dunster

Jeanne, I'll keep you posted. I'd love to have you come down to join us whenever you can - as soon as there's an "us" to join!

Christine27

That sounds like a wonderful idea! I wished I lived near you too!

AliKat

At least one of our LQS's has a group. It has HQ owners of various machines.

I also think some other LQS's, the ones that rent out their LA's would welcome and host such a group. The upside of this is knowing where you'll meet each time. Also someone at the LQS might be able to do a brief program or two to help you all learn. Especially if you are going to buy supplies from them.

ali

quilticing

I suggest you spend that travel time setting up your frame and practice. You'll be surprised how fast you learn by putting your hands on the "wheel". Any "mistakes" are lessons at a small cost. Give yourself some lessons!

pstoner

Dunster:

Long time since I have been on, oh so busy. But our local Heartland Longarm Quilting Group, meets one Saturday (odd months only) and we usually meet at one of the members homes, it's potluck each member bringing something for the lunch (runs about 10-1). We start the meeting with introductions as new members are always joinging. We have many different machines, Nolthing, AP, HQ etc. At our last meeting, we discussed different "fav" websites, and compiled them for our members. Other than that we do a show and tell, new things learned, new pattern favorites, customer quilting questions, and tips that we may find useful to other members.

Peckish

I'm not sure what kind of things you're interested in learning, but would you consider an online class? I just took a class from Carla Barrett called Quilt Whispering. Her quilting is gorgeous. She teaches you how to envision different ways to quilt your quilts. I believe the next class starts in June.

Her website: http://quiltwhisper.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=18
Her Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/feather...7615007435583/

I know of another quilter (Margaret) who also took Carla's Quilt Whispering class and she does beautiful work. You can see her quilts here: http://quiltsoflove.blogspot.com/

DonnaCee

My Inspira with a Juki was delivered yesterday and I'm having a hard time concentrating on work today. Visions of quilting on my new mid-arm keep popping in my head. I noticed that there wasn't a "group" for long & mid arm quilters. Could we start one? I know it's not the same as a meeting but surely we can help one another out with ideas and inspirations. There was an old thread about leaders I looked at but when I did a search nothing came up. So how about it?

feline fanatic

Wow Peggi those are some awesomely bodacious links you just provided for some LA eye candy! How do you find these??
I never even knew there were LA groups that met! I like to follow blogs and look at pictures of various artists so a resource of weblinks and such would be great. I am assuming it would be kind of like a guild so maybe you could eventually look into getting a group rate with a famous teacher like Karen McTavish. Alas Dunster, your Albany is on the wrong coast for me, Hmmm I remeber that same lament was made by me when you first got your Innova. I ended up getting my own! Maybe my Dunster envy will lead to my own LA group as well! LOL If you decide to form an online group I'd be interested.

dunster

I tried to register for quiltwhisper, but it keeps rejecting my entry. It says one of the fields in the "prove to us you're a quilter" needs to be filled in. It is! It asked for the month of MQS - which is held in May. I couldn't find anywhere to contact an admin to ask about it.

Peckish

Oh no!! Try email: Carla at quiltwhisper dot com.