February Quilting Weekend

We worked very hard last weekend to finish off a bit of our backlog of quilts. Robyn, Elaine, Jenny, Linda, Mary and Lian came and we are now very happy about our results. Our Red Log Cabin is complete and our Pinwheel quilt only needs to have the final binding hem done.

 

 

 

We had our first ever in-house raffle amongst those who had paid their raffle fees for the year. Jenny won the Red Log Cabin and Elaine won the Pink and Blue Flowers quilt. They were both absolutely thrilled and spent the rest of their time with us with grins from ear to ear. They will both now be removed from the draws for the rest of the year.

We also spent time arranging the blocks for our two outstanding quilts. Penny's Dresden Plate Sampler has become just a sampler quilt. The two 'Dresden Plate' blocks will be made into two accompanying cushions. We have chosen blue as the sashing and maroon as the backing but have not yet chosen the border fabrics.

 

Wilma's brown roses looks great with the blocks on point with no sashing. We are still waiting on a few of these blocks to come in and will try to buy more of the brown roses fabric to fill in the missing triangles.

Our final task was to see how the Green Twister blocks looked on the design wall. We all agreed that they need no sashing but that appliqueing one of the small square patches left over from the cutting will just fill in the otherwise very blank corners. These blocks were only completed by those who saw my demonstration. However, if you would like to try one the theme is Green and the instructions can be found under the Instructions tab above and is called 'Square Dance'. Be brave and good luck!

In all a fun weekend together accomplished much.