Originally Posted by
NJ Quilter
Weezy, are you familiar with my LQS? And that class specifically or are you thinking of something different? If it's this shop specifically, I agree the instructor is an excellent quilter and an excellent teacher as well. Two of the reasons I'm interested in this class.
No. Taking classes from Craftsy, but she didn't cover Westalee Spinners. There are videos, but I don't like videos.
Some of the Craftsy classes have transcripts, and I think they all should. Deaf and hard of hearing people can quilt. I'm not deaf or hard of hearing, I can just read faster than people talk. I want to get on with experimenting with lesson.
I like challenges. I finally bought some of the clear grippers and found spaces to put those on the bottom. Small enough to fit, but large enough to grip. It was the bottom of the template around the thumbtack that was sliding.
I left the 7 branched designs alone. Stitching is good and they look just fine. No one is really going to count the branches. But it bugged me until I solved it. Now I know. Same with the small Celtic ruler. You can't rotate it like the large one that Amy Johnson uses as it doesn't have the center pin.
Now since I have so many more ways to quilt, I'm going to have to learn how to think in quilting design. I still like the way my grandmother did it, and the usual free motion isn't conducive to that. She did separate patterns like Baptist fan and churn dash as quilting. Not stippling. Those old patterns for hand quilting are still being sold.