Classes:  I offer a number of classes and can design a class to suit your needs.   Here is a sample of the classes I offer: 

Free-Style Quilting - Intermediate:  4 Hours

Learn to free-motion quilt the easy way. By the end of class you should be able to stipple, create stars, loops bubbles, flowers, and write your name with your home sewing machine.

Free-Style Quilting - Advanced:  4 Hours

Free-motion quilting that goes beyond the basics. Pattern-fill, feathers, following a drawn line, embroidery, couching, and bobbin-drawing.

Photo Quilts:  4 Hours

Learn to use Photoshop Elements® to enhance and print your favorite photographs onto fabric. Computer with Photoshop Elements® installed helpful but not required.

Angelina Fibers:  3 Hours

Learn to work with wonderful, exciting Angelina fibers. These glitzy fibers are versatile and have many uses and are versatile for surface design.

Color on Fabric:  4 to 6 Hours

All the different ways to get color on fabric - paints, inks, markers & pencils, paintstiks, and stamping. Many methods and ways to transfer color to the surface of fabric, except for dyeing.

Puttin' on the Glitz:  3 Hours

While it's true that all that glitters is not gold, it's also true that creating a shiny surface on your fabric is almost as good, and twice as much fun. Work with all things shiny, glittery, and fun!

Cut-Away Quilts:  4 Hours

A simple, fused appliqué technique with eye-catching results. Practice free-form cutting, then working from a pattern provided by the instructor, then creating your own unique designs.

Figment to Fabric:  1 Day/2 Days

You know that quilt you have in your head that you can't quite get on paper and into fabric? This class will take you from that figment of your imagination to a paper design and then on to fabric. The 1-day class is design only. The 2-day class includes construction decisions and technical helps.

Surface Design Series:  1 Hour per method (usually done as a series on a regular date  like monthly)

Many different surface design techniques including Angelina fibers, trapping, fabric beads, fabric manipulation, silk painting, burnt silk appliqué, foils, paintstiks, stamping, stenciling, inks, photo transfers, and many more.

Tie-Dye T-Shirts:  School groups and scouts (time varies)

I'll work with your group to create a fun and memorable tie-dyeing experience for your group. Warm weather activity for camp experiences, end-of-school-year parties or events, scouting badges (sewing can be worked into this), or just fun get-togethers.

2008 Teaching Schedule:

May 17, 2008:   Cut-Away Quilts, Quilt Trends, Columbus OH

June 21, 2008:  Free-style Quilting, 2008 National Quilting Association Show, Columbus, OH