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salo http plumandjune blogspot com mon march 21 latifah saafir http www latifahsaafirstudios com blog tues march 22 lynn harris http thelittleredhen typepad com kevin kosbab http feeddog blogspot com you are here modern quilts unlimited https modernquilts mqumag com category blog web march 23 allison rosen http withinaquarterinch com cindy lammon http hyacinthquiltdesigns blogspot com thurs march 24 rossie hutchinson http www rossiecrafts com blog generation q http generationqmagazine com fri march 25 betz white http betzwhite com blog casey york http studioloblog wordpress com posted by unknown at 6 00 am 28 comments categories applique giveaway quilting tuesday march 01 2016 so what is craftsy anyway sometimes at my quilt guild we rattle off program names like block of the month fat quarter drawings and stash for cash work forgetting that new members may not know how our programs work or even what a fat quarter is i ve been talking about craftsy a lot and while you may be familiar with it if you read lots of craft blogs you may not here s me on the set of my craftsy class start appliqué craftsy is essentially an online video oriented learning platform for all things creative one of the big differences between a tv show or dvd is that there s an interactive component to the classes you can ask the instructor questions and benefit from other students previous questions and the answers share pictures of your work and get inspired by other students work committing to answering students questions is part of what we instructors agree to when we sign on with craftsy so you won t be asking into the wind i resisted taking online classes like this for a long time since i tend to be a pretty conventional book learner in high school the ap classes i did best in were the ones with really solid textbooks not ones where we watched films or did participatory group projects so for learning quilting and craft techniques my first port of call has usually been a book but there are certain things that just don t lend themselves that well to written description or static illustration needle turning when writing my appliqué book i found it really difficult to describe how do needle turn appliqué i hope i did a decent job but as i found when teaching in person it s much easier to show students how to hold the needle how to manipulate the fabric and how to place their stitches than it is to write it out and in my craftsy class you get that visual in person guidance with the added benefit of close up camera shots and the ability to back up and rewatch until you really understand something my first bullion knot attempts using different threads bullion knots occurred to me recently as a good way to make feet for my pigeon quilts i d seen the stitch demonstrated before but never attempted it myself now that i was picking up needle and thread i needed to see it again i could have sifted through dozens of youtube videos of varying quality but i knew craftsy would give me quality high definition instruction from the best known bullion knotter i can think of sue spargo so i enrolled in her class watched the bullion knot section several times and set to stitching my first few knots weren t quite right so i repeated the segment again and immediately knew what i d been doing wrong seeing the stitches actually forming was just what even an old school book learner like me needed one of sue s class samplers bullion knots are only the beginning while sue was demonstrating a bullion knot edging she pointed out that sometimes your loops don t form quite right and showed how to correct them craftsy calls moments like these troubleshooting and that s another area where their teaching model differs from diy tv advertising driven television doesn t like to dwell on what might go wrong it just wants you to be carefree and happy and immediately run out to buy stuff craftsy instead is selling the instruction itself so they want you to be confident that you ll be able to handle any bumps that could come along when you put that instruction to use on your own when instructors make mistakes on set they usually keep shooting as we work through it because those are often the exact trouble spots our students run into though when we realized that i shot a whole segment without the machine threaded we did have to start over yes the thread was supposed to be invisible but not nonexistant craftsy wants their students to be happy and they want their instructors to be happy too i ve worked with several craft oriented media production companies and craftsy stands out as one that goes out of their way to make the behind the scenes process smooth smart and fun for everybody involved if we re enthusiastic about our experience it s a lot easier to make students enthusiastic about the classes they take the company also recognizes that we instructors tend to be running very small businesses around the creative pursuits we love so they help us out by giving us the chance to share in the profits of our own classes and any others we promote so if you enroll through one of my affiliate links to say sue spargo s embroidery class you ll get a discount and i ll get a little money too and that helps me be able to create more things to share with you to spread the joy even further and celebrate national craft month craftsy s currently offering the chance for one student to win 1 000 for the craft based charity of the winner s choice depending on the number of new students who sign up the donation will be doubled so if you ve never taken a craftsy class this is a great time to try it out since craftsy offers full refunds if you aren t happy you have nothing to lose and spectacular new techniques to gain for your quilting and crafting the national craft month offer only runs until march 13 so click here to try a class today posted by unknown at 5 36 pm no comments categories applique embroidery quilting video monday february 15 2016 good questions sewing machines for beginners adjusting a janome 8900 on the set of my craftsy class a visitor to my website recently asked me to recommend a good beginner sewing machine and she specifically was interested in appliqué in case anybody else has similar questions i thought i d share some of my experience with machines here my first advice would be to talk with an independent dealer preferably one who stocks multiple brands who will help you figure out the right machine for your plans and budget i use a janome these days and i ve heard good things about their entry level machines but there are plenty of other good makes out there to some extent you get what you pay for the sub 100 models in discount stores probably aren t going to get you very far though you needn t start with one of the 10 000 numbers that has more in common with r2 d2 than with grandma s singer and keep in mind that you never know what you might find secondhand though in my experience the best deals come when you aren t looking in my ten years sewing i m on my third main machine white 2037 an all mechanical model with a good range of functions the mother bought it for me with the idea i d sew some curtains and pillows for which it was well suited had we had any idea i d get into quilting she might have picked a different machine but the white did have a quarter inch piecing foot standard so it was easy for me to start piecing without extra accessories i pushed the limits of the machine with appliqué for which it was perfectly capable but lacking the bells and whistles to make things easier see below pfaff 1171 i scored an incredible deal at a thrift store on this machine from 1986 at the time sewing and quilting had become the better part of my job so this workhorse machine was a godsend the built in dual feed was a major upgrade over a walking foot and the needle down function was a big help with appliqué this machine hardly ever met a seam it couldn t sew and at the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man they just don t build them like that anymore sadly a dodgy repair fried its motherboard janome 8900 this my current machine was the first one i carefully chose knowing the kind of sewing i do i wanted to retain the pfaff s the power and reliability reliable until it wasn t that is which led the dealer to recommend this machine i spent several hours in the showroom with a very patient and knowledgeable dealer who really listened to what i needed from the machine my top advice is to find a dealer who wants you to be happy with your machine not just a dealer who wants to sell you something you ll be able to tell the difference while i d never suggest choosing a machine because of how many decorative stitches it has i was looking for an updated stitch selection including the blanket stitch and appliqué blind hem that were missing from my pfaff this janome came with a dual feed that was arguably more flexible than the pfaff s it had a nice wide throat for quilting most of which i do myself and it feels cosmically in tune with me when free motion quilting i used each of these machines for raw edge and prepared edge machine appliqué techniques all the projects in my book were sewn on the pfaff and the janome is what i now use at home and on camera in my craftsy class an adjustable zigzag is really the bare minimum you need to do all kinds of machine appliqué for a list of features that can make appliqué easier take a look at this free excerpt from my book the quilter s appliqué workshop what machine features do you appreciate for appliqué posted by unknown at 5 16 pm 1 comment categories applique quilting sewing tips tools supplies friday november 27 2015 what s on your playlist thanksgiving isn t a very big deal round here mainly because our family is on the other side of the country but the other and i are always happy to have some time off from regularly scheduled programming and though working for myself means never being caught up there s always some quilt i should be sewing or a pattern i should be writing i like to take advantage of the long weekends to indulge in my playlist not a music playlist but a crafting or needlework playlist it s easy to get caught up with whatever sewing i need to do for my work commitments which takes away from the joy of creative exploration just for the fun of it so i try not to let myself feel guilty when i work on projects that are just for play and i always have an active playlist on the go of things i can pick up to work on when i just feel like sewing or embroidering or weaving or whatever just creating but you don t have to be a pro crafter to benefit from a playlist any kind of high volume deadline based crafting can lead to burnout lots of quilters are extremely generous with their charity sewing and this time of year especially handmade gift giving obligations can get overwhelming even just feeling like every project has to be finished or have a purpose can take the fun away i think taking a break for some play projects actually energizes the work sewing here s some of my play affiliate links included where appropriate needle threader shisha sampler i add to this freeform shisha embroidery sampler whenever the mood strikes which is usually when i have new threads to try out it lets me play with fibers and stitches without worrying that i might ruin something that has to get photographed for publication but these experiments can and do lead to ideas that get used down the road so it s actually a useful exercise oh and if you couldn t tell those are the tops of needle threaders instead of actual shisha mirrors i m fascinated by the different obscure faces on them but i don t very often use a threader so they might as well get stitched down vintage bargello i found this 1973 bargello needlepoint kit several years ago when visiting my parents embroidered with super chunky yarn it was already partially finished so it was a relatively simple job to fill in the rest of the pattern i just worked on it when i didn t have appliqué or other handwork to do while watching tv maybe someday i ll finish it into a pillow maybe not there are no obligations on the playlist pigeon no 1 i ve mentioned my fondness for pigeons before correct me if i m wrong but i don t think there s a big market for pigeon quilt patterns so this appliquéd pigeon was just for me and just for fun before starting him i d sewn a quilt of yarn dyed stripes for stitch and though the quilt was simple i d loved sewing it because it was such fun to fondle all the woven fabrics i wanted more so i started amassing shot cottons and shirtings in enough shades of grey to make a pigeon but he only suggested more pigeons scruffy pigeons fat pigeons pigeons wearing top hats pigeons made of silk a whole series of pigeons pigeon no 2 the second pigeon stayed with yarn dyed cottons and continued my experimentations in other projects with irregular english paper piecing i ve been delighted with the exploding variety of yarn dyes available and was able to include some slubbier ones in this pigeon as well as some extra tasty oakshott cottons some of the tiny triangles in his feet were fairly challenging but that was part of the fun obviously he still needs an eyeball use your playlist to explore a new craft for me weaving the other s keen eye for thrift store bargains has netted me a range of secondhand looms so my playlist also includes tinkering with weaving sewing quilting and embroidering share a lot of tools and methods but weaving s a whole other thing which i have no training in but learning about it really engages the creative juices so i m going to take advantage of this weekend s black friday sales to stock up on some weaving instruction pickup stick finger control techniques looks intriguing on craftsy where all classes including quilting are on sale for 19 99 and under and interweave s 5 99 ebooks and videos sounds like the perfect opportunity to indulge my curiosity in inkle weaving i may be a quilter by trade but one point of the playlist to encourage such indulgences you never know where they might lead so what s on your playlist posted by unknown at 4 31 pm 1 comment categories applique embroidery playlist quilting sewing older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me unknown view my complete profile contact feeddog at feeddog net my craftsy class subscribe rss or email facebook feed dog designs categories about 5 applique 27 bathroom 2 bedroom 3 birds 12 book 14 christmas 23 classes 3 craft 65 decorative machine stitches 2 die cutting 13 dishes 5 embroidery 7 eq software 4 eq6 7 fabric 20 family 28 felt 16 furniture 6 garden 1 giveaway 19 glass 1 home dec 4 kitchen 6 living room 10 mid century modern 4 office sewing room 11 outdoors 3 pattern 20 playlist 1 printing 1 projects 1 publications exhibitions 36 queen 4 quilting 118 recipe 3 sewing 88 tchotchkes 5 thread 1 thrifting flea markets 17 tips 2 tools supplies 2 travel 7 tutorial 14 video 5 archive 2016 4 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