I attended three lectures yesterday and one today at the Virtual Houston International Quilt Festival 😊
The first one was called "Twenty Tips and Tricks for Better Machine Quilting" by Cindy Seitz-Krug. It was SO good! She really had a lot of good tips, some of which I knew or had heard before but a lot were new. You can read more about her on her website:
https://quintessentialquilting.com
A couple of tips she talked about (as shown in these pictures) are making sure you're using the proper machine quilting foot for your project - some work better with different types of projects, batting etc. than others and she gave a lot of examples. Another tip, for invisible thread, she uses a tomato paste can and sets the thread in it beside her machine, and then tapes a safety pin thread guide on her machine to thread the invisible thread through before threading the machine. She has a DVD on her website with 30 Tips and Tricks for Better Machine Quilting. Very informative lecture!
The next lecture was "Quilt Any Design with Six Basic Shapes" by RaNae Merrill.
This lecture didn't interest me quite as much. It felt like it was more for very beginners and she did some quilting "yoga", which I wasn't really getting into 😂, but I'm sure it was really helpful for some.
The final lecture yesterday was "Sensational Quilts for Scrap Lovers" by Judy Gauthier. This one was really good as well! So good in fact that I didn't capture any screen shots! She has three books out - the most recent is the same title as the lecture. Here is a link to a spotlight on her (she owns a quilt shop in Wisconsin):
https://createwhimsy.com/projects/spotlight-judy-gauthier-quilter-author-and-store-owner/
I have a lot of fabric! She gave a lot of good tips to make some fun quilts to start using it up!
Today's lecture was by one of my favorite quilters Sue Nickels. It was called "Machine Quilting for Today's Quilts". I took a class from her several years ago when she came to Grand Junction and what an amazing teacher! She's just great, and so talented. Here are a few screen shots from her lecture. She gave a little history of machine quilting, which was quite interesting, then shared a history of her quilting and machine quilting. She has traveled the world teaching and done several cruises. The picture below shows the Titanic Museum in Belfast, where I hope to go some day! 😊
She of course had to talk about the famous Beatles quilt, which is not in possession of the The National Quilt Museum in Paducah, as it won a purchase prize. She is teaching ruler classes now for machine quilting and has designed her own set of rulers. You can read more about Sue here:
Great lecture - she's just a lot of fun!
I thought I would be safe from the Vendor Mall at this Virtual Quilt Festival but dang! Some of the vendors posted VIDEOS, which then led me to websites! Ah! Needless to say, I have some stuff from Cherrywood Fabrics coming my way! 😂
https://cherrywoodfabrics.bigcartel.com
There I posted the link, now you may go look too!
Oh well, we need to support our quilt businesses... right??
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