Pat Speth SMALL WONDERS Workshop Sept 30, 2010
Posted By drsao on October 2, 2010
I learned SO MUCH at the Pat Speth SMALL WONDERS WORKSHOP! We even braved wind, rain, floods, and threats of hurricanes – or was it tornadoes – to be at this class! Quilters are quite dedicated to their activities! It was worth it!
It is really nice to have a nationally known writer and teacher come all the way from Minnesota to teach us! She brought lots of beautiful quilts and demonstrated wondrous techniques. Not only is Pat a good teacher, but she is also VERY NICE and we all had lots of fun!
Almost all of Pat’s quilts are made from 5″ squares – it is quite amazing to see all of the variety of combinations that can result from 5″ squares. I took some close up pictures of some of her quilts.
Pat Speth has four quilt books – NICKEL QUILTS, MORE NICKEL QUILTS, AMAZING NICKEL QUILTS and NICKEL QUILTS AND BORDERS – and I am not SURE these are the correct titles but they are CLOSE to the correct titles!
Here are some of the pictures of our activities. Catherine, my BBuggyFF, and I both are making the ALL THAT GLITTERS QUILT from her first NICKEL QUILTS BOOK! Please note that my dear sister and friend, Bonnie, DID NOT escape my camera, although I must admit that she did made a vallant attempt!!! IN MY HUMBLE DEFENSE, once I was innocently taking a picture of Dave trying to put a new bulb into Bonnie’s BEAUTIFUL SINGER FEATHERWEIGHT and she just happened to be in the background – really!!!!
I hope you enjoy the pictures!
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- A WOWEE necklace designed and made by Catherine
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- OH NO could that be BONNIE in RED in the very back of this picture?
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- Dave is fixing Bonnie’s Sewing Machine
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- Pat Speth’s Books
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- My ALL THAT GILTTERS will be black and white
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- My FIRST cutting from my HST
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- sao is hard at work
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- Bonnie is admiring Catherine’s very cute pin cushion
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- Catherine and Pat Speth
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- Love the ceiling of this church!
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- Aren’t these interesting stairs?
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- sao’s first ALL THAT GLITTERS small block
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- HALF A BLOCK FINISHED
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- My first BLOCK for ALL THAT GLITTERS
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- I love these suction handles
I learned soooooooooooooooooooooooooo much, WOW and WOW again and I honestly attended, accepting full well that I would NOT be able to create the very detailed, lots o’ points All That Glitters block I had chosen but I thought, heck, when will I get this opportunity ever again and as long as I learned, I could ALWAYS apply the knowledge later on my own, so why not?????????????????? And guess what, I DID IT, WOO-HOO for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was sew-sew great, simply great and Pat simply rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can’t wait to continue on down the Nickel Road o’ life and creativity……….