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Mary Lou Weidman
"Every event in life is a quilt waiting to happen."
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Lectures offered
"Quilted Memories and Celebrating YOUR life" Lecture
covers ideas of going back and considering how your life is
different from other people's lives. What is important to
say in a quilt and what will people know about you in years
to come from your quilts? Lots of inspiration and lots of
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"Creative YOU"
Lecture covers all kinds of ways to become more creative.
Mary Lou explains avenues of creativity, the personality of
the creative person and how you can stretch and become more
creative with you thoughts and your quilts. Prepare to be
inspired and to go away thinking of things you want to do
to be a new "creative YOU." |
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I only offer classes via local guilds or national quilt
seminars. I can be reached at MaryLouQuilts@aol.com
to discuss my teaching schedule if you would like to offer one of these classes at your guild. |
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Workshop List
Plaid to Meet You
Plaids make great story quilts! They create texture and warmth
in their very nature. We will study how plaids work with each
other, what makes a plaid that works well with others and
what makes another plaid best left out of a quilt. We will
make a background first and then add wonderful figures in
the middle that tell a nice little story that has to do with
YOU. See how wonderful plaids look pieced and appliqued into
a quilt with one another. Once you start collecting plaid
you will learn that you can never have enough and this is
a wonderful way to use them. Kids and adults alike love these
quilts!
- Length: 2-5 days
- Skill level: beginner with applique skills
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Here a Chick, There a Chick...
Participants will receive a pattern but are encouraged to
do an original background (with guidance). Fun figures are
added to make a sensational and original wall quilt. This
class is for the young at heart! Class is easy going, fun
and whimsical.
- Length: 2 days
- Skill level: beginner with applique skills
- Materials list: click
here
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All of my workshops
are two days or longer as the storytelling, personalized,
and unique nature of the quilts produced in each class
requires more time. |
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Color Confused to Color Confident
This class starts with color theory, discusses fabric personalities
and how to select what works best in different quilts. Class
works on a quilt with simple blocks while seeing how and why
some colors will work with each other and some won't. I have
excellent response from this class!
- Length: 2 days
- Skill level: beginner with applique skills
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Mary Lou's Secret Garden
- Length: 2-5 days
- Skill level: beginner with applique skills
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My goal with each class is to teach
creativity, color, design, & story
development. |
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The Creative Neighborhood
- Length: 2-5 days
- Skill level: beginner with applique skills
- Materials list: click
here
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Everyday Angels
This class centers around the subject of angels. I often ask,
"If someone in your life was an angel in disguise who would
they be?" We all have angels in our lives from the lady next
door who tends her garden, to the nice lady in the bakery,
the man who stopped to help change your tire, your grandchild,
a favorite kitty, your mother, an aunt or best friend. We
will explore composition, color, drawing and things that can
make a great supporting cast to your angels. This class always
brings smiles!
- Length: 2 days
- Skill level: beginner with applique skills
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I also teach brief lessons on drawing and some basic knowledge on
how to buy fabric and what your stash may be missing.
"Your Story in Quilts" is the recurring theme
in each class. |
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Container Quilts
Baskets and containers for flowers and fun things are discussed
and designed in this class. These make wonderful wallhangings
for living rooms and bedrooms and also make fabulous gifts
for those that love flowers and folk. Victorian style lovers
can do great things inthis class too.
- Length: 2 days
- Skill level: beginner with applique skills
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Story Quilts: Telling a Tale
with Fun and Folk Art
(a process class)
Having done hundreds of quilts in a folk art style this is
my favorite and the most popular workshop I teach. This workshop
begins with borders and new ways to piece interesting blocks
you have not tried before. Class discusses color, composition,
and design and works to incorporate borders into the story.
The quilts in this class are exciting and fun and tell a story
of the quilt maker. What will people know about you in 80
years from the quilts you sew? This class answers that question.
I use my background in art to teach quilters things they may
not know to make their quilts come alive in a wonderful way.
I offer this class in a two, three, four, or five day workshop.
This class (as with most of my classes) cannot be taught in
one day. Prepare to come and learn lots!
- Length: 2, 3, 4, or 5 days
- Skill level: beginner with applique skills
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A Few Of My Favorite Things
Class discovers how to put favorite hobbies and collections
into fun and lively quilts for home display. Fabric representations
and color choices are covered as well as setting. Works well
in making gift quilts for children, other loved ones or friends
who have their favorite things. Ideas for simple shapes and
memory ideas are covered as well. A fun sentimental class.
- Length: 2 days
- Skill level: beginner with applique skills
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"Set some time aside to daydream every day.
Daydreaming helps with creative flow and
is a good practice of imagination growth."
- Mary Lou Weidman, Whimsies & Whynots
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