Denyse has been teaching her intuitive approach to improvisational patchwork since 2003. Her classes teach students skills and ways of seeing to help them discover, understand, and celebrate their unique point of view, and get to the heart of their unique creative practice.
Process-oriented classes are the heart of Denyse's offerings, including Improv Theme & Variation, To the Letter: Improvisational Patchwork, and the super-productive and rut-busting A Different Stripe workshop. Denyse also offers workshops centered on any of her popular quilt patterns, such as Free-Wheeling Single Girl. Denyse welcomes students of all levels to her workshops.
Denyse offers an engaging, visually-rich (and sometimes hilarious) lecture on her personal creative journey which can booked singly or added to a teaching schedule.
Please reach out for rates, requirements, and availability if you'd like to book Denyse to teach at your guild, retreat, or shop.
"I learned so much at your workshop! About quilting, about myself, about the creative process. Thank you!"
“This class was positively life-changing! Denyse Schmidt was an excellent and thoughtful teacher. Thank you!”
"I LOVE taking any workshop with Denyse. There are many people in the universe who accept the title of teacher, but those who fully inhabit the role are a rarer breed. It is a skill to share a particular technique clearly and patiently. It is an art to inculcate the ability to move oneself through a concept with that technique. Denyse teaches you to build your own tool belt, and then how, and when, to make use of it. I ALWAYS learn something invaluable when I take one of her workshops. I urge you to take the opportunity, whenever you get it, to study with her." – Samantha Hoyt, A Gathering of Stitches
“Woo boy. I’m still reeling from being inside the creative cloud with Denyse Schmidt. This class was a highlight of my long fiber/textile life...it was immersion learning at its best.”
“The workshop was just the right kick-in-the-pants that I needed creatively."
