Tonight I spoke at my friend Pat’s adult ed beginning quilting class, on machine quilting. I didn’t bring a machine, we didn’t sew. It was strictly “my spiel” about how to prepare for quilting (your quilt, your machine, you) plus lots of tips and lots of samples.
For show and tell I brought the quilting sampler squares I’d made for the class I taught – lots of different battings, washed and not, ditto for fabric. quilted all of them, serged the edges and washed them all. I also brought my little test pieces that I’m always promoting people do, for warm up, for machine testing, for trying out new things.
I also brought a selection of quilts. Pat suggested a few of my more “modern” quilts – she thought they’d get a lot out of seeing my raw edge applique landscapes etc. I also brought a quilt I’d made in 1997. Very simple piecing – large squares of navy and black TONS of quilting in both yellow thread and black in the background. That quilt really has it all quilting wise.
Answered lots of questions and stressed that it’s all about practice. And more practice. Be as one with the machine grasshopper.
Went well.
