This weekend I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by Sherri Lynn Wood of Daintytime and participating in her workshop, “Get Your Curve On,” at Spoonflower.
It was such a treat to watch her at work and to learn her techniques for making curves. Plus, she is a delightful person who I could tell puts a lot of thought into her work.
She started by having us lay out all our fabrics.
Then we did a 5-minute centering technique to focus our attention inward before we chose our fabrics. The oranges were calling to me so I grabbed them and started piecing together with aqua and yellow.
I sewed wedges into 3 fans.
And then came the hard part – the composition.
I laid out the pieces and realized that they would make a cool donut.
And then I laid them out like fans.
And then I called in the expert for help!
Throughout the process, Sherri was very encouraging and reminded us that the technique we were doing is an advanced improv technique. That made me feel better when I was scratching my head trying to figure out how to fit the pieces together.
I didn’t finish the quilt top during the workshop, but I left with enough know-how and confidence to finish working on it on my own.
If you ever have the chance to take a workshop with Sherri, I highly encourage you to do so. She is an accomplished artist, an excellent teacher and an all-around nice person.
15 comments
Looks like wonderful fun, Nicole! I see a skirt for one of your little girls! Or maybe both 🙂
Well THAT sounds fun! Anxious to see where you go from here…
Great work! (of course, the colours are close to my heart, too….) Can't wait to see where this goes!
Ooh love stuff like this, and can't wait tosee what you do next!
I'll see her Saturday at a workshop here in Baltimore! Thanks for sharing your project. Can't wait!
I love what you did. Great colors. I hope to see more of this quilt.
Very cool! I look forward to seeing what magic you do with this! I like the idea of a centering moment before jumping into the fabric selection. Perhaps if I did that my fabric decision making would go faster!
This looks fantastic. I find the Spoonflower site so confusing when I look for upcoming classes and workshops. Is that how you hear about their classes (from the website)?
Sounds like a fun class :o)
Love the fans layout you came up with. SLW is so inspiring, her classes are at the very top of my wishlist for QuiltCon 2015. Am planning to schedule everything else around the chance to play with and learn from her.
What a fun class! I love the colours you chose.
Fun! I was drawn to Kona Tangerine last week at the fabric shop and have now made a bag and pillow with it. I look forward to seeing what you make from your improv curvy pieces.
oh, nicole!!! how fabulous to have had this class with sherri!!! i would love to take one!! (i recently submitted a quilt for her new book which was accepted… so exciting!!)
Looking forward to seeing the finiished product!
Hi Nicole, What a lovely post. I never saw this until now when I was doing a google search of my name. Sweet.
Comments are closed.