Cheryl is available for both lectures and workshops. The lectures last 1 hour and the workshops are 6 hours long. Questions and interactive discussions are encouraged. Please contact her for prices and availability.

Personalizing Your Quilts: Make It Your Own
Every choice you make when designing a quilt, makes it unique. A computer can be a powerful tool in helping to personalize your designs. This lecture will cover the specifics about how to print on fabric and how to transform your words, photos and drawings into patterns for appliqué. Many ways will be demonstrated to include photos in your quilts and how to make each of your quilts unique and individual. Leave this lecture with the tools to go home and start working on your own personalized quilt.

Inspiration From Squiggles and Dots
This lecture was inspired while on vacation in Florida. The wallpaper in the hotel room shouted out to me - "I would make a great quilt." I started looking at the world and objects around me and found lots of inspiration from everything from wallpaper to sidewalks to wine labels to wrought iron gates. Using photos and finished quilts, you will see how inspiration can be transformed into a quilted piece.

One Quilter's Journey
Many of us learn how to quilt by taking a class at a local shop. Traditionally, we make our first sampler quilt by hand - using hand piecing, hand appliqué and hand quilting. These methods are soon left behind for the expediency of the machine. But, while we gain productivity, we lose the pleasure that handwork can bring. Follow me on my journey as I start quilt making by hand, head down the machine path and come full circle to using handwork to embellish my quilts. This lecture is a trunk show.

Jewish Ritual Textiles
Textiles have played an important role in Jewish rituals for over 5000 years. This talk will touch on the historical ceremonial textiles including torah covers, ark curtains and challah covers ands focus on contemporary Jewish textiles. See how the beauty of textiles has enhanced the spirituality of the rituals.

Expand Your Horizon
Learn several techniques to transform your ideas into a design for a quilt. Using a photo, a piece of fabric, a drawing or Cheryl's inspiration postcards, you will be on your way to making a unique quilt inspired by something in your environment.

Personalize It
Start with a pattern template to fill in with your "life items" and make a quilt that is completely personalized. With each block you will learn a different technique so that your finished wallhanging will include photos, words and graphics. Learn to use your computer to add quotations, names and numbers, print on fabric, resize designs and design a story block.