Saturday however, was a workshop which I was so excited to attend. Denyse offers a couple different workshops and you can find out how to host your own here at her site. We chose the Pure Improvisation workshop and it was fantastic.
I forgot to bring my camera (and my ruler - duh!). This photo was taken by Andrew (thanks Andrew!). I'm the one with the goofy grin because of course I was talking. You can see Denyse standing in the very back.
We took one of Denyse's new patterns and recreated the basic pattern with templates. Then made small modifications of our own. From there we did our own improv based on the basic shapes of the original pattern.
It was difficult for me to let go and just free form something. But ultimately very liberating! Here was what I originally came up with.
Below is some of the other works and mine is the one on the far right.
Then with just a little shifting of the blocks, it became this one below. Denyse posed in front of it with me at the end of the day. Thank you again Andrew for the photo! You can see more of everyone's work in Andrew's Flickr group.
It was great to be challenged like this. And of course so much fun to spend the day with fellow quilters. Thanks to Denyse and also to all the PMQG members who worked hard to put this together. Definitely check out Denyse's website at dsquilts.com for info on her new book and workshops.
7 comments:
Sounds like such a fun day, and your grin says it all!
Ditto what Katy said! Lucky you!!
Great recap, Becky! It certainly was a fun day!!
So much fun Becky! Love your improv blocks!
This looks like so much fun! I can totally appreciate the challenge of improv :-D
you look so so happy! i would have been just the same! what a fun day! xo
That sounds so fun! And your piecing is really neat!
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