Category: Learning
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Nancy Crow workshop: Potpourri: days 1 & 2
Do you remember those thirty mini compositions I made a couple weeks ago? I made them to prepare for another luxurious week at Nancy Crow’s Timber Barn last week. It really is such a treat for me to go. Back when I was still working for an engineer full time, I remember pouring over each…
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Thirty mini compositions
For the last several years, I have been trying to work more improvisationally. After seventeen years of doing computer drafting as a job, I became very left-brained. I honestly wonder how I ever became an artist. Aren’t artists supposed to be right-brained? Naturally, I know that an artist can really be either right-brained or left-brained,…
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Nancy Crow workshop: Lines, Curves, Shapes; days 4 & 5
By Wednesday afternoon I wanted to totally leave behind everything I had done so far and I was eager to start the final project. Nancy gave us our final assignment, and once again I just couldn’t wrap my head around all of the variables. I will definitely sleep all day and all night for an…
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Nancy Crow workshop: Lines, Curves, Shapes; days 2 & 3
A funny thing happened on Monday night. We went to bed, all tucked up in our little RV, when we noticed something terribly wrong with our very comfy, very reliable air mattress. It started getting rather flat. Sweet hubby valiantly tried to re-inflate the poor thing at 1 in the morning, but by morning it…
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Nancy Crow workshop: Lines, Curves, Shapes; day 1
Monday morning started a little “late.” Technically, class starts at 9 AM, but during the week the classroom opens at 7 AM for people to work on their own before class starts. On Monday, the first day of class, everyone was there by 8:30, eager and ready to start. So, Nancy gave us our assignment:…
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Nancy Crow workshop: Lines, Curves, Shapes
I’ve just returned from another workshop with Nancy Crow. What a privilege! I feel so blessed that I live so close and have been able to learn from her. We have such an abundance of great instruction in our area, but many of the great teachers are getting close to their retirement years. I want…
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Review of 2012
Here’s my review of 2012 (DD#2’s idea), but I’m going to start a few months earlier because I especially like those events. 🙂 So, in addition to speaking and teaching at fifteen quilt guilds in less than two years, writing twelve articles for Quilting Arts during that same time, and making three trips to California…
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How to prepare for a week long workshop
If you ever need to organize lots of fabric to take to a class, here’s one way you could do it based on what I’ve finally figured out after attending three five-day workshops. For a Nancy Crow workshop, for instance, she wants you to bring LOTS of fabric because you need a really wide range…
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Nancy Crow workshop: sets and variables, days 3, 4, and 5
Now for the second part of last week’s Nancy Crow workshop. We finished up the first assignment on Wednesday morning. Mine wasn’t complete, but after lunchtime I folded it up anyway and got ready for the second assignment. This time she wanted us to concentrate on gradations in size and color. We were supposed to…
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Nancy Crow workshop: sets and variables, days 1 and 2
What? Another Nancy Crow workshop? Spend an entire week sitting in a barn in the middle of nowhere? I must be crazy! What am I doing in a workshop where I’m actually sewing seams? And I’m loving it, too. If someone is familiar with my quilts, inevitably they ask why I am taking these classes…