Summer's nearly over, and my fall's pretty busy so I'm hoping I can continue to make at least some progress on Craftsy classes. My goal is to whittle my "still to be completed" list to a single digit by Dec 31. Since I'm at the 3/4 mark for the year, I went back to my original post on this last year in December to see where I stood. At that point, I had 24 uncompleted classes. I now have 20. That wouldn't seem like I'd made a lot of progress, except...last December, I had completed 14 classes. This month, I have 33 completed classes. So I've definitely been completing far more than I've been adding. Yippee!
New Completions
(+ 4)
- Fire up the Fish with David Bonom. Click here for my full review (and my Mango Peach Salsa recipe).
- Thread Art with Lola Jenkins. Finally! Click here for my full review and class project pictures.
- Building Flavorful Soups with Peter Berley. Click here for my full review.
- Homemade Italian Pasta with Guiliano Hazan (See below: Review will be coming this week)
Classes in Progress
(2)
- Cooking Essentials: All About Chicken with Marge Perry (see "Classes added this month"--and, actually, this one's just about done too. Will probably have it done this coming week.)
- Designing Modern Quilts with Weeks Ringle. Confessional: I'd actually watched all the lessons in this one a long time ago, when I first bought this class. However, I was sewing at the same time and don't feel I paid close enough attention. So now I'm re-watching the lessons again. Not sure if I'll do any projects based on it, but Il will stay focused and take video notes and such to be sure I've actually learned from the class and haven't just had it on as background entertainment.
Classes added this month
(+5) (Ahem.)
This one has been in my wishlist for a long time. I picked it up on sale earlier this month:
- Continuous Line Quilting with Ann Petersen. I got so much out of her last class, how could I resist?
During a weekend away with my husband, we were once again talking about our mutual desire to be healthier and how we could help one another towards those goals. The fact of the matter is, most of the cooking now falls to me only because of our schedules. My husband enjoys cooking and cooks quite well, but as I work from home that means that during the average week it's just easier for me to do it. The other reality is, we eat a whole lot of chicken. We both like chicken and we like all our usual ways of doing it, but there's always room for improvement and new ideas. Therefore, during a huge Craftsy sale mid-month, I picked up these two additional classes:
- Cooking Essentials: All About Chicken with Marge Perry
- Roasting Techniques Every Cook Should Know with Molly Stevens. I enjoyed the last class I took with her, Secrets of Slow Cooking: Mastering the Braise with Molly Stephens, so I figure this one will be equally good!
And you've hopefully already read my blog post about this one:
- 20 Essential Cooking Techniques with Brendan McDermott
And, finally, for my birthday (see my blog post about this too):
- Homemade Italian Pasta with Guiliano Hazan
Classes To Be Completed
Current count: 20 (+3 from last month...oops; lost a little ground, there.)
- 20 Essential Cooking Techniques with Brendan McDermott
- A Modern Take on the Mother Sauces with James Peterson
- Art Quilt Backgrounds: Beyond Log Cabin with Judith Trager
- Continuous Line Quilting with Ann Petersen
- Cooking Essentials: All About Chicken with Marge Perry
- Designing Modern Quilts with Weeks Ringle
- Fabric Patterning with Wax Resist with Malka Dubrawsky
- Free Motion Fillers Vol 1 with Leah Day
- Free Motion Fillers Vol 2 with Leah Day
- Free Motion Quilting a Sampler with Leah Day
- Free Motion Machine Embroidery with Terry White
- Free-Motion Quilting with Feathers with Angela Walters
- Machine Quilting Negative Space with Angela Walters
- Machine Quilting the Home Sweet Home Quilt with Frieda Anderson
- Painted Pictorial Quilts with Annette Kennedy
- Pictorial Quilting Techniques with Wendy Butler Berns
- Pictures to Pixel Quilts with Carol Sheridan
- Roasting Techniques Every Cook Should Know with Molly Stevens
- Strip Your Stash with Nancy Smith
Completed Classes (all topics)
Current count: 33 (+4)
- Art Quilting 101 with Wendy Butler Berns
- (The) Art of Cloth Dyeing with Jane Dunnewold
- Artisan Bread Making with Peter Reinhart
- Basics of Digital Photography with Rick Allred
- Beyond Basic Machine Quilting with Ann Petersen
- Building Flavorful Soups with Peter Berley
- Chain of Stars Mystery Quilt with Kimberly Einmo
- Color Play for Quilters with Joen Wolfrom
- Complete Knife Skills with Brendan McDermott
- Craftsy Block of the Month 2013 with Laura Nownes
- Creative Photography: Capture Life Differently with George Lange
- Creative Quilt Backs with Elizabeth Hartman
- Creative Ways with Whole Grains with Anna Bullett
Design It, Quilt It: Freeform Quilting Techniques with Cindy Needham
- Finishing School: Edges and Bindings with Mimi Dietrich
- Fire up the Fish with David Bonom
- Hand-Stitched Collage Quilts with Laura Wasilowski
- Homemade Italian Pasta with Guiliano Hazan
- Homestyle Pan Sauces with Martha Holmberg
- Know Your Wool with Deborah Robson
- Machine Quilting with Wendy Butler Berns
- Magical Jelly Roll Quilts with Kimberly Einmo
- Pattern Free Quilt-making with Joe Cunningham
- Piece, Patch, Quilt: Basic Quiltmaking Skills with Gail Kessler
- Perfect Pizza at Home with Peter Reinhart
- QuiltCon Lecture Series 2013
- Scrap Quilting with Pepper Cory
- Secrets of Slow Cooking: Mastering the Braise with Molly Stephens
- Shoot It! A Product Photography Primer with Carol Sheridan
- Spindling from Fluff to Stuff with Drucilla Pettibone
- Stitch & Slash with Carol Ann Waugh
- Stupendous Stitching with Carol Ann Waugh
- Thread Art with Lola Jenkins
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