Time for a Rainbow Scrap Challenge

May has kept me busy working on the Mount Royal University Library’s Professional Day, keeping up with my longarm quilting deadlines and preparing for a concert, I sing with the Mount Royal Kantorie Choir and we will be preforming Mozart’s Requiem at the end of the month.

 

Thankfully I’ve been able to snatch a few moments over the last couple of weeks to play with my green scraps – yeah!  I’ve completed just over a hundred little four patches for my Rainbow Rows quilt by Lissa Alexander and just a few leaders and enders in green.

One and a half inch green four patches

I’m looking forward to see what other have been up to in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, I’m always inspired by the colours, creativity and productivity of this group.

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. ~ Edith Piaf

From Start to Finish – A Quilt Primer

A big welcome to the world of quilting to my latest graduates of Quilt Primer!

 

Over a couple of Saturdays in April I taught the Quilt Primer (beginning quilting) class at Out of Hand, a local needlework and quilting store.  We covered everything from fabric selection right up to binding and after two intensive days of learning and sewing these ladies had a crib size quilt about 95% finished.  Most were at the point of hand-sewing the binding on to the back of their quilts.

Corissa & Kathy

Courtney

Darlene & Pat

Don’t you just love the fabric selection and beautiful colours?

Corissa is a fashion design teacher looking to add new skills to her repertoire, Kathy was encouraged by a friend in California to take quilting lessons, Courney’s mom is a longarm quilter, Darlene has taken Quilt Primer before and came to accompany her cousin Pat, who has done some quilting and wanted to learn the basics and hopefully a few tips and tricks. 

Welcome to the world of quilting ladies, I look forward to seeing you in a future class.

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.    ~ Alfred Mercer