{"id":979,"date":"2010-03-26T10:12:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=979"},"modified":"2010-03-26T10:12:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:12:55","slug":"patchwork-and-quilting-festival-buenos-aires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"Patchwork and Quilting Festival, Buenos Aires"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s class for beginners in the world of freehand cutting and piecing<\/span> <\/span>had an element of additional brain activity for all of us \u00a0– three languages were being spoken in class<\/span><\/em> <\/span>– there were several\u00a0of the brasilians in\u00a0class\u00a0most of whom spoke a little spanish\u00a0but no english, I speak spanish enough to manage, but not very elegantly imho, and understand a bit of portuguese if it is spoken slowly and clearly, and fortunately\u00a0one student could clear any roadblocks ( which I am proud to say were rare) with enough ability in all three.\u00a0 There was meant to be an interpreter around, like pin boards and enough table space … but we managed, as quilters always do.\u00a0 One of the sponsoring sewing machine companies provided machines for the class, plus a techie who was in the room most of the day – so someone dropping a pin into the mechanism of one, and another just not working well, did not present me with any worries at all.<\/p>\n

The morning session included demos, some\u00a0sample making, then deciding which aspect of these techniques the quilter was going to put into a small wallhanging.\u00a0\u00a0 As we proceeded I was a bit concerned that a couple were just not getting the freehand bit, couldn’t handle the freedom actually! which I did understand, they were all from the traditional quiltmaking world with its necessary attention to precise measurement and careful cutting.\u00a0 But in the afternoon these two in particular really ‘got it’\u00a0, which pleased me to see.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, as class wqas starting to pack up, one student\u00a0asked me would I mind if she taught classes on this.\u00a0 I immediately\u00a0thought \u00a0‘You have to be joking surely, you are not any kind of expert dear! ‘\u00a0 but of course, I said that since\u00a0it is just a technique,\u00a0and if she makes\u00a0all her own samples and images – with absolutely no permission to use any of my quilt images, of course,\u00a0she could.\u00a0\u00a0 I discussed this response with another teacher later, who agreed.\u00a0 It’s technique, and\u00a0\u00a0I am very glad I have long had the\u00a0teaching\u00a0policy of never giving out copious class notes<\/span><\/em>\u00a0– there is the one page basic instruction sheet which is (c) I pointed out – but free to anyone who asks – and the half page list of points (c)\u00a0covered in class in the order of the sample sets I demo-ed.\u00a0 Another student asked if I had a book …. answer = no\u00a0– for the same reason. \u00a0I teach, and the student has\u00a0to learn what I am teaching in this class, making note of anything they need to remember –\u00a0which is the point of\u00a0making samples and having a pen and notebook. \u00a0 They all have my email, and I welcome any follow up inquiries to my classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s class for beginners in the world of freehand cutting and piecing had an element of additional brain activity for all of us \u00a0– three languages were being spoken in class – there were several\u00a0of the brasilians in\u00a0class\u00a0most of whom spoke a little spanish\u00a0but no english, I speak spanish enough to manage, but not very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-fN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}