We get your improv quilts here at BravePatch. Where you can quilt with your heart and soul rather than following instructions.
Find your flow.
Expand your creative edge.
Discover your artistic voice.
Explore freedom from perfection.
Develop your quiltmaking practice.
Many improvising quiltmakers have no one near them who understands what they’re making. Their traditional quilting friends nod their heads and remark that it’s interesting. They watch their local quilt guild members struggle to make perfect points and struggle over their color choices. Does this sound like you?
Now you can gather at BravePatch to find others who have tasted freedom from perfection by cutting up any fabric—quilting cottons, thrifted shirts, old denims, vintage linens and more—and making quilts that express the essence of yourself.
Join us in September for an exclusive FLASHBACK replay of Irene Roderick's guest appearance in the Modern Improv Curves series earlier in 2023 and for the September 8 GrooveTime where we'll PAUSE to REFLECT & SHARE with two members sharing a body of their work—inspiration for all!
Good for all skill levels and experiences.
Inside you'll find a multi-verse of curious and courageous makers, passionate about the liberating practice of improv quilting. Together we are becoming flexible thinkers, wholehearted creators, and restorative agents of change within our communities.
Improvising with patchwork has always been a restorative life practice that has helped me heal, grow and find my agency in the world. In this brave space you have the freedom to share your creative journey, your truth, your wisdom, and to tell and rewrite your stories in patchwork.
Brave Patch 2023
Illustration by Nina Yagual @beautifulhoodcrumb
Practice....
makes progress
UPs your skill level
creates new habits
builds confidence
brings clarityincreases flow
generates joy
nourishes your creativity
is a form of self-care
Get into the rhythm of PRACTICE this year with Sherri Lynn Wood & the Brave Patch Groove
Find your flow
Build your skills
Clarify your vision
Celebrate and learn from other dynamic improvisers and makers
In 2023 our monthly Groove Time sessions (live on Zoom) will follow a quarterly rhythm of practice:
In addition:
CLEAR inner and outer space and invite the Practice Makes Practice mindset with monthly posts and journal prompts with BravePatch member, mental health therapist and founder of Creator's Wellbeing, Cora Drew.
PLAY via Monthly Mashup Prompts - fun, spontaneous, warm-ups to help you find your flow. The prompts are announced live once a month and compiled randomly from member suggested design and poetic prompts. At the first Groove Time of every quarter we'll sew the monthly Improv Mashup in community.
GENERATE via Quarterly Creative Intentions are in-depth, self-directed, community supported opportunities to explore and expand your creative edge, and develop your vision through a quarterly quilt project focused with intention on Shape / Technique / Color / Composition consecutively.
Read more about our 2023 theme, Practice Makes Practice = Nourishing Flourishing Quilt Making on Sherri Lynn's blog.
We meet live on zoom as a community once a month. Meeting dates are updated quarterly. All GrooveTime sessions are live on zoom and recorded for unlimited replay.
Saturday, January 7, 12–2 pm est
PLAY: FREE Curve Improv Mashup Scrap Play Class/BravePatch open house
Saturday, February 4, 5–6:30 pm est
FUEL: Practice Makes Practice Mindset with Cora Drew
Tuesday, March 7, 8–9:30 pm est
REFLECT: Share your work w/BravePatch Groove Members & Sherri Lynn Wood
Saturday, April 1, 12–2 pm edt
PLAY: Improv Mashup Sew-Along Flow
Sunday, May 7, 2023, 12–2 pm edt
FUEL: Skill Building / Curve-echo hand-quilting demo w/Sherri Lynn Wood
Friday, June 2, 2023 8–9:30 pm edt
REFLECT: Share your work w/BravePatch Groove Members & Sherri Lynn Wood
Saturday, July 15, 2023 11 am–1 pm edt
PLAY: Improv Mashup Sew-Along Flow
Friday, August 4, 2023 8–9:30 pm edt
FUEL: Skill Building • Bias Strip S-Curve Demo with Sherri Lynn Wood
Friday, September 8, 2023 8–9:30 pm edt
REFLECT: Share your work w/BravePatch Groove Members & Sherri Lynn Wood
October
PLAY: Improv Mashup Sew-Along Flow
November
FUEL: Skill Building Demo or Guest (TBD)
December
REFLECT Year End Celebration, Share your work w/BravePatch Groove Members
Discover focused, guided and connected opportunities to explore improv quilting YOUR WAY and as a creative life practice with me, Sherri Lynn Wood. Together we will explore the flexible patterns that shape our quilts and our relationships in life.
Join according to your ability to pay. The Standard Plan will work for most. If you have less, pay less. If you have more, consider paying more. It's all the same community. Your generosity makes community happen for all. Read more to determine where you fall on the sliding scale.
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