{"id":8650,"date":"2021-09-10T14:27:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T21:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=8650"},"modified":"2021-09-10T14:27:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T21:27:55","slug":"dee-brown-road-2022-teacher-and-vendor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/10\/dee-brown-road-2022-teacher-and-vendor\/","title":{"rendered":"Dee Brown: Road 2022 Teacher and Vendor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dee Brown will be teaching two evening Handwork<\/em> classes during Road to California 2022<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday Evening, 4061C \u2013 Healthcare Angel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And on Friday Evening, 5061O \u2013 Road To California<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Handwork Designer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A resident of Monroe, Washington (\u201ca smallish city an hour northeast of Seattle\u201d), Dee Brown began her quilting journey in a small quilting group at church for just a few months where she \u201clearned the basics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With her sewing background, Dee was accustomed to making her own patterns or modifying existing ones. She quickly found the rigid precision of traditional quilting too stifling. Once, when she made a huge mistake on a Christmas table runner, instead of ripping it out to fix properly, Dee appliqu\u00e9d a poinsettia over it and discovered the freedom and \u201ccheatability\u201d of appliqu\u00e9<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dee Brown admits that \u201calthough the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest has inspired a few of my projects, I seem to lean towards tropical settings or the uniqueness of other states\u201d such as with her \u201cStates\u201d series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Because Dee considers herself more of a designer than a quilter<\/strong>, she says that her \u201cmost indispensable tool is an eraser. Having no artistic training beyond junior high, drawing for me is draw-erase-edit, over and over. Hence, my work is more whimsical than realistic.\u201d Her other indispensable tool is her \u201cold Pfaff 7570\u2026If it ever dies, I may be done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quilting Friendship<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dee shared that her best quilting friend is actually a knitter. Robin Halliday and Dee have been best friends for 50 years<\/strong>. They travel to quilt shows and work their vendor booth, The Quilted Trillium, together. Although wool is her first love, Robin attends many quilt related activities just because it has become Dee\u2019s passion. Robin has learned to appreciate the art, time and talent of other quilters and totally supports and encourages all of Dee\u2019s designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Quilted Trillium<\/strong><\/a> vendor booth has been to Road to California several times. The \u201ccozy, little cabin\u201d is always a fan favorite. Coming up with the idea for their booth has been \u201clife changing\u201d for The Quilted Trillium.<\/a> The booth is small enough to feel comfortable and is the perfect size for displaying their kits, patterns, fabric and tools. People are always telling The Quilted Trillium that they sought them out specifically to see the cabin and experience the \u201cArt Gallery\u201d feel. Then they stay for the demonstrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(As a side note, Dee is currently looking to sell The Quilted Trillium<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching at Road 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dee Brown has been teaching since 2013. Her first teaching experience was with \u201c5 lovely women in Leavenworth, a quaint Bavarian themed town in the Cascade mountains. I was a little wary about spending the night with strangers (in a private home) but she was the town Vet and he was State Patrol so I felt pretty safe. Although she had a wonderful sewing room, it was a little tight for the 6 of us. I was nervous but like to think I\u2019ve become a much better teacher since then.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dee\u2019s favorite part of teaching her technique is seeing that light go on when her students \u201cget it.\u201d Dee Brown hopes that her students \u201cwill learn my time saving method and find the freedom in raw edge appliqu\u00e9<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This will be Dee\u2019s last time teaching at Road to California<\/strong>. She said she will \u201cbe 70 and things get heavier, I get slower and the booth takes longer to set up and take down. I love Road to California and just want to enjoy every minute of it. I look forward to being around some dear vendor friends and customers I may never see again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dee Brown will be teaching two evening Handwork classes during Road to California 2022: On Thursday Evening, 4061C \u2013 Healthcare Angel And on Friday Evening, 5061O \u2013 Road To California Handwork Designer A resident of Monroe, Washington (\u201ca smallish city an hour northeast of Seattle\u201d), Dee Brown began her quilting journey in a small quilting […]<\/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-8650","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\/8650","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=8650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8657,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650\/revisions\/8657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}