Comments on: Elizabeth Busch Workshop

By: samantha

samantha — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:01:28 +0000

Would Front Range Contemporary Quilters be good for someone trying to break away from traditiona quilting, do you think? (Not to hijack your post, just curious…)l

By: Omega

Omega — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:37:45 +0000

It is interesting to see that you were interested in placement right from the very beginning.
When I started I preferred to be with the advanced participants so that I would be stretched. I’ve never wanted to come out of a workshop with a finished, or even a started piece of ‘real’ work, but enjoy the general education. EB sounds like a wondrous teacher, which is not always the case with good artists. My very first advice about quilting came from Elizabeth Gurrier who lived near me in New Hampshire when I was there for a while. It was not a workshop - I was just visiting her studio.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:29:11 +0000

The “art” class I took last fall - my first - stunned me with the friendliness, helpfulness and willingness to share everything from methods and work processes to stepladders. Was not aware of competitiveness among participants and came to the conclusion that doing ones “own thing” mitigates what can become a common reaction any time people group together. I too entered that classroom the first time knowing that I was likely in over my head, but not caring too much if I was. As it turned out, I was fine. I give a good bit of the credit to my classmates.

By: Mary Manahan

Mary Manahan — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:13:14 +0000

I can’t believe it…..MY first quilt art class was with Elizabeth Busch also! I was in WAY over my head, but had fun anyway. It was a week-long workshop at QBL and we did design exercises like the ones you did, then stretched canvas (duck) fabric on our tables and painted with acrylics, masking with tape, overpainted, then made a quilt based on an emotion or feeling with our painted fabric, incorporating commercial fabric with it. We were in one of the only air-conditioned classrooms, and I was freezing. So I chose COLD. I’m looking at it now, as it hangs over this desk. It’s pretty bad. But I’d like to try it again. Elizabeth was wonderful. I probably had the worst art quilt in the room, and at the end, she called it a “gem”. What a sweetie!