This is a list of my lectures and all the classes I teach. Now that I live in Porto, Portugal all my lectures and workshops are by zoom only

PRESENTATIONS - Zoom Only

‘Tis the Season

Travel through the year with me seeing how I changed the seasons in my Southern California home thru my quilts. The benefit to going virtual, with zoom presentation you will see not just the quilts but how they were displayed in my home one season to the next. See the Quilts in their natural surroundings and hear their stories. Learn about my penchant for poinsettias as well as my feelings for Fall “Tis the Season" is a zoom PowerPoint slideshow presentation

CREATE! Keys to Unlocking Your Creative Power

Learn the AMAZING power hiding in your passion for quilting. Prepare to be transformed by this empowering look at CREATE! -ing. This zoom PowerPoint presentation features my quilts, personal stories and information pulled from the latest scientific research will inspire you to have more fun and look at your quilting in a whole new light.

Picture This! How to Make Pictorial Art Quilts

Have you ever wanted to make a representational quilt but you didn’t have a photo of that scene or person? In this presentation, I’ll take you through the process I use and demonstrated on Quilting Arts TV to make my wonderful realistic quilt images using a variety of photo sources and collage techniques, plus the key tool to getting all those visuals to work together. If you can dream it, you can do it!

Using Painted Tyvek in Art Quilts

A lowly mailing envelope might become your new favorite “fabric”. In this presentation you’ll learn how the durable material known as Tyvek can be painted and manipulated in a variety of ways to add dimensional embellishments to your art quilts. Painted Tyvek is one of the techniques I demonstrated on Quilting Arts TV and represents “up-cycling” at its best. This inspirational and informative presentation provides so much detail, it’s nearly a workshop.

WORKSHOPS - All workshops are presented live on zoom.

Painted Tyvek Koi Fish

This class gives you hands-on experience with Tyvek 2 ways - we'll texture and paint background circles and swirls, then custom paint an original Koi fish each as unique as you are. Once you learn the technique the possibilities for this upcycled embellishment are endless Class project approx. 16" x 16”

Dandelion Art Quilt

Learn the elements of art quilting while preparing this charming 20" x 20" Applique Dandelion Quilt top. We'll cover fabric selection, fabric shading, best fusible web for applique and for shadows, hand stitching, using markers for details and more in this fabulous fun class! Quilting will be discussed, then completed outside of class.

Shaded Holly and berry wreath

This is my favorite technique and the one I use most often on my art quilts. Learn how to transform your applique from the ordinary on the left to the extraordinary on the right using highlights and shadows. We’ll go step by step as you learn to use paint and markers to add realistic details that create dimension while making this beautiful Holiday Wreath. Finishing the raw edge applique at home to complete as a wall hanging or pillow will be discussed.  Wreath diameter 16″

quilt coloring fun

You know coloring is great fun! Did you know you can color your quilts? Of all the supplies available for art quilts by far my favorite and the easiest to use is pencil colors. More precise than crayons, easier to control and blend than inks and paints. Add that they are inexpensive and with the application of “magic elixir” permanent on fabric, what’s not to love! Come have the fun of reacquainting yourself with the joys of coloring. If you have learned to “color INSIDE the lines” you already have all the skills you need to launch right in and start creating! Image can be finished as a 12” X 12” mini quilt.