What Are Your Favorite Bluprint/Craftsy Classes?
 

Hi everyone,
I have 3 coupons to redeem and am wondering what some good classes may be that
I don't have.
Tia,
Susie

Quilt as you Go, Strategies for any Quilt, by Marti Michell.
Anything by Angela Walters.

Quick Strip Paper Piecing for those of us who cant figure out how to do regular paper piecing.

Watson

Better Borders & Pieced Borders for any quilt Winnie Fleming, these 2 classes are my favorite and the ones I watch over and over. She’s easy to understand and I use her techniques on just about every quilt I have made.

I have never taken a quilting class. The topics above are interesting. Maybe I should try one.

Quilting Big Quilts On a Small Machine, Quilting with Rulers on a Home Machine, Creative Quilt Backs.

For my three I chose Anita Grossman Solomon Traditional Blocks Made Simple, Donna Lynn Thomas Piece like a Pro, Debbie Maddy Easy Piecing, Amazing Design. I have taken classes from Maddy and Thomas and they are excellent teachers.

The Perfect Finish, How to Bind a Quilt by Susan Cleveland

Design It, Quilt It with Cindy Needham

Craftsy classes
 

Both of Amy Johnson's Quilting with Rulers

Machine Quilting with Paula Reid


Quilting Bing Projects on a Small Machine

I find this very interesting too, since most of my knowledge about quilting comes from books or watching a YouTube video. I have been seeing this “blueprint” ads showing up a lot on my Facebook feed, but wasn’t sure it was worth the money. Now I am wondering if maybe I need to try it.

Get on their mailing list. Sometimes they offer free weekends or even weeks so you can try the classes out, but you have to be on the mailing list to be notified.

Thanks for the information; I will do that right now.

I really love watching Christina Cameli's classes on free motion quilting because she has a very calming manner and she's very clear in her instructions. I especially love how she teaches you to quilt a design around a corner. I can't remember which class it was from (one where she's having you quilt inside strips and wedges to learn designs?) but she shows you how to space out the design and then plan where to make the turn. It was really helpful!

Thanks to all who chimed in.
I have all of Christina Cameli's classes. I love her calm manner.
I have some others mentioned but not all. Lots to think about, thanks!

The one on borders sounds good and others.

For art quilters, Renegade Thread Play with Melinda Bula is excellent. She's clear, entertaining and an excellent instructor.

I couldn't find Renegade Thread Play by Melinda Bula on Bluprint. But I did find her on youtube. And I agree...she's very good!

I have 3 coupons to use too. I've watched all of the suggestions above, and they are all very good. And yes, I spend way too much time online. I've also watched lots of drawing/painting, sewing, serging, baking and cooking videos. All after 10pm too.

You can watch all those classes and more without using your coupons, and save the coupons for the classes you want to keep forever. Ones you want to keep referring back to.

I guess it depends on where your interests are. There are some really good videos on decorative stitching, embroidery, fabric dyeing, serging and sewing techniques....
and also some great cooking, cake decorating, painting & drawing classes too. And photography & woodworking etc. they even have dancing classes.

What would you like to learn?

I'm looking for something new. I really don't see anything that hasn't been there since it was Craftsy. Almost all of them are for beginners. I don't see many that go very far beyond that. Even the classes listed as 'intermediate' level classes are geared more toward beginners.

It does seem that they don't get much new stuff these days, doesn't it?
I'm going to look around and see what I think I'll want to keep.

Hello. So glad to see your post. I keep seeing bluprint ads pop up on me. Is the cost of the service worth it? There’s so much free content on YouTube.
Thanks

Mazo- I got an "offer I couldn't refuse" A year of Bluprint for $69.00 plus 12 free forever classes and a quilt kit. So I get to keep all those classes no matter what. And a percentage off each order and free ship.
I don't ever pay full price for Bluprint. I wait for a sale like the above.
I have to say I'm not crazy about their fabrics though. I like their thread and other notions. They do have good sales. I got a Supreme Slider for a song! Also yarn for knitting.

I got that same deal I couldn't refuse. Haven't put the kit together yet, but I have been trying to watch as many classes as possible. Classes on things I never thought I would be interested in.
They do have a wide variety of subjects. Just not that much new content from when it was Craftsy. I subscribed to Craftsy too, and I really liked that.
They do have lots and lots of free patterns for crochet / knitting, sewing, quilting, woodworking, drawing/painting...lots of free recipes...lots of good discounts on supplies. And the free quilt kit that I received for signing up was worth the $ all by itself.

I'm not endorsing Bluprint, just .....wanted to share my experience. I wouldn't sign up again, unless they offered a lot more new content. I don't need any more kits and I've waded through most of the classes they have.

Thank you! I’m going to keep my eyes open for that deal.

I've spent a lot of time on Craftsy/Blueprint
Here are classes I have that I can recommend.
Clever Cuts for Efficient Quilting Debbie Caffrey Her other classes are very good also. Any of them are good
Piece Like a Pro Donna Lynn Thomas really helped me perfect my piecing
Clever Curves Piecing techniques Toby Lishko I learned how to do NY beauties. She's got a great technique very good teacher.
I also used a lot of Angela Walters classes as I was perfecting my FMQ techniques.
I took a 3 day workshop with Cindy Needham on FMQ and design she is fabulous. Her class does some of what we did in the workshop.
There are some other FMQ classes have come out (a long time ago) with other instructors I plan to watch.

The beauty of Blueprint is you can watch the class first and then decide if its a keep forever class. Stitch Saavy Creative Machine Embellishments is what I'm watching now.

If you haven't used Craftsy Blueprint classes before the subscription is well worth it. There are a lot of good classes with fabulous teachers. However they have changed how they pay instructors and few want to continue doing classes. Some have taken their classes off the website completely. Unless you bought them individually from craftsy you can't get them. Also the teachers aren't answering questions as they used to, although since others in the class answer this might not be as big a problem.

There are lots of other topics on there. Cooking, sewing, drawing etc. so if you are interested in these it might be worth your while to do the subscription. I haven't decided whether I will renew.

I've found a lot of awesome classes with nationally-known teacher/quilters over on iQuilt.com. Bethanne Nemesh, Lisa Calle, Judi Madsen, Gina Perkes, Karen Stone, Weeks Ringle, Leni Wiener, Kathy McNeil, and many more. Once you purchase a class, it's yours forever and you can watch as many times as you want.