland workshops

    This is a group shot of my first class with the Auckland Patchworkers and Quilt Guild teaching Tsukineko Inks. We had a great day with our class just down the road from Glens at a boating club. The following day we moved to another part of Auckland to have the painted whole cloth fabric class.…

  • Are you going to Quilt Festival in Chicago this week?

    I am going on friday and saturday and will mostly be in the Make it University area making art with my friends. I will be doing Open Studios on friday 2:30 – 4:30 and again on Saturday 12:30 – 2:30. On Saturday at 3:00, I will be leading an MIU workshop making an embossed metal…

  • A new mixed media retreat you won’t want to miss!

    the Premier Mixed-Media Retreat in 2010, August 25-29, Rosemont, Ilinois This fall Cloth Paper Scissors will host an event that will celebrate artistic expression through Mixed-Media unlike any other. CREATE with Cloth Paper Scissors is a new Retreat that will bring together inspiring artist instructors and enthusiastic participant artists of all levels for an exciting…

  • Dallas

    I had a great time in Dallas this last weekend, sorry it has taken me a while to get to writing a blog post about it, but the last several days have been pretty hard. I have felt so scattered lately, I was really happy I managed to remember to bring everything I needed to…

  • Festival: where to begin…

    It has taken me a couple days to catch up with life enough to start writing a blog post about our adventures in Houston. I have been to Festival every year for the last 13 years, this trip was a lot of fun but way more exhausting than any trip I have ever taken. Teaching…

  • One month until Copper book retreat!

    If you are like me you have been feeling that low grade stress building for months. I know I could really use a little creative get away. Want to spend a weekend in the woodlands of Wisconsin making copper and canvas mixed media books with me? The weekend of August 8-9, I will be sharing…

  • Sewing plastic bags

    That’s right, I am sewing plastic bags. I am putting kits together for my MIU Metal Magic workshop for Long Beach. In the kits I include 4 mini brads with all the other supplies. During my last workshop a few people lost a brad when opening the kit.I looked to see if I had some…

  • Collage Kits

    Don’t you hate it when you get to a class and realize that you don’t have enough stuff to choose from or what you brought is not what you really want to do? Well, I am happy to provide an option for people to supplement their stash, I have made these fun kits for my…

  • Wanna get away?

    and spend a summer weekend in the woodlands of Wisconsin making copper and canvas mixed media books with me? I have been invited to share my process for making these books at Whispering Woodlands in Verona, WI August 8-9, just outside of Madison. Besides having a fun, relaxing weekend doing collage, painting, working with fabric…

  • North Suburban Needle Arts Guild

    This week I gave a lecture and taught two workshops for the North Suburban Needle Arts Guild. What a great guild, there are quilters, doll makers, beaders, knitters, etc., basically all kinds fiber artists. I taught Painting Fabric for Whole Cloth Quilts the first day and using Tsukineko Inks the second day. Because I consider…

  • International Quilt Festival Chicago

    Are you going to quilt festival this spring? I will be teaching two classes at IQF Chicago in April. On Thursday April 16th, I am teaching a three hour class on Tsukineko Inks. I will demonstrate two different methods for working with the inks; the dry brush method using the fantastix foam applicators, blending colors…

  • Riverwalk Quilters Guild

    This week I gave a lecture and taught a workshop making Fiesta Ornaments at the Riverwalk Quilters Guild. The weather was lousy but the spirits were high. A wonderful adventurous group willing to move out of their comfort zone painting and sewing metal.Beautiful ornaments were made by all.