STARTER BLOCKS are in position and ready to hit the mail room!!! This month of May the Starting Block features Grandma's Garden! Packs of Hexagons and floral prints are heading off all over the world this week to start gardens galore. These blocks can be finished as they are designed or they can become a big quilt either with your stash of similar fabrics or, if you like, we can add fabrics in for you to whatever size you like!
Special gardening tools for a block like this include the papers for the hexagons, glue sticks for easy preparation and acrylic templates for viewing the fabric....holy peepers! The holy peepers come in all sizes to match the facing size of the hexagons. They come in real handy when the objective is to fussy cut the pattern of the fabric to make a new pattern.
Mary is making a BIG grandma's garden with the recipe from Carolyn's Pansy Patch.
We have big peepers for cutting big hexagons. When the size changes and we are dealing with big graphics the impact is different as well.
READ: Carolyn passes a crytical eye over Mary's work and allows her to continue on her path through the garden with her beautiful work so far!!! All GOOD!
We have also got this special treat going out for the last month of round two....
No matter which way you look at it, this quilt is FUN! It has a huge variety of techniques so once completed skills include inset seams, applique, hand piecing, machine piecing, strip piecing and working with templates. NOT only that (but wait...there is more...)we introduce you to a brave new way to work with colour! Any one of the blocks would spin off into starting another quilt and in the end...twisted tradition never looked so good! We have a big and growing waiting list yet again so never fear, your opportunity to participate is approaching as we WILL be starting this program AGAIN!
In the Monday design class, Jenny has been working the stripe concept with the Pop Stars Ruler. She cut a variety of darkish striped fabrics from her stash and then we selected a variety of options for the background. Using the template makes it easy to do an ODD shape and the cutting and sewing then falls in line accurately. We were off and running with many options to choose from.
Which do you think she chose?
Jill has been working with the Soul Searching concept but she chose a different block. Progress has certainly been made and we are loving these blocks. Now, instead of choosing fabric we are working the layout of the blocks!
Which do you think she chose here? We had stacks of options for filling gaps, borders and the rest... the possibilities never end. I have to admit that I got so excited I forgot to take more photos of the class!
This just in from Cloth...Indigo Spotcheck!!!! I am going to use this with the words to make a quilt for my Noah..I am going to make it...I am going to make the time to make it and hopefully this weekend! Just after I finish the final preparation for my trip to NEW ZEALAND for Handmade Wellington!!! If you are in the area, or maybe even not...please come and say hi. There are several opportunities to meet. I have a workshop on Soul Searching on Saturday and then not one but two lectures on Sunday. First one is a MASTER CLASS...yes, me the MASTER (really?) and then a Lecture I call Culture Blending...if you are interested pop me an email for details.
The shop has been buzzzz'n this week with glorious work. However, I am dashing off...plans for more reveals soon. k
You are such a tease.
Posted by: Sally | Wednesday, 18 May 2011 at 07:31 AM
No more "fussy cut" for me. Fussy is a baby. I custom cut most of my pieces for hand piecing. I like that term much better - it describes just what I am doing. Carefully cutting out a certain part of a print or stripe so that it fits into my design for a block - thus the custom cut. I'd like to change the world with that term!!!!!!!
Posted by: linda kuhlman | Thursday, 19 May 2011 at 12:47 AM
I like the new setting for the centre block of Twisted tradition. Putting the matching strips on the corners of the block makes it seem more in harmony with the rest of the quilt. Wonder if I have the necessary fabric to do that to mine? :-)
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