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Technique:Design

Circles on sqaures and rectangels with a purple banner across the middle with the words "RIffing with Repetition"

Riffing with Repetition

16 February 2023 Filed Under: Teaching, Technique:Design, Zoom Workshops

Explore the power of repetition to create unity and rhythm in abstract design using YOUR preferred techniques in a new design workshop: Riffing with Repetition with Brenda Gael Smith.

Abstraction in Action 2022 Student Gallery

31 March 2022 Filed Under: Teaching, Technique:Design, Zoom Workshops

Book now Abstraction in Action – a design and composition Zoom workshop May/June 2022. View the student gallery from February/March 2022.

Abstraction in Action Student Gallery August 2021

Abstraction in Action 2022

10 December 2021 Filed Under: Teaching, Technique:Design, Zoom Workshops

Book now Abstraction in Action – a design and composition Zoom workshop with Brenda Gael Smith in February/March or April/May 2022. View the student gallery from August 2021.

Improvisation Plus - a serendipity workshop with Brenda Gael Smith

Improvisation Plus at The Quilt Shop

11 July 2019 Filed Under: Modern Quilts, Teaching, Technique: Design - Creating with Solids

Join me at The Quilt Shop in Eltham, Victoria for my new workshop Improvisation Plus! Discover the fun of improvisationally piecing geometric and linear units. Put them all together in a striking mega-9 patch with personality plus! Learn freeform cutting and how to join irregular blocks. Explore the design principles of repetition and variation. Suitable […]

Vote for Topsy Turvy in the Quilters Companion Hall of Fame!

1 July 2019 Filed Under: Modern Quilts, Published Projects, Teaching, Technique: Design - Creating with Solids

Back in 2014, my Topsy Turvy design made the cover of Quilters Companion magazine and now it has been put forward as nominee in the “Quilters Companion Hall of Fame” in the Modern Quilts category. I am in good company. If you are so inclined, you can vote for your favourites and let the magazine […]

Seachange Whale Tracks - quilting in progress

Whale Tracks: Follow My Process: Part 3 Stitching and Finishing

9 December 2018 Filed Under: Contemporary Quilts, My Surroundings, Season After Season, Technique:Design

This is third and final part of series of blog posts about the creation of my textile painting Seachange: Whale Tracks. This artwork has been selected for the Studio Art Quilt Associates* global exhibition Season After Season on tour 2019-2022. Part 1: Design and Fabric Selection Part 2: Construction and Assembly Part 3: Stitching and […]

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