Wild Quilting is here!

Hello everyone! I landed late last night from QuiltCon and today I get to jump right into announcing my new class from Craftsy, Wild Quilting. Such an exciting quilting life!

First things first, I know some of you have been really excited for this one, so I have a link for my followers: click here to take the class for $20 off! 

I have to tell you, this is absolutely my favorite class I've done with Craftsy. It was my favorite class I taught at QuiltCon too. Maybe that's because I love wild, organic, unpredictable quilting so much. Or maybe because I know how many of you are aching to make your quilting more expressive and interesting. Either way, I'm so excited to see what you all do with it! 

If you look at complex quilting and don't know where to start, this is the class for you! As you probably already know I love making complicated things simple and straightforward, and that's exactly what I've done in the seven lessons of Wild Quilting. Let me give you the confidence to start doing more with your quilting.

First I show you individual techniques like the Grouped Combinations above, and then we work on putting them together into bigger compositions like this: 

Even if you don't want to use all the techniques together you can still use the individual techniques in your quilting to make unique, personal finishes for your quilts and projects.

I can't wait to hear what you think of it! Thanks for taking the time to read about it!! Happy Wild Quilting everyone!

A peek at my class! And a chance to take it free!

First I want to say, your responses to my last post really helped me. Thank you for all the wise words you shared in your comments and emails. I made a little document with my favorite line from each of your messages and it's the best pick-me-up.

NOW, as promised I'm back here lickety split because I get to show you little peeks into my upcoming class with Craftsy!

This is the best picture I have of what the Craftsy quilting studio looks like. There are so many lights. Three cameras. It feels very weird to be the person they are all pointing at. I'm perching on this chair that just barely allows my legs to slide under the table. I'm wearing socks (I prefer to sew with now shoes!). My producer was huddled in the corner behind so many monitors I couldn't even see her. It's so so different from doing an in-person class. It always makes me a little nervous and I stitch too fast. But I've done this two times before and I know that the classes come out fine even though there's things I wish I had done better. So here's what we worked on:

That's right, it's all Wild Quilting! I hope that looks fun and inspiring to you all! Because it is fun and inspiring to do, and you don't have to be great at FMQ to make beautiful designs. I'm not allowed to say exactly when the class goes live but trust me it's SOON. There's just barely time to do a giveaway!

Crafty likes to run their giveaways over on their site so if you want to enter click here:

http://www.craftsy.com/ext/ChristinaCameli_Giveaway

I'll come back when the class goes live to give you more details. I can't wait to see what you glorious creative souls do with it.

Interlude

You guys are so kind and caring. I've been pretty quiet on all my media channels for a while and I'm starting to get the loving "checking in" comments and emails. So, as much as there are pressing things that need doing I wanted to make an update.

I finished quilting my Star Baby quilt a while ago, dropped it like it was hot, and never even took a picture of it. I adore it. It's everything that's fascinating to me right now: wedges and "wild quilting". I want to hang it on the wall. Some quilting close ups:

If you have great attention to detail you may recognize that grey wall behind the quilt: I was just back at Craftsy shooting another class! I got to see a big old Denver snowstorm and everything. And they've really sped up their turnaround time so I probably won't even get to blog much before I'm back here telling you all about it. I hope it thrills you like it thrills me!

About my disappearance, I don't know what to say, and it's part of why I've been so quiet. I really like being able to be authentic with you, to talk about what's moving in my heart about life and art right now. And I feel like I have to be cautious, and not say anything that would be taken the wrong way by lawyers or something.

I will say that something I put my heart and soul into is failing, and it is a great sadness for my entire family. Things that I thought were true simply aren't true, and maybe they haven't ever been true. It feels like patches are falling away from my very being and I'm not sure whether I need to stitch them back there, or if they were covering up something important. Anyway, it's a common kind of tragedy and I'll survive it, and all the better for the reminder to never trust someone else's instincts over my own. But it does mean that I'll be struggling to find the time for the blog for a season or two.

Thanks for the concern and the love. Thanks for supporting my work, and thereby supporting my little family. Being a part of the quilting community is a great joy in my life and I'm extra grateful for it right now. In just a couple of weeks I'll be going to QuiltCon and hope to have lots of big hugs with you lovely peeps! Until then...happy stitching! Or even not-happy stitching if that's where you are. It's where I am sometimes, and the world is still a good place to be.