Teesha Moore Classes

Posted on | October 10, 2007 | 7 Comments

A week ago I attended the Journaling Weekend at The Paper Studio in Tempe. Each year, Tracy and Teesha Moore come to visit and teach classes. My friend, Andrea and I planned this weekend of fun classes with Teesha Moore for a birthday celebration. Andrea’s birthday was on Monday and my birthday is later in the month. Andrea came and stayed with us here at the house and we drove down to Tempe each morning.

Teesha is such a great teacher. She teaches the way she creates – intuitively and with lots of love, passion and generosity. She so willingly shares all her work and her learning with those of us in class. And she even creates while we create so she is also in the creative spirit.

The first class, on Saturday, was The Unbound Journal. I found this a very freeing class. Teesha used index cards and fun foam as the canvases for her journal pages. To the left is one I made using some of my old journal pages and some fun wrapping papers I purchased at The Paper Studio. You can see more of these works in progress here.

One of my favorite things about taking a class with Teesha is that I’m energized after the class, not completely exhausted and spent. Since Andrea was in town and Dave and she had had little opportunity to get to know each other, I decided it would be great for the three of us to go out to dinner. We did. And we had a lovely time.

Sunday’s class was The Fabric Journal. This is Teesha’s most requested class. It embodies all that makes Teesha’s fabric style so unique. She uses (with permission!) the techniques she was taught by Susan Shie many years ago. We created journals in class, but I wasn’t thrilled with mine. However, I’ve posted it to the right. It’s all hand sewn and quilted with fabrics and embroidery floss. I enjoyed the class, and decided to try some more of this sort of sewing and quilting when I got home. To the left is a sample of one of the new pieces I’ve done that I’m much more pleased with! It’s interesting to me that I haven’t had an opportunity to do crewel embroidery for many years, but now I’m really enjoying it again.

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