Traveling to Teach

Lately I have been traveling a lot and haven't been working in my studio on my own work. My students at Empty Spools at Asilomar near Monterey, CA, made me proud by producing the most incredible work since they actually had five days to work on a project. I also taught recently in Cambria at the Sandy Turner Retreat where they also did fantastic work! These multi-day classes are really allowing students to spend enough time to get a larger more personal project started. They design mostly and take the piece home to finish it later. Here are a couple of piece that are getting close to being finished. They work from their own photos and make them even better. We had a completely full class in Empty Spools of 25 people and had a great week! What a great venue for working on art!

This bird was pieced using my simple fusing technique. The artist used two different fabrics for the background instead of piecing the whole thing. These fabrics were perfect for it!

I will be teaching at Sisters, OR, next month over the 4th of July. I hear this is also a great venue and we will have another 3 day class where I'm sure students will put out some great work! I'm looking forward to it except the part where it's over the holiday. Normally I would spend that with my family! Oh, well. I guess teaching for the moment has to come first.

I will also be teaching in Knoxville this summer at the AQS show several different classes. This is the first time I have taught for AQS. I'm excited about this opportunity!

I was very lucky as many of you might know that I won the Moda Best Wall Quilt at Paducah in April. This was very exciting for me since my piece will be hanging in the National Quilt Museum now permanentaly! I also received a director's chair with my name on it (so I guess I'm the director now) and a crystal vase that was very beautiful with my prize information on it plus of course the $5,000 prize money. I bought two Ekorne recliners for my studio! They are gorgeous and comfortable. You can go to my website at http://www.lenorecrawford.com to get more information on my schedule so you can try a multi-day class too and produce some of your own incredible art quilts.

The coast at Monterey/Pacific Grove is very rugged and harsh. The colors of the water and the wild flowers are breath-taking. The yards of houses along the shore toward town were covered with flox completely! It was amazing! A great place to visit for a week long quilting retreat!