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Dear Readers -
The Cyber Monday sale is happening! With the code HAPPY15, you get 15% from ALL my virtual workshops. You can sign up for EVERYTHING you would like to take and get 15% off of all of them!
Here are some great workshops to think about. Click on the workshop title to sign up.
GAME OF IMPROV
Weekend Intensive
Saturday & Sunday, December 6 & 7
1PM-5PM Eastern Time
$150 ($127.50 with HAPPY 15 Discount or $63.75 if you use the discount and split the costs with a friend.)
Improv piecing is a method of creating that involves work, chance, technique, exploration, and tenacity. We are going to explore all of these things within the perimeters of a game. Roll the dice, spin the wheel, pick your category. This workshop is a full exploration of letting go of expectations and embracing the unknown.
EXTRA SPECIAL BOGO for GAME OF IMPROV
If you sign up for your Game of Improv not only do you get a 15% discount you can also invite a friend to attend for FREE. Or the two of you can split the cost! This workshop is a game and it is always more fun to play games with friends. |
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IMPROV FOR EVERYONE—FAT CURVES & SKINNY LINES
Saturday, January 3, 2026
1PM—5PM East Coast Time
$40 ($34 with HAPPY15 discount)
This freewheeling improv piecing workshop takes two of my favorite elements and combines them into what you might call a STATEMENT QUILT. We will explore the territory of BIG improvisation-ally pieced curves while also adding SKINNY pieced lines to and around the curves. Students can go deep and get busy with lots of piecing or go wide and create a robust and dynamic quilt with just a few dramatic shapes and lines. It all starts with a sketch that we use as the leaping off point into improv design and piecing. Satisfaction guaranteed. Workshop fee includes live workshop, recording of workshop, handouts, link pack, and invitation to the Maria Shell Workshop Group on Facebook. |
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Improv ED
Thursdays 2026
6PM—9PM East Coast Time
$1,250 ($1,062 with HAPPY15 Discount)
January 8 & 29, February 5 & 26, March 5 & 19, April 2 & 23, May 7 & 21, June 4 & 25, 2026
Are you Improv Curious? Do you love to make improv units, but you can't seem to sort out how to use them to create a quilt composition? Would you like to have a better grounding in basic design elements--line, shape, figure ground, pattern, scale & proportion, and color? Then this is the workshop for you! We will dive deep into different design elements from an improv quilt making approach. This workshop also features guest speakers, demonstrations, feedback and consultation, prompts, lectures, community conversations, peer posses, a private Facebook group, and MORE.
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Circle & Curve Sampler
Weekend Intensive
Saturday & Sunday February 7 & 8
1PM-5PM East Coast Time
$150 ($127.50 with HAPPY15 Discount)
A complete discussion of all the ways you can improvisation-ally PIECE circles and curves. From braided curves to log cabin circles, students will be led through a series of demos about non-linear improvisational piecing techniques and ideas for taking these techniques and creating original quilts. During the class, students create a collection of circle and curve quilt blocks–great for a sampler. |
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PROMPTOPIA
Wednesdays 2026
6PM—9PM East Coast Time
$1,250 ($1,062 with HAPPY15 Discount)
July 2 & 16, August 6 & 20, September 3 & 17, October 1 & 22, November 5 & 19, December 3 & 17, 2026.
Promptopia is a uniquely designed workshop—each month you get a NEW prompt that is designed to get your improv juices flowing as well as expand your technical and composition skills. There are rules, but they liberating! Students can expect an active and dynamic private Facebook community, detailed and motivating quilt design exercises, fun and informative conversations about art, design, and quilts, a peer posse, guest artists who will share their process in creating their quilt based on the design exercise, feedback and consultation sessions, and a Virtual Prompt Party! For more information check out Maria’s YouTube Video on the class.
The beautiful quilts in this slideshow are student quilts from the prompt Rock & a Hard Place.
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Please check out all my workshops here. I hope to see you in class!
Maria |
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