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What a week!

January 14, 2021

 

It’s a short post this week. Most of my time has been consumed in prep for this week, with too many major events crammed together.

Yesterday went well with a high of 75 attendees to the January Jumpstart for the Northern California Quilt Council. I serve on the Board of NCQC and Rochelle Rosales and I did a presentation for participating guilds on “Successfully Recruiting and Retaining Volunteers”. A lot has changed for guilds and NCQC hopes to help guilds navigate these tumultuous waters.

NCQC has been instrumental for me since I began teaching. Until COVID, I got the majority of my leads from their Meet the Teacher events. So I am grateful to be able to give back. We hope the event was useful for the participating guilds, we were quite pleased with the turnout. I didn’t think to get a screen shot, but then again, most screenshots look alike.

And….Craft Napa kicked off today! I think there were over 175 students and teachers in attendance for the kick off party. Spirits were very high!

So many people expressed appreciation for a virtual Craft Napa. For many, this was an unexpected pleasure – to be able to attend Craft Napa. It was heartwarming to hear some of the stories of people who would have never been able to attend in person, people who could not have taken then time off of work, those who are caregivers to loved ones, etc. Craft Napa really is a unique experience.

I have spent days and days with various issues with my video editing. I am teaching Doodle Quilting at Craft Napa and part of the class is focused on various fills. I gave students a vote to choose their top 4 favorites out of 16 choices and I will cover 7 – 10 in class, but committed to tutorials on all 16.

At first I intended to just do written tutorials, which I did. I then decided to do videos for each also. There is a problem with doing live stitching in class. You know I will run out of bobbin thread, my thread will break, I’ll have a thread barf incident, etc. I don’t mind any of that – it’s real life.

But a true live demo in class takes about 6 – 8 minutes. Students love them and are mesmerized as they watch. The reality is, that takes a lot of class time! When I pre-record, I get the perfect angle, with perfect lighting. But more importantly, for much of the quilting, I can double-time it. You still see the path and understand it…in half the time.

I’m using Shotcut and I took an excellent on-demand course from MJ Kinman. But there were a few things I missed and that was the problem. It took days to figure out, very frustrating days! Once I figured it out it was easy peasy, even for me! I think these videos will be very useful for my students, so it was time well spent.  And now I know how to edit video – me! Who’d a thunk that?

As a result, I have no pretty pictures for the week. I teach Doddle Quilting on Friday and wahooo, I’m a student in Margarita Korioth‘s class on Saturday and Sunday!! I’m pumped. I’m thinking next week’s post should be a fun read. Stay tuned.

 

 

Filed Under: Learning, Quilts and Art Quilts, Teaching Free Motion Quilting, Virtual teaching

Comments

  1. Doreen Auger says

    January 14, 2021 at 7:31 am

    Sounds wonderful! Huge kudos on the acquisition of your new editing skill set!!! (which will get even better with time!) I look forward to future posts on this teaching experience!!! Hugs…….

    • qskipad3 says

      January 14, 2021 at 9:18 am

      Doreen thank you for that encouragement! I hope to have a calm week next week.

  2. Betty Jo Tatum says

    January 14, 2021 at 3:24 pm

    I found this one a fun read. I am so glad you figured out the video editing thing. I was surprised once I figured it out how easy it really is..it’s just learning a new software thing that makes it seem so difficult at first. Cheers.

    • qskipad3 says

      January 14, 2021 at 9:13 pm

      Thank you Betty Jo! It has been a rough week.

  3. Peggy Martin says

    January 14, 2021 at 10:14 pm

    Good for you, Jenny! I admire you for learning how to do all that… way to go!

    • qskipad3 says

      January 15, 2021 at 10:17 am

      It wasn’t fun though!

  4. Sandra Weimer says

    January 16, 2021 at 9:48 am

    Oh, I look forward to hearing about your class with Margarita. I’ve followed her on social media.

    • qskipad3 says

      January 16, 2021 at 11:10 am

      I’m in it now and it is fantastic! She is going to be teaching more live online.

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