Guest Speaker: Michelle Trimble
Lecture: Adventures in Improv
Michelle is a quilter, pattern designer, and educator based in San Francisco (quiltingchemistry.com). She enjoys experimenting with new-to-her techniques, dramatic layouts with bold saturated colors, and adding texture to her quilts with free motion quilting. Her work has been featured in magazines and hung at local and international quilt shows including Houston International Quilt Festival and QuiltCon.
Michelle enjoys teaching in-person workshops where she encourages her students to adopt a growth mindset as she gently encourages them to step outside their comfort zone. Her workshops incorporate lecture, demo, and hand’s on experience to ensure students gain the confidence they need to tackle new concepts and skills.
Michelle’s first introduction to quilting was through a friend in college; with her help she pieced her first quilt top on a borrowed sewing machine in the dorms. That quilt wasn’t finished until twenty years later when she rediscovered her love of piecing. Since that time, it’s difficult to separate Michelle from her sewing machine for long!
Workshop: Stunning Improv Sunbursts
Working with improv can be wonderfully freeing, yet the outcome can seem overwhelming to the senses. Choosing constraints at the outset of an improv project can not only lower the decision-making burden that can seem overwhelming, it can also ensure your composition finishes with dramatic flair. In this class, you will explore several different variations of improv triangles, and experiment with variables that will alter the look of each variation. You will then incorporate these blocks into a large wedge layout to make a 24” square wall hanging. NOTE: this is an INTERMEDIATE class.
