Back
sometime in Jan or Feb, I signed up for a class with DeLoa Jones, a longarm
quilt instructor from Michigan. Here is her Bio: http://www.deloasquiltshop.com/bio/bio.html
She
actually offered several classes on different subjects during her visit here in
Florida, and
it was the Borders class that I enrolled in.
DeLoa and her husband Dave had set up four longarm machines on two
frames in the LQS classroom and there were only 8 people in the class so the
instruction was very personal. There
were various levels of abilities in the room and l was lucky to be paired up
with a relatively new longarmer (like me!) - we were 2 people to a longarm machine and that was nice.
The two on the machine next to us were very experienced quilters and
their work was quite different from ours, but we got the most bang for our
buck, so to speak. It was great fun.
This
was the classroom setup:
And
these are some of the samples and what we practiced. These are DeLoa’s works, not ours – lol…
And
this is a row of ours – see the difference to DeLoa’s – I guess we need
practice! Of course, it didn’t help that
we were on a new-to-us machine and it went w-a-y too fast for use to accurately
control it.
Some
more of DeLoa’s free motion work that I liked:
And
this is a close-up of one of DeLoa’s famous chickens – with free-hand thread
painting:
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| oops - he's sideways! sorry ... |
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| This one's right side up - and yes, those are crystals all over! |
The
entire quilt was these fancy chickens!
It was fabulous, but didn’t show up well on my goofy little camera. Oh well.
Check
out this YouTube on ideas Deloa had for easy Block designs. I wish I’d have remembered some of these
techniques when I did Beth’s quilts (in a previous post), but sometimes things
go in one ear and out the other. I’ll
have to remember to get out of my rut and use some of my new found skills!
1 comment:
I took a class with her once on scrap management. If she didn't know what else to do she made 9-patch blocks from her 1 1/2 inch scraps and unbleached muslin and set them aside till she needed cornerstones for a scrap top. She must have told us more, but that is what I remember. I didn't know her specialty was quilting until several years later she spoke at our guild. I would think her quilting class would be quite interesting.
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