Video: Quilting to Add Color to a Free Motion Quilted Doodle

 Wow! I've gotten so busy lately. Where does the time go? I taught my first official (read: paid) class in free motion quilting and while I may have gotten tongue-tied a time or two (why must bobbin and bottom trip me up so badly?) and my face stayed beet red the entire time, it went well I think. My students were the sweetest group of friends on their annual quilting retreat. For their benefit (and yours) I will be posting a list of my favorite books for free motion quilting no later than Saturday, I promise!

I got the quilting done on one side of my latest purse commission and it's going better than expected.

I even took a video of me stitching one of the leaves on the other side. It was my first video shot in my new quilting studio and all worked out fine, but I need to find a better position for the camera mount.

A close up shot of one of the flowers.

 Another of a leaf.

A shot of the leaf right after shooting the video.

It's been a good kind of busy at least. I've got the purses to stitch for my wonderful friend and neighbor, two custome quilts to quilt, a special commissioned quilt to make from scratch (Eek!), and a few other irons in the fire.

It's also birthday season here. A birthday every month from September until March, counting the all important to us birthday celebration of Christ. Below is my first-born, Jamie blowing out all of his nine candles! Cake baking is not my forte, so I gladly accept my mother's offer to bring the cake for the kids' parties.

I hope that you've been busy as well, with good things and hopefully some quilty goodness. I'm linking this post with Nina Marie's Off the Wall Friday and Leah Day's Free Motion Friday link parties. Go visit and enjoy!