Zen Quilting Workbook: Inspired by Zentangle
By Pat Ferguson
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Pat Ferguson
Pat Ferguson is a certified Zentangle teacher (CZT) and an award-winning quilter/teacher/artist. Pat began quilting in 1980 and has been teaching classes, presenting trunk shows, and machine quilting professionally since 1985. She was a contributor to the book Zentangle Fabric Arts from Design Originals. Pat was raised in a small rural town just a few miles from Maria Thomas and Rick Roberts, the creators of Zentangle, with whom she visits regularly to share experiences. Pat’s work is available online at www.patfergusonquilts.com.
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Zen Quilting Workbook - Pat Ferguson
Zentangle® and Zen Quilting... an Inevitable Evolution
In 2009, two of my Senior Center students told me about a Zentangle class that they had taken and how much fun it was. It sounded interesting, so that afternoon I checked out www.zentangle.com. That was clearly a day of revelation, as I spent 6 hours poring through the archived newsletters, each containing step-by-step diagrams for many different Zentangles.
I played
on some plain paper with a pencil while I waited for my Zentangle kit to arrive in the mail. After viewing the instructional DVD, I enjoyed working with the fine quality art paper and free-flowing Pigma pens that were supplied in the kit. I had never been confident enough to draw, but Zentangle enabled me to draw in a different way.
Each pattern, deconstructed to its simplest form of usually one or two easy strokes, provided the technique that finally enabled me to draw. Now, after years of trying, I could actually draw beautiful designs using Maria Thomas’ and Rick Roberts’ concept of Anything is possible, One stroke at a time
™ .
I was struck by the similarities between many of the tangle designs and the free motion machine quilting designs used in my domestic and longarm machine quilting. This opened my mind to new and exciting machine quilting possibilities that went far and beyond standard stippling and feathers. I was energized and I was hooked! I was in an entirely new dimension filled with confident anticipation of what I would discover next.
During this creative design process I found that the relaxing, repetitive concepts of Zentangle also applied to machine quilting. Even though the whole cloth quilt took 200 hours to complete, every hour was blissful and the quilt progressed effortlessly.
Zen Dahlia
received rave reviews and began winning ribbons at shows. This was the beginning of, what I call my Zen Quilting
concept. I wanted to help other quilters feel the relaxed, confident calm of Zen Quilting as I had experienced it. I wanted to impart the calming effects of Zentangle to my quilting students. More than this, I wanted to experience how Rick and Maria transported this magic
to their Zentangle students.
So, in May of 2010, I attended an incredible four-day seminar and became an official CZT! I was thrilled to learn about Maria and Rick - their rich historic and artistic backgrounds, their loving and caring life philosophies, how and why they developed this rewarding art form and, most of all, how they approached sharing this eye-opening, relaxing, art form with so many others.
The ball has been rolling ever since. I developed a Zen Quilting
class and have been teaching it hand-in-hand with Zentangle classes. I merged Zentangle with free motion quilting to produce unique continuous line designs that are easy to execute.
I am grateful for the opportunity to share my discoveries with you and I welcome you to a world of exciting textures, technique and color. May your journey be joyous, relaxing, creative, inspiring, and wondrous.
Namaste and Happy Quilting!
Pat Ferguson
Zentangle
, the red square, and Anything is possible, one stroke at a time
are registered trademarks of Zentangle, Inc. Zentangle’s teaching method is patent pending and is used by permission.
You’ll find wonderful resources, a list of Certified Zentangle Teachers (CZTs), workshops, a fabulous gallery of inspiring projects, supplies, kits, and tiles at zentangle.com.
Zentangle:
"Anything is possible,
One stroke at a time."™
ZEN Quilting:
"Anything is possible,
One stitch at a time."
"I keep a small sketchbook, a