August gathering

 Quite a crowd attended either in person or on zoom and lots of fun was had by all. Glenda, Karen, Kathryn, Stephanie and Elaine came to share the day in my funny house almost prepared for renos. There was some difficulty finding where everything is now stored. 

Our first activity was a bit of show and tell from Elaine...

... and Karen.

Then it was time to put together our pretty flowers applique blocks and decide how to enlarge the quilt top and choose some borders.

We settled on a peeper of purple then using the remaining blue fabric as the final border.

Because I have so many orphan blocks now accumulated in my stash last week I had started putting up my red/white/blue ones to make a top and filling the gaps with 2.5" squares in red/white/blue. 

I then suggested to others that were attending in person to bring their orphan blocks and perhaps we could sort them into colour themes and put them together. A collection I had sorted were all pale and really seem to go together well. Elaine took home one Dresden Plate block and some backing to applique it onto which accounts for the large gap. We searched my stash for other small pieces of fabric that could also be fillers where needed.

While we were sorting orphan blocks we created collections of green/brown ...

... and colourful multicoloured pieces that would go together.

It was interesting trying to sort and the big lesson learned was not to overthink it because by using the right assortment with added frames and fillers to make things fit, the colours do work together if the colour choices are broad.

We'll see what comes of these.

At 3pm we had our zoom with Heather, Jenny, and Jeanette. It was then that we noticed Jeanette's quilt in the previous post below.

What an amazing creative lot we are!