Please note, we are adjusting our meeting time to allow for more shopping! The room will be open at 9am for shopping and socializing.
Meeting will start at 10am, and speaker will start around 11am.
Adventures in Improv
In Adventures in Improv, Michelle shares her personal journey of discovering the joy and freedom of piecing without a pattern. She’ll walk you through her creative process, from the first hesitant stitches to the bold quilts incorporating swaths of negative space that followed. This lecture is all about exploration, choosing which rules to embrace, and finding fun in the unexpected twists of improv quilting.
Visit Michelle's website at https://quiltingchemistry.com/
I’m Michelle from Quilting Chemistry… quilter, pattern designer, and educator based in San Francisco. I enjoy experimenting with new-to-me techniques, dramatic layouts with bold saturated colors, and adding texture to my quilts with free motion quilting. My work has been featured in magazines and hung at local and international quilt shows including Houston International Quilt Festival and QuiltCon.
I enjoy teaching in-person workshops where I encourage my students to adopt a growth mindset as I gently encourage them to step outside their comfort zone. My workshops incorporate lecture, demo, and hand’s on experience to ensure students gain the confidence they need to tackle new concepts and skills.
My first introduction to quilting was through a friend in college; with her help I pieced my first quilt top on a borrowed sewing machine in the dorms. That quilt wasn’t finished until twenty years later when I rediscovered my love of piecing. Since that time, it’s difficult to separate me from my sewing machine for long!
