Although it is colder than it has been in a while - it still feels like spring!!!!
Yesterday we had the first reveal of the year for Spring has Sprung. Here is the quilt pattern we are working from....................
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| Spring has Sprung booklet by Country Quilts |
Country Quilts (Cheryl Wall) is a Canadian company and we have used her patterns in the past for our $10 quilt. No - the quilt does not cost $10 to make. That is the class fee - if the homework is complete then the participant gets to continue WITHOUT paying a penalty of another $10. Let's see how the students made out.......
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| Linda P wasn't at the class, but I saw her homework last week and took this picture. I see she changed up the flowers on the watering can and changed the position of the half square triangles AND the placement of the trowel. |
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| Mary D changed the flowers on the watering can and ADDED embroidery (stem stitch in black) around the trowel as the colour contrast wasn't strong enough. A great fix for this situation. |
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| Kathleen has great colours with her purple flowers and purple background. And the stripped fabric for the glove - AWESOME. |
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| Joyce did not like the gardening glove and added a bird bath instead. Perhaps she needs to be a bird on it as I thought it was an urn. Oooops - of course I was looking at it from the back and I got mixed up in the orientation!!!! |
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| Mary M put darker handles on the watering can. I love that and I really like the fabric for the body of the watering can. I see an orange flower (I wonder if that was for me??????) |
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| Kay N - I see she has TWO orange flowers on her watering can, as well as a small butterfly under the handle. Yes her third HST was done - I had it on the table to do a demo afterwards. |
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| I see that Diane put an orange flower on her block as well. I love the striped fabric for the glove!!!!! |
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| Kathie redesigned the watering can. I love it!!!!!!! |
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| Barb (who says she hates applique) did a GREAT job on these blocks. She has a poultry theme going on with the gardening glove. Even the red background has roosters on it. Very cute!!!!! |
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| Kay T has very cute fabric for the gardening glove. Oh - where are those HST?? I am sure they are done. It looks like she made the watering can from one piece of fabric. Hey - why not? |
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| Lynda M (who sent me this picture) - love the floral fabric for the glove. And I see she changed up the flowers on the watering can and also how it was sewn together. |
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| These blocks are mine. I am using the same colour thread (dark brown) to button hole stitch around all the pieces. That makes the stitching go quickly. No changing threads and NO decisions to make. |
Guess what - EVERYONE IS UP TO DATE!!!!!!!
And now for the homework for next month - here are the blocks.....................
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| The homework that has to be ready for March reveal. There are THREE applique blocks one pieced (the Churn Dash) block. Good luck!!!!!! |
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| Here are my blocks for the first two months. And the best part - everything is finished - all the applique is done, these blocks are trimmed and sewn together as much as they can be. Can I keep up for the rest of the year??????? |
I need YOUR help. This is the face from the booklet for the rabbit.
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| Yes - it is kind of scary. I told everyone that is is a COMMON face for primitive art. Then I get home and search the internet to find the story of the face or EVEN other faces and I can't find anything. I have e-mailed Cheryl to ask her about the face, but can anyone help with the significance of the face?????? |
There are two people in the class who are working on something else. Liz is working on a project from the same book, but did not want to do applique so she is doing the quilt called Simply Squares.
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| Simply Squares quilt from the Spring has Sprung booklet |
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| Liz's assignment was to make 96 small four patches. Here they are!!!!!! |
And Susan is working on an applique quilt that is completely different from the rest.
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| Grandma's Country Album quilt - I so want to make this, but I am being reasonable. I just can't squeeze more time out of the day. But I have split the quilt up so she has an assignment every month. Hmmm - maybe in the summer???? Don't even think of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| And here are Susan's two blocks for this month. Great job - I LOVE LOVE LOVE the fabric she used for the sky. |
And there you have it - all thirteen participants have gotten their homework done for this month. No one had to cough up money!!!! Well done! And the inspiration - colours, use of fabric, stitching, well - they are a pretty amazing group. I CANNOT wait to see the final quilts at the reveal later this year.
That was the FIRST of FOUR classes I taught yesterday. I am running to Tim's to get a tea (large, black with TWO sugars) before I start on the next blog.
Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ciao!!!!!!!!
