Cspoonquilt

Last weekend I taught another installment of a class I've been calling Quilting 101.  This is a class I've been offering because we have so many new members in our local guild and so few basic skills classes available in our community so I've been trying to help fill that gap. Each month I offer a class on a different skill.  Last months class was on HST.  Sheri H.  who attended that class also came to this months class and had this wonderful baby quilt to share.  Sheri said the class on HST gave her the confidence to construct the Friendship stars in this quilt!  Brava, Sheri, for trying something new!  And what a cute quilt to gift to your friend!  Sheri said the mother-to-be's color scheme was very neutral but she found these really cute fabrics to fill that order!  What a lucky baby!   It's so nice to see students try new things! Have a great week! cheers, CW

Looking back on 2018 quilt finishes I think maybe I've been a little off my game or preoccupied.  But going through the possibilities I decided to show this quilt.  It's an original design, all the blocks are free form curve pieced and improvised so I think it might be interesting to some viewers?!  It was certainly fun to make since there were very constraints on what I could do!  And I always like a to work with a Medallion design.  There's just something really fun about starting in the middle and working your way out to the edge. Here's the link back to the festival  I got that grey, black and whit print at Quilt Con this year.  It really helped to balance things out.  I wish I'd bought more! This quilt started because I was doing a Demo of Free Formed Curved Piecing for the Northern California Quilt Council's January Meeting.  I kept making blocks for samples to show how easy it is to convert a conventional block into a Free form...

I visited the Amador Valley Quilters this past weekend.  What a great group they are!  Their Guild meeting is on Sat. afternoons and perhaps that contributes to a really nice turn out of their membership.  They have a really well organized meeting. Lots of different activities /programs that the membership can take part in.  A huge Charitable group where they make upwards of 900 charitable quilts a year!   It's always fun to see how other Guilds run their meetings.  I always pick up good ideas to take home to my guild.  And it's always fun to share my Trunk Show! On Sunday I taught a Class I've been calling "Simple Modern Improv".  I've taught a lot of design oriented classes over the years and sometimes students are a little nervous.  Making their own designs rather than following a pattern is challenging, but my students yesterday were fearless.  They all jumped right in and the results were really inspiring!  A lot of...