Two half day classes utilizing the same pattern:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whimsical Lollipop Flower Block: Hand Reverse Applique With App<\/strong>, a handwork class on Friday Night (5069C) and on Saturday Night, Lollipop Garden Quilt, Flower Block <\/strong> (6068C) which is a machine reverse applique class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And an all-day class, 6025C \u2013 Appassionata: Machine Reverse Appliqu\u00e9<\/strong> on Saturday <\/p>\n\n\n\n Margaret\nWillingham has been a quilter for 25 years, although she started sewing when\nshe was 10 years old. As she says, the only differences are \u201cthe seam\nallowances are narrower, and you iron them differently.\u201d Margaret \u201cproperly\u201d started\nquilting, when she joined a quilt group at her church in Aurora, Colorado. She learned\nby watching and asking questions. lf she liked a pattern, she would read it and\nfigure it out, usually changing it around to make it her way. She considers\nherself \u201cbasically self-taught with some help from my friends.\u201d Margaret never\ntook a workshop herself until she got a longarm sewing machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Margaret\nWillingham taught dance for 40 years. She compares quilting to dance: they are\nboth about foundational techniques. \u201clf you have those foundational skills,\neverything else is just patterns, and how you apply those techniques.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The most\ninfluential person on Margaret\u2019s quilting journey was Mary Wiens who lead the\nquilting group at her church where Margaret started. Margaret said that Mary \u201cwas\nvery experienced and always encouraging. Her most negative comment was, \u2018You\ncould do that, if you wanted to.\u2019\u201d Quilting for Mary was all about fun,\nenjoyment and fellowship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Foundational books that she still owns and uses include Quilts! Quilts! Quilts! The Complete Guide to Quiltmaking <\/em>by Diana McClun and Laura Nownes<\/a>. (former featured artists at Road to California) and The Quilter’s Pocket Reference An Easy Guide to Yardage and More<\/em> by Peggy Scholley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Margaret has learned various methods for hand applique, including needle, and is inspired by the work of hand quilters on Facebook, like Andrea Stracke<\/a> and Elsie Campbell<\/a>, and the Broderie Perse of Cynthia Collier<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Margaret has\nbasically two work areas at home. Upstairs, she has her regular chair in the\nfamily room where she does her hand stitching and hand quilting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Her studio space downstairs in an unfinished basement. It’s unfinished, because as her business has grown, there are no walls in her way. She has her sewing machine, a drawing table, cutting table, a dresser and cabinet for fabric, drawers and racks for thread, her “new” longarm (they are still getting acquainted), iron and the like, and lots of shelves. As her business grows, she just reinvents her layout and storage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Margaret Willingham has been teaching quilting classes for 20 years and teaching hand and machine reverse applique and paper-piecing for 8 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She loves\ndemystifying reverse applique and seeing her student’s lightbulb go off! Margaret says, \u201cEverybody thinks it’s so hard\nand that they can’t do it. All day long in my booth I hear, \u2018The patterns are\nso beautiful. lt’s too hard. I can’t do it.\u2019 And it simply isn’t true! lt takes\ntime, like anything in quilting, and it will take some practice, but it isn’t\nhard. Reverse applique has a beauty that draws you in and has a big WOW factor\nfor the time spent! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Margaret\nhopes her students at Road will enjoy their journey: a journey of excellence,\nnot perfection; a journey of joy. She thinks it’s an honor to be involved in\nsuch a prestigious show like Road to California as it celebrates its silver anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MW-Whimisical-Lollipop-Flower-Block-Photo-1.jpg\")
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