{"id":1563,"date":"2010-01-29T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T05:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/29\/quilting-in-the-desert\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T10:45:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T18:45:56","slug":"quilting-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/29\/quilting-in-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Quilting in the Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in Phoenix right now, staying with a good friend and taking a couple of classes at a retreat called Quilting in the Desert. This is my third year doing that, and it’s such<\/i> fun! It’s put on by the same people who organize Quilt Camp in the Pines<\/a> each summer, and I’ve been going to that since 1998, so you have to know that I love it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

On Thursday I took another machine quilting class from Sharon Schamber<\/a>, who does amazingly gorgeous work. We worked on learning how to do micro stippling in some of the many styles she used in her award-winning Spirit of Mother Earth<\/i><\/a>. I don’t have a photo to show you of that, as I haven’t finished the sampler we began in that class.<\/p>\n

On Friday Melinda Bula<\/a> taught a class called “Renegade Thread Painting” — it was lots of fun. \ud83d\ude42 She loves to make floral quilts (among others) with lots of thread painting on them, so we made a sampler of some of the techniques she uses for that thread painting. Here is my version of the eight-section sampler:<\/p>\n

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As you can probably see, we wrote our names in thread, practiced swirls, and then moved on to embellishing flower shapes with thread. Below are a couple of close-ups of some of the samples.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> Here are some leaves with thread forming the spines and veins.<\/div>\n
<\/a> And here is a flower shape with echo quilting surrounding it.<\/div>\n
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It’s put on by the same people who organize Quilt Camp in the Pines each summer, and I’ve been going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[200,2],"class_list":{"0":"post-1563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-free-motion","8":"tag-classes","9":"tag-quilting","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_2584.jpg?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-pd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4972,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/21\/beginning-another-one\/","url_meta":{"origin":1563,"position":0},"title":"Beginning another one","author":"Sandy","date":"February 21, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Last summer I pieced a quilt top called Metropolis II by Heidi Pridemore, and that top has been \"marinating\" while I considered how I wanted to quilt it. 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