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Lectures & Workshops
Inspiring creativity and sharing the art of fiber with quilters everywhere.
Julie Brown Neu offers lectures and workshops designed for quilt guilds and fiber arts groups — from trunk shows and creative inspiration talks to hands-on technique workshops. Whether your guild is looking for an engaging program or a full-day workshop, there’s something here for every group.
Available in person or virtually.
Lectures
All lectures are one hour and available in person or virtually. $400
Finding My Voice: My Quilting Journey
In this trunk show, you’ll hear about my 25-year quilting journey from paper templates cut with scissors to creating original designs and working as a quilt artist. Learn about what it took to find my voice and see the quilts that have come from my soul.
Your Creativity Journey: 10 Stages of Creative Exploration
Learn the ten stages of the creativity journey from the first stirrings through learning to hear and then trust one’s inner voice to finding joy in creativity and authenticity. We discuss what happens in each stage, the challenges one may face along the journey, and ways to overcome them so you can move forward toward creative confidence and authentic art.
Let’s Play! Creative Play Workshop
In what is part lecture, part workshop, I discuss my own creativity journey, introduce Creative Play and guide participants through a play exercise. We then work through a design process together to give participants a tool they can use to design their own quilts. I wrap up by offering strategies for beginning a creative play practice at home.
Workshops
Julie’s hands-on workshops give participants time to create, experiment, and solve problems at the machine. All workshops are available in 3-hour ($400) or 6-hour ($700) formats.
Creative Play Group Workshop
Spend a day in play to rediscover your creative fire! Every person is born creative, but we forget that as we become adults. This workshop is designed to get one’s creativity flowing again through art play exercises in a variety of mediums. Students will also learn a design process they can use to make unique quilts and will explore the four components that make up one’s artistic voice so that they can home in on theirs. There’s no prep work required and nothing to bring to the workshop. Supply fee $5.
Extreme Piecing
Add Extreme Piecing techniques to your quilting tool kit and there’s nothing you can’t sew! In this workshop, students learn to create precise templates from a paper pattern to sew complicated designs and the cutting and sewing tips for extreme accuracy. Students decide how many rows they want in their table runner or quilt for the class project; no matter how many they choose, they will end the day as a Y Seam Master.
Free Your Mind: UFO Workshop
UFOs got you stumped? In this workshop, we’ll ask a series of questions to help assess, rethink, and reimagine UFOs. Participants will discover creative solutions to remake their UFOs, have time to work on them, and will leave the day ready to check one project off the list. Or, swap your UFO and leave the day with a finished new-to-you project.
