We're entering the dog days of summer and Craftsy is celebrating with one of the biggest sales of the year! All classes are 50% off!
Click here to check out Craftsy's sale now
Craftsy is a terrific craft educational website filled with over 80 awesome quilting classes covering everything from foundation paper piecing to dyeing fabric to free motion quilting.
When you purchase a Craftsy class, you are purchasing lifetime access to that class so you can watch the lessons today, next week, next year - no matter when you have time you can jump in
and start watching and follow the directions at your own pace. This is a great time to stock up on classes to inspire you through the fall and winter. Here's a few that I've been enjoying this month: Creative Quilting with your Walking Foot - The teacher Jacquie Gering has studied machine quilting with a walking foot for years and is able to push the boundaries of what you might think this foot can do. She also goes into wonderful detail on putting a walking foot
on your machine, using guides, and picking your stitch length. After watching a few lessons of this class I really felt like kicking myself. I've been so focused on free motion quilting, that I haven't touched a walking foot in years. Jacquie's class has definitely inspired me to pull it out again and give these new ideas a try!
Building Blocks Quilt Along
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Now that we are in August, we're slowing the pace back down on our Quilt Along, which means we'll be going back to showcasing my blocks on Mondays and Josh will follow on Tuesday.
So we begin the month with instructions on piecing
our new block, the Home Sweet Home Block And below is our first design in the House block series, Straight Lines.
Josh did things a little differently. The sheer volume of straight lines put him off, so he mixed up the design a little bit. You can watch his progress here and see his interpretation of Straight Lines.
What Does Creativity Look Like?
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Fairly recently, I was in a class with several women who seemed to define creativity as a glass that was so nearly empty, they needed to fight over the last drops. You might have taken a class like this too where the
teacher seemed threatened by her students, and the students threatened by one another. It was uncomfortable and unsettling to say the least.That idea of a glass mostly empty made me ask - how do I see creativity? Why does this "empty glass" point of view feel so foreign to me?It made me realize that I see creativity as far more than just a glass totally full. I see it as a
never-ending torrent of pure energy. There is enough for EVERYONE. It will NEVER run out. One person's expression does not dim another person because there is ENOUGH for everyone.
Click here to read the rest of my story.
I like visualizing the sun as the source of all creativity because it's powerful and nourishing, and there is ENOUGH for everyone. The sun inspires the natural creativity of plants to grow and flowers to bloom. Its pure creative power is responsible for life on Earth and our
success as a species. What is more creative than the sun?
What I also love about this sun metaphor is we can all be warmed by it - there is enough for everyone. It will never run out, it can never be patented, trade marked, copy written, or monopolized, and it's the most dependable thing in our world.
So how do you see creativity? Is this a comforting idea to you, or does it scare you? Feel free to share your feelings in the comments section of this post.
That's it for this week! Just a heads up - next week is the 5th Anniversary of the Free Motion Quilting Project so be on the look out for next week's newsletter for news on how we're celebrating.
And don't miss
out on this big Craftsy sale - they rarely put ALL classes on sale so this is a great time to stock up on all you wish to learn through the fall and winter!
Let's go quilt,Leah Day |
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