Quilt Cave, part 2

We started the morning looking at beautiful quilt tops....
Therese's Pineapple Blossom. The border blocks are bonus blocks that are left after making the triangles of the pineapples. These bonus blocks can be used in many ways.

Ursula certainly got our attention with this Bargello beauty. The pattern, she says, is from a magazine. I love how the bargello runs into the border. That is Anneliese on the right.

Amalia made this quilt. She was very proud of herself for doing the whole thing without any help. It is doubly difficult when the pattern is written in english and you only speak portuguese!
This Quilt Cave picture shows everyone busy, Sally is pinning, Anita is trimming her bargello strip set. the pink quilt draped is Ana's Square Dance quilt base. She was marking and cutting it all up ...
Anita was very curious how the Bargello works, here she is trimming the edges ready to sew the whole thing into a tube before she starts to cut the strips....

all done....this was one big tube, now tiny tubes cut in varying widths, from 3" to 3/4" and Anita then had to break, them in order....
to get this rising and falling effect, it is such a clever method, one of my favourites!
Arabela was working on a gift for a friend, here she is quilting using her BSR...
This is her project before it was quilted.... Later Arabela also embellished it with fancy stitches.
I forgot to tell Ana to keep her square dance blocks in order when she had cut them out..... so she didn't...... To be able to piece them as pinwheels we had to jigsaw all the pieces back together, it took ages....
Thank goodness Sofia was able to help me, she could be a proffesional "puzzler"......
Once Sofia came over to help we were able to get it sorted and the pinwheels finally worked... this is going to be fabulous. Ana has all the border pieces still to cut up.
Sofia was working on her "Scrappy Bargello" from Quiltville.com with lovely batiks and Fassett fabrics from two Jelly Rolls.

one strip set complete, 7 to go!
It is for a double bed size quilt


Amalia worked on a few different projects, this is one of them, a continuation from quilt class on Wednesday.