Back from Retreat

I'm exhausted! But happy and much more learned!
Pam Godderis taught a fabulous workshop on Surface Designs for Quilters.

We arrived on Friday and did our own thing before dinner. I worked on
machine quilting my curved piece sampler.

After dinner we put our Dr. Frankenstein, I Presume dolls and made up a
story of how they came to be...too funny.

Day two, we started with gold/silver/copper leaf and learned how to apply it
in traditional method, on textural surfaces [onion bag], using a stamp,
acrylic paint application and using fusible web. Very challenging but I'll
definitely try it again.

Next we used tyvek, you know those plastic mail envelops we use, that's
tyvek. We painted it and melted it, we used rub and buff it. Great to add
texture to pieces.

Then onto cutting your own stencil and use paint to sponge it on.

Next we painted fusible webbing, [I really loved this technique and used
some of the sample for the next day when we did some foil applications] Then
we made mono prints. Again, I enjoyed this technique.

Our text technique was crayon batik and did some texture rubbings.

That was day two, our first session lasted 4 hours and then another 4 hours
after lunch.

After dinner we socialized and checked our hand sewing by challenging team
members to make either a 4 patch or sew two strips together by hand and then
sew the two blocks together. One of the gals took them home to make a
Project Linus quilts.

We then drew and gave our dolls a home.

Day three [today] we had a 3 hour workshop in the morning and another 2
hours in the afternoon.

We started with using foil applying it with Plexi Glue, then using stamps,
our final application was using fusible web to apply it. This was a fun
technique and a lot easier to use than gold leaf, for a similar effect.

Next we used oil pastes and stencils and used both positive and negative
shapes. We also used masking tape to make negative spaces to create shapes.

She then introduced us to using metal as appliqué pieces. The metal is soft
enough to either hand or machine sew. You can emboss the shapes, cut
shapes, all sorts of things.

Our final technique was puff paints, an oldie but some new ideas. Such as
painting the puff paints after creating different shapes.

After lunch we went around the room and showed our samples and spoke about
what we liked and didn't like and Pam answered questions. While we were
going around [there were 26 of us] I managed to finish putting my samples
into the workbook she made for us.

By 3 p.m. we were busily packing up and by 3:50 I was waiting for my car
mate to finish paying our bills so we could head home.

For anyone going to Quilt Canada in Winnipeg in May, check out her work!

Carmen, she's coming up to Kelowna soon, I mentioned your name and Arlene's
to say hello for me.

I'm so punchy right now, I'm not sure if this made any sense, but I hope you
got the idea. Any questions, I'll try and answer them, mind you I'll
probably not look for any until tomorrow night when I get back from work.

Oh, our retreat was held at a Catholic former girls and boys school and for
2 days our neighbours were on a silent retreat!

Have a great week everyone.

--
Sandi in New Westminster B.C.
Queen of the Travelogues.
....travel is as much a passion as ambition or love
L. E. Landon

Sounds like a wonderful weekend.....

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"shhdesigns" wrote in message
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I'm exhausted! But happy and much more learned!
Pam Godderis taught a fabulous workshop on Surface Designs for Quilters.

Wow how interesting! Any pics? (You just knew I was gonna ask

kitty in phx

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"shhdesigns" wrote in message
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I'm exhausted! But happy and much more learned!
Pam Godderis taught a fabulous workshop on Surface Designs for Quilters.

We arrived on Friday and did our own thing before dinner. I worked on
machine quilting my curved piece sampler.

After dinner we put our Dr. Frankenstein, I Presume dolls and made up a
story of how they came to be...too funny.

Day two, we started with gold/silver/copper leaf and learned how to apply
it
in traditional method, on textural surfaces [onion bag], using a stamp,
acrylic paint application and using fusible web. Very challenging but
I'll
definitely try it again.

Next we used tyvek, you know those plastic mail envelops we use, that's
tyvek. We painted it and melted it, we used rub and buff it. Great to
add
texture to pieces.

Then onto cutting your own stencil and use paint to sponge it on.

Next we painted fusible webbing, [I really loved this technique and used
some of the sample for the next day when we did some foil applications]
Then
we made mono prints. Again, I enjoyed this technique.

Our text technique was crayon batik and did some texture rubbings.

That was day two, our first session lasted 4 hours and then another 4
hours
after lunch.

After dinner we socialized and checked our hand sewing by challenging team
members to make either a 4 patch or sew two strips together by hand and
then
sew the two blocks together. One of the gals took them home to make a
Project Linus quilts.

We then drew and gave our dolls a home.

Day three [today] we had a 3 hour workshop in the morning and another 2
hours in the afternoon.

We started with using foil applying it with Plexi Glue, then using stamps,
our final application was using fusible web to apply it. This was a fun
technique and a lot easier to use than gold leaf, for a similar effect.

Next we used oil pastes and stencils and used both positive and negative
shapes. We also used masking tape to make negative spaces to create
shapes.

She then introduced us to using metal as appliqué pieces. The metal is
soft
enough to either hand or machine sew. You can emboss the shapes, cut
shapes, all sorts of things.

Our final technique was puff paints, an oldie but some new ideas. Such as
painting the puff paints after creating different shapes.

After lunch we went around the room and showed our samples and spoke about
what we liked and didn't like and Pam answered questions. While we were
going around [there were 26 of us] I managed to finish putting my samples
into the workbook she made for us.

By 3 p.m. we were busily packing up and by 3:50 I was waiting for my car
mate to finish paying our bills so we could head home.

For anyone going to Quilt Canada in Winnipeg in May, check out her work!

Carmen, she's coming up to Kelowna soon, I mentioned your name and
Arlene's
to say hello for me.

I'm so punchy right now, I'm not sure if this made any sense, but I hope
you
got the idea. Any questions, I'll try and answer them, mind you I'll
probably not look for any until tomorrow night when I get back from work.

Oh, our retreat was held at a Catholic former girls and boys school and
for
2 days our neighbours were on a silent retreat!

Have a great week everyone.

--
Sandi in New Westminster B.C.
Queen of the Travelogues.
...travel is as much a passion as ambition or love
L. E. Landon

Wow! You really got to try a lot of neat techniques in a short amount
of time. You will have to post pictures of some of your pieces that use
these techniques as you do them. They would be fun to see. Glad you
had such a good but exhausting time.

marcella

In article P1M9c.38681$QO2.37938@pd7tw1no,
"shhdesigns" wrote:

I'm exhausted! But happy and much more learned!
Pam Godderis taught a fabulous workshop on Surface Designs for Quilters.

We arrived on Friday and did our own thing before dinner. I worked on
machine quilting my curved piece sampler.

After dinner we put our Dr. Frankenstein, I Presume dolls and made up a
story of how they came to be...too funny.

Day two, we started with gold/silver/copper leaf and learned how to apply it
in traditional method, on textural surfaces [onion bag], using a stamp,
acrylic paint application and using fusible web. Very challenging but I'll
definitely try it again.

Next we used tyvek, you know those plastic mail envelops we use, that's
tyvek. We painted it and melted it, we used rub and buff it. Great to add
texture to pieces.

Then onto cutting your own stencil and use paint to sponge it on.

Next we painted fusible webbing, [I really loved this technique and used
some of the sample for the next day when we did some foil applications] Then
we made mono prints. Again, I enjoyed this technique.

Our text technique was crayon batik and did some texture rubbings.

That was day two, our first session lasted 4 hours and then another 4 hours
after lunch.

After dinner we socialized and checked our hand sewing by challenging team
members to make either a 4 patch or sew two strips together by hand and then
sew the two blocks together. One of the gals took them home to make a
Project Linus quilts.

We then drew and gave our dolls a home.

Day three [today] we had a 3 hour workshop in the morning and another 2
hours in the afternoon.

We started with using foil applying it with Plexi Glue, then using stamps,
our final application was using fusible web to apply it. This was a fun
technique and a lot easier to use than gold leaf, for a similar effect.

Next we used oil pastes and stencils and used both positive and negative
shapes. We also used masking tape to make negative spaces to create shapes.

She then introduced us to using metal as appliqué pieces. The metal is soft
enough to either hand or machine sew. You can emboss the shapes, cut
shapes, all sorts of things.

Our final technique was puff paints, an oldie but some new ideas. Such as
painting the puff paints after creating different shapes.

After lunch we went around the room and showed our samples and spoke about
what we liked and didn't like and Pam answered questions. While we were
going around [there were 26 of us] I managed to finish putting my samples
into the workbook she made for us.

By 3 p.m. we were busily packing up and by 3:50 I was waiting for my car
mate to finish paying our bills so we could head home.

For anyone going to Quilt Canada in Winnipeg in May, check out her work!

Carmen, she's coming up to Kelowna soon, I mentioned your name and Arlene's
to say hello for me.

I'm so punchy right now, I'm not sure if this made any sense, but I hope you
got the idea. Any questions, I'll try and answer them, mind you I'll
probably not look for any until tomorrow night when I get back from work.

Oh, our retreat was held at a Catholic former girls and boys school and for
2 days our neighbours were on a silent retreat!

Have a great week everyone.

Sounds like just the kind of weekend I would enjoy. You certainly got through a
lot.
Flossy
Malvern England
***** Queen of Plaids ******
http://www.flossy.net

Yes, I took a few, forgot to ask if I could take some of her pieces.
I also have all my samples except the stencil [too big] glued into my
workbook. I plan on scanning some into my computer and see if DN can add
them to the web pages he's working on.

--
Sandi in New Westminster B.C.
Queen of the Travelogues.
....travel is as much a passion as ambition or love
L. E. Landon
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Wow how interesting! Any pics? (You just knew I was gonna ask

kitty in phx

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"shhdesigns" wrote in message
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I'm exhausted! But happy and much more learned!
Pam Godderis taught a fabulous workshop on Surface Designs for Quilters.

We arrived on Friday and did our own thing before dinner. I worked on
machine quilting my curved piece sampler.

After dinner we put our Dr. Frankenstein, I Presume dolls and made up a
story of how they came to be...too funny.

Day two, we started with gold/silver/copper leaf and learned how to
apply
it
in traditional method, on textural surfaces [onion bag], using a stamp,
acrylic paint application and using fusible web. Very challenging but
I'll
definitely try it again.

Next we used tyvek, you know those plastic mail envelops we use, that's
tyvek. We painted it and melted it, we used rub and buff it. Great to
add
texture to pieces.

Then onto cutting your own stencil and use paint to sponge it on.

Next we painted fusible webbing, [I really loved this technique and used
some of the sample for the next day when we did some foil applications]
Then
we made mono prints. Again, I enjoyed this technique.

Our text technique was crayon batik and did some texture rubbings.

That was day two, our first session lasted 4 hours and then another 4
hours
after lunch.

After dinner we socialized and checked our hand sewing by challenging
team
members to make either a 4 patch or sew two strips together by hand and
then
sew the two blocks together. One of the gals took them home to make a
Project Linus quilts.

We then drew and gave our dolls a home.

Day three [today] we had a 3 hour workshop in the morning and another 2
hours in the afternoon.

We started with using foil applying it with Plexi Glue, then using
stamps,
our final application was using fusible web to apply it. This was a fun
technique and a lot easier to use than gold leaf, for a similar effect.

Next we used oil pastes and stencils and used both positive and negative
shapes. We also used masking tape to make negative spaces to create
shapes.

She then introduced us to using metal as appliqué pieces. The metal is
soft
enough to either hand or machine sew. You can emboss the shapes, cut
shapes, all sorts of things.

Our final technique was puff paints, an oldie but some new ideas. Such
as
painting the puff paints after creating different shapes.

After lunch we went around the room and showed our samples and spoke
about
what we liked and didn't like and Pam answered questions. While we were
going around [there were 26 of us] I managed to finish putting my
samples
into the workbook she made for us.

By 3 p.m. we were busily packing up and by 3:50 I was waiting for my car
mate to finish paying our bills so we could head home.

For anyone going to Quilt Canada in Winnipeg in May, check out her work!

Carmen, she's coming up to Kelowna soon, I mentioned your name and
Arlene's
to say hello for me.

I'm so punchy right now, I'm not sure if this made any sense, but I hope
you
got the idea. Any questions, I'll try and answer them, mind you I'll
probably not look for any until tomorrow night when I get back from
work.

Oh, our retreat was held at a Catholic former girls and boys school and
for
2 days our neighbours were on a silent retreat!

Have a great week everyone.

--
Sandi in New Westminster B.C.
Queen of the Travelogues.
...travel is as much a passion as ambition or love
L. E. Landon

Yes, she is a wonderful teacher and does travel around. If you want some
info, I can link you up with her, I don't think she has a web page, but I do
have her e-mail add.

--
Sandi in New Westminster B.C.
Queen of the Travelogues.
....travel is as much a passion as ambition or love
L. E. Landon
"Marcella Tracy Peek" wrote in message
...
Wow! You really got to try a lot of neat techniques in a short amount
of time. You will have to post pictures of some of your pieces that use
these techniques as you do them. They would be fun to see. Glad you
had such a good but exhausting time.

marcella

In article P1M9c.38681$QO2.37938@pd7tw1no,
"shhdesigns" wrote:

I'm exhausted! But happy and much more learned!
Pam Godderis taught a fabulous workshop on Surface Designs for Quilters.

We arrived on Friday and did our own thing before dinner. I worked on
machine quilting my curved piece sampler.

After dinner we put our Dr. Frankenstein, I Presume dolls and made up a
story of how they came to be...too funny.

Day two, we started with gold/silver/copper leaf and learned how to
apply it
in traditional method, on textural surfaces [onion bag], using a stamp,
acrylic paint application and using fusible web. Very challenging but
I'll
definitely try it again.

Next we used tyvek, you know those plastic mail envelops we use, that's
tyvek. We painted it and melted it, we used rub and buff it. Great to
add
texture to pieces.

Then onto cutting your own stencil and use paint to sponge it on.

Next we painted fusible webbing, [I really loved this technique and used
some of the sample for the next day when we did some foil applications]
Then
we made mono prints. Again, I enjoyed this technique.

Our text technique was crayon batik and did some texture rubbings.

That was day two, our first session lasted 4 hours and then another 4
hours
after lunch.

After dinner we socialized and checked our hand sewing by challenging
team
members to make either a 4 patch or sew two strips together by hand and
then
sew the two blocks together. One of the gals took them home to make a
Project Linus quilts.

We then drew and gave our dolls a home.

Day three [today] we had a 3 hour workshop in the morning and another 2
hours in the afternoon.

We started with using foil applying it with Plexi Glue, then using
stamps,
our final application was using fusible web to apply it. This was a fun
technique and a lot easier to use than gold leaf, for a similar effect.

Next we used oil pastes and stencils and used both positive and negative
shapes. We also used masking tape to make negative spaces to create
shapes.

She then introduced us to using metal as appliqué pieces. The metal is
soft
enough to either hand or machine sew. You can emboss the shapes, cut
shapes, all sorts of things.

Our final technique was puff paints, an oldie but some new ideas. Such
as
painting the puff paints after creating different shapes.

After lunch we went around the room and showed our samples and spoke
about
what we liked and didn't like and Pam answered questions. While we were
going around [there were 26 of us] I managed to finish putting my
samples
into the workbook she made for us.

By 3 p.m. we were busily packing up and by 3:50 I was waiting for my car
mate to finish paying our bills so we could head home.

For anyone going to Quilt Canada in Winnipeg in May, check out her work!

Carmen, she's coming up to Kelowna soon, I mentioned your name and
Arlene's
to say hello for me.

I'm so punchy right now, I'm not sure if this made any sense, but I hope
you
got the idea. Any questions, I'll try and answer them, mind you I'll
probably not look for any until tomorrow night when I get back from
work.

Oh, our retreat was held at a Catholic former girls and boys school and
for
2 days our neighbours were on a silent retreat!

Have a great week everyone.

It was a lot of fun, but very exhausting. Thank goodness I only have a 4
day week this week. Dinner and bed is about right.

--
Sandi in New Westminster B.C.
Queen of the Travelogues.
....travel is as much a passion as ambition or love
L. E. Landon
"Flossy" wrote in message
...
Sounds like just the kind of weekend I would enjoy. You certainly got
through a
lot.
Flossy
Malvern England
***** Queen of Plaids ******
http://www.flossy.net