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Gyleen is absolutely passionate about quilting! Color enlivens all her work, and she is perhaps best known for her sense of color along with her technical design ability. She lectures on color and various techniques to make the complex so simple. All lectures are supported by a trunk show of quilts.

Quilts: Unfinished Stories with New Endings: A visual transformation of 1930's through 1950's unfinished tops and blocks to finished quilts with unpredictable endings using fabrics of today.

The Art of Color Blending: Explore what the mind sees but the eyes cannot. Gain insight on how to read each fabric's color to successfully use 50 plus fabrics within one quilt.

Make Mine with Scraps: Focus on traditional utility quilts. Learn to harmonize exchange and friendship blocks.

The Shape of Things to Come: Step outside the "square" to evaluate the mechanics of pyramid, diamond and hexagon quilts. The simplicity and elegance of the one patch.

Bits and Pieces, Putting It All Together: Explore the finer points of quilt construction. Discussion of design, balance, flatness, bindings in the art of quilting. Learn the unpublished tricks of the trade.