Yesterday, because Jo and Tony were visiting, I called a pop-up quilting day for anyone who could come to join us. We ended up with 6 quilters yabbering away all day and discussing various options for our ongoing projects.
Some people chose to complete their blocks for the Bear's Paw project and there was a bit of show and tell of completed projects. Elaine has bound and labelled the Pebbles quilt so it is now ready to donate.
I finished my next Broken Rules experiment with colour so it is also ready to donate. Elaine added a label to that too.
Stephanie arrived with a load of cottons and some fabric to give away so some people left with more than they brought.
We trimmed the next lot of blocks and the quilt looks much better. We even have enough fabric to make the extra diamonds between the blocks if we want to.
Jo taught us a few more tricks about 'appliqued' diamonds and double thickness bag straps. Thank you Jo.
With lots more Bear's Paws we could get a better idea of how that quilt will look with Jo's fabric as the focus.
Jo and Stephanie then set to with some remaining rainbow strips to make a Courthouse Steps version of the rainbow. Tina has taken that flimsy home to make into a quilt.
Meanwhile Tony was entertained by our continuous chatter and feeding rituals. He had his laptop for extra entertainment when needed and also ventured up to see what we were doing.
Jo drew our next fabric which turned out to be Tina's metre. We discussed various options for a block that suited the fabric. There might be issues as the design is printed skew on the fabric but I'm sure it will look great in the end.
We sent off all our finished quilts except for the Rainbow ones with Karen to be delivered to RPAH cancer day centre. I hope they like them.
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