15th European Patchwork Meeting
Coming up soon is the 15th European Patchwork Meeting, also known as Le Carrefour Européen du Patchwork, which will be held in Ste. Marie-aux-Mines, France, September 17-21. I will be teaching there, and I’m very excited about it! I love France and will be happy to be back there again, this time in a part of it I have not visited before.
My quilt design workshops on offer there include
In Structured Fabrics, each participant builds some constructed materials and then composes a quilt top design that incorporates them.
 Doorway to Africa, a Structured Fabrics quilt |
Darned Quilts is my most popular class on raw edge piecing and color/value contrast – lots of fun and lots of good lessons to learn!
 Bubbles III, a Darned Quilt |
Designer Pinwheels is all about four-fold rotation of a tessellated triangle, tessellating the natural, intuitive way with no math involved.
 Lilac and Clover, a Designer Pinwheel quilt |
Design Lines is a new class that focuses on the importance of pieced linear elements in design composition.
 Mosaic, a Design Lines quilt |
In each class, students will produce original quilt art, not merely replicate a project already designed by myself.
Want to be an art quilter? This is the place to learn how! Each class will run for one day only.
Need to know more? Check out http://www.patchwork-europe.com/Focus-on-DENA-CRAIN?lang=en.
Register here! See you there!
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August 16th, 2009 at 12:00 am
The quilts you’ve selected to highlight Structured Fabrics and the Design Line float my boat the most!
I’m curious, do you speak French? or do the classes use an interpreter? or do majority of French speakers in France know English as well?
August 16th, 2009 at 12:16 am
Hi, I’ve returned to ask if you would be willing to send a postcard to my 8 year old great niece…her school is having a postcard contest in conjunction with a book fair…there is a category for the card that travelled the fartherest…the child will win a $10 gift certificate to spend at their book fair. If you are willing, email me and I’ll send particulars.
Peace,
August 16th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Thank you! I’m making a new Design Lines quilt at the moment. They are actually good fun! Each one provides interesting challenges. This new one is getting a heavy dose of beading, something I seldom do because it’s handwork and I have little time and patience for that these days. Funny, though, this one is on a proper frame so the work is moving forward at a good pace.
I do speak some French, yes, but I would not be able to teach in French for lack of technical vocabulary and fluency. I understand I will have a translator working with me. I’m going prepared to demonstrate EVERYTHING! I know from previous experience, though, that many French people do speak English–very kind of them, but I also always make some effort to speak French whenever I can think fast enough. Trouble is, I start to say something in French and the next thing I know, it comes out in Kiswahili!!
August 16th, 2009 at 8:40 am
I would be happy to do that for you. Email me with the details and I’ll send it. Do you want it to come from Kenya or from South Africa where I’ll be from August 22 through Sept 6?