Quick Look Back

My Des Moines 'Dozen Ways' workshop took place in "big sky" country, and we had "big room" space to work in as well. I can't remember when I've had such a glorious classroom to spread out, so well lit, and easy to move around. It was a joy, and I believe the DMAQG knows how lucky they are. 
 

Her Smile Says It All

I love this shot of digging in to work, and loving the challenge at hand. I've spent three days teaching a room packed to the gills with great people in Augusta Maine. We took on improvisational design, composition, and techniques for transferring designs. All good.

Design Day

Twenty-five intrepid quilters met me in Maine Quilt Festival for a day with a dozen design ideas. We sewed, cut, pasted, and reassembled our way to many sketches useful for future works. It was all about composition. And a bit of fun.

Art Quilt Class 101

Friday was a "Dozen Ways: Design for Abstract Art Quilts," a kind of boot camp forgene rating ideas for works. Fun, for sure, but difficult as well. Making one "sketch" seemed easy, three not so much. But in the end, the results and ideas were grand

Packin Junk

Next week the workshops at Quilts 2016, the 25th Annual Quilt Show at Farmpark outside of Cleveland, will have my Dozen Ways: Design for Art Quilts. I'm adding some non-traditional elements for experimenting. Can you spot the shower curtain, the Yupo paper, and the deer fence?

Taking Notes

Not much glamor in getting stuff ready for a class. I'll be off to Sarasota in a little more than a week, and looking forward to the workshop "A Dozen Ways: Design for Art Quilts" with the Friendship Knot Quilters' Guild. Plus, I'm hoping to get a few days of respite from this cold north.