Who is your quilting guru?
04-25-2014, 05:50 AM
#41
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Broadway, Shenandoah Valley, VA
Posts: 478
My quilting guru is Jan from VA who is on this board. I recommend you have a workshop with her in your area. She'll be presenting her workshop in Broadway, VA next Saturday. Look her up on this board.
04-25-2014, 06:51 AM
#43
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Idaho wilderness area
Posts: 373
Cindy Needham. I took her craftsy machine quilting class and learned more than I have from any other online class. I learned to use my imagination from her. I live in an area that personnel classes are not available. I learned feathers from Kimmy Brunner CD. She made it so easy. Piecing, I taught myself but it was machine quilting on my Juki that I wanted to learn all about. Sharon Schambers was the first online class I ever took. She is amazing but Cindy Needham still is the best instructor I ever had. She taught how to look at the quilt and to divide and conquer the quilting spaces and still let the piecing of the quilt do the talking.
04-25-2014, 07:09 AM
#45
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Central Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
Posts: 7,695
I have found a few episodes of EB, where did you find all of the please?
04-25-2014, 08:12 AM
#48
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: North-Central Indiana
Posts: 4,909
Why doesn't a 2" circle fit in a 2" square? I'll lay out a pattern for quilting, measure the area, and 5 2" circles should fit a 10" piece of fabric. They never do. I'm laying out the circles in Adobe Illustrator which is accurate for measurements, checking the printer that it's printing at 100% and the circles are never even. I expect a slight difference where you can futz the start or end, but there shouldn't be a 1/4 +" overlap unless every ruler I own - including carpenter's retractable measures are off.
As to not liking videos, I can't print a page I can use for reference and add my own observations and notes.
As to not liking videos, I can't print a page I can use for reference and add my own observations and notes.
04-25-2014, 08:32 AM
#49
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Twin Falls, ID
Posts: 1,409
I have never taken a quilting class where I didn't learn something. Sometimes it's little things and sometimes it's big things. Everybody seems to have their own way of doing things and I love to see how other people do things.
04-25-2014, 09:44 AM
#50
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Lowell, MA
Posts: 14,083
When I had to start working full time, I had to stop attending the local Quilt Guild. However, while I was a member, I was able to take instructions from Helen Weineman, Heartbeat Quilts, Charlotte Warr Anderson (I hope I have the name right, it was a long time ago, another applique quilt teacher who specialized in ribbon roses, who informed me that I should have told her I was left-handed (I'm not, but apparently I sew left-handed), plus a few well-known quilt teachers. I also attended a quilted vest class with Carol Doak, the queen of paper piecing; but I have the fondest memory of attending a New England Quilt Guild Convention where the guest speakers were Mary Ellen Hopkins and Kaye England. Mary Ellen was a hoot and had the entire audience laughing, plus I got to see some of her quilts from her books. I was sorry to hear of her passing last year. The very, very first quilt show on PBS was with Georgia Bonesteel, then Simply Quilts with Alex Anderson and a few shows by Fons and Porter, but I have to say my favorite go -to quilt instructor is Jenny from MSQ. Jenny is funny, intelligent, knows a lot about quilting and most of all has the ability to simplify quilt instructions so we can make quilts quickly, without sacrificing quality. I probably gave you more of an answer that you may have wanted, but all those quilters have attracted me to quilting early on and have kept me interested and motivated in exploring my quilting passion for nearly 30 years. There have been others as well, but today my go-to quilt teacher would have to be Jenny from MSQC.
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