Gracye Beaman is the store owner for The Sewing Garrett, a Babylock, Brother and Janome dealer in Daytona Beach, FL. Gracye saw an article about me in the Fab Shop Network news and gave me a call and the rest, as they say, is history! We got together in Houston Market this year and had a great time getting to know each other. Gracye is a saavy businesswoman and I really enjoyed getting to know her. She saw all my various products and designs at Market, chose her selection of Lollipops Designer Bindings and scheduled me for a class! By December, I made the short trip down to Daytona from Jacksonville and we got going on a great day!
I had the priviledge of working on the new Ellegante while at Gracye's, whose store is massive with tall, spacious ceilings and lots of floor space! Perfect for a class setting, the girls would gather around when it was time for a demonstration and boty did they learn about their machines in my class!We were working on the Bias Baseball Pillow Project, which utilizes my bias binding to piece together the curves of a modified Drunkard's Path. We jumped right into the project and I PROMISED them everyone would finish it all in one day and have a take home to show off to their hubbies! (uh...they did NOT believe me, btw)
The list of learning is large in this project - after piecing the basic block, the girls then had to STIPPLE - free motion quilt...well did I ever create a fervor with that choice! Many, many women fear stippling because you have to quilt free motion - you have to 'color outside the lines' so to speak - but with the use of some great quilting gloves and a short lesson, they were absolute champions! Well, save one...who became the Teacher's Pet as you can see here - I am doing it for her!Teachers Note: You could also embroider the center of the circle rather than stipple.
I am telling you, they were tired at the end of the day with all this concentrati
on! but look at this beautiful result!Thanks so much ladies, and hope to see you again real soon!
You can see the entire web album at
http://picasaweb.google.com/PopsBindings/TheSewingGarrett#
