NEW! - availble for booking Oct 2008

  Colorforms for Grownups -

Designing your own fabric

Length: 3 hour workshop

Level: All Levels

This is a NON SEWING workshop 

Remember the original Colorforms?   The fun you had playing with the simple circles, squares, triangles and bars?  We will play with the fabric versions when designing your own fabric swatches   Simply exercises and guidance will help your own creativity come alive.  Students will create three different 12” square samples along with several smaller “tester” squares. Discussion of design impact and color placement will be covered.

 Kit Fee: $12.00 includes all the necessary fabric

            …you will need just an iron, ruler and white chalk pencil!

Coming  Soon!

NEW!  Friends in High Places

Length: 6 hour workshop

Level: Confident Beginner/Intermediate

Students will receive pattern instruction and guidance on completion of a "Friends in High Places wall hanging"  of their own.  Color choice and combining fabric patterns for texture will be discussed.

Instruction in a new and innovative use of 

Pellon Décor Bond for machine appliqué 

will be covered.  

Friends in High Places Supply List (pdf format) 

NEW!  Animate Your Applique

Length: 3 hour workshop

Level: All Levels

Learn how to use those wonderful straight-line embroidery stitches on my machine for spectacular appliqué.   The additional texture/color added to your project by use of these stitches is simply amazing.   Workshop will cover the use of Pellon Décor Bond in appliqué application students will make a stitch sampler and finish off with a small project that can be used as a quilt starter or pillow front.   No UFO’s here!   Just learn the technique and apply it to next appliqué piece of art.

Instruction in a new and innovative use of 

Pellon Décor Bond for machine appliqué 

will be covered.  

Animate Your Appliqué  Supply List (pdf format) 

Handouts- 3 pages

Coffee Break

Length: 6 hour workshop

Level: Confident Beginner/Intermediate

Students will receive pattern instruction and guidance on completion of a Coffee Mug of their own.  Color choice and combining fabric patterns for texture will be discussed. 

Instruction in a new and innovative use of 

Pellon Décor Bond for machine appliqué 

will be covered.  

Coffee Break Supply List (pdf format) 

Fantastic Ferns

Length: 6 hour workshop

Level: Confident Beginner/Intermediate

Individual creativity workshop based on my "Ferns" series of quilts. Students will learn how to create movement and depth in their own version of a "Ferns" quilt. Color choices and combining fabrics for texture will be discussed. 

This is a NON SEWING workshop 

Fantastic Ferns Supply List (pdf format) 

Fantastic Ferns Fabric Guideline (pdf format)

Handouts- 5 pages

Paintstiks- Make Any Fabric Your Own

Length: 3 hour/or 6 hour  workshop

Level: All Levels

Fabric embellishment with Shiva oil paintstiks.  Several Rubbing Techniques will be covered.  Students will create their own unique fat quarters of fabric using taught techniques.  In 6 hour version expanded application techniques taught and more creative “play” time with all supplies provided.

NOTE: Mickey will bring in over one hundred rubbing templates, and a variety of other creative items for “Play” with the Paintstiks…also she provides between 75-100 paintstiks for class use.. student exposure to this medium will be maximum as I am always updating my supplies.    Fabrics provided in kits are A+ quality and will support the creative nature of this workshop. 

**kit fee for this class provides almost everything, see supply list for details.

NOTE: 3 hour workshop will cover only 

Rubbing technique

Paintstiks M.A.F.Y.O  Supply List (pdf format) 

Handouts : 4 pages 

*additional shipping charge for classroom supplies may be 

assessed...please inquire

Permission to Play

Yes You can Draw!

Length:  3 & 6 hour workshop

Level: All Levels

NON SEWING WORKSHOP

6Hr Format:

A true "free form" creativity class with no pattern other than "gentle" instruction.  Workshop will focus on each individual student creating their own form fitting drawing and then taking this drawing to the next level of creation.  Raw edge- iron applied appliqué will be utilized to keep this workshop at a "NON SEWING" level.  

 3Hr Format: 

This  workshop will not include the appliqué portion of the workshop.  It will be DRAWING ONLY...please see the supply list. 

Class will focus on creativity rather than technique. 

Permission to Play Supply List (pdf format) 3 HOUR 

Permission to Play Supply List (pdf format) 6 HOUR 

Handouts for both workshops: 25 pages 

(a small fee by the guild is usually assessed to cover cost) 

Fish Nets

Length: 6 hour workshop

Level: Confident Beginner/Intermediate

Let me lead you thru the creation of your own "Free Form Fish Net"  Each student will then design their own trio of whimsical fish to swim thru it. 

Yes, each student will design your own fish....everyone can draw and this workshop will prove it!

Design elements and color guidance will be covered in this creative workshop. 

Instruction in a new and innovative use of 

Pellon Décor Bond for machine appliqué 

will be covered.  

Fish Nets Supply List (pdf format) 

Handouts: 5 pages

Autumn Oaks Trio

Length: 6 hour workshop

Level: Confident Beginner/Intermediate

Based on my original quilt, "Autumn Oaks Plaid", this class will have every student creating their own version of this wallhanging with background/wavy border guidance. 

EVERY QUILT WILL LOOK DIFFERENT BASED ON WAVY BORDER TECHINIQUE!

 Students choose from 10 different leaf patterns to further personalize their quilt.  

Instruction in a new and innovative use of 

Pellon Décor Bond for machine appliqué 

will be covered.  

Autumn Oak Trio Supply List (pdf format) 

Coloriffic Quilts

Length: 3 hour workshop

Level: All Levels

A workshop filled with exercises that will have students looking intently at their color and pattern choices in fabric.  Learn to stretch your wings and utilize colors that you may not of considered before....and see the "zing" that they add to y our next projects palette.   

This is a NON SEWING workshop.

Coloriffic Quilt  Supply List (pdf format) 

additional shipping charge for classroom supplies may be 

assessed...please inquire

Machine Quilting: Free Motion 101

Length: 6 hour workshop

Level: Confident Beginner/Intermediate

A workshop for quilters who are ready to "dive into" the world of machine quilting!  Learn the basics of machine quilting...thread, needles, tension, 

and "tricks of the trade".   

Then apply this knowledge to 

12 simple (but effective!) free motion quilting patterns. 

Patterns taught can be found in all my award winning quilts!

MQ:101 Supply List (pdf format) 

Handouts: 10 pages

Customize Your Machine Quilting

Length: 6 hour workshop

Level: Intermediate/Experienced

If you are an experience machine quilter looking to take the next step in designing original stitches then this is the workshop for you.   Are you "stuck in a rut" when it comes to free motion machine quilting?  Find yourself using the same stitch patterns again and again?  This class will cover design principles, free hand motifs, (that's right you CAN draw!) and inspiration.  

Let your fabric stash guide you in stitch design.  

C.Y.M.Q. Supply List (pdf format) 

Handouts: 3 pages

Block Garden- TWO DAY WORKSHOP

Length: 6 hour workshop

Level: Intermediate

This is a two day workshop (total of 12 hours) for intermediate/advanced quilter who wishes to design their own "Block Garden Flower"  in day one and bring it to reality in day two.  Students will be lead thru a drawing exercise in which they will apply their own style to the basic "Block Garden" format.   Elements of balance and design will be covered along with the freedom to look beyond realistic imagery for a sense of whimsy for your flower.  

Day two will focus on bringing each student's drawing to life by choosing colors and construction of the quilt top.  Machine appliqué will be applied. 

Instruction in a new and innovative use of 

Pellon Décor Bond for machine appliqué 

will be covered.  

Block Garden Supply List (pdf format)