New skills for 2017
This year I didn't get to sew too much, but my main focus was on mastering borders, for me it's so easy to just pass by quilts with borders in favor of the borderless ones and call it a day. I finally downloaded and watched the 2 Craftsy classes for quilt borders and I must have watched them at least 5 times each, it gave me the confidence to comeplete my first ever king size quilt with a big border. While I still have a ways to go to be proficient at it, I'm at least on my way and looking forward to perfecting it this coming year. I would also like to do appliqué so I can have some hand work in the evenings and I want to use my poor neglected embroidery machine as well. I will not being doing anymore tops until I get the 6 I have waiting to be quilted done, I want to improve my freehand skills with my longarm as well and become more comfortable doing pantos. What skills are you looking to master, start or try for the new year??