• Good News and Upcoming Events

    Finally! I have bought a gallery and am in the process of preparing my photos to load into it and build my gallery. It will probably be a slow process but at least I’m one step closer to having something up on the site. Stay tuned for further updates.

    Onto upcoming events. I have a Totems class scheduled at A Common Thread This coming Sunday April 10. I LOVE this project and have created a virtual menagerie of animal totems for the class though I’ve only had the opportunity to make a few samples. The two  shown are the latest ones I finished and I have another two in progress.

    Deer Totem embellished with turquoise beads and copper pennies
    Deer Totem embellished with turquoise beads and copper pennies
    Lizard Totem with a Bold Over Batik insert fabric
    Lizard Totem with a Bold Over Batik insert fabric

    Next week I fly to Nevada to teach and lecture for the Desert Quilters, I will be presenting a trunk show and several classes on Landscape Quilts.

    Windswept Trees with Confetti Embellishments
    Windswept Trees with Confetti Embellishments

  • Color Talk

    Nothing like waiting for the eleventh hour to announce something but I still haven’t gotten a good handle on this Social Media stuff. Let’s blame it on tax time – yeah – that’s as good an excuse as any.

    Tomorrow I will be at the Milwaukie Airing of the Quilts and will be giving a demo/presentation in the library from 1pm – 2:30 pm. The presentation is on Color Theory and if you have ever felt intimidated by working with color or made a quilt out of colors you love but then did not like the finished quilt, this is the lecture for you.

    Extended color wheel of fabric
    Extended color wheel of fabric

    Learn what ‘value’ means and why it is perhaps the most critical factor in your quilt and how to troubleshoot your color choices BEFORE you sew them into your quilt – let’s face it – nobody LIKES to use a seam ripper. Learn the importance of color proportion and distribution and how you can control color to make your quilts spectacular.

    Included will be a variety of of ways to create color palettes beyond just working with formulas from a color wheel.

    The presentation will include a trunk show of my quilts where some of these methods were used.

    I hope to see some of you there.

    Picasso
    Picasso