WOODLAND RIDGE RETREAT JUNE 2018

A focus on MINIMALISM in quilts. A five day workshop for maximum discovery.  

Join me at Woodland Ridge Retreat Center June 5-9, 2018  Minimalist Design Maximum Impact  woodlandridgeretreat

Explore a subtle challenge. Simplicity is deceptively complex. What do you place on an uncluttered center stage? What is enough? Interpret minimalism as you consider color and contrast, composition and the essence of what is important. Consider influences from our quilting tradition, modern art and design, and the natural world. Consider the influence of using material at hand, simplify and repurpose. 

REPURPOSED SILK FROM A NECKTIE CATCHES THE SUNLIGHT

composition influenced by Marge Tucker, another quilter published in Minimal Quiltmaking

Perhaps some minimalist quilts are unpretentious with Wabi Sabi, a Japanese concept and appreciation of the beauty of things imperfect. 

Minimal Quiltmaking by Gwen Marston included several of my quilts. I will share my interpretation of Gwen's Liberated Quiltmaking methods. Working without a pattern invites creativity and liberates the imagination. 

A FIRST EFFORT TO SIMPLIFY
"ONTONAGON CLAY" SMALL STUDY

In five days together, maybe you will explore a series of small studies playing with a minimalist vocabulary. Maybe you will do as Gwen did at the conclusion of Minimal Quiltmaking and explore minimal piecing with maximum quilting. Maybe you will follow what develops in the moment. 

I welcome you to join me!  


                  optional resources:

Minimal Quiltmaking by Gwen Marston, AQS 2014

Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, by Leonard Koren; Imperfect Publishing, Point Reyes, California

Marge Tucker  margetuckerquilts.com

GWEN MARSTON and NORTHERN DAUGHTERS

Attention Quilt Collectors---Gwen Marston is now represented by Northern Daughters and you can own one of Gwen's quilts!  https://www.northerndaughters.com/gwen-marston

MADELINE ISLAND SCHOOL OF THE ARTS-- class report 2017

Mark making in quilts---lines

pieced small squares make subtle lines

marks in lines

pointed marks

floating marks

circular marks

dense marks

marks punctuated by moonset

Madeline Island School of the Arts provided an exceptional experience. The students expressed a zest for learning and liberated their creativity. Their quilts amazed and delighted me. As cloth was stitched together in imaginative ways, we too became stitched together. 

class dismissed