Whiston Quilt Group

The ladies who are making the watercolour quilts made good progress this week... they bought in their chosen fabrics cut into 2 1/2" squares ready to decide their placement....
This is Elsie's, you can already see the shape of the stained glass window starting to form......

This is Laura's, with the paper pattern/template at the side you get a better idea. Laura had sewn quite a few pieces together by the end of our session, all by hand. I think all the ladies will be hand piecing....

This is the start of Jennifer's, again the shape is quite obvious, she has some beautiful greens in there eh! The ladies pinned the squares to a base fabric so that they didn't have to start all over again when they got home.... a cunning plan....

This is Laura with Flo, It looks like she is helping Flo but it could just be a chatty moment, these ladies do a lot of chatting... how strange for quilters eh? NOT!

I met Linda for the first time today. She only joined the group in March and considers herself a beginner.... she is making these little treasures into cards to sell at a church fair, at least, I think that's what she said. They have been pieced with a foundation fabric and she is now embellishing them with fancy stitching.

Julie had decided to start another project. It was quite funny because she asked teacher Joan for something a bit more difficult for this quilt... and then kept saying "oh gosh, that looks hard!" he he he... in the end it was decided that she will make a sampler quilt, with each block getting a little more difficult... hopefully Julie won't notice that though... let's see

I did go to the Alton Quilt Group on Monday afternoon. There was a lot to sort out with the planning of the upcoming quilt exhibition. Ladies bought in some of their projects that would be on the 'for sale' table... I was so busy looking at the lovelies that I forgot to take pictures... he he he, I don't like to post without pictures... so I didn't!