(If you're looking for the 2014 Quilty Resolutions Check-in Giveaway and Linky Party, click here.)
Dang, but I've got too many blog posts all backing up on each other right now! It's apparently either drought or downpour around here in terms of my blogging. Or, perhaps I should say, "blizzard or spring," which is far more apropos of the climate out my window.
In any case, it's pretty much time for the monthly update on my 2014 Quilty Resolutions goal of completing as many of my Craftsy classes as possible. I'm posting this now rather than waiting until the 31st because I have a lot of other stuff to get done this weekend--probably not including a Craftsy class, unfortunately.
I feel like I've had a lot of forward motion this month, but no actual completions. I'm re-ordering how I normally present these lists so that most recent stuff is on top.
By the way, before I get started, you may want to note that Craftsy is currently having a big sale on fabric and yarn right now, through Friday at midnight. Click on the banner on the right of this page to take you directly to the sale, though you can use any Craftsy link on this page and find the sale info once you're there.
Classes in Progress
Current count: 3
- Stupendous Stitching with Carol Ann Waugh--so dang close to done! In fact, so close that you might be getting another blog post in a couple of days with a finish. I debated going ahead and counting it as done anyway, but in the name of truly holding myself accountable, I can't quite bring myself to do that.
- Thread Art with Lola Jenkins--I haven't actually done a whole lot on this yet other than watching all the lessons awhile back and choosing what image I'm going to use, although I've had some further thoughts in the last couple of weeks about things I might do on the project. So, if "thinking about it" counts as progress...
- Beyond Basic Machine Quilting with Ann Petersen--still waffling between using some of my hand-dyes to make the basic wholecloth quilt project as she describes for this class, versus just pulling her designs and using them on a UFO. Her class designs might work well on my Rapid Fire Hunter's Star that's still waiting to be quilted, but I also think her class project would look great done with my hand-dyes. Waffle...waffle....
Classes added this month
Dang it. 1. I blame @nonnie_p.
- Design It, Quilt It: Freeform Quilting Techniques with Cindy Needham. Nonnie was tweeting away one afternoon a few weeks back about how much she loved Cindy Needham's classes and how much they'd helped her and gee, wasn't it great that her classes were on sale... "Dang you, Nonnie!" {shaking fist in air over head}
Completed Classes (all topics)
Current count: 20 (+0 from last month, but see comments about a near-completion above!)
- Complete Knife Skills with Brendan McDermott.
- Shoot It! A Product Photography Primer with Carol Sheridan
- Spindling from Fluff to Stuff with Drucilla Pettibone
- Machine Quilting with Wendy Butler Berns
- Artisan Bread Making with Peter Reinhart
- Secrets of Slow Cooking: Mastering the Braise with Molly Stephens
- Art Quilting 101 with Wendy Butler Berns
- Chain of Stars Mystery Quilt with Kimberly Einmo
- Color Play for Quilters with Joen Wolfrom
- Craftsy Block of the Month 2013 with Laura Nownes
- Creative Quilt Backs with Elizabeth Hartman
- Hand-Stitched Collage Quilts with Laura Wasilowski
- Magical Jelly Roll Quilts with Kimberly Einmo
- Pattern Free Quilt-making with Joe Cunningham
- Piece, Patch, Quilt: Basic Quiltmaking Skills with Gail Kessler
- QuiltCon Lecture Series 2013
- Scrap Quilting with Pepper Cory
- Stitch & Slash with Carol Ann Waugh
- The Art of Cloth Dyeing with Jane Dunnewold
- Know Your Wool with Deborah Robson
Classes To Be Completed
Current count: 17 (will change to 18 when I add my new class to this list...)
- Art Quilt Backgrounds: Beyond Log Cabin with Judith Trager
- Designing Modern Quilts with Weeks Ringle
- Fabric Patterning with Wax Resist with Malka Dubrawsky
- Finishing School: Edges and Bindings with Mimi Dietrich
- 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 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
- Strip Your Stash with Nancy Smith
- A Modern Take on the Mother Sauces with James Peterson
- Homestyle Pan Sauces with Martha Holmberg
- Perfect Pizza at Home with Peter Reinhart
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