7/29/13 7/29/13

Patchwork Scrap Doodling

Scrap Doodling is a playful improvisational patchwork process utilizing fabric scraps without concern over the outcome. It's like drawing but better!

5/1/13 5/1/13

On Being Judged

Finding and trusting one’s own authority is essential to developing authenticity in improvisational process.

4/18/13 4/18/13

New Workshops for 2014

I've added two new improvisational patchwork classes and posted my teaching philosophy to my workshop page.

4/8/13 4/8/13

A Visit With Eli Leon And His Quilts ~ Part 2

Eli Leon has collected over 1000 African-American quilts in the improvisational style and has exhibited them widely but have you seen the seven quilts he's made?

3/4/13 3/4/13

QUILTCON ~ Day 3: Improv Round Robin

For the Improv Round Robin, we followed the cardinal rule of improv theater, no matter what fellow performers say or do always affirm and build on their actions to keep the skit going.

2/22/13 2/22/13

QuiltCon ~ Day 2: Get Your Curve On

Today I taught an improv curve piecing workshop to another awesome group of quilt makers.

2/4/13 2/4/13

RGB Modern, 2012

I considered the space between warp and weft when piecing these curves with bias cut strips to create this modern improvisational quilt.

1/30/13 1/30/13

a lecture on modern improv quilting at Stitch Modern

I will be presenting a new framework for improvisational quilting that breaks free from the design/pattern/copy paradigm of traditional quilting: on Feb 5 at "Stitch Modern" a quilt show with special events hosted by the East Bay Modern Quilt Guild.