Improv Quilting
3 keys at the heart of Improv Quilting
Abstraction, connection and flow are three keys at the heart of developing a restorative improv quilting practice. How do these keys interact and why is it important to develop them?
Celebrating Improv Quilter Carole Lyles Shaw
Carole had a love and passion for improv quilting and I greatly appreciated her unique approach, influences and style. Her commitment to and presence in the Modern Quilting community uplifted and inspired many. Here is a video replay of Carole's guest presentation at a Making Do online workshop in 2021.
Pause + Adventure = Inspiration / Sardinia
I traveled to Sardinia and I'm wondering how this “pause/adventure” will inform and shape my improv quilts. When we stay open to adventure it can lead to unexpected opportunities, in life and in our patchwork!
2024 Sustainable IMPROV Quilting SERIES: Found COLOR
Discover your natural connections to color through memory, mood, and place. Explore key aspects of color such as value, intensity and hue with eco-friendly materials through old clothes and your existing quilting stash. Learn techniques for piecing with knits, satins, wool, linen, denim and more!
Quilts Acquired by The International Quilt Museum
Four of my quilts and their stories are headed to The International Quilt Museum’s permanent collection! I’m overwhelmed with gratitude for the opportunity to be included in their permanent collection.
Quiltcon 2023 / Soulful Quilts and Trends
The best of Modern Quilting was on display at Quiltcon in Atlanta. This year I paid attention to the quilts that resonated in my body, from the heart to the gut and sometimes the mind. These are the quilts that fed my soul at this particular Quiltcon, and here's why.
Sustainable Quilting with Men’s Shirts
Men’s dress shirts are amazing to quilt with and they come in a rainbow of colors. Watch a demo on preparing the shirt sleeve for easy stack and cut improv piecing on the curve.
Clear (before You Quilt) / Sorting Buttons
Clearing my creative space by sorting buttons led me to a hand quilting break through!
Practice Makes Practice = nourishing flourishing quilt making
Explore the five essential elements for establishing a nurturing and sustainable creative quilting practice with Sherri Lynn Wood and the BravePatch Groove in 2023.
Modern Improv Curves Online Quilt Classes 2023
This NEW intuitive curve piecing series is about embracing the unpredictable nature of the curve, finding flow and strength in the challenges and surprises that arise when we create on the edge of the unknown. Piecing curves requires trust in ourselves and the choices we make even when we can't see what's around the corner… in our patchwork and in life.
Sustainable Quilting: Cutting Apart Jeans Tutorial
Denim is an awesome material to create a quilt from, here is a how-to video with tips for cutting apart your jeans to get you started.
Passage Quilting and Transformational Healing
I learned so much from the 70+ makers that came together for September's Passage Quilting workshop. And I started my own passage quilting journey. I’m collaborating with the memory of my creative little ones and calling in my elder wise woman artist to rewrite my story of creative imagination and purpose, as a way to heal and release creative blocks.
8 Ways Memory Quilting Heals the Heart
Memory Quilting with intention, which I call Passage Quilting, is a process that mirrors the natural process of bereavement to heal the heart during times of loss and transition in an embodied way.
Improv Quilting and Nature's Sustaining Gestures
It was deeply restorative to acknowledge and incorporate that beauty of Madeline Island into the sewing studio, and the improvisational quilt making process.
Have a PLAYful JOYful Improv Quilting Summer!
This summer in the BravePatch.School we are tapping into the healing power of joy, through improv quilting, Patchwork Play Prompts.
Support Gee's Bend Quilters
Black Lives Matter! Help the Gee's Bend Quilters bridge the racial digital divide by donating to a resource center enabling them to direct market their improv quilts online.
July 2021 In-Person Improv Quilting Retreats
Join me, post pandemic, for two different IN-PERSON improvisational quilting retreats, this July!
The Practice of Making Do Workshop Series
The Practice of Making Do is a debut series of improv quilting workshops based on lessons learned and experienced during my residency at Recology, including a deeper respect for the stories and intrinsic patterns embedded in the found and intimate materials of everyday life, and a deeper appreciation for serendipity, for what is given and what shows up when.
Calling All Makers & Improvisers to the Brave Work of Belonging
BravePatch brings together quilt makers from every walk of life, who embrace craft as a mode for embodied healing, to do the brave and joyful piecework of belonging through the liberating practice of improv patchwork, so that we can become better improvisers, flexible thinkers, wholehearted creators and restorative agents of change within our families and communities.
The Rhythm of Freedom: Improv Quilting and Antiracism
Antiracist ideas and actions are actually fundamental to improvisational process. To be an antiracist is to be a person who acts to liberate others and self. Improv encourages us to truly see, hear, and value others, which strengthens relationships and communities and encourages risk taking, innovation and change.