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              Escape the Ditch: Empower Your Quilting

              with Helen Godden
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              Get own-forever classes for less than $8 a month!
              As an annual Bluprint member, you'll choose one own-forever class to add to your library each month
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              Liberate your stitches – move beyond quilting in the ditch!

              Skill Level

              Beginner

              What You Get

              • 6 Streaming HD video lessons with anytime, anywhere access
              • Printable class resources, including a supply list and quilting motif templates
              • Hours of close-up instruction
              • Answers to student questions from instructor Helen Godden

              How it works

              • Once you purchase, find your class in your class library.
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              Class Overview

              Take charge of your quilting and gain free-motion confidence! Expert Helen Godden shares empowering techniques to make quilting fun again.

              Class Overview

              Lesson Breakdown

              1. Liberate Yourself From the Ditch
              23:36
              Meet Helen Godden and start class by understanding why free-motion quilting may have challenged you in the past. Get comfortable with 360 degrees of sewing, and learn how to properly mark your quilt for guidance, not restriction. Warm up with a few simple grid-based motifs including cathedral windows and jigsaw puzzles.
              2. Taming Your Stitches
              16:18
              3. Consistency & Crossing Over
              21:58
              4. Maintenance & Tension
              08:38
              5. Feathers & More
              19:16
              6. Let Your Quilting Tell a Story
              14:03
              Lesson Breakdown

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              Taught by

              Helen Godden
              Helen Godden
              Instructor
              Helen Godden is an award-winning Australian quilt designer who travels throughout the world to teach her theories of free-motion machine quilting. She’s written several books on quilting, including "50 Styles of Quilting" and "Quilt-a-Doodle-Do!" Read more about Helen on her website, helengodden.com.
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