Wednesday
July 12th
2006

It’s coming! The Machine Quilting Workshop on CD

My Machine Quilting—Master the Basics class is quite popular, and I’ve often heard requests for a “take-it-home” version: a video, a book, or something of that nature. I’m pleased to announce the upcoming release of Machine Quilting—Master the Basics, a complete beginning machine quilting workshop on CD. Everything you need to know about learning to machine quilt is on the CD, just waiting for you to play it in your PC. Read the rest of this entry »

Creative procrastination pays off

I’ve started designing a new quilt, and it’s entirely out of my “normal” range of styles. It’s really outside a number of my boxes, so it’s been kind of interesting figuring out how to do it. It’s appliqué, which I don’t do a lot of because it takes too long by hand (and my hands don’t handle it very well these days anyway) and I’ve never liked the results doing it by machine. The quilt is in bright, clear colors, which I don’t do a lot of either. Some quilts just have to be made, though, so on we go.

To get to the point of all this, I’ve spent the last three days or so just looking at the stuff for this quilt on the table while really concentrating on some much needed web page maintenance instead of quilting (procrastinating, if the truth be told). I’ve puttered with the quilt a bit and thought about it a lot, but haven’t really done much except to try to cut the scalloped borders for it, and mess them up. I thought I was going to put the borders on before I did most of the appliqué, because that’s how it kind of needed to be done. I was able to fix the borders, but when it came time to move forward, I went back to my computer and worked on web pages some more. I knew what needed to be done, but for some reason I wasn’t ready to do it. Now, I don’t really have time to “not be ready” to move forward with this thing Read the rest of this entry »

Just for Weblog friends! Early access to Episode 3 of Driven to Quilt!

Driven To Quilt - The Podcast for Today's Quilter

Episode 3 of the Driven to Quilt Podcast will be released officially on July 10, but friends of the Quilt Epiphany Weblog (that’s you!) can listen early, by visiting your special Episode 3 preview page at Driven to Quilt. Return here to leave a comment and let me know how you like it!