I have to show you this beautiful quilt. It is all done by hand and it has lots of beautiful embroidery and bead embellishments on it.
Here's the center...
Just look at all that detail.
Not surprisingly this quilt won Best of Show.
This is Mavis Rosbach of Quiltbird Studio. I took two classes from her, first "I did it on a Long arm" and "Buzz on Biz". The first class is pictured above. We learned to do a fun reverse applique. In the second class we learned the ins and outs of running your own longarm business. I would highly recommend taking her classes if you ever get the chance, they are fun and informative.
The other two classes that I took were with Dusty Farell
of Country Stitches. The first class was called "Bread and Butter Quilts". He taught us many free motion techniques and encouraged us to develop our own.
His classes are really fun and informative. We drew and then stitched on the machines.
Here is a peek at what I learned, more practice.
The top is mine. The Heat and Flames are what Dusty did. He was there for everyone and was gracious enough to give us all a sample of his stitching.
The second class I took with Dusty was "Radical Rulers" and it was a drawing class. We learned how to use rulers to make unique designs on quilts while quilting.
I would highly recommend taking a class from Dusty, because he is good at bringing out everyone's creativity. He also has some great videos on U Tube, check them out.
