A New Class

When I have been teaching classes, so many students have asked me if I would teach them how to freemotion quilt the way I've done it on my own quilts.  Well, my answer has always been, "The way you can do that is to practice, practice, practice.  And maybe have a sip or two of wine before you start!  And nice music doesn't hurt either."  I know that although that is true, one does need to have a point from which to begin.  So I've designed a class to get students started on adding feathers to their repertoire and it is called Adding Freemotion Feathers To Your Bag Of Stitches.  In making samples for the classes, I played around with several motifs and narrowed it down to two styles and then to one finished sample.  This particular sample is quilted with 100 weight silk thread , a #60 microtex needle and 60 weight thread in the bobbin.  There are, of course, various exercises leading up to the finished sample.

So many quilters seem to think that adding feathers to their quilts is difficult and I hope to show them that it just takes practice and the correct thread, needles, tension and an adventurous attitude.