Wow, that must have been a wonderful class! What a great opportunity to learn from the master!
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Wow, that must have been a wonderful class! What a great opportunity to learn from the master!
Fantastic! I'm so happy for you that you had the chance to study with her, Cyndi! Your free-motion is looking very professional. Way to go! My hat's off to you for all the practicing you've taken the time to do to get to this point.
She is a great teacher and I'm sure she's even better in person than on YouTube. But you are a great student too! Love your sample work! And it's awesome to see a photo of you too. :)
I am so happy for you to be able to take a class from her and you must have had a marveolus time!
I have followed her on her blog for a long time and she does make you feel that you to can do it!
I think that is what makes her a such good teacher!
Hugs
Annika
Love Leah Day!! She does a few classes on Craftsy and here is her blog if anyone would like to check it out...
The Free Motion Quilting Project
I've seen some of her videos and she has good tips and techniques. She is very good at communicating the lessons, too.
What I'd like to see is someone do FMQ closer to the old way. You did one design per square and not all over. A design large enough to cover a 10 inch block. You can put those in using Electric Quilt, but I haven't seen a tutorial that does it that way. You bought a pack of Aunt Martha's designs and had at it. (I've got some. I cheat and digitize them.) I've never seen a tutorial doing that with gold paper.
That sample behind you is close, but the blocks are too small.
I'm glad you enjoyed it and had fun.
Cyndi, I think that must mean that you didn't carry your migraine to the class. For that I'll bet you are thankful.
Lucky one to meet Leah up close and personal. She's a winner for sure. I'm going to have the opportunity to meet Angela Walters this coming weekend. Now if we could just get Leah to show up at Missouri Star.
Cyndi, your FMQ is great! I'm glad the migraines stayed away so you could really enjoy your class.
Yes, my migraines stayed away and here it is Sunday and they're still gone! Thank you all for praying.
Machine Quilters Expo is a quilt show that come to Manchester, NH every year in April. That's just over an hour away from us. We always go and stay at the hotel at least one night for a mini-vacation. Plus the show needs more than one day to see it to do it justice.
When I heard Leah Day was teaching, I signed up for the class the first chance I got! I was the first one in the class in order to get a good seat. I also went to her trunk show the night before when she showed lots and lots of her quilts. It was fantastic.
She recommends FMQing 20 minutes a day until you can stitch out a pattern as easily as you can sign your name. Many of her patterns are variations of a simple foundation design. The sample shown is filled with variations on the paisley design. I really do think I can master this. I'm determined to try!
That sample piece looks great, Cindyotv. Is she as bubbly in person as she comes across in her videos? I love her easy-going style.