Quilter. Writer. Artist
2026 June 22-24 — Pensacola Quilters Guild Color Lecture (evening); Almost in Church: Stained Glass Workshop (all day); A la Mary Improv Lecture (morning) Pensacola FL March 10 — Ozone Quilters Guild Crazy Log Cabins Covington, LA 2025 December 3-7 — BRMQG Retreat Baton Rouge LA November 8 –unavailable October 25 — River City Guild […]
My approach to workshops is that of a teacher who taught high school and junior college courses for 30 years. I use the same approaches to teaching quilting: I model a technique, we work on it together, and then students practice it on their own. We make sure everyone is ready to move on to
Hello Improv Piecing Workshop easy to advanced intermediate; domestic machines; 3-4 hours; $35 per student with 12 student minimum. Improv quilts have their own ideas, voices, and needs. Toss in unique improv makers and improv becomes almost incorrigible, don’t you agree? Yet quilters have methods that “tame” improv quilts. Do you ever wonder what quilters
Improv Workshop intermediate to advanced; domestic machine; 3 hours; $25 per student with 8 student minimum. Reimagine new ways of dealing with old problems: scraps and discarded blocks. We all have them and we all need to DO SOMETHING with them. While I will have several quilts available to show, the goal here is for
Three Hour Improv Piecing Workshop advanced; domestic machines; 6 hours; $50 per student with 10 student minimum. Are you ready for curves? Are you ready for the crazy ones? In this workshop Mary will demonstrate curved piecing, beginning with shallow indentions and moving on to more difficult curves. By the end of class you
