It’s over seven years since I bought a stack of Kona cotton solids for a workshop with Nancy Crow and I am still working through my stash! This is a teaching sample in progress for my Strata Various class: I will be teaching this two-day class at the Illawarra Quilters Quiltaway (15-18 November 2013) at […]
Teaching
Circling Around with Fairholme Quilters
While the rest of Australia was out casting their vote, I spent Saturday circling around with Fairholme Quilters. In my Serendipity Circles workshop, students explore stress-free methods of fusing or piecing their very own circles of serendipity. These free-form cutting techniques underpin a range of projects. Here is a selection of teaching samples: In an […]
Serendipity On Display
Thank you to Ali George who kindly snapped these photo of my quilts on display at the Stitches and Craft Show at Newcastle last weekend.: Look how the light catches those circular quilting motifs on Revolutions. (I marked these circles using nested circle templates from Westalee and stitched the circles with my walking foot.) If […]
Emerald Serendipity Shibori
I am currently on a teaching trip to Emerald, Queensland. The Emerald Art Group has a varied workshop program in all kinds of media and invited me to share a little Shibori Serendipity and improvisational piecing. We enjoyed perfect conditions for dyeing. Here is a selection of student work. More images are in the Serendipity […]
Quilt Symposium Manawatu 2015 Website
New Zealand’s premier quilt event, the biennial Quilt Symposium is being held in the North Island city of Palmerston North, Manawatu from 16 –21 January 2015. I have attended two Sypmposium events as a student (Christchurch 2003 and Auckland 2005). I am excited to return to Quilt Symposium 2015 as a tutor for five, one […]
Full Circle
When I was travelling as guest artist last year, I dyed a LOT of bright rainbow fabrics. I decided to deploy some of them in a new teaching quilt for my free-cutting, Serendipity Circles workshop. Here’s a work in progress shot: I am now at the quilting stage. I am doing a combination of free […]
