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Classes Offered

Color & Design Basics-My Quilt is Not the Same as Yours

A class to help you take that leap into designing your own quilt. Using a focal point(batik panel, favorite block, unusual fabric) and simple geometric shapes, create your own design. 9 or 12 hours. B,I,A

Surface Design

A class designed to experiment with different surface design techniques. Play with painting, foiling, discharging, stamping, stenciling, using felt and Tyvek, ... 6 to 12 hours. B,I,A

Stripes- Well We All Buy Them, What Do We Do With Them?

This is definitely not your border stripe class. It is a class using stripes of all sizes and creating your own quilt with that added sparkle that stripes add to your design. 6 or 12 hours. B,I,A

Turn Loose and Play

Learning to turn loose and play. Exercises to help you know that it is OK. Paint on tissue paper, fabric, rip, tear, uses a word to start creative thoughts. Collage all together and you may be surprised! 6 or 12 Hours. B,I,A

What Can You Do with A Nine Patch Block?

You may be surprised. There is still a lot of excitement in the old lady!! Just cut strips, sew and have fun. No two quilts will be the same. 6 or 12 hours. B,I,A

Quilt Soup-First You Take A Goose

Using simple shapes- a square and a rectangle- you will piece wild goose units-twisting and turning-creating new shapes- all the while learning the principles of design. your quilt will be an original just like your soup! 6 or 12 Hours. B,I,A

Boom, Boom, Ain't it Great to be Crazy!!!!!!

Bring your scrap bag, I will bring mine and we will kick up our heels. This is not a silk and satin crazy quilt. (Well it could be) Judith Montana would probably faint. ours will be unusual to say the least. 3,6 or 12 hours. B,I,A

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Teaching Experience

Beginning Quilting - Fabric, color and pattern, cutting precision and workmanship
Intermediate Quilting - Set in seams, curved piecing, new techniques and quilt finishing
Advanced Quilting - Extreme curve piecing, crazy quilting; transferring a pictorial design to templates.
Color and Design I - My Quilt Is Not The Same As Yours" - Basic principles of design and color
Color and Design II - Using color and shape to create a design
The Value of Value - Using one shape to teach color value
Quilt Soup - First You Take a Goose - Using simple shapes to design an original quilt
Removing Blinders from the Goose - Using non-traditional quilting methods to illustrate an inspiration.
Let Us Play Fair - Using a traditional block to create a personal design.
What Can You Do With A Nine-Patch? - A traditional block with a surprise
Stripes-Well We All Bought Them-Now What Do We Do With Them? - Using stripes to give excitement to your quilt design
Boom, Boom, Ain't It Great To Be Crazy??!! - Crazy quilting in a new light.
My Kind Of Town - Free cutting to fit.
Collage Quilts - free cutting, sewing, weaving - see "what-if"
Machine Free Motion Quilting and Embellishments
Have Fun With Vests
Snuggle Quilt - a comfort quilt to quiver under.
Stamp and Embellish
Quilt Finishing

Volunteer Teaching Experience

Ravenel Elementary School
Oconee County School District
Art on the Green Day
Wrenn Primary, Anderson, SC
South Carolina Day
Haiti Mission: Teach Haitian women techniques for translating their cultural heritage into artifacts for sale

Professional Organizations

South Carolina Quilt Guild
South Carolina Artisans

Recent Exhibits:

International Center of the Upstate, A Meeting of Two Cultures, with Mrs. Guiging Tian, Beijing, China
Kerr Lake Art Society, Henderson, NC - Juried Show - "O," "Undercover V," "Through the Garden Gate"
Piedmont Arts Association, Martinsville, VA, 2nd Biennial Quilt Show, "Jazz," "Currents"
Piedmont Arts Association, Martinsville, VA 1st Biennial Quilt Show, "Cliffside," "Butterfly Garden"
Museum of York County, Quilt Regional: Breaking Traditions, invitational - Undercover II"
Warren Atrium Arts and Healing Gallery, Columbia, SC, invitational - "Water Lily," "Dragonfly I"
USC-Lancaster, Creative Mentors for the New Millennium - "Where Have All the Lizards Gone," Forest Floor"
Anderson County Ats Center - Creative Mentors for the New Millenium
International Center of the Upstate-Greenville, SC - Permanent Exhibit
Upstairs Gallery - Tryon, NC - Works of Iron, Walls of Cloth
Featured Quilter - South Carolina Quilt Guild
Biennial Invitational Quilt Show - Virginia, 1998
Anderson County Arts Center - A Quilt Adventure
Raymond James Gallery - Greenville, SC
Greenville Chamber of Commerce - Greenville, SC
Featured Quilter - Landrum, SC Quilt Show
Medicus - Anderson County Arts Center - Anderson, SC
Art in the Past - Greenville, SC
Art of the Upstate Gallery - Greenville, SC - Hanging by a Thread