The past few weeks seem to have gone by in a blur. Every day I intend on writing a post for the blog and it seems my days have gotten away from me. I was blessed with a new granddaughter one month ago today and I have been busy quilting and teaching and brainstorming on new projects!!
I have had the opportunity to teach free motion quilting to quite a few quilters over the past several months and it is always a treat to see quilters learn to finish their own quilts. The classes have ranged from beginner free motion quilting to intermediate free motion quilting to this past week we had a intermediate group take a pre-printed mini whole cloth and learn to free motion on it and then add some extra quilting to it to “make it their own”. Everyone did such a great job!!
While teaching an intermediate class, I heard the students saying that they wish they had a book or a way to practice the designs I was teaching. So….I started working on a workbook!! One for Beginners and one for Intermediate….with more workbooks to come!! These workbooks are an accessory to my classes and I am hoping that they will help quilters gain more confidence in learning these quilting designs. After this last class, I received a message from one of my students telling me “I finally got it”!! That just makes me so happy!!!
If anyone is interested, there are several classes coming up locally…..Beginner Free Motion Quilting on October 24, 2015 from 9-2; Intermediate I Free Motion Quilting on December 1 from 9-2, and Free Motion Feathers on January 12, 2016 from 9-2. We will probably add another pre-printed whole cloth class in there somewhere too….and will also be doing an Intermediate II class in the new year. All of these classes are at my local quilt shop, Peggy’s Sewing Center in Centreville, MD. I am also going to be looking into teaching/speaking at other venues in the near future.
I hope you don’t mind, but I wanted to share with you some of the quilts I have been so fortunate to be able to quilt lately!!
Here is Mary’s Sundance Quilt. This quilt had it all…..hand applique, machine applique, machine embroidery (as seen in the second picture) and beautiful fabrics and piecing.
The quilt below was made by Ellen. I had given Ellen a mini charm pack from 1Canoe2 that I had gotten at Spring Quilt Market. She saw a quilt online similar to this and decided that was how she would use her mini charm pack. As I was getting ready to quilt it, I decided to go a little “out of the box” on this one, and while it was a little out of my comfort zone, I truly love how it turned out.
Ellen also made a Bathing Suit quilt for her sister that I had a lot of fun quilting!!
Jeannie made this quilt and wanted a “little bit of custom”. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it except that I thought that the light fabric should stand out throughout the entire quilt.
I can’t remember if I posted a picture of Janet’s quilt, so please excuse me if I did already. This picture doesn’t do this quilt justice!!
This quilt top was started by Andie’s mom and then Andie finished it and had it quilted. I think it turned out beautifully!!
Well, I appreciate you reading my blog and hope that you enjoyed looking at the quilt pictures!!
Happy Quilting!!