Last weekend I traveled with three friends to St. George, Utah to take a class from Marilyn Badger. The class as well as the company were great. I learned that free motion stitching following a line is a lot more difficult then free motion following an idea.
As a love of the stitch, especially free motion, I have found that I needed to learn how to draw to increase my ability to get the effects wanted for my work. The community college offered a Drawing one class which meets fours days a week, four hours a day for six weeks. What a wonderful intense experience. The instructor offers a variety of ways to improve skills and also generously offers class critiques for improvement. I feel like I am growing by leaps and bounds. It is like taking a six week intensive workshop and all for a minimum cost. My drawing skills are better than I thought they would be and not as good as I would like then to be. They are improving daily ;-)
Here are some samples of work completed in week two and three.
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