Shoulder Update
Thank you all for the well wishes for my surgery. I really appreciate all who have reached out to me. I do have to say that rotator cuff surgery is not for the faint of heart.
I’m just about six weeks post op and have been released from wearing my sling. Physical therapy in the beginning was called “passive therapy” and was pretty easy. This past week the regular therapy (or should I say torture) began. Wow!!
I do have more movement each day, however the process is going to be slow. I feel like for every 2-3 good days, I’ll have a day or two where it all just hurts.
I’ve been trying to do some hand embroidery and have started editing some pre-recorded videos to keep myself occupied.
Free Motion Practice Panels
All of my free motion practice panels now have companion YouTube tutorials. Yay!! That was always the goal, and I just published the last one.
The videos can be found here:
For those that are hearing about these for the first time, these are great resources to practice your free motion quilting skills. These are printed using water soluble ink so that once you are done practicing, you soak them and the lines go away.
You can even use them multiple times if you use water soluble thread in the bobbins. Once you finish the initial quilting you’d spritz the back with water, the thread disappears and then you pull out the top thread and start over. There is a video on that here. Your other option is to quilt over the already quilted sections with another color thread, which allows you to practice with the same fabric over and over.
I’ll be editing and posting more quilting videos during my recovery, so make sure you jump over to my YouTube channel and hit the subscribe button.
On Demand Class
My On Demand Class is now up and running. “Beyond The Basics in Free Motion Quilting” is basically a class for people that have a little bit of free motion experience and are ready to move on and improve their skills. This class covers edge to edge designs, along with designs to fit into squares, triangles and sashings and borders. You will be custom quilting in no time!! It also has a thread, needles and tension section, along with a section on stencils. In this class, the quilting is done on a stationary machine, but can easily be adapted to a moveable longarm.
To get to that class, please click here.
I hope that all of you are doing well!! Happy Quilting!!
So glad to hear you are slowly improving, Jane. I understand how painful rotator cuff surgery can be. I hope your recuperation is more speedy than you anticipated! Take good care of yourself!
Painful is right!! Yikes!! But at least I know I am heading in the right direction!! Thank you!!
Dear Jane,
I am so glad that you are improving from your shoulder surgery. It is a slow go, but you are making process and that’s a plus. So, continue to improve and take care.
Thank you!! One day at a time!! Eventually I will be healed!!!
Hope your recovery continues to improve!
Thanks so much!!!
Best wishes for a speedy recovery! One day at a time. I use the stitches from all the classes I took from you in my quilting. You’re my go to source!
Thanks so much!! That makes my heart happy that I am your “go to” source for quilting designs!!! 🙂
Hi Jane,
I’m glad you’re feeling better; but know it’s a very rough road. I hope you continue to stay on this good path to recovery and are back 100% as soon as possible. Keep smiling!!
In the meantime, I have some of your practice panels and plan to try them using the 790. I’ll be sure to use your video’s as well. Thank you for all the good training!
All my best,
Sharon
I can’t wait to see how you do with your panels!!! Thanks for giving them a try!! Miss you!!
I did try to purchase your online quilting course but it said it wasn’t open for enrollment
Should I try beck later?
Thanks for letting me know that. Apparently, there was a button I hadn’t clicked when I set up the class. It is all fixed now and should be ready to go!!
I’ll let you know!
Miss you too!
Sharon
I am glad you are receiving and I hope that you feel better each day.
The more I research your tutorials the more I learn about you. Sorry about your surgery – I know how painful that can be. I had rotator cuff surgery several years ago and would rather have another baby than go through that surgery again. Took a year for me to have total range of motion back. Be careful after you are back to normal that you don’t get careless. I have a small hairline tear in the same shoulder but refuse to have the surgery again. Arthritis has decided to set in and it hurts occasionally but not enough for surgery. Glad things are going well with your recovery. Am considering purchasing some of your panels – may help me with my free motion work. Thanks for being there even with your current situation. Quick recovery! ! ! !