Time for my October update!
I recently realized that I've got one less month to hit my 2014 quilty resolution goal of getting my to-be-completed-classes down to a single digit count, as I'll be out of the country for most of December. Unlike other recent trips, I won't have access to WiFi to watch classes while I'm gone, either. So my overall goal has been adjusted some. I'd like to get at least two more classes done in November--which means I'll miss the single-digit goal by a couple of classes. But I'll still have made fantastic progress! (The upside to this is that once I get back from said overseas trip, I'm unlikely to feel up to much else besides sitting and watching Craftsy lesson videos for several days, so I may make great progress on classes then!)
New Completions
(+3)
- Pictures to Pixel Quilts with Carol Sheridan--see my full review here.
- Roasting Techniques Every Cook Should Know with Molly Stevens--see my full review here.
- Dot-to-Dot Quilting with Angela Walters--see my full review here. (See below under "Classes added this month" for more on this.)
Classes in Progress
(3)
- Continuous Line Quilting with Ann Petersen
- A Modern Take on the Mother Sauces with James Peterson (Apparently it's Petersen/son month in my house...)
- Travel Photography with Jad Davenport (see next section below)
Classes added this month
(+3)
- Machine Quilting: Small Changes, Big Variety with Angela Walters: This was on sale mid-month and I thought it would make yet another good addition to my collection of machine quilting classes and, perhaps, even my collection of Angela Walters classes. I may not get to focusing on these until the new year (I'm running out of 2014!) but I'm looking forward to some really intentional work time on my machine quilting skills.
- Dot-to-Dot Quilting with Angela Walters: Okay, may as well make the collection complete. I bought this one because one of my UFOs seems like it will lend itself perfectly to this technique. I've been stumped as to quilting designs for it, so I finally went ahead and bought this class that I've been looking at for awhile. But I also finished it right off the bat! (See the full story in my review.)
- Travel Photography with Jad Davenport: I got to the end of the month with no plans to purchase any more Craftsy classes this year when I got an email from Craftsy that told me I'd bought so many classes at this point I'm now considered a "top student" and they were gifting me a free class. That's one of those "good news/bad news" moments: Bad news that I've earned top ranking with Craftsy on the number of classes I've bought (sigh) but good news that yay! I've now got a free class! I perused for awhile and decided that this photography class would be the best purchase as I'm about to, you know, travel...and take pictures...and such. I watched the first couple of lessons right off, so I'm already on the way to finishing this one quickly. I picked up an excellent tip about travel tripods in the very first lesson so it's already been a worthwhile investment!
Classes To Be Completed
Current count: 16 (-1 from last month)
- 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
- 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: Small Changes, Big Variety 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
- Strip Your Stash with Nancy Smith
- Travel Photography with Jad Davenport
Completed Classes (all topics)
Current count: 39 (+3)
- 20 Essential Cooking Techniques with Brendan McDermott
- 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
- Cooking Essentials: All About Chicken with Marge Perry
- Designing Modern Quilts with Weeks Ringle
- Design It, Quilt It: Freeform Quilting Techniques with Cindy Needham
- Dot-to-Dot Quilting with Angela Walters
- 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
- Pictures to Pixel Quilts with Carol Sheridan
- Piece, Patch, Quilt: Basic Quiltmaking Skills with Gail Kessler
- Perfect Pizza at Home with Peter Reinhart
- Roasting Techniques Every Cook Should Know with Molly Stevens
- 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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