{"id":8110,"date":"2020-12-22T20:21:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T04:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=8110"},"modified":"2020-12-22T20:21:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T04:21:22","slug":"meet-roadhome-joyce-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/22\/meet-roadhome-joyce-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Road@Home Joyce Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joyce Hughes<\/a> will be teaching 3 classes during Road@Home<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, T105 \u2013 Dimensional Thread Painting With Sunflower Panel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Joyce<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, F110 \u2013 Sketch, Color And Quilt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Joyce<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

and on Saturday, S106 \u2013 Dimensional Thread Painting With Raw Edge Floral Designs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Joyce<\/figure>\n\n\n\n


T-Shirt Quilt Success<\/h3>\n\n\n\n


Joyce Hughes\u2019 first \u201cadventure\u201d with quilting was making a T-Shirt quilt for her daughter as a graduation\u00a0gift.\u00a0Joyce, along with 10 of her friends, got together and read tips online on how to make them. They worked together for several months to complete the quilts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


After making the T-Shirt quilt, Joyce realized that she did not like trying to make all the points match perfectly. But she did enjoy the creative process of quilt making. She quickly changed her quilting into making art quilts with thread painting. As Joyce says, \u201cNo need to have matching points!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Thread Painting Teacher<\/h3>\n\n\n\n


Joyce Hughes started teaching quilting at her local quilt store 12 years ago. That has led to traveling and teaching on a national level for quilt guilds, quilt stores and National Quilt Shows for the past 10 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joyce loves to share her thread painting techniques. Her biggest reward is when she sees a student look at their work with a smile. Joyce says, \u201cIt is very rewarding when a student takes what they have\u00a0learned, and\u00a0apply my techniques to their own beautiful quilts. Many students have sent photos\u00a0to me with the ribbons they received from entering their quilts into a quilt show-\u00a0A VERY proud\u00a0moment for me and the student!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Lessons Learned From COVID
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Joyce Hughes actually had the Coronavirus earlier this year. She says that that experience has changed her life\u2019s priorities: \u201cI look\u00a0at\u00a0things so differently now. What I use to\u00a0get upset and\u00a0stress about, I\u00a0learned\u00a0are\u00a0really not\u00a0as important\u00a0as I once thought. I learned to slow down an appreciate who and what really\u00a0matters. My family,\u00a0my\u00a0pets,\u00a0dear\u00a0friends\u00a0and a\u00a0home is really all I need\u00a0to feel safe\u00a0and loved.\u00a0I\u00a0take the time to\u00a0look at simple things such as\u00a0a flower and see the beauty in the\u00a0detail, or\u00a0take a quite walk with my dogs and see how happy they are to be\u00a0with me. I do\u00a0miss\u00a0seeing\u00a0people\u00a0and being able to teach in person.\u00a0I miss\u00a0being able to hug and share our\u00a0life stories.\u00a0So\u00a0I\u00a0try\u00a0my best to stay connected\u00a0with others. I feel at this time, we can feel\u00a0insolated\u00a0and lonely and by reaching out\u00a0just to say Hi, can lift a persons day and maybe bring some\u00a0comfort\u00a0and\u00a0smile to our faces.\u201d
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\"Joyce<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

During the lockdowns, Joyce has spent a lot of time figuring out how to continue with her teaching, in a \u201csafe and very professional way.\u201d She has learned a lot of new technology working with virtual presentations. To get away from all the stress of the virus, Joyce works in her garden, maintaining her flower beds. \u201cGardening is very relaxing for me,\u201d shared Joyce. \u201cWhen I am gardening, my mind is focused on the beautiful flowers. The garden helps with my creativity and I will look at the garden and get ideas for my next quilts and classes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Joyce<\/figure>\n\n\n\n


Teaching for Road@Home<\/h3>\n\n\n\n


Joyce has prepared for her classes for Road@Home by adding technology and equipment that she had not used in a classroom setting. She has incorporated a power point presentation with detailed photos of the threading steps and a camera focused on the machine so that the students can see her demonstrating the correct stitching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Joyce is most looking forward to meeting her students and finding out why they want to thread paint. She hopes her students will feel \u201ccomfortable with the process and be able to create and express their creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


To learn more about Joyce Hughes, please visit her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joyce Hughes will be teaching 3 classes during Road@Home: On Thursday, T105 \u2013 Dimensional Thread Painting With Sunflower Panel On Friday, F110 \u2013 Sketch, Color And Quilt and on Saturday, S106 \u2013 Dimensional Thread Painting With Raw Edge Floral Designs T-Shirt Quilt Success Joyce Hughes\u2019 first \u201cadventure\u201d with quilting was making a T-Shirt quilt for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8118,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110\/revisions\/8118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}