If you're interested in taking a class with Patti, see the "On The Road Classes"  Listed below!  On-line Classes will be forth coming, so come back often to watch for that announcement.

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These are the classes I teach to guilds, clubs, shops, etc.  If you are interested please contact me for further details.

A Journey Tome:
Exploring painting, beading, embroidery, fabric collage & crazy patch

2 Days/All levels

Gather your travel memories and come prepared to have fun.  Techniques learned:  Painting a scene and adding dimension with powders and mica chips, bead embroidery, beaded fringe, fabric collage, creating leaves and beads from Tyvek.

Alchemy Treasures:  A Fabric Vessel

2 Days/All Levels

A vessel/box is created using various fibers and paints.  The box can be used to hold your special treasures, or photo's, or a doll, or......Techniques learned:  Fabric manipulation, free motion machine work, painting and embossing on fabric, face and figure painting and coloring, creating beads from Tyvek and organza beads

Creative Cloth Doll Making

2 Days/All levels

Using my books each person will create their own unique doll.  Techniques learned:  Mixing and matching body parts; laying out of pattern pieces for best results; Sewing tips for better hands and faces; turning, wiring, stuffing & sculpting hands; drawing and sculpting a face; direct dyeing a cloth body; coloring the face with colored pencils.  An optional 3rd day teaches creating fabrics with Heat Transfer Paints; free motion machine work to create clothing and shoes; beadwork

Deowyn: A Study in Silks

3 Days/Intermediate to Advanced

An 18-inch all silk doll with jointed legs.  Techniques learned:  Working with silk to create the body,  direct dyeing of body, stamping using Lumiere paints, creating clothing with silk rods and waste, free motion machine work, stitching and burning organza to create wings, simple beaded edging and embellishments

Facing Faces

1 Day/All levels

Learn a fail safe way of creating the face you want.  Using my skills as a portrait artist I will show each person simple techniques that help place features where they belong.  This class is heavy in design work.

Missenderil of Rainbow Valley

3 Days/Intermediate to Advanced

An 18-inch all silk doll.  Techniques learned: Working with silk to create a body, direct dyeing the body, wire armature, using 2 types of silk dyes for the clothing, free motion machine work, drawing and sculpting the face, water coloring the face and simple peyote beadwork.

2 Days/All levels

A fun 16-inch functional doll with compartments for sewing tools.  Her lower skirt is in two sections which hold pockets for sewing notions.  A flower pin-cushion and leaf shaped needle case are also part of her "ensemble".  Simple beadwork and silk ribbon embroidery add embellishments.  The class includes face drawing, sculpting and coloring.

Portraits in threads

2 Days/All levels

Creating faces by machine is easy and fun.  In this class you'll make a panel that can be placed in a quilt, on a purse or bag, in a journal, etc. Techniques learned:  Drawing a face for machine work, free motion machine embroidery, working with Angelina, dyeing laces and trims, creating fun shapes with Tyvek, simple beadwork.

Viviana, a Garden Fairy

2 to 3 days/Intermediate to Advanced

The cover girl from my new book "Creative Cloth Doll Beading".  An 18-inch
all cloth doll.  Techniques learned:  dyeing lace, creating a whimsical face, stamping and bead embroidery, beaded flowers.  The two day class includes learning three of the beaded flowers.  The three day class includes learning all of the beaded flowers.