My "quilting studio" (a.k.a. the dining room table)
Monday, May 30, 2005
Quilt-As-You-Go Sampler course
At the moment I'm taking a monthly "quilt-as-you-go" sampler course. Life's been pretty busy, so I'm lagging behind on getting things done, and have only completely finished one block, and am quilting the second. The fabric's cut for block three (Log Cabin) and we only had the fourth class on Wednesday, so I've got a bit of time to think about that one ;-)
The first class was hexagons - Grandmother's Flower Garden. A very old and traditional pattern. However, hexagons, I have decided, do Nothing For Me. Nothing. Zilch. Boring. Boring. Boring. I decided the only way I could cope with hexagons in my quilt was to do the Inner City variation:
Second class was piecing again. What Annie is doing is giving us three variations on similar kinds of patterns which vary in difficulty. The basic pattern was Card Trick, which I quite like, and the more complicated was a Six Point Compass. I like compass patterns, don't know why particularly. So this is my second block:
I won't tell you how many times I had to unstitch various parts of it to get the danged points to meet in the middle...
The first class was hexagons - Grandmother's Flower Garden. A very old and traditional pattern. However, hexagons, I have decided, do Nothing For Me. Nothing. Zilch. Boring. Boring. Boring. I decided the only way I could cope with hexagons in my quilt was to do the Inner City variation:
Second class was piecing again. What Annie is doing is giving us three variations on similar kinds of patterns which vary in difficulty. The basic pattern was Card Trick, which I quite like, and the more complicated was a Six Point Compass. I like compass patterns, don't know why particularly. So this is my second block:
I won't tell you how many times I had to unstitch various parts of it to get the danged points to meet in the middle...
Work in progress...
Yes, still plenty of work in progress, just haven't got around to taking photos and posting them until now.
At the end of April I took a weekend class based on this book. There were only four of us taking the class and it was a lot of fun, and very interesting to do. I ended up with three UFOs:
This tote bag, which uses a pattern called 'Sunny Windows'
and this Cathedral Star, which will be made into a cushion cover when it's finished. All of the white pieces get an ochre centre like the two already done.
and a small practice piece of a pattern called Floating Windows, as preparation for the Cathedral Stars.
The Cathedral Stars was pretty complicated to do, but it was fun, and very satisfying to be able to do something like that.
I'm also quite pleased with the tote - I like the colours I ended up using. And I will finish it before the end of this month...
At the end of April I took a weekend class based on this book. There were only four of us taking the class and it was a lot of fun, and very interesting to do. I ended up with three UFOs:
This tote bag, which uses a pattern called 'Sunny Windows'
and this Cathedral Star, which will be made into a cushion cover when it's finished. All of the white pieces get an ochre centre like the two already done.
and a small practice piece of a pattern called Floating Windows, as preparation for the Cathedral Stars.
The Cathedral Stars was pretty complicated to do, but it was fun, and very satisfying to be able to do something like that.
I'm also quite pleased with the tote - I like the colours I ended up using. And I will finish it before the end of this month...
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