Thank you for considering me for your event! I love teaching and getting to combine it with quilting — well, that’s my heaven-on-earth kind of day. In addition to the classes below, I will gladly put something together just for your group. No, no! Really, I don’t mind at all! I teach in person and will gladly travel to your location. I am booking dates for 2024 and 2025. In addition to the costs per class, expenses covered by the host organization: transportation, housing, and one meal per day. Click on the title of a workshop for supply lists and additional information. Let’s have fun, shall we? Oh yes! Let’s do!
New! Almost in Church Stained Glass Workshop
Stained-Glass Workshop beginner to advanced; domestic machine; 3 hours; $30 per student with 10 student minimum. Full day (6 hours) $45 per student with 12 student minimum
This beautiful table topper or wall-hanging is a fun way to learn how to create lovely stained glass in fabric. The gorgeous window scene will be uniquely your own because you choose which colors to use, cut the fabrics into gentle shapes, and arrange them to suit your aesthetic. Read more…
New! Grow Your Garden Applique Class
Raw-edge Applique’ Workshop beginner to advanced; domestic machine; 3 hours; $30 per student with 12 student minimum. Full day (6 hours) for $45 per student with 12 student minimum.
This beautiful wall-hanging is a fun way to learn about raw-edge applique. The gorgeous garden scene will be uniquely your own despite using the same patterns as other students because you choose the colors and locations of the pattern pieces. Read more…
New class! Crazy Log Cabins
Improv Piecing Workshop beginner to advanced; domestic machine; all levels 1-3 hours, $25 per student with 15 student minimum. 4-6 hours, $35 per student with 15 student minimum.
Try your hand at piecing using improv techniques. You can choose from quarter log cabins or whole log cabins and create your own unique design… Read more…
40 Years and Counting! Trunk Show/Studio Tour
Trunk Show all levels; 1 hour; $10 per student with 10 student minimum.
I’ll show you my quilts, we’ll chat, we’ll laugh, we may even cry. Who knows? I’m a pretty emotional gal. I begin at the beginning and tell you how and why my quilts have changed so dramatically over the last 40 years. I’ll include some of my art quilts and talk about my struggles with bipolar 1 disorder. If we are meeting virtually, you’ll get to see my new studio. (I’ve always loved seeing others’ sewing spaces.) Mostly I want to encourage you with my quilt story, so that you can be bold and daring, you can be honest with yourself, you can find order in your chaos, you are inspired and empowered to be the quilter you want to be. Read more…
(GSQA Honorable Mention winner)
A la Mary Improv Quilting Lecture/Workshop
Improv Piecing Lecture all levels; 1 hour; $10 per student with 20 student minimum (maximum 45) Improv Piecing Workshop all levels; 1-3 hours; $25 per student with 15 student minimum; 4-6 hours; $35 per student with 15 student minimum
Lecture of various improv quilting techniques. We will talk about improv, how I create “found fabric” from scraps, and visualize how I “think through” ideas. It includes modern improv quilts, my personal journey into improv, and an explanation of the title, a la Mary.
Workshop includes techniques for using up those unfinished or unwanted blocks. If time permits, we will wander into how I use color theory, create large-scale blocks, and build alternative blocks. Slow-paced workshop perfect for improv beginners. Read more…
Hello Improv! Workshop
Improv Piecing Workshop intermediate; domestic machines; 3 hours; $20 per student with 10 student minimum
Improv quilts have their own ideas, voices, and needs. Do you wish you could see, hear, feel your quilt? How do you listen to or feel what a quilt needs? Like anything else, you ask it! Ahh, but the questions and the answers are elusive. I get it, so let’s work on that together! We’ll explore methodologies, quilters, and techniques. I’ll give you some ideas of how you can incorporate your improv pieces into your traditional blocks AND how to include traditional blocks into your improv quilts. Read more…
Crazy Curves! Workshop
Two – three Hour Improv Piecing Workshop advanced; domestic machines; 2 hours, $25 per student with 10 student minimum; 3 hours $30 per student with 8 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 will have completed maximum crazy! Free-hand, double curves, deep curves, S curves—you will piece them all. Expect to walk away with several crazy curve pieces and a new-found love for curves. Read more…
Improv Imagine Workshop
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 participants to create unique, modern quilts using their own orphans and scraps. Read more…
Now Available! Improv and Curves in a Day
Improv Piecing Workshop advanced; domestic machines; 6 hours; $50 per student with 10 student minimum.
Created specifically for the GSQA Seminar in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this class touches on the ways that improv can change how you quilt. Improv quilting is a different way of quilting. It brings about new ideas, voices, and needs. Read more…
