February 2nd, 2012 by Judy Steward
April 19, 2012
I will be speaking at the Denton Quilt Guild April 19, 2012. They meet at “The Center for Visual Arts: at 400 E. Bell, Denton, TX.
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February 2nd, 2012 by Judy Steward
April 23, 2012
The Waxahachie Quilt Guild meets on the 4th Monday of the month at the Waxahachie Bible Church. I will be giving the lecture “Tips and Tricks” that evening at 7:30. This is a fun lecture where I bring all kinds of helpful items to show and explain how they can help us in our quilting endeavors. Since Waxahachie is just up the road from me my trunk will be full.
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During the lecture I show quilts that have been machine quilted. There are a variety of designs from traditional to art fillers. I demonstrate how I machine quilt on my home sewing machine. One of the favorite parts of the demo is how I get a large quilt under the machine and work with it.
Sometimes a quilt stumps us or we don’t have enough experience to know what a design will look like in an area of our quilts. This is a trunk show of my quilts that show the choices I made and how they do or don’t work as well as other options. I’ll go through traditional designs as well as my art quilt designs.
For the past 20 plus years I have experimented with many techniques and tools that have helped me make my quilts look the way I want them to. Some of the tools other quilters may have in their closet and they don’t know what it can be used for and some tools come from our kitchen or a number of other areas. There are a lot of fun tricks to make quilting fun and easy.
Lectures: $175
I currently do not have any scheduled workshops. If you would like to hold one for your organization, please contact Judy.
Would you like to know how to machine quilt your quilts on your home sewing machine? Freemotion machine quilting is a lot of fun and opens up the possibilities on how your quilt will look. In this class everyone will work on samples that are marked and ready to quilt. The techniques that will be practiced are Continuous Line quilting; Traditional Quilt designs; Stippling; Cross Hatching; Echo quilting, and other Background quilting. You will also learn about batting, threads, and needles. Come learn how to quilt any sized quilt from a small wall hanging to a king sized quilt. It can be done!
This class builds on the beginner class. You will be learning more designs that make great fillers in open areas of a quilt. They can be used in traditional as well as art quilts.
Pick one of the patterns that you would like to make and I will show you the tricks that make it an easy and fun quilt to make. In a full day class we can make the whole quilt top.
Workshops: 3 hours $250 6 hours $350