Angela Walters is hosting a giveaway of my class Creative Longarm Quilting over on her blog! To enter, leave a comment on her post. The drawing will be held sometime in the first week of March. Good luck!
Archives for February 2014
Local freemotion quilting class, Saratoga Springs, NY!
Hi friends, I wanted to share some news with you, especially if you’re local! I’ll be teaching a class series on freemotion domestic machine quilting with Gloversville Sewing Center in March and in May. Each series consists of two classes: The first class centers on design and drawing, and is meant to help students learn […]
Quilting Tutorial, Variations
I had meant to put this up around Valentine’s Day, because one of these looks an awful lot like hearts, and it’s probably as close to hearts as I get. In any case, these three variations are based off the earlier tutorial, with the first line being some form of swirl. The simplest variation is […]
Practice sheet for background fill
Look at me, learning how to use the arc tool in Illustrator! Ahem. Celebrate the little things. Anyway, here is a PDF version of the swoopy grid I used in the tutorial below. Print out as many as you’d like. The first one has dark black lines: OnionBackgroundFill And this one has lighter grey lines: OnionBackgroundFillGrey
Background fill tutorial, for longarm or domestic quilting
I recently was working on a super secret project, and found I needed a pretty background fill that enhanced the overall design. I wanted something that looked like a budding flower, or opening petals, something organic, easy and consistent since the other details were more like thread painting and I wanted a nice contrast. Based […]