Warning: If you are allergic to mismatched seams, break out in hives when piecing with an inaccurate seam allowance, or want to throw up whenever you hear the words "improvisational piecing" this Slash Star might be hazardous to your
health.
Or maybe you just need to lighten up a bit!
By now we've learned all the rules of piecing and it's time to break them all as we slash a stack of fabric, piece it back together, and accept our seams wherever they end up. This type of piecing is fun and free form, much like free motion quilting, but no, it will not be perfect, no matter how hard you try.
Last week I decided it was time to pick a new goddess design and start working. I took a drawing with me to meditation and during one session, stared at the picture and studied the lines. A few were still
irritating me, so I made some adjustments when I got home and ended up with this:I still don't have a solid name for this girl other than Dream Goddess. The basic idea she represents is this: dreams
and desires can create reality - the landscape. For years in high school and college I dwelled on the idea of owning a creative business, of supporting myself and my family with what I could create.
Free Motion Quilting with Feathers
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Have you found yourself staring at quilts filled with feathers and found yourself filled with longing to learn how to quilt them? Well stop waiting and get feathering by joining in Angela Walter's
excellent Free Motion Quilting with Feathers class.
In this class you will learn how to start your feather, form the shape so it's angled properly and perfectly round and plump, then travel up to the next so they stack together just right.
You'll also learn loads of variations - adding echoes, swirls, leaf shapes, and even
changing the feather shape for a fern shape. All these many possibilities are simple variations of a basic feather. Once you learn the basic feather, you will be able to stitch so many other interesting designs.
 Of course, Angela is best known for being a longarm quilter, and she does show you how to fill feathers on her longarm machine. But all of
these designs are first demonstrated on a regular home sewing machine too.
I certainly remember my first frustrating attempts to master these designs. I seriously struggled because I was just looking at pictures in books and trying to discover the trick to perfectly formed feathers. Being able to get a solid visual guide for these designs is so essential, and Angela's class is the perfect place to start.
Check out Free Motion Quilting with Feathers today and save 25% on this class.
Announcing Our New Cookbook
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If you've been following our blog for any length of time, you'll know we are fond of home cooking and love to share our recipes with you. Currently, our recipes are not organized at
all--there is a messy stack in a kitchen drawer, with no rhyme or reason to the order.
The recipes range from handwritten pages, to computer printouts, to index cards we scribbled on nearly ten years ago, to ancient onionskin family recipes that date back centuries preserved in museum-grade
laminate (kidding). The recipes clearly show use with rough edges, tears, and food and oil stains.
Some time ago we decided we needed to get organized. It just wasn't efficient digging through a hundred or more pages to find the recipe we needed. Ultimately, this need to declutter and organize our recipe system led to the idea of writing a cook book.
Until next time, let's go cook!
Leah
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