Quilt Class

Another time change…..why can’t we just pick a time and leave it alone? I’m all messed up already. My biological clock doesn’t adjust that quickly. LOL. 

It’s been a good week. I’m working hard on getting caught up and quite a few quilts got done this week. I didn’t get pictures of all of them, only a few. We’ve had cooler weather, and it’s been so nice. I usually prefer hot weather, but I think I was ready for a change. I spent some time yesterday afternoon cleaning house….I didn’t finish, but it was nice to have a little more energy. 

I taught a two-day class at quilt guild. The subject was “How to Use Your Scraps”. I talked about how I process my scraps so that they actually make it into quilts. At the end of the discussion, I handed out books with patterns for potato chip quilts. 

In case you are wondering, I got permission to reproduce the patterns and hand them out at the class. Everyone had pre-cut some “potato chips” and could choose which pattern they wanted to try. Here are a few of them. 

I think it’s interesting to see the different color choices. I started on one myself, but when I started trying to put them together, I realized I had sewn them wrong, so I started a different one. I didn’t get that far, but I worked on it at home Friday night and yesterday and got five rows done.

I still need three more rows. I hope I can get it done this week. My intention is to use it for a Project Graduation quilt. There are about 30 quilt patterns in the booklet. I would really like to try all of them. Well, that’s a goal, but it might not happen. I’ll see how far I can get with it.

Last night, I sat down and took apart the ones I had done wrong during the workshop. I turned on a Hallmark movie. I didn’t want to do it, but it wasn’t too bad once I got started. I plan to re-stitch them today.