Back in February, I donated a grocery bag full of discontinued fabric swatches to support my guild's Cuddle Quilt community service project and used them for the hands-on
meeting program, "Making Do." In March, several guild members returned with improv strips, blocks, a quilt top and even a
finished quilt! I belong to... THE. BEST. GUILD. Here is some of what we saw at Show and Tell.
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| Improvisational patchwork with fabric samples. |
We suggested to the members not to trim their blocks. We'll size and trim once a quilt layout is determined.
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| Framed squares. |
Framing blocks with coping strips will facilitate making the blocks a uniform size.
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| Experimenting with various improv techniques. |
Here are two scrappy blocks and two smaller improv pieces.
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| Improv blocks and scrappy patchwork blocks. |
One of the guild members said she experimented with all the techniques that were presented at the February program.
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| Improv strips and log cabin strips. |
This is one of my favorites—a triangle block.
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| Make it a triangle! |
Gari (left) finished a scrappy Chinese Coin quilt and Vista (right) completed a quilt top with alternating scrappy and solid quilt blocks.
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| A finished Cuddle Quilt and a top ready for quilting. |
I am thrilled that the fabric swatches are blooming into these fun and useful quilts. And, my guild friends are having a fun time with improv piecing, colorful scraps and running the fabric under the presser foot.
Improv with a Vintage Twist Workshop
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| Mary Kerr's award-winning quilt, "A Wonky Star." |
Now I'm culling my collection of vintage quilt blocks and fragments in preparation for
"A Wonky Star: Improv with a Vintage Twist" workshop with Mary Kerr.
The
Choo Choo Quilters and the
Chattanooga Modern Quilt Guild are hosting Mary for two workshops and a lecture, this coming
Friday and Saturday, April 7 and 8.
There are a few spaces in both workshops and the lecture is open to quilters and non-quilters alike. Contact me if interested.
