Class with Velda Newman

This is supposed to be a basket. I did the stitching yesterday and then slapped some paint on today. I may add a little more color here at home but I liked it a lot! It was very, very simple!

Here is Velda near the end of the second day and I think she is tired and I know the rest of us are!

Wow is all I can say!! I am so glad that I had the opportunity to take these two one day classes with this talented woman. The first day dealt with different easy machine techniques to give your quilts more texture and dimension. These were very easy techniques and didn't require any special machine feet or somersaults! They are all described in her book A Workshop with Velda Newman published by C & T. The class was well paced and we were never bored or overwhelmed and we were at all different levels.

This was Velda's sample of the tulip that we began on day one and finished on day two. Even though you could do a project over two days, you absolutely didn't have to.

This was another of the projects that we did the first day and could work on the second day. The lemons have a lot of texture but not too easy to see in this picture.

I took my Brother Pacesetter machine (which I have used so infrequently that I had to read the manual to figure out how to wind the bobbin -- pretty sad) and it worked just fine even for doing a little freehand machine work. I was happy about that as I didn't want to drag the Bernina out of its happy home in my sewing room and the old Bernina now lives at the beach.

Luckily Priscilla was at my side to rescue me with all the things I had forgotten for the class! We both agreed it was a class that far exceeded our expectations.

Here is the peach I did today in class!

And here are my two apples -- both of which I did the one thing she said not to do!! I am a slow learner. It was fun anyway and they will look great on a tote bag (they are about a foot across as is the peach).

Here are my tulip petals loosely arranged kind of in the shape of a tulip. They are also about a foot to 18 inches across!

These are Janet's petals and really looked like a parrot tulip to me -- they were my favorite!

I must say I really liked Christy's as well!