The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

Catherine Redford’s Modern Machine Quilting DVD and a Give Away

My friend Catherine Redford asked me to review her brand new DVD which is all about machine quilting on a home machine. I met Catherine at the Houston International Quilt Festival last year and we became fast friends. Catherine is funny, personable and…..

Catherine Redford
Catherine Redford

multi-talented: she machine quilts on a domestic machine, hand embroiders, beads, does English paper piecing, works with wool and is a Modern quilter whose work has been published many times. Check out her impressive gallery here. She originally hails from London but has been living in the Chicago suburb of Naperville since 1995. And she is a hoot!

Quilting sample
Quilting sample

Catherine’s 80 minute DVD covers all the basics of machine quilting from batting, machine set-up, thread, needles and pressing.  She draws out and quilts a myriad of useful quilting motifs and even stitches them out on mini quilts and placemats, all the while sharing valuable tips. The entire DVD is entertaining and Catherine’s demeanor is so calm and encouraging. You just know you can quilt these motifs out after watching the video.

More Than Twenty Three Hexagons

The entire DVD is both entertaining and fun to watch. Catherine makes beautiful, bold and colorful  quilts in the Modern genre and her DVD shows many examples of her work.  Catherine also has some unique, fun ways to alter  and stitch common motifs. She frequently combines walking foot quilting with free motion quilting on the same piece for a distinctive look.

Getting Ready for QuiltCon
Getting Ready for QuiltCon

I was struck by the similarities in some of what we say and I was amused to hear Catherine mention that she had taken classes from Diane Gaudynski who is also my Quilting Hero! I wonder how many quilters Diane has inspired through the years.

Catherine Redford
Catherine Redford

Now here’s the give-away part: each blogger will post according to the schedule below. Each day of the hop you can comment over at Catherine’s blog to have a chance to win a DVD, a Stella task lamp and a Hexie love ruler.

Sketching
Sketching

The 8-day blog hop schedule follows:

Thursday January 7th – Catherine Redford
Friday January 8th – Fresh Lemons Quilts
Saturday January 9th – Bonnie Hunter
Sunday January 10th – Svetlana Sotak
Monday January 11th – Kim Niedzwiecki (Aurifil)
Tuesday January 12th – Julia Wood
Wednesday January 13th – Susan Brubaker Knapp
Thursday January 14th – Me!
Friday January 15th – Kathy Matthews
Saturday January 16th – Back to Catherine
Modern Machine Quilting DVD Cover
Modern Machine Quilting DVD Cover

Comments do win prizes… Catherine will be drawing at least three names from all the comments left on her blog between the 7th and the 16th  and will choose the winners on Sunday the 17th.

Stella Task Lamp
Stella Task Lamp

The grand prize winner will also receive a brand new Hexie Love ruler AND a Stella task lamp from Stella lighting.  So please do leave your comments on Catherine’s blog.

Hexie Love Ruler
Hexie Love Ruler

And if you don’t win or if you just can’t wait, the DVD or digital download is available at the Interweave store here. Remember comments left on my blog will not count towards the Give-Away.

Good luck to you! I’ll be writing about my incredible experience at Craft Napa next week so stay tuned.

Comments

  1. I find your attitude so inspiring. I aspire to find the process of machine quilting less stressful. Joy may come with persistance.

  2. Hello Jenny!,
    I am beginning to “skip” with my new visions from this quilt blog. Thank you for all of your inspiration!

  3. I know how you feel when your “machine” has done some cool-looking stuff on the quilt!! I can’t really “skip”, but I do get up and go “Yeah, cool!!!”!! I’m going to save your site in my favorites so I can look around some more!!

  5. Thank you for your Review…would love to Win her DVD for sure…sounds Amazing!! (so does she! know would be fun to spend time with her in person!) I am just learning FMQ…and I read about you on her Blog today. Love your Morning Breeze quilt!!! Gorgeous!! Loved about why you are the Quiltskipper…I hope someday..to have Skipping Moments too! Thanks for sharing! :)

  6. I love your quilt and I can’t wait until I have more “skipping” moments! I’m happy to have found your blog and I will be looking around for more inspiration.

  7. Thank you for sharing your comments about Catherine’s DVD. It has been interesting visiting the different blog posts. I didn’t get to the computer much yesterday so I am catching up today. My plan for this year is to attempt to quilt my own quilts, and all of you have been so encouraging that I will muster the courage to at least have a go at placemats and see what I can do.

  8. Catherine shared ‘Morning Breeze’ with us on her blog. Gorgeous. It’s wonderful that so many highly acclaimed quilters are giving rave reviews of Catherine’s DVD. Just seeing the little flashes of brilliance on the hop has been an inspiration to me. “Modern Machine Quilting” is definitely on my list to watch.