Irene is taking great care with her Bargello project. She said this one was just for practice and it's turning out very well. She's following the instructions from her book and, to help a little, she's following the piece she already stitched, you should just be able to make out the strips pinned on there.. it's very easy to loose your way with these quilts.
Dotty must have stopped sleeping... if you remember she had a pile of chain pieced bits last time we saw her... she has made so much progress that we suspect she's fitting a night shift into her routine! The plaid fabrics are quite soft and very easily distorted if your not careful, don't they look fabulous...
Anne laid her blocks out so as to keep them all in the right order and was walking millions of miles from these tables to where her sewing machine was. In the end we set up a workspace in the corner all for her very own self... if you had walked into the room and seen this, you would have thought that Anne had been sent to the naughty corner.. he he he
Foxy Margaret, what can I say... she has such a great attitude to scrappy piecing. She opened up of box of bits of fabric, half square triangles and cut squares... some left from the workshop we did last June with Katherine Guerrier.. and said... I want to use these, what shall I do?... I played and she stitched.. a perfect combination, this project will evolve before your very own eyes... I hope!
Gail arrived with three thousand miles of Faux Piped Binding already prepared... at least she thought it was ready.... we have discovered that we get a better result with one more process before sewing it to the quilt... I'll keep that little secret for when you come to class,
it's a totally top tip! Gail then trimmed all the crusts from her quilt sandwich and set about stitching on the binding, boy does it look fab...
Gilly's Log Cabin blocks are growing, slowly but surely and very accurately indeed... Every block carefully clipped together with the binding clips so she keeps all in good order. you can just see that the blocks are beginning to out grow their plastic box too.
Helen's been rooooshing, rooooshing and more rooooshing,.. she and Maid Marion have finished their faggoting
(this word, Faggoting, makes me smile... every time I here it, are you thinking Mr. Brain's too?) and now they both, that will be Helen and Marion, have to roooosh about 25 metres of fabric strips,... they're both getting quite excited about reaching the part when the blocks can start to be stitched together, it's making them both work faster, faster...
Wendy's table... looks like she started something new, paper piecing (not my favourite thing to do I must admit).. luckily I got the picture of the quilt she's making in this shot because without it, it might not have made any sense at all, I expect we will see this quilt finished by next week...
more later...
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