Get Your Curve On Intensive
multi-day / advanced/ all skill levels welcome
Get your curve on in this multi-day improv workshop. Learn innovative ruler-free techniques for grid-busting simple curves, layered curves, wedged curves and bias-strip piecing on the curve. Commit one step at a time as you incorporate multiple curve techniques into a finished composition. Develop a personal/intuitive approach to color, and celebrate your "mistakes" along the way. Whoopee!
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Making Do: The Architecture of Clothing
2-day, 12hrs / advanced / all levels welcome
Engage in the receptive, creative practice of making do. Learn to collaborate with the given architecture of clothing, as the score for your improvisation —pockets, plackets, necklines, cuffs, the curves of sleeves and pants— to discover and express unexpected geometries, meanings, and memories. Learn ruler-free piecing techniques, deconstruction strategies for preserving architectural elements, and how to stabilize and combine diverse materials.
Passage Quilting
2-day, 12 hrs / advanced / all skill levels welcome
This is a workshop about relationships, past and present. Work with the architecture of clothing and meaningful materials to improvise a quilt without a fixed pattern. Learn ruler-free patchwork techniques and tips for deconstructing and stabilizing all types of clothing. This process will be the vehicle for inner work and outward expression as it reveals and orients the patterns, by which we survive, thrive and transform.
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Wedge Curve Improv
2-day 12hr / advanced/ all skill levels welcome
Get your wedge-curve groove on in this improv quilt-making workshop. Commit one step at a time, as you explore advanced approaches to improvised patchwork and composition, develop a personal/intuitive language of color, and learn ruler-free, wedge-curve, and bias-strip piecing on the curve techniques.
Featured in The Improv Handbook For Modern Quilters.
Bias-Strip Improv Curves
2-day 12hr / advanced / all skill levels welcome
Get your bias-strip curve on and celebrate your mistakes! Learn the innovative ruler-free technique of bias-strip piecing on the curve, how to troubleshoot and flatten internal bubbles as they arise. Learn to create wedge-curves along with a variety of options for utilizing both techniques in fixed patterns or improvised compositions. This is an advanced technique that takes time to master, pushing you to the brink of beginner's mind. Imagine the possibilities!
Featured in The Improv Handbook For Modern Quilters.