Hospitality – Richmond Quilt Guild – September 2, 2009
Posted By drsao on September 2, 2009
I ventured out today for the first time since Silver Belle and an unknown trunk collided on Friday. I am now an official member of this VERY NICE group of quilters. I was sitting too far back to get pictures of all of the Show and Tells and UFOs and Charity Quilts being shown today, but take my word for it, it was impressive. I had a very enjoyable time and I am hoping I won’t be disbanded after my first visit. Sheila tripped over my foot and fell today – can you believe it? The paramedics from 911 came and everything. The truck hitting my car, Sheila falling over my foot, and I dropped and broke one of my cameras…..three not so wonderful things…I hope I am not cursed…..
OK – back to having a MERRY HEART and being POSITIVE. I really enjoyed Debby Kratovil’s NAKED QUILTER Lecture (and yes she wore clothes) and her workshop. I learned so much and I can hardly wait to sew something. She had such great ideas for new kinds of borders. I loved it. She gave us a hand-out that needs to get plasticized and kept near at hand – where else can you get the benefits of having formulas FROM A MATH TEACHER for cutting setting triangles.
I actually learned a lot – and there may have been more things that I am forgetting to mention. It was A GOOD DAY….I LOVE LEARNING NEW THINGS. And I got to have a cute little yellow tomato for lunch – yellow tomatos are on my list of FAVORITE THINGS!
Here are some of the highlights of what I learned NEW! Sherry told me to take GOOD NOTES – so I did!!
All four borders do not need to have the same fabric
To add a VERY SMALL border (ie 1/4 “) cut and sew a LARGER one (1 1/2”) and then trim
HSTs can be made by drawing zigzag lines on a length of fabric sandwich
Four patches and Nine patches LOOK GREAT on opposing border corners
Prairie points can be made in a border and not just on quilt edges
Prairie points can look like a picket fence
Prairie points and YO YO’s make GREAT flowers
Mitered corners can be TOP STITCHED with nylon thread
Binding can look great when using a curved stitch on the top of the quilt
If you take a picture of Alma with her tongue out, you HAVE to delete it!
Hope you enjoy the pictures – I will narrate a bit in the picture section. Be sure you notice Karen DuMont’s quilt – SASSY FATS – pieced by Alma…..very nice! Remember to CLICK TWICE on the image to see the ENTIRE PICTURE……
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- Smiling Faces of Violet and Carolyn
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- Love the RIBBON on the Flower Tips
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- Debby Kratovil does great machine binding
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- Show and Tell!
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- Feedsack Quilt
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- Antique Quilt
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- A Debby Kratovil Pattern
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- Debby made this using COFFEE FILTERS
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- Debby’s Calendar
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- Debby Kratovil 🙂
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- Smiling Faces of Sherry and Karen
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- Lunch at the KIDDIES Table
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- Violet Traded me a YELLOW TOMATO for a RED GRAPE!
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- Great Joke!
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- Debby had LOTS of DEMOS
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- Karen is FOCUSING!
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- Alma and Karen Having Fun!
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- A new way to MITER by zig zag top stitching
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- Alma made this mitered corner!
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- AW – Alma and Karen – 🙂
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- Karen DuMont’s new SASSY FATS made by Alma
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- Trick – make a square block a rectangle!
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- Love these layered borders!
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- A new way to make HST
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- Nifty Log Cabin Style Borders
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- Another Border Treatment by Debby Kratovil
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- Interesting – all borders do not need to be the same!
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- Use interfacing for a softer WONDER UNDER look
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- Picket Fence Prairie Points!
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- Love these little prairie points on the borders
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- Curved borders – drawn freehand on freezer paper!!
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- I am going to try this technique!
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- Toile with piano keys!
Shirley
Wonderful pictures, I wish I had attended. Hope to see you Friday.