{"id":8131,"date":"2020-12-31T20:32:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T04:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=8131"},"modified":"2020-12-31T20:32:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T04:32:33","slug":"meet-roadhome-teacher-kathleen-riggins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/31\/meet-roadhome-teacher-kathleen-riggins\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Road@Home Teacher Kathleen Riggins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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During Road@Home<\/a>, Kathleen Riggins<\/a> will be teaching 3 Longarm Quilting Classes, each from 1:30 – 4:30 PM: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday, W129 \u2013 Swirls Intensive<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Thursday, T124 \u2013 Feathers For Modern Quilts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Friday, F134 \u2013 Creating Contrast With Free Motion Quilting<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And a Longarm Lecture Class on Saturday from 8:00 – 9:00 AM:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SL08 \u2013 Free Motion Mix Tape<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quilting is in Her Blood!!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Canadian, Kathleen Riggens, comes from a long line of quilters. Her mom, grandma, great-grandma, and great-great-grandma all quilted. Consequently, Kathleen learned all about quilting at a very young age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When she was first starting out, Kathleen learned how to quilt using her mom\u2019s sewing machine. With all her practicing, Kathleen got to know every decorative stitch on that machine really well. Imagine Kathleen\u2019s surprise when she realized that Santa\u2019s workshop used the very same machine as her mother\u2019s as Santa left one just like it for Kathleen under the Christmas tree!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Free Motion Quilting<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathleen Riggins started free motion quilting when she was about 13 with a phone call to her mom at work: \u201cMom, how do you free motion quilt?\u201dHer mom replied, \u201cYou drop the feed dogs and pretend the needle is a pencil.\u201d And that\u2019s exactly what Kathleen did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathleen always liked free motion quilting. When she lived in England after University for a while, she worked at a quilt store there and did a lot of free motion quilting for them\u2014that\u2019s when she \u201creally got into it.\u201d When Kathleen returned to Canada, she kept quilting, taking lots of classes and practicing pretty much nonstop to bring her to her expertise level she enjoys today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathleen\u2019s longarm machine occupied her family\u2019s dining room until just recently when her family moved to a larger home. Today, her longarm is in a spare room in her basement. It\u2019s great having a dedicated space for her machine, but Kathleen says she does miss the natural light found in her old living room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Favorite quilting tools for Kathleen are rulers and thread. Kathleen commented, \u201cI love thread so much, and love to use a million colours of threads in a quilt. I also love quilting rulers, particularly straight ones. The ones from The Quilted Pineapple are my favourite.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lessons from COVID-19<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quilting has taken a back seat for Kathleen Riggins since the beginning of the pandemic. Instead, family time has been her number one priority. Kathleen has a toddler who is 20 months old. She is expecting her second son soon after Road@Home is over which means she has spent most of the lockdown \u201csleeping, puking, or playing with my toddler.\u201d She has gotten into hand embroidery \u201cwhich has been lots of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patience with herself<\/strong> has been Kathleen\u2019s biggest learning experience during COVID-19. She regrets that she hasn\u2019t actually quilted anything on her longarm since the end of June. She says that her \u201cday job has been extra busy, parenting a toddler, and being pregnant has just meant that the last thing I want to do after kiddo\u2019s go to bed is go back to work, so I\u2019ve been letting myself not. I\u2019ve actually had time to do what I want for the first time in about 7 years. Unfortunately, it seems that most of what I want is to sleep, but it\u2019s been really nice to give myself the time to do that.\u201d    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching During Road@Home<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathleen Riggins has been teaching classes for around 20 years. She began teaching kid\u2019s sewing classes in her family\u2019s quilt store when she was just 11 years old!!. So, for most of her life, she has been involved in teaching. Kathleen started teaching free motion quilting classes when she was in England in 2011\/2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching virtually is also not new to Kathleen Riggins. She has already been doing it for years and feels that she\u2019s gotten a pretty good system down. The hardest part of teaching virtually, Kathleen feels, \u201cis not being able to see when students are struggling.\u201d But she adds, \u201cHopefully they will let me know! I\u2019ll also be 8 months pregnant, so I\u2019ll be extra glad to not be travelling to teach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Kathleen likes most about teaching is \u201cseeing people improve! Its so fun to watch someone struggle at the beginning of class, but then really get into the grove by the end of class.\u201d She hopes her students with Road@Home will gain confidence and realize for themselves that Free Motion Quilting isn\u2019t hard– and is a lot of fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about Kathleen Riggins, please visit her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During Road@Home, Kathleen Riggins will be teaching 3 Longarm Quilting Classes, each from 1:30 – 4:30 PM: On Wednesday, W129 \u2013 Swirls Intensive On Thursday, T124 \u2013 Feathers For Modern Quilts On Friday, F134 \u2013 Creating Contrast With Free Motion Quilting And a Longarm Lecture Class on Saturday from 8:00 – 9:00 AM: SL08 \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8139,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions\/8139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}