A Thread-aholic in Colorado

It has begun...

The Peep Tweets have started. Watch the Twitter tweets to see where these little guys show up in the quilt shop.  They've been behaving, thus far, however they've been known to get a little mischievous.

Shhh.... it's still under wraps!

A local designer has created this very cool quilt.  It uses five 1-yard cuts. It's still in the testing phase, but I've been told it's fun and fast! My kind of quilt.

Stay tuned.

The future generation...

While I wasn't here to see all the fun this afternoon, the girls (and Mr. Randy) held down the fort for Kids Klub. The next generation of sewists are getting pretty good!

Ms. Lorraine does a great job with the girls.

FMQ - Causing a commotion at the store

Saturday's Free Motion Commotion class was a blast. It was fun watching the atmosphere go from tense and stressed, to wow, maybe this isn't so hard after all.

Cyndi teaches FMQ with a common sense approach, starting basic, adding a little more knowledge as you go.  It was a great class.

Look for the next FMQ class coming in the next few months.  It's 2 1/2 hours well spent!!

Taking a beginner quilt class

I had been piecing quilts together for about 3 years, when someone suggested I take a beginner quilt class. Now, I don't know if they were saying my quilts were not very good, or if they just thought I had lots of potential to be a great quilter.  I'm opting for the latter.

So I took Cyndi McChesney's Beginner Quilt Skills Builder Class. Six weeks later, I had come to realize that yes, I do have the potential to be a great quilter, and yes, my prior quilts were less than the quality desired. The beauty of taking a class from a nationally renowned quilting instructor, is you learn tips and tricks, proper techniques, and you gain a whole new confidence in your abilities.

We are in the middle of the Winter beginner's class and I'm sure Cyndi will be scheduling another class soon.

Here are some pics from the currect class.

 

Eat your peas... learn your math!

In high school I had a strict math teacher, who repeatedly said, "You will use geometry the rest of your life... you must learn it!" I remember rolling my eyes. Thinking back, I wonder if she was a quilter...

Some pics from Monday night's "Intermediate Skills Builder" Quilt Class.