{"id":1304,"date":"2014-01-19T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/19\/great-class\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:58:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:58:23","slug":"great-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/19\/great-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Great class!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday I was lucky enough to have been able to take a free-motion quilting class from Cindy Needham<\/a>. She’s most famous for her quilts made from old linens, and we saw lots of those at Thursday evening’s guild meeting \u2014 they’re drop-dead gorgeous<\/i>! But linens aren’t something I have hanging around my little house, and I’m always interested in learning more techniques in machine quilting, so that’s what I opted to take.<\/p>\n

The class was wonderful, and all the more so because it was a small group, so we had plenty of individualized attention from Cindy. \ud83d\ude42 She brought dozens and dozens of spools of different threads from the Superior<\/a> company, whose threads and needles are definitely among my favorites. She also provided a quilt sandwich for us to practice on, so we we able to make our own attempts at what she was showing us.<\/p>\n

We spent the morning working on different feathered motifs, a few of which you can see in this photo of half of my sample sandwich:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Feathers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The afternoon dealt with background filler motifs, and I’ve barely begun adding some of those in this photo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Feathers and backgrounds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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In this last photo, you can probably see the difference it makes when the backgrounds are added. Those feathers really pop out when the background is “mashed down”. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Contrasting feathers with and without background quilting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I’m having such fun deciding which background to put in various areas and watching the feathers come to life!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday I was lucky enough to have been able to take a free-motion quilting class from Cindy Needham. She’s most famous for her quilts made from old linens, and we saw lots of those at Thursday evening’s guild meeting \u2014 they’re drop-dead gorgeous! 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