email Youtube

Home
Galleries
Blog
Workshops & Calendar
Store
Resources
About
Contact

Intro to Machine Quilting at Maine-ly Sewing

We had a great class last Saturday, a rainy, chilly day here in mid-Coast Maine. We had six students, which is one more than we usually have in the class (small room), but it worked really well. As usual, the first half of the class is lecture…my trying to take what I’ve learned here and there over 18 years and share it with the class so their learning curve will be shorter than mine!

Everyone did really well, and I can tell that there are several awesome machine quilters in the making. We had ladies from north of Nobleboro (where the shop is located) all the way down to Brunswick (maybe 30 minutes north of Portland) and in from Vinalhaven, an island off the coast on the outer edge of Penobscot Bay. Sally kindly let me take this picture of her:

She did the cool thing with her circle, too…. in the classes, I start the students with the walking foot on and have them stitch a grid to make a free-motion sampler on one sandwich. On another sandwich, I have them learn to eyeball sewing on the diagonal across blocks (it’s magic…you actually sew right through the intersection without trying…have no idea how it woroks, but it does for virtually everyone the first time! anyway…), then have them sew a circle trying to get the start and finish to match and, finally, to use the presser foot to make a line parallel to the first circle. Then Sally went to town:


I’ve got some more classes coming up (yeah!) –another intro to machine quilting on Oct. 15 (a Sunday), a Postcards workshop on Oct. 21, both at Maine-ly Sewing in Nobleboro, and the machine quilting at Cote Brothers in Auburn on the 28th.

Comments are closed.