Home: Pepperell, Massachusetts and live online streaming for guilds.
“Hilarious, down to earth, authentic, and so creative” – actual, unpaid audience member, “Give it a Scrap Slap”
Teaching and lecturing around the country are my favorite parts of this business and I would love to share my motto of “inspired designs, relaxed attitude” with your guild. I am always thrilled when I can share tricks and tips I’ve discovered along the way, using my signature style of humor and not taking myself or my quilts too seriously.
As a mostly scrappy designer, I prefer to dig into my stash to create designs and patterns that appeal to my senses of color and value, using as many different fabrics as possible. As a member of Quiltmaker Magazine’s 2014 Scrap Squad, I recreated a design from each of six issues using only scraps, and was able to bring out different secondary designs and block highlights simply by adding more tone and value, as scrap quilts will do. My lecture “Give it a Scrap Slap” is a walk through the fun I had that year, and the befores and afters have to be seen to be believed.
My penchant for scraps and my need to use as many fabrics as possible in my quilts led me in 2017 to develop the Accordion Sewn HSTs™ method of creating half square triangles that don’t have a match and yet waste no fabric. Delving into the method further, I discovered “ordering” the accordions could lead to the creation of whole blocks and quilts from a single accordion. My first book on the method “Oompah! Jazz Up Your Scrap Quilts With Accordion Sewn HSTs™” was published in 2018. It’s been called “life-changing,” “magical,” “addictive,” and, my favorite, “witchcraft,” and is the basis for many of my most popular lectures and workshops. So far no polka dancing has broken out in these workshops, but I can hope!
You can find me in all sorts of places on the internet, but my favorite place to be is in front of your guild, sharing my love of quilting and hearing about yours.
Beth is leading the way in presenting via the internet for all the guilds who love her programs and classes. Contact her for the presentation you want and she’ll fit it to your needs. ~Marguerita
Here’s Beth’s portion of an interview among national quilt teachers done in May 2020:
Please let Beth know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!