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Hello My Quilting Friends! I've put up Episode #5 of the podcast today and I'm sharing all about teaching classes. I've taught many quilting classes over the years and while this is not really a big focus of mine anymore, I mostly just focus on teaching online, it is something I'm very passionate about.

I received this request from Suzanne on Instagram and she wrote:

"How do you prepare and plan to teach a class from prep to actual class time and then post-class?"

That's the question I'm answering today. If you'd like to make a suggestion for a future podcast episode please contact me at LeahDay.com/contact or you can send me a message on Instagram or Facebook. My handle for both is @Leahdayquilting.

It's time to piece our very last quilt block for the Machine Quilting Block Party this year! Our final block combines many units we've learned this year including a Square in a Square, Half Square Triangles, and Flying Geese to create a beautiful Sun Explosion quilt block.

The trickiest part of this Sun Explosion Block is the flying geese units that are expanded with little strips to create the side units. Make sure to watch the video above to see how I deal with the bright orange fabric shadowing through the light cream fabrics.

This is our last block for this year, but remember the party is starting right back up on January 1st, 2017! We have a new mystery quilt called Flower Festival to piece and quilt together month by month next year.

And speaking of next year's Quilt Along, our fabric materials list is up! Click here to check out the yardage needed for Flower Festival.

 It's our third week of the Tunic Challenge and I'm on the home stretch. Amy Johnson and I have been sewing along together for the past three weeks to push each other to make something for ourselves.

We both bought a copy of The Tunic Bible and this week we're cutting out the pieces of our tunics to sew next week.

I've had a lot of fun picking out my fabrics and deciding how to stitch my tunic up a notch. In the book, we have 12 necklines and 6 sleeves and 4 hems to choose from (not to mention 2 ways to fit and 3 different lengths), and if I extrapolate the different combinations, you could potentially create more than 288 different garments from this one pattern.

So that's it for this week. I hope you're having a great winter. Don't forget to check out our weekly podcast. These are so much fun and I don't know about you, but I love listening to podcasts while I'm quilting!