I am available for travel, or digital lectures and workshops for your guild.
Generally I have a two hour driving limit from Allentown Pennsylvania, however for an additional fee, further is possible. Please email me if you are interested in having me visit.
email: Bethanne@whitearborquilting.com
General policies
For travel that requires flights and multi day stays, my lecture and any six hours of workshops are offered at a combined flat rate of $1800. The host guild may choose to mix and match the available workshops rather than just do one, six hour workshop. If the host guild chooses to book multiple workshops beyond the first 6 hours, those workshops are priced as stated below. Additional days of travel will be addressed on a case by case basis. Any event also carries the expectation that the host is responsible for all travel expenses including driving mileage at the federal rate, tolls, parking, flights, baggage fees, shipping of class materials if necessary, meals, and accommodations in a national chain nonsmoking hotel. Pricing is assessed at the beginning of each year. Contracts are honored for the pricing at the time of signing a contract with a $100 deposit.
Convention teaching is handled in a separate manner, please contact Bethanne for details.
Lectures $450
Walk a Creative Path
A fun and funny one hour lecture featuring a full 30 years of Bethanne’s quilting journey via trunk show with digital lecture support. Half of the lecture is devoted to a deep exploration into Bethanne’s creative process with her award winning show quilts and how various creative processes can be duplicated by the audience to organize and focus personal creativity as well.
Yarn Couching: Free Motion to Fine Art
A one hour trunk and fashion show featuring Bethanne’s yarn couching art portfolio. Live samples are supported with a digital presentation highlighting the process of yarn couching on any sewing machine including supplies, tips and tricks for trying out yarn couching on your own!
A Wild fiber Art Journey
Explore Bethanne’s 30 years of fiber arts through the natural lens. Enjoy her show quilts, yarn couching, temperature quilts, and yarn couching featuring the flora, fauna, and climate of the world, including Bethanne’s Quilts in the Wild, featuring remote hiking and exploring with a quilt in hand!
Classes
Most classes may be structured into 2 hour drawing/lectures ($400), 3 hour lecture or hands on ($500), 4 hour hands on ($600) or 6 hour all day hands on classes ($800).
Bethanne is happy to customize classes, or blend content as needed to meet the needs of the group, please reach out via email.
Quilted Texture A to Zen (quilting)
Explore free motion quilted textures inspired by the world around us! One fresh and creative design inspired by each letter of the alphabet is presented. Intermediate. Material is condensed, or work time expanded to adjust for different class lengths. Domestic machine class students will bring pre-basted sandwiches.
Blended Texture Naturescape (quilting)
Explore free motion quilted textures inspired by nature and designed to teach blending from one element to the next in a fluid manner. Intermediate. Material is condensed, or work time expanded to adjust for different class lengths. Domestic machine class students will bring pre-basted sandwiches.
Blocks and Borders (quilting)
Using a simple feather as a learning tool, students explore block and border quilting design to create integrated full-quilt design. Beginner friendly. Material is condensed, or work time expanded to adjust for different class lengths. Domestic machine class students will bring pre-basted sandwiches.
Falling for Freezer Paper Piecing (piecing/sewing)
Students will learn how to piece using the freezer paper piecing method while simultaneously planning for fussy cutting dye effects. An original ginkgo block will be used for instruction and students will compose their own layout. 4 and 6 hour classes only. Custom dyed fabric by request.
Fancy Feathers (quilting)
Explore free motion quilted formal feathers, learning to twist and bend them, then learn some fanciful variations! Intermediate. Material is condensed, or work time expanded to adjust for different class lengths. Domestic machine class students will bring pre-basted sandwiches.
Faultless Feathers (quilting)
Explore a style of free motion quilted feather that creates traveling and mirrored feathers without thread build up. Intermediate. Material is condensed, or work time expanded to adjust for different class lengths. Domestic machine class students will bring pre-basted sandwiches.
Formal Feathers (quilting)
Explore truly formal quilted feathers and examine their spacing, angle, flow, and creation with a goal of achieving really heirloom looking free motion feathers. Intermediate. Material is condensed, or work time expanded to adjust for different class lengths. Domestic machine class students will bring pre-basted sandwiches.
Freehand Fabulous and E 2 E (quilting)
Explore a more professional version of edge to edge quilting with integrated nesting and echoing techniques. Beginner friendly. Material is condensed, or work time expanded to adjust for different class lengths. Domestic machine class students will bring pre-basted sandwiches.
From Fast to Fancy (quilting)
Learn to manipulate feathers with inserts, echo, and additions to create a range of quick and easy to layered and complex freehand feathers. Intermediate. Material is condensed, or work time expanded to adjust for different class lengths. Domestic machine class students will bring pre-basted sandwiches.
Nemeshing (quilting)
Bethanne’s “signature” backfill, particularly for applique quilts. This forgiving free form lacy feather and pebble combination requires no marking and no planning. Emphasis on helping students create a unique signature look. Domestic machine class students will bring pre-basted sandwiches. 4 or 2 hours are best.
Freehand Florals (quilting)
Flowers and Leaves that require ZERO drawing skills? Yes! Bethanne’s easy shape replacement system allows for an easy add-on style of learning beautiful floral free motion. Beginner friendly. Material is condensed, or work time expanded to adjust for different class lengths. Domestic machine class students will bring pre-basted sandwiches.
Feather Faster (quilting)
This feather class focuses on teaching the spineless feather quilt path, perfect for faster feathers, particularly with sit down quilting as well as one-pass feather borders on a longarm. Beginner friendly. Domestic machine class students will bring pre-basted sandwiches.
A Little Love (quilting)
Learn a simple beginner friendly molar feather and explore ruler work on either domestic or longarm machines. Domestic class requires a high wall ruler foot. Rulers provided free for use. Domestic machine class students will bring pre-basted sandwiches and special foot 6, 4, hour hands on only.
Blended Background Bonanza (quilting)
Learn more utility background shapes broadly appealing to modern quilting, seamlessly transitioning between them with bridge elements. Intermediate. Material is condensed, or work time expanded to adjust for different class lengths. Domestic machine class students will bring pre-basted sandwiches.
Grid and Grace (quilting)
Explore directional grid based quilting design. Focus on resolving confusion and establishing complex directional grid based quilting. Intermediate. Material is condensed, or work time expanded to adjust for different class lengths. Domestic machine class students will bring pre-basted sandwiches.
Echoes and Possibilities (quilting)
Start with tips on successful traditional echo quilting, but develop more than a dozen beautiful background free motion designs based on echo patterns. Intermediate. Material is condensed, or work time expanded to adjust for different class lengths. Domestic machine class students will bring pre-basted sandwiches.
Rising Tides (quilting) 6 hours only
Spend ½ the day on fancy feathers and ½ the day on unique background designs with broad usefulness but also suited to a watery world. Receive the Rising Tides jellyfish pattern and get an optional kit including custom printed background and Angelina Fiber for a translucent jellyfish to re-create the wall hanging on your own after class Domestic machine class students will bring pre-basted sandwich