Category: Learning
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Nancy Crow workshop: lines and curves, days 3, 4 and 5
We spent the better part of three days on our final, big project. We each made sixteen 20″ square quarter circles, which will eventually come together as an 80″ by 80″ quilt. Basically, we were supposed to take everything we learned and we could do anything we wanted with all that. She wanted us to…
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Nancy Crow workshop: lines and curves, days 2 and 3
On Day 2, we pulled out our brightest colors and created a bunch of curved machine-pieced samples with pastel backgrounds. It is amazing how much colors changed! Repeatedly, we would pull out a color that we thought was really bright, but once we put it on the wall, we could see that it might be…
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Nancy Crow workshop: lines and curves days 1 and 2
One thing I’ll say right up front: a Nancy Crow workshop certainly isn’t about sitting on the veranda with your feet up, enjoying the gentle breeze and chatting with your neighbor. Nancy doesn’t waste any time and she pushes you to work hard. I love that. Sweet hubby wasn’t able to come with me this…
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More Nancy Crow
I just got back from an amazing week! Someone anonymously and generously made it possible for me to experience a second week with Nancy Crow. I was surprised, honored, and humbled. It was a terrific experience, and I’m still recovering. It made me realize how much I need to learn, and it made me hungry…
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Nancy Crow workshop: strip-piecing days 3 through 5
On the third day of Nancy Crow’s Strip-Piecing and Restructuring workshop, we began a new assignment. We started sewing strip-pieced combinations designed to teach us about luminous colors. That is, glowing versus dull colors, or what I came to think of as “dead and alive colors.” We did some sections with bright versus dull colors,…
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Nancy Crow workshop: strip-piecing days 1 and 2
For the first two days of the Strip Piecing and Restructuring workshop, Nancy Crow taught us about figure/ground relationships. To put it simply, when you look at an abstract composition, what comes forward and what is pushed backwards? We were specifically looking at how colors influence this. We started by making a series of strip-pieced…
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Nancy Crow workshop: strip-piecing & restructuring
I didn’t post all last week because I was away at a Nancy Crow workshop! I’ve wanted to attend one for five or ten years. Probably from the first year she started holding them. I was never able to do it when I was working full time, or in the few years since I started…
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2011 AQN Retreat Day 2
Day two of the AQN retreat arrived. I was recruited to teach a “Making Faces” workshop to these extremely talented ladies. Yikes! Since the group was so large — 40 people attending — and many might not be interested in using a digital photo to create a portrait, I offered to do two workshops simultaneously.…
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2011 AQN Retreat Day 1
I got back from one retreat on Wednesday and left for the next retreat on Thursday. Not a bad deal! The second retreat I went to was for the Art Quilt Network, which was started in 1986 by Nancy Crow. We meet twice a year. One of those times is usually in Columbus, Ohio, which…
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Give away: pattern and Debbie Maddy workshop
Tuesday and Wednesday my guild had Debbie Maddy do two workshops and a trunk show. She brought seven suitcases full of quilts! Wow! I suspect every quilt I’ve ever made could have fit in juast one of those suitcases. Most of her patterns use her method for making diamonds with no “Y” seams. This lets…