Improv Quilting Lectures & Demos for Quilt Guilds
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This comprehensive presentation on improv quilting, reviews key practices important for developing your skills as an improviser, and concludes with a demo, and time for Q&A. Leave with ruler-free techniques, mind tools, tips and a fresh perspective on how to apply the life liberating skills of improv quilting.
Improvise! Creating, Quilting, & Living Courageously
1 hour Lecture w/ .5 hr Demo (online only) -
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Follow along as I describe my four-month artist residency at Recology in 2016. My goal was to explore the nature of making do while creating an exhibition, including six quilts, made entirely out of materials scavenged from the San Francisco dump.
The Practice Of Making Do
1 - 1.5 hour Lecture -
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This fun interactive improv quilting demo begins with a short brainstorming session about the limits of patchwork and how to easily apply limits to access your creative flow and focus your improv patterns. I will demonstrate a variety of ruler-free quilting techniques and the process of improvisational quilting by following audience prompts to improvise a quilt composition on the spot.
Ruler-Free Improv Quilting Mashup
1-1.5 hr Interactive Demo -
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Working with materials that carry meaning, memory and emotion, the creative process of Passage Quilting fosters a healing heart. I will review memorial and scrap quilting traditions with historical images, and share stories from my 20 years of practice to illustrate how Passage Quilting supports the bereavement and growth process we all experience during times of transition and loss.
Passage Quilting
1- 1.5 hr lecture
