Category: Teaching
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Ohio Valley Quilters’ Guild
Last night I had the priviledge of speaking at the Ohio Valley Quilters’ Guild in Cincinnati. I always love the opportunity to show my quilts and encourage people to experiment with new ways of creating great quilts. I was really excited about how they displayed their quilts during show-and-tell. If you’re part of a guild,…
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Perspective for Quilters
I’ve been putting my cupboard-door design walls to good use this week as I’ve worked on class examples for my Perspective for Quilters workshop. I know many quilters who want to be able to depict realistic images, but they get bogged down when it comes to drawing something in perspective. For instance, a cabin in…
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Hubby’s portrait Christmas gifts
I already told you that Sweet Hubby decided he needed to give my “Making Faces” technique a try. He wanted to make portraits for Christmas gifts to give to some friends who we’ve known for about twenty years. In his excitement, while we were in Colorado, he even bought his own fat quarters. Earlier this…
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DD#2 finished portrait gifts
I told you that DD#2 wanted make some portraits as Christmas gifts. I greedily encouraged that idea because it would mean she’d have to come to my house numerous times. 😉 I already showed you the little boy, which was first portrait she made. He’s the youngest of three siblings. Here are his two older…
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2012 NQA workshops
Next June, I’ll be teaching at the 2012 National Quilting Association show. This will be my first time teaching at a large show, and they loaded me up. Six half day workshops! Thursday morning, June 14 – #623 Drawn and Painted Portraits Thursday afternoon, June 14 – #643 Perspective for Quilters Friday morning, June 15…
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Columbus Modern Quilt Guild
Last night I had the great pleasure of sharing my quilts with the Columbus Modern Quilt Guild. In fact, I was having so much fun, I completely forgot to take pictures! They’ve only been meeting for a year now, so they are a small group and I was their first speaker, and it was a…
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Sweet hubby joins in the fun
Guess who else has joined in on the fun? Sweet hubby! He comes with me to my workshops, so he’s heard me teach it enough times. Now he’s giving it a try too! I’m really excited because I always tell people that anyone can do the “Making Faces” technique. You don’t need to be a…
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First portrait for DD#2
DD#2 came over Sunday evening to work on one of the portraits she’s making for a friend. This is the first portrait she’s made, and she has two more planned. It’s fun that my family wants to try these, too. I’ve told people that anyone can make them, not just quilters. I was interested in…
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Our Colorado adventure – Fort Collins workshop and lecture
After our midnight hotel adventure of the previous night, we arrived as rested as possible, ready for a full day workshop with the Rocky Mountain Creative Quilters. There were twenty-two women signed up for the fused appliqué portrait workshop. Several of them mentioned that this was far outside their comfort zone. I reassured them that…
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Our Colorado adventure – Grand Junction workshop
The second day in Grand Junction I taught the “Making Faces,” fused appliqué portrait workshop at the hotel DH and I were staying at. Talk about convenient! There were twenty ladies in my workshop. I think everyone had a good time, and just look at these terrific portraits they made! I’m always thankful sweet hubby…