Lots of red in this post! Plus, an item about the recent Walking Foot Quilting Workshop.
From Genevieve … “Roger’s Cars,” all done.
Continue reading “Staying Connected #44”Category: Workshops
“Speed Date with Improv” Zoom Workshop
Last Wednesday, November 4, and Thursday, November 5, mornings we had fun creating improv blocks with Krista Hennebury. Using the Zoom platform Krista showed videos of her directions regarding each block and then provided support as we worked on each one. Zoom allowed us to include two people from Ontario: a quilter from Krista’s wait list, and, Lynda, a SQG member currently in Ontario.
Continue reading ““Speed Date with Improv” Zoom Workshop”Quilting with Nicholas
On January 22nd we had a Free Motion Quilting workshop with Nicholas Turcan. He presented several ideas for quilting and was very good at encouraging us to move beyond our comfort zone. We had fun practicing our quilting, especially, the curls.
Continue reading “Quilting with Nicholas”Quilt ’til You Wilt in May
Our first Quilt ’til You Wilt Day was a huge success. 19 members and members-in-waiting accomplished many hours of cutting, piecing, sandwiching, and quilting.
Continue reading “Quilt ’til You Wilt in May”Courthouse Colourplay Workshop
On May 8 Krista Hennebury facilitated our experiments with free cutting of strips and much fun was had by all. Members and guests discovered they could cut straight lines free hand. Everyone was careful to heed Krista’s warning to “pause before cutting and know where your other hand is”.
Continue reading “Courthouse Colourplay Workshop”What you missed if you didn’t come to the clothesline bag workshop!
Many thanks to Suzanne P for hosting this one… what a fun day we had on May 9th! There was a lot of sewing prep for this class for those who chose to wrap their clothesline in fabric (and no prep for moi, because I left my clothesline unwrapped for a more beachy feel!), but after the initial demonstration, we were soon zig-zagging our way to some pretty nifty totes, storage baskets and purses. As always, each one was unique, depending on fabric and colour choices, and how the shape evolved during the making of each bag. By around 2pm many had finished the tote/bag body. Which in truth was great progress given the amount of chirping and chatting going on as always! Which is what sewing together is all about!
And at yesterday’s May meeting, many bags appeared, already in use! The winner of the Block of the Month was pulled from Marilyn C’s basket, Kathryn G will be using hers as a toy box, Anne W and Maureen O are using theirs as totes. Mine is not yet finished… it still needs handles. If anyone else has pics of their bags, please share and either Judy or I will add them to this post.
Update: Finished my bag, which turned out to be more purse-sized! Any more to share?!
Wonky Stars continued…
Following our Wednesday Workshop with Dougal Walker, Linda D and I were at a sewing day on Saturday and both of us continued working on our Wonky Stars! We were wondering if anyone else has been making progress? We’d love to see how you’re doing! Send pics of your progress to me, Penny N, and I’ll post them here, too.
Linda D has made more progress (May 10th)…
And from Judy S (May 7th)!
Wonky Stars Workshop
What a fun day we had on April 25th with Dougal Walker in the Wonky Stars Workshop! 
It was a full house and many thanks to Barb M, Les O and Glenna W for making it happen.
The morning was spent sewing itty-bitty scraps and bigger leftover bits together to form the improv centres of our stars – no rulers allowed! By early afternoon, when the points of the stars were added, everyone had something colourful and unique to show for all the sewing. Along the way, lessons were learned in value and tone, and how to use asymmetry to infuse movement into patchwork.
After lunch, we were also treated to a surprise trunk show by Dougal… many quilts made from scraps that otherwise might have been thrown out. A clear lesson that, in fact, the more seemingly useless scraps you have, the more exciting your quilts may become!
Beautiful Bargello – A Fall Workshop
Thanks to Moira for these super photos from the Bargello Workshop in October presented by our talented member Pat. Inspiring!
“The Bargello Workshop was a lot of fun and the day just flew by.” – Moira
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Paul Krampitz – Working with Wedges
Paul Krampitz’s Working with Wedges Workshop was well attended, with members enthusiastic about learning something new and sharing the process with quilting friends.
Armed with our wedge templates, we learned how to cut our fabric into angled pieces and sew them together to create interesting effects. We started with the basics, creating our own block. Later, Paul showed us some variations such as angle cutting striped fabric and using pieced strips in our blocks.
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