Hiring Information

LIVE ZOOM WORKSHOPS

3hr Workshop Live via Zoom
$575, no booking fee
Plus 24 hours access to all pre-recorded online video tutorials

6hr Workshop live via Zoom
$850, no booking fee
Plus 24 hours access to all pre-recorded online video tutorials

3hr + 2hr + 1 week access to online materials Workshop
$850
Online course includes all pre-recorded videos and written instructions
1 week access to all video tutorials online
Lyric will answer questions in the online class platform for one week
2nd Live Zoom class featuring a group Show & Tell and Question & Answer session

Direct Registration: Students Register and Pay Lyric Directly
$40 per student for a 3hr Workshop live via Zoom
$70 per student for a 6hr Workshop live via Zoom
$100 Booking fee required. This fee is refunded 4 weeks before workshop IF 10 students have enrolled.
Six weeks before the course starts I open up empty slots to my newsletter subscribers.

LIVE ZOOM LECTURES

$575 1hr Lecture and Powerpoint Presentation plus Q&A
$350 30 Minute Hands-On Exercises plus Q&A
Lyric is happy to log in early and chat with your group.
Each presentation includes time for Q & A.
After the lecture Lyric will offer a discount to her shop and her online classes to your guild members, good for that day only.

Please e-mail Lyric with any questions and before filling out a contract.

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2025 Travel / In-Person bookings

In-Person bookings that involve more than 3 hours of travel require at least 2.5 days of engagements.

In Person Pricing 2025/2026
6 hour class: $850
3 hour class: $575 
Lectures: $575 

Non-refundable booking fee for in-person events
$400.00 (deducted from class fee) Required at signing of contract.

Lyric takes VERY limited in-person engagements so inquire as early as possible. 

Please e-mail Lyric with questions.

Download a copy of Lyric's 2025 IN-PERSON TEACHING CONTRACT
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Workshops Listed by Type

The following information is specifically for IN-PERSON classes. Not all courses are currently available in a live-virtual format but please feel free to ask about any of them. Your request might push your favorite to the top of the "get it ready" list.

SURFACE DESIGN CLASSES Learn painting/dyeing techniques that you can practice and use in your work at home. These classes require access to water. If your space doesn't have hard/washable flooring we will need to lay down plastic to protect carpeting from paint.

ART & DESIGN CLASSES Learn design fundamentals. You can learn to think and see and create like an artist!!! (Yes, I’m talking to YOU!)

PROJECT CLASSES Create a small art quilt or book cover - but only if you want to. These classes still focus primarily on learning new techniques, which you can apply to a small project during class if you choose to.

CLASSES WITH EASY SUPPLY LISTS Students pay a supply fee and Lyric brings almost everything for you and/or an optional kit is offered so students don’t have to worry about bringing the “right” supplies.

Please e-mail Lyric for details about workshops.

MULTI-DAY CLASSES These classes work perfectly for multi-day classes or in a retreat setting. Please inquire for details. Each class can be custom tailored for content and length to your group's interests.

  • The Elements of Art for Quilters: A Basic Design Intensive 2-5 days
  • Masterclass for Quilters: An Advanced Design Intensive 4-5 days
  • Surface Design Sampler Platter: Boost it up to an entree per day 2 - 5 days
  • Playing With Paint: A Paint+Design Intensive 3 - 5 days

HALF-DAY CLASSES These classes fit nicely into 3 hours.

 

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

Why a booking fee for in-person? I take limited travel gigs. If you book me, then cancel because of low enrollment, you have taken a slot that could have gone to another guild. It is not an extra fee as long as you do not back out of our contract. It is deducted from the teaching fee charged when I arrive. Please make every effort to fill your workshops. Feel free to have Lyric "pop in" to a virtual guild meeting ahead of time to say hello and tell people about her upcoming workshops.

Why a higher cost per hour for a 3 hour class? Because it takes me as long to prepare for and set up and make kits for a 3 hour class as it does for a 6 hour class. It's typical to spend a full day prepping (making kits, ordering supplies, packing and shipping) for every class I teach.

Will you stay with a guild member to save on hotel costs? Sure. I do require a private room and bathroom and no children, smoking, or pets. I have enough annoying allergies that if I sleep in a house with pets I'll be coughing and wheezing and snarky and tired all the next day. That's not fun for me or the students in class! You can find a "care and feeding of lyric" F.A.Q. here.

 

LECTURES Lyric currently offers four lectures. Detailed descriptions can be found here.  The first two are powerpoint/slide type lectures. I bring my own equipment but you will need to have a room that can darken and have a screen or wall for me to project onto. The wearable art lecture can be turned into a really fun participants fashion show added into the wearables I have made.

  • The Taming fo the Hues: a color play - teaches basic color theory in an entertaining and practically useful way.
  • The Elements of Art for Every Quilter: teaches basic design in an understandable way to every kind of quilter.
  • Living Lyrically: inspires everyone to make use of the creativity they have by finding inspiration, beauty, and joy everywhere they look.
  • Playful Portraiture: making faces in fabric - an overview of many styles of quilted portraiture.
  • Excuse Me, Is that a quilt you're wearing?: live fashion show with local participation.
  • Want to Teach?: business development lecture for aspiring quilt-circuit teachers.
  • Failure is an Option!: why making bad art is vital to good artists - more of a group discussion geared towards art quilters but applicable to anyone who MAKES things.

Hands-On Design Exercises are shorter (30-40 minute) events that are perfect for virtual guild meetings. Each one is an easy and popular exercise from one of her workshops that is engaging, fun, and educational for all guild members. They have very easy and short supply lists for members to have handy as Lyric teaches them useful design principles.

  • A Window into Inspiration: create thumbnails for your own unique abstract designs.
  • Cutting Edge Abstract Design: take a recognizable object and morph it into an abstract design all your own.
  • Opposites Attract: an exercise teaching how complementary colors interact in your quilts.
  • Silly Selfie Postcards: learn some easy portraiture concepts such as placement and proportion and make a seriously silly selfie.

 

Lyric has taught for every kind of venue from huge conferences to private studio lessons.

Let Lyric bring her passion for sparking the creativity in others to you!

Please e-mail Lyric for details about workshops.