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Great News from Judy Allen
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Since 1995 Judy has promoted
her wonderful curved cross hatching techniques that have become so
popular in the Longarm quilting industry as well as for those who quilt
by home sewing machine or by hand. This simple but elegant design
element is perfect for feather designs, background areas and pieced
portions of the quilt.
Judy is proud to announce her
new book “The Art of Curved Cross Hatching” coming in the spring of
2011. Her new book contains a large selection of curved cross hatching
shapes, wonderful feather designs with the curved cross hatching
elements as well as a 120 minute DVD showcasing her designing and
machine quilting techniques.
To accompany the book will be
a new cross over border stencil as well as an undulating curved cross
hatching stencil. As the originator of this wonderful design technique
for quilters, you will find complete designing instructions for the
placement of these curved lines in a variety of spaces in pieced and
whole cloth quilting, do’s and don’ts, her new border techniques
called “Bridgework and Framework” along with a large variety of
curved cross hatching line assignments to name a few.
The Judalator rulers for
those who don’t know, are Judy’s curved cross hatching and feather
quilting rulers. The set of four paisley shaped rulers come in 12“,
9“, 6” and 3“sizes and because they are able to quilt both
techniques, twice as valuable. The variety of inner and outer curves
gives these rulers the ability to quilt from the right or left of the
hopping foot. The ¼” guidelines allow you to quilt up to an inch
spacing for the curved cross hatching lines.
Being able to quilt down and right up the spine connector of a
feather with complete accuracy as well as the variety of curves
available makes quilting feathers a joy. This new book will help to
expand the use of the stencils and rulers giving new meaning to her
curved cross hatching techniques.
Judy’s Curved Cross
Hatching stencil has been so popular in connection with the Judalator
Rulers allowing the quilter to mark the correct curve and spacing and
then machine quilt with accuracy. Both tools are a must for machine
quilting.
Judy and her twin sister
Joanne Flood are the first two certified teachers for the newest, one of
a kind digitizing software for Longarm quilters and embroiderers called
“Art and Stitch“. Loes and Theo van der Heijden, the originators of
this easy to learn program, were their hosts at there wonderful home
near the North Sea in the Netherlands. Judy’s feather designing
techniques so complement the digitizing program enabling the student to
easily digitize their own wonderful feather designs she is known for.
Joanne has found her new vocation with this wonderful program desiring
to introduce the techniques to those who wish to publish their own
designs and use them in their computerized quilting systems. Judy and
Joanne are offering workshops on both feather designing and digitizing
for quilters here in the United States and abroad.
The twins will be operating a
booth for Art and Stitch at the Machine Quilting Expo in Providence
Rhode Island this spring and both will be teaching at the Machine
Quilters Showcase in Overland Park, Kansas. For those who wish to sign
up for classes or purchase items, they will also be sharing a booth at
the showcase with Theo and Loes van der Heijden. Stop by and see
Judy’s new book, stencils and class schedule. Ask us about our on
site, workshop instructions.
More information will be coming about our
teaching schedule for the various drawing classes: the Art of
Feather designing, Curved Cross Hatching, Digitizing in Art and Stitch
and our Tin Lizzie training.
Judy Allen and Joanne Flood
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