
Patchwork Improv: Transmit The Wild Within
multi-day / advanced / all skill levels welcome
Explore and transmit your experience of nature in unique and unexpected ways –free from the tediousness of mimicry. Practice observing the deep rhythms of nature through daily synesthetic, field meditations that activate sight, hearing, smell, touch, and memory. These meditations and subsequent field notes, focused on color, shape, line, movement and texture will become the source material for defining a series of scores (a set of limits that support creative flow) for improvisational abstraction, resulting in a single composition or a series of studies according to your preference. Learn basic ruler free patchwork techniques, improvisational process and composition without a predetermined plan. On a deeper level, discover your unique syncopation with the natural world, as a source for nurturing the creative wild within.

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!
Featured in The Improv Handbook For Modern Quilters.

Modern Block Improv
1 to 2-day 6-12hrs / intermediate / all skill levels welcome
Practice your patchwork scales. Start with a fixed “traditional” block pattern or one of your own, and transform it through a series of repetitions and variations. Explore and create flexible patterns by listening to internal cues. Learn ruler-free patchwork and composition techniques, and gain a deeper sense of how patterns work and evolve for you.
Featured in The Improv Handbook For Modern Quilters.