This past weekend I drove out to Odessa, Washington to give the Value lecture to the Odessa Quilt Club and to teach the Value in Action workshop. I had a wonderful time with my hostess and with the students.
But first I have to say what an incredible landscape is out there. The land opens up and becomes so vast. Coming from the forests here in Portland, I found it beautiful, although somewhat unnerving. Just miles and miles of wheat as far as you could see. After getting off the freeway, I drove about 50 miles and only saw about 8 cars. And no cell service.
The value workshop was a lot of fun. I really enjoy teaching this class because the students get a lot out of it and leave with some good information to use in their future quilts. One of the exercises that we do is “trip around the world.”
These two pictures show Lise’s project with several different arrangements of the fabrics.
This is such a good visual on how a project changes depending on where you place your lights and darks.
Here are a couple of other projects from the class.
I’ll work on getting up some pictures of the other two projects. I was very pleased with what all the students accomplished. I really work them hard in this class and they rose to the challenge!