Teaching

I enjoy sharing my enthusiasm about creativity through teaching and lecturing. I've had amazing reviews from guilds and was honored to be a keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts.

Please contact me if you are interested in bringing me to speak at your event or guild.

Lectures & Trunk Shows

Cost: $300. Events will be asked to pay hotel/airfare/mileage rates where applicable.

Length: 1 hour

Requirements: 1-2 tables to be available for materials and trunk show

Patterns, tools, and sewing related goodies will be available for purchase (unless at a shop, in that case you may sell your own stock).

Wildly Careening into Quilts: What I Learned By Not Knowing What I Didn’t Know

This one-hour talk focuses on three things:

1. my journey as a quilter – including some of my very first quilts
2. how challenges have shaped the quilter I’m becoming
3. my addiction to quilt along’s and block-of-the-month programs

Take a wild ride as I recount the journey from my first quilt to the present. Through the years, many of my quilts have been inspired by challenges, which helped tease out my true quilting style – an “oddly beautiful” display of color, motion, and texture. You’ll see traditional quilts created quite untraditionally, sampler quilts with a twist, and a wide variety of art quilts. I will have patterns and "fabric" quilting-related jewelry for sale.

Challenge Quilts

Through the years many of my quilts have been inspired by challenges, which helped tease out my true quilting style – an “oddly beautiful” display of color, motion, and texture. You will learn about how I take in a challenge, 'dream' about it for inspiration and come up with a final quilt that is completely outside the square of normalcy. Sit back and enjoy as you look at my award winning quilts and here the history behind them.

Accidentally On Purpose: Writing a Book ... or Not

​Follow me on my journey of writing a book ... or not. I will share with you what I did to get my very first book deal:

1. Coming up with the concept
2. Writing the proposal
3. Designing the quilts

And then I will share how that all fell apart - and how that was the best thing that could have happened! My journey will inspire you to follow your heart, your design aesthetic and be OK when things don't work out as initially planned.

​Workshops

Length: 7 hours, with break for lunch

Class size: Workshops indicate the number of students the class is designed for.

Cost: Events will be asked to pay hotel/airfare/mileage rates where applicable.

Physical Requirements:

• 1 table for teaching materials
• Half a table of workspace for each student
• At least 2 irons and ironing stations, electrical cords and extensions, and outlet strips
• Sewing machine for instructor if flying to location is necessary

Groups may choose from one of the following workshops: