Vermont Quilt Festival

Hey boys and girls! The Vermont Quilt Festival is coming up soon --- June 25 - 28, Essex Junction VT. Come play with me! I'll be teaching 4 workshops: Paint & Print on Fabric; Color Mixing; Paintstiks on Fabric and Resist Painting. Click here for class info.

Create NJ 2013

Last week, I had the pleasure of teaching at Create Mixed Media Art Retreat, New Jersey. Here's what it looked like.

[Paintstiks on fabric]











[fabric journals]

Katonah Museum of Art

I had a Mini Art Quilt Workshop a few weeks ago at the Katonah Museum of Art (Katonah, NY). Thank you all my lovely students!

Katonah Museum of Art

Please join me on April 21st for a Mini Art Quilt Workshop at the Katonah Museum of Art (10:00 am - 4:00 pm, Katonah, NY). Click here for more information.


April 21
Mini Art Quilt Workshop with Elin Waterston
Begin with an image printed or transferred onto fabric as a central focal point, then add design details with layers of fabric, hand stitching and embellishments. Participants will learn design fundamentals and collage techniques to create their own art quilt (9” square).
$75 members, $85 non-members

fabric painting + printing + stuff like that

Hello out there in blogland. I've been a busy little bee lately. Last week I taught two, count 'em two, Paint + Print on Fabric workshops - first at The Weaving Center, in Tarrytown, NY; then for the Greater Hartford Quilt Guild, in Berlin, CT. Much fun was had by all. Here's what it looked like...

[playing with Shiva Paintstiks at The Weaving Center]




[playing with fabric paint at the Greater Hartford Quilt Guild]






[beautiful fabric created with a bronze Paintstik and a gingko leaves rubbing plate - the photo doesn't do it justice!]


[playing with Shiva Paintstiks at the Greater Hartford Quilt Guild]




Thanks to all who participated in the workshops and to the many, many, many people who came to my Friday night lecture too. I hope you learned something new and fascinating!

peace y'all

P.S. The next opportunity to come and play with me: Art & Soul Retreat, Hampton, VA, April 28+29. Be there.

VQF - Saturday + Sunday

After a long drive through a monsoon (I was not aware that Connecticut had a monsoon season, but okay), I'm home from my VQF adventure. Saturday's workshop was Fabric College and today's was Color Mixing (a hands on color theory class where you learn by painting). Most evenings after my super awesome workshops, I practiced yoga at the two lovely yoga studios I found in Burlington, which made it even more delightful. And besides having the best students, I also had the best roommates
(Melody Crust, Brenda Henning and Ann Fahl). Thanks everyone for your creativity and enthusiasm. Love you muchly. Now I have to go to bed, because summer camp starts tomorrow!!!!!!!!

[Saturday]












[I said they should bring a lot of fabric. They believed me.]




[The crowd at Saturday night's event... I made them all wave to me while I took their picture, and then I sang Danke Schoen. If you put me in front of hundreds people and stick a microphone in my face, Im'ma go all lounge singer on ya. 'Cause that's how I roll.]






[Sunday]

P.S. My next fiber arty gig is in Chicago at Create, August 27 + 28.