Well we heard back from the committee on our class (my girlfriend and I submitted a proposal to teach at our guild retreat). They did not want the finish in a day mystery class and finish it for the next day. Instead I am back to the drawing board doing an intermediate instead of beginner/ intermediate mystery class at least twin size in 2 days with no finishing class. Have a couple of weeks to redesign it and resubmit the proposal.
Was disappointed but back to the eq board. Although I have done some teaching individually and within our satellite group this was a out on the line thing for me. I designed the quilt, wrote up the instructions and submitted the proposal. My girlfriend and I have tested the quilt already and had 2 others set up to test it to tell us their times. We figured it could be a baby quilt, wallhanging or with a couple of borders we were giving them to finish on their own a generous lap quilt. The second day was what we were most excited about. Instead of just practicing on squares we were having people continuous line quilt the quilt and finish the thing that day. Then we were going to teach a couple of binding techniques such as continuous double prairie points or scallops that people don't always get exposed to. We had several people excited about finishing a project on the weekend especially since they had practiced machine quilting on small squares and just needed someone to hold their hand and teach them to start and finish a small quilt. So guess we will have to approach one of the lqs to see if they want to go for it (which I suspect at least one will give us a chance). So it goes.
We were just hoping this would work out the first time but no. So back to the drawing board and figure out the last few borders and make a few more samples. The class isn't until June but we would need to have everything to the commitee in a couple of weeks, to the guild meeting in January, requirements etc to the committee by March at the latest. So doable but have to learn a few more tricks on EQ. So off to the manual again.
Knew it wouldn't be that easy! Was going too smoothly.
Kelly in BC