I am currently only booking for virtual lectures / trunk shows / workshops. Please email me at yvonne(at)quiltingjetgirl(dot)com if you are interested in having me lecture or teach at your upcoming event.
2021
February 18-22, 2021 – QuiltCon Together
April 26 & 27, 2021 – Santa Clarita Valley Quilt Guild
2020
February 21, 2020 – QuiltCon, Austin, TX
April 10, 2020 – Design Freely with Inkscape (MQG Webinar)
May 15, 2020 – Virtual Lecture for Bay Area Modern, Palo Alto, CA
July 16, 2020 – Fort Worth Modern Quilt Guild
July 30, 2020 – Beyond the Drunkard’s Path (MQG Webinar)
November 8, 2020 – Virtual Lecture for Gulf Coast Modern Quilt Guild
November 10, 2020 – Virtual Lecture for Surfside Quilters Guild
November 21, 2020 – Virtual Lecture for Houston Modern Quilt Guild
2019
February 24, 2019 – QuiltCon, Nashville, TN
March 25 & 26 – Bear Valley Quilt Guild, Los Osos, CA
April 11 & 12, 2019 – Hot Springs Village Quilt Guild, Hot Springs, AR
June 26-29 – Vermont Quilt Festival, Burlington, VT
2018
April 12, 2018 – Spring Creek Quilts, Cookeville, TN
June 25 & 30, 2018 – Valley Modern Quilt Guild
October 12 & 13, 2018 – Greenville Modern Quilt Guild
2017
March 26, 2017 – Quilting on Your Domestic Machine (4 hours) Bolts in the Bathtub, Lancaster, CA
June 2017 – Filming for Fresh Quilting Season 2
2016
September 18, 2016 – Quilting on Your Domestic Machine (4 hours) Bolts in the Bathtub, Lancaster, CA
October 3, 2016 – Trunk Show, Tehachapi Mountain Quilters, Tehachapi, CA
December 3, 2016 – Triangle Transparency (6 hours) Bolts in the Bathtub, Lancaster, CA
One on One Triangle Transparency Workshop Time
Available Virtual Workshops
Piecing Precisely: Diffraction Quilt Block
Piecing Precision: Diffraction Quilt Block
Half or Full Day Workshop
Inspired by an improv mini quilt I made in June 2018, I wanted to challenge myself to expand the idea and achieve greater piecing precision. After a lot of trial and error, I am excited to teach tips and tricks to achieve greater piecing precision. Let’s explore how to create the striking Diffraction Quilt Block using your normal quilting tools: a rotary cutter and acrylic rulers and discuss how to apply these lessons to your next quilting project.
Transparency Quilt Design Workshop One-on-One Time
Transparency Quilt Design
Half Day Workshop
Transparency is one of Yvonne’s favorite design techniques. Combining discussion, sketching, and design wall group activity, Yvonne will walk you through considerations and her design process for creating transparency quilt designs.
The Transparency Quilt Design Workshop will explore color value, fabric choices, monochromatic versus color wheel progression, and the difference between transparency and ombré design. The workshop is not geared toward supporting a specific design software, but it is structured as a hands-on, visual approach to considering design through using pencil and paper and fabric on a design wall.
Available Lectures / Virtual Lectures
Transparency Fabric Selection Tips & Tricks
45 minute lecture and Q&A
Transparency quilts are a favorite design technique, and I talk about what inspires me to design using the technique and how to approach fabric selection when you are working with or wanting to make a transparency quilt. The talk includes tips and tricks on how to use common technology to your benefit when shopping online or in person. This is a great discussion to have the day before a Triangle Transparency or Wayward Transparency class and if it is scheduled before a class, I would be thrilled to have people bring fabric selections they are considering for their class project to discuss afterwards as time allows.
Wabi-Sabi Overland: Downsizing to Live and Quilt in 75 Square Feet
45 minute lecture and Q&A
Learn about the design choices and compromises my husband and I made as we worked to create our custom expedition vehicle, Wabi-Sabi Overland. For anyone interested in learning what it’s like to travel in an RV and quilt, or for those curious about our extreme downsizing, I can give you my unique perspective on life and quilting on the road in 75 square feet!
Trunk Show
45 minute lecture and Q&A
I talk about my quilting journey which started over 20 years ago. I show my creative arc from my start to working to develop my own “voice”. In terms of being virtual, I would plan for this to be slide show based for optimum visibility and ability to show zoomed in details.
Quilt Pattern Design in Inkscape
45 minute lecture and Q&A
Inkscape is a free, open source, professional vector graphics editor for Linux, Windows and macOS. I walk through the basics needed for using Inkscape for quilt pattern design; from installation, set up, tools, and using fabric swatches for patterning.
Sky Full of Stars Piecing Detail
Beyond the Drunkard’s Path
45-60 minute lecture and Q&A
This is an action packed lecture aimed to inspire! I discuss many different methods and techniques for adding curves to your quilt projects: from improvisation to applique to using rulers to make more than the Drunkard’s path block, this lecture aims to inspire you to get creative and get curvy.