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Wendy as a teacher/lecturer

Enthusiatic, encouraging, entertaining and knowledgeable describe Wendy Butler Berns as a teacher and lecturer. Common threads found in her work and classes are strong use of color, twisting the traditional to focus on original design, an unabashed free motion quilting style, and the versatility to work with a wide range of quilting techniques and student abilities. Her passion and energy are contagious.

Since 1997, Wendy has been traveling regionally and nationally teaching at guilds and venues such as the International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas, Chicago International Spring Festival, Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Minnesota State Quilt Show and Quilter's Affair, Sisters, Oregon.

Lectures

All lectures include power point images and quilts from Wendy’s original work.

Creating Captivating Colors In Our Quilts

Wander with Wendy as she guides you through an eclectic collection of traditional and contemporary quilts, all with a common thread - captivating color. She will offer ways of taking a few small steps or multiple bold ones in experimenting with color. Wendy will then explore ways of approaching the color challenge using a tried and true tool - the color wheel.

Capering with Creativity and Our Quilts

You love to collect fabric, you love to quilt(you are a quiltaholic with a big fabric stash) but you lack the courage and know-how to venture beyond those pre-set pattern directions. Wendy will offer a variety of ideas that have successfully helped her to reach beyond the "cookie cutter" quilt.

I’ve Been Bitten By The Bug - The Quilting Bug That Is

What does an entomologist for a father and a gardener for a mother have to do with the kind of quilts one creates? Join in this lighthearted quilt tour and trunk show of Wendy’s work as well as others.

Our Quilts' Hidden Stories

Our quilts and their stories can be spellbinding. Using a trunk show and power point images of an array of wonderful current quilts - both traditional and contemporary, Wendy will share the inspirations and stories of fellow quilters as well as her own.

Scrap City

Viewing scrap quilts is an energetic fitness program for the eyes. Using power point images and a trunk show, Wendy will share tips that will add sparkle, excitement and unexpected surprises to your next scrap quilt project

LECTURE SET UP REQUIREMENTS: Slide projector table with extension cord and screen, 2 large tables for displaying quilts and handouts, microphone if room is large, several quilt racks for hanging a few quilts when available.

Workshops

My workshops are technique and process based. Some workshops use a specific pattern, others do not. Each student leaves class with a project or sample reference that is uniquely theirs.
Many of these workshops can be expanded to two or more days for more in-depth creating during multiday venues.

Stitch to the Finish Line with Machine Quilting

Full Day
Beginner to intermediate
Learn all you need to know about machine quilting from supplies for layering and pertinent thread talk, to using the walking foot and the darning foot for free motion quilting.

The Third Dimension -Embellishing with Tantalizing Threads

Full Day or Multi-day
Confident beginner to Advanced
Create more surface design and texture to your projects by using different embellishing techniques.

Art Quilting at the Clearing

One Week
Confident beginner to Advanced
Take a glimpse of a weeklong workshop held each year at The Clearing-
"Awakening the Art Quilter Within "

3-D Loco Log Cabins

Full Day
Confident beginner to Advanced
It is time to “draw outside the lines” with this crazy 3-D log cabin. We will be breaking some of the traditional rules-- so be ready!.

Creating Captivating Colorful Quilts - Color for Quilters

Full Day
All Levels
Begin to take the mystery out of confusing fabric choices. Develop confidence in choosing fabrics and understanding more about color dynamics.
This is a technique and project based class. Can be designed as a no-sew workshop.

Captivating Cone Flower - Picture Image Appliqué

Techniques from my book
Full Day
Confident beginner to Advanced
Learn the process of creating simple pictoral quilts from a photograph or picture.

Unabashed Free Motion Quilting and Use ofTantalizing Threads...Modern Quilts and More...

1/2 day workshop
Confident Beginner to Advanced
Develop more confidence in your free motion quilting using your darning foot and learn about the tips and tricks for using the many specialty threads on the market.

Out on a Limb -Textural Picture Image Appliqué

Full day workshop
Confident beginner to Advanced
Using the theme of trees and nature, numerous texturing techniques will be explored-Texture Magic, tulle' and fold and tucking to make Wendy's Tiny Tree Landscape.

WHIMSICAL I SPY- Picture Image Appliqué

NEW
Half Day OR Full day workshop
Confident beginner to Advanced
So many fun large scale prints to entice us!!! Using Wendy's Whimsical I Spy design and her Picture Image Machine Applique, we will play with ways to use those fabrics in a utilitarian block format..

I have a few additional workshops not listed...
inquire if you are interested in learning more.
"Out of the Blocks Quilt Design" full day
"Birch Trees"- Picture Image Applique full day
"Whimsical I Spy"-Applique Wendy's Way half day

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