Quilting
Starting next Thursday, I’m about to embark on another crafty adventure. I signed up for Quilter’s University at my local quilt shop. It’s a series of four classes teaching the basics of quilting.
I’m excited about it for a couple of reasons… first of all, the class is at 5:30 pm on Thursday evenings. That means that I have to leave work at 5 to make it to class on time. It’s a sad state of affairs when I have to schedule an appointment in order to get myself out of the office at a reasonable hour, but that’s just how things are these days. I’ve been wanting to learn to quilt for quite a while too, and hopefully this will be a good way to get started. Ultimately, my goal is to make a modern quilt for my bedroom.
When I signed up for the class, I also bought The Quilter’s Ultimate Visual Guide.
I’ve been browsing through it, and it looks like a great book. Like the reviews on Amazon say, it seems to cover just about everything quilt related. I don’t really like that it doesn’t cover everything in the order that the quilting is actually done though. The book is organized alphabetically, which is a bit odd. Isn’t that what the index is for? I’d like to find more of a step-by-step guide to quilting as well. Any suggestions?
My first class is next Thursday, and I’ll be sure to post an update on how it goes.
