Continuing with our guild’s scrap theme from my two previous posts – in August the theme was appliquéing with scraps. I showed two ways of using small scraps, one for scraps with fusible web on the back, and one without. We had a new challenge coming up for the Christmas meeting, “Make a Christmas pillow from scraps”, so I used simple Christmas trees as a shape.
These trees are quilted and made into pillows; a tutorial on how to make them is coming up.
In October I demonstrated Ticker Tape. I had never done this technique before so this pillow was my first attempt.
Orange is the perfect neutral I’d say.
I also played with the simple Christmas tree shape, making a Ticker Tape Tree.
The panel is quilted and ready to make into a pillow. A tutorial on how to make such a tree is also coming up.
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Continuing with our guild’s scrap theme from my previous post – in April we displayed the results from our mugrug/placemat challenge, pictures posted here.
2 ½” was the theme for our May meeting and I demonstrated several blocks made from 2 ½” strips (original post here)
This block was one of the most popular as it comes with a twist (tutorial coming up).
In June we talked about crazy quilts and I did a step by step demonstration. Grandson’s pillow was made with this theme in mind.
It’s as crazy as it gets.
I layered batting and backing and started adding scraps in all 4 corners and the middle, stitch-and-flip-quilt-as-you-go style.
As the 5 clusters of scraps melted together, pieces were topstitched to cover all raw edges.
I wanted to tie everything together with red tacks, but I could not get them right.
After several failed attempts, I gave up on tacking and couched red yarn in vertical lines instead.
Worked like a charm! This pillow gets a lot of love:)
I am currently serving my second year as the leader of our guild, and was quite active regarding last year’s theme – Scraps. You all know how I love my scraps, so that’s probably no surprise, so
I thought I would share some of the things I worked on during the year, starting at the beginning.
In January we presented the first scrap challenge which was to make a small quilt from the size of a mugrug and up to a place mat. I made two quilts as examples and blogged about them here.
In February we presented our block swap of the year which was a diagonal string blocks with a white strip in the middle
(step by step tutorial posted on the guild blog here).
I also played around with different setting possibilities in EQ7
(all of them were posted here).
We also had a scrap workshop where I demonstrated different ways to make scrap blocks and generally had great fun with our fellow guild members. I worked on some simple string pillows which I have embellished with yarn and free motion drawing.
It is a very simple yet decorative way of jazzing up string blocks (or any block). I will post a tutorial on how to do this later.
These small pillows probably spend more time on the floor than on the couch upstairs, serving as weapons in pillow fights…
Our guild, Rogaland Quiltelag, meets once a month. A part of our meetings, as of so many other guilds, is the raffle that finishes our evening together. The guild will purchase prizes from whatever shop that is present at the meeting, add some from the prize stash, and guild members who have previously won will also bring prizes. I always buy 5 tickets with 10 numbers on each; sometimes I win, but most times I don’t.
Without knowing the number of tickets sold that evening, I cannot tell you what the odds are that I would win anything at all, but I can tell you that those odds worked in my favour leaving my hand raised embarrassingly often.
Not a bad way to feed my stash I’d say.
I also won an issue of the magazine, Quiltemagasinet, and when opening it, I realized that it was the very issue in which the first article about me and my work was. Talk about meant to be.
I have recently re-joined the board of the guild, so I’m planning to do some posts about guild business - both to share my ideas and hear yours – and since we are on the topic of raffles, how do the raffles in your guilds and groups work?
