Schedule an engaging Zoom talk for your guild members to enjoy—at a hybrid meeting or from the comfort of their homes—with Japanophile author and quilter Patricia Belyea.

To schedule a 1-hour presentation or to discuss a guild workshop, please contact Patricia directly: patricia@okanarts.com

For a 3-minute slideshow about Patricia’s most popular guild talk +click here

One-hour Zoom talk & virtual trunk show $350

Join Patricia as she takes you on an insider tour of the 2020 Tokyo Quilt Festival. Patricia presents the highlights of this international quilt event, then continues onto a traditional chusen-dyeing workshop to explain this traditional hand-dyeing process. 

Patricia finishes with a show of her own quilts, made with vintage Japanese cottons, and talks about how these special fabrics inspired her.

One-hour Zoom talk & virtual trunk show $350

Patricia takes joy in creating custom Spirit Quilts for clients who are celebrating a life or mourning a loss. Listening to their stories and incorporating the clothes of a loved one, Patricia has learned how stitching memories into quilts completely transforms their meaning and power. Patricia includes an overview of Spirit Quilts she’s made over the past decade.

One-hour Zoom talk & virtual trunk show $350

Patricia shares her creative approach to developing new ideas for original quilt designs. Leapfrogging from one compositional concept to the next, Patricia takes your guild members on a journey of exploration with her newest series of quilts—Big Grids with Inserted Curves—made with vintage Japanese yukata cottons and other global fabrics.

One-hour Zoom talk & virtual trunk show $350
How we use thread in our quilt projects makes the difference between getting the job done and creating a brilliant result. Patricia, an Aurifilosopher with Aurifil Threads, reveals the mysteries of this key element of our craft: thread—how it’s made, thread weights, how to read a label, and more. Then Patricia presents an inspirational array of quilts using diverse cotton threads, from floss to 80wt.