On the Go!

Oh! this has been one kind of hectic week. I won't bore you with all the things that I have been doing but I will tell you that I have not been at home very much. I have not even done any kind of sewing except for some blocks at this workshop I attended on Tuesday. Our guild offered a workshop with Froncie Quinn. She spoke at our guild the night before. Froncie is a licensed museum pattern writer for the Shelburne Museum. She brought lots of quilts and she shared the history of each quilt. She also shared how she goes about re-creating and writing the patterns. It was a very interesting lecture. You can see all the quilts and patterns on her web site.

 For the workshop we all got the Calico Garden quilt pattern. It is a 39" x 49" baby quilt. The original quilt was made by Florence Peto in about 1950.

 Froncie talked to us about the 9 patch blocks and the way Florence Peto made them. Each of Florence's blocks had a special fussy cut fabric in the center of the block. Enclosed in each pattern packet is the history of the quilt, very detailed instructions, and freezer paper patterns for the applique. There is also a certificate you can send to Froncie when you finish the quilt. She will sign it and seal it confirming that you have completed an American Treasure. When you complete a quilt your name will also be entered in the Shelburne Museum Quilt Registry which is pretty cool!

The main reason I took this workshop was to learn more about hand piecing blocks. I have not had a class on hand piecing even though I have done some myself. I wanted to learn the right way to do it.I did learn some things in the workshop.The original quilt was made all by hand. We also learned about needle turn applique using freezer paper on top and broderie perse. Here are my three blocks I got made in the class. 

 Next is some show and tell. Here is mine. Take a close look and you can see Mrs. Cardinal sitting on the nest.

During lunch time at the workshop some ladies brought some really great quilts to show us. Of course, I think many of you are familiar with this Dear Jane quilt. The lady who made it finished in a year.

 This top was a re-creation of an antique quilt one lady had seen once.

 Another fun quilt.

 This one was made in the mid 1800's. It was in really good shape.

 Close up of one of the blocks.

Another really old quilt.

 This is a portion of quilt that was cut from a bigger quilt and used for a baby quilt.

Last week I went to my applique bee. There was only two things to show so I thought I would share them now.

 These two pieces were made by Alice who does superb applique as you can.

I am way behind on  replying to the comments made on the last posts. I hope to get to them soon. My husband has the next 4 days off so we will probably be in the garden most of the time. We still have more garden beds to make so that we can be ready to plant more seeds soon.

With Passion,
Carrie P.