Flutter!
Several of you have asked how to quilt the Flutter Motif and I promised to post a tutorial on how best to quilt it. I love this motif! This is my first attempt to put on “paper” how to do a motif like this. Let me know if you have questions or if my directions are not clear. […]
Marking, A Cool Tool and Jazz
Marking is fraught with peril, it just is. Marks don’t always come out and marking removes some of the spontaneity of free motion-you have to hit a line instead of going free form-it’s just not my favorite thing to do! But sometimes ya gotta do it. I designed my Lily quilt to include an area of […]
Success…and Failure
This last week has been a mix of successes and misses but I’m confident that the misses will enrich my “learning curve”. I’m really trying to get outside of my normal box and when I do that, I’m bound to have some misses. This is a bit of an ADD post since I worked on three separate […]
Trials and Tribulations While Shredding Thread
I’m writing from the depths of thread shred hell and have accumulated what I call “thread shred cred(entials)”. Right after my last post on how well my work with metallic wrapped silk thread was going, it started shredding. At that point I had put in at least 4 shred-free hours when all of a sudden […]
Learning From Diane Gaudynski
Warning: If you are not interested in Free Motion Quilting, skip this post! I wanted to pass on some of what I learned in the class I took from Diane Gaudynski, “The Adventure Continues” at the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Ky last week. The class was created as an offering to the experienced free […]
Traveling and Paducah
I recently had the pleasure of taking a trip to Paducah, Kentucky where I took a class from Diane Gaudynski. Paducah is the Mother Ship of Quilting, home to the National Quilt Museum as well at the infamous Paducah Quilt Festival held each April. My travels took me to the new terminal at Sacramento Int’l Airport which […]