Improv Quilting
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!
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.
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.
patchwork improv road tour
Digger and I are going west this summer on a six-week patchwork improv tour. Catch us at Madison, Oakland, Bend & Fargo!
New Zealand & Australia Patchwork Tour
I never imagined that quilting would take me half way around the world some day! Sign-up for workshops, lectures, and demos down under!
Quiltcon East and BQE Schedule ~ Let's Flow!
Fellowship and good will to all attending, and for all at home, may you enjoy super creative and inspired studio time away from the fray!
Ruler Free Strip Piecing
Check out this video to see how much fun it is to cut strips ruler free! Try it at Glamp Stitchalot Nov 10-13. Booking new workshops in 2018!
quiltcon 2017 workshops
I'm debuting three new workshops and a new lecture on flow at QuiltCon 2017. Fingers crossed you get your heart's desire on registration day!
see you at quiltcon east
I'm honored to be teaching and speaking at Quiltcon East, in beautifully gothic Savannah Georgia in 2017, with an amazing line-up of new and familiar faces.
2-day get your curve on / seattle, may 21-22
If you are near the Seattle area don't miss this 2-day improv quilting workshop with curves.
Curating Colors for Patchwork Installation
Improv patchwork begins by setting a few limits, including color limits. This is exactly what I've been pleasantly busy doing this past week.
Improv Patchwork Road Tales ~ Honesty
What does it mean to be honest when I create? What am I being honest about? Who am I being honest to?
Quilting By The Lake ~ July 27-31
If you can swing a trip to Syracuse this July then by all means join me for this rare opportunity to do some intensive improv work.
Improv Handbook Blog Hop Continues ~ Penny Gold
Don't miss Penny Gold's process notes on making a quilt from one of the scores in the Improv Handbook. Giveaway through March 15.
Ruler-Free Patchwork - Improv Theater Mashup Results
Audience members provided "ugly" fabrics, threw out suggestions, and questions as I improvised a quilt on the spot according to their prompts.
Improv Handbook Blog Hop
A month of insightful reviews, giveaways, process stories, and the debut of 165 test quilts made for The Improv Handbook For Modern Quilters.
Improv Handbook X-Country Book Tour!
I'm in the initial planning stages of planning the Improv Handbook X-Country Tour (June 1-10) and I need your help deciding locations.
Improv Handbook March & April Events ~ May 5 Release
Want to get your hands on a copy before May 5? Check out these book signing events and workshops in Oakland, Kansas City and Portland, ME.
QuiltCon Day 4 ~ Group Flow
The prolonged experience of creative flow on their last day at QuiltCon left everyone feeling pretty satisfied. Now that's FRESH quilting - or at least quilting that leaves you feeling FRESH!
