Today was Sherri Lynn Wood's Improv That Block Squad workshop on her BravePatch channel. We were exploring the multitude of possibilities making a Friendship Star block.
Here is mine at the end of the day. I put them up with my previous Block Squad work. I think I'll be making more stars tomorrow to fill in some blanks. And maybe even sew some of this together. But, I'm not going to finish it until we've explored other blocks in the next few months.
I wasn't going to do this! I had planned to make some pieces for each of the monthly blocks of the Brave Patch "Improv That Block", set then aside, and then at the end or the sessions mash them all together into one quilt.
But, today I couldn't help myself, I squared up the smaller Orange Peel blocks I made yesterday, adding and subtracting fabrics as needed, and made a nice little group. I really like it though.
Today started with an early morning Tour of the Show with Mary Fons. She talked about the Special Exhibit of Jacqui Gehring's quilts, she is the featured speaker this year. And, we looked at the Maximalism quilts and a few others. Mary is always very fun, enthusiastic and full of information.
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| Mary Fons in front of one of Jacqui Gehring's quilts. |
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| Jacqui Gehring's quilts |
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| Some of Jacqui's quilts in honor of her father. |
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| Sherri with her award winning quilt, "Joy Bubble" |
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| Sherri with Charan's quilt. |
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| Me, Sherri and Claudia with Mickey's quilt. |
There was a Groove Session this morning with Brave Patch. This month was about a Mash-Up, using blocks from previous project and Play Sessions, mashing them together to make a quilt top.
Sherri talked about finding commonalities with the blocks and using that to create harmony.
I got out my 30 Minutes of Play blocks that I've made over the year with the Monday Sewcial group.
My blocks are mostly made using the same fabrics, blues, blacks and whites, and the occassion odd fabric.
This is how they looked at the beginning of the morning.
It's Monday - that means it's time for Brave Patch Monday Sewcial. And first, it's 30 Minutes of Play. Sherri Lynn and June joined us today, along with a lot of new folks. Here's mine - continuing with the same fabrics, pretty much.
After our 30 Minutes of Play at the beginning, I got caught up on the Art East Quilting little blocks. A new block pattern is released every Monday. I had two to do today.
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| #17 The Balloon |
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| #18 Churn Dash |
Took a workshop with Sherri Lynn Wood today on Improv Wedge Curves. Here's what I made:
The Brave Patch Book Club met today to talk about the book we've been reading (looking at, because there's more pictures than words), Woman House.
After, I sewed together some of the white with black squares for the Crushing It quilt I had stacked up. I cut them into their new shape. That was fun. Lots more to go though.
Just for fun I took the parts I had cut out and sewed them together. No, I don't know what I'll do with them, but they will make interesting seeds for some new project.
Day 9 of the #30daysketchbookchallenge and today's prompt is "In the Bathroom".
My first thought was, yuck. But, I thought the pedestal sink in the new downstairs bathroom is interesting looking. So, I drew it.
It's so hard to paint white. I seem to make the shading too dark. This ended up looking more grey than white. I even used a bit of white gouache to try to tame those greys, but alas...
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| I sketched it out in pencil first. |
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| Then inked it, erased the pencil lines and added color. |
The workshop, Building Rhythmic Structures with Sherri Lynn Wood, started with an introduction to Eliza Hardy Jones, a musician and quilter. She talked about her quilts, showed us pictures and explained how she made them based on music and song and rhythm.
Afterwards, Sherri led us through some exercises and we worked on making different rhythmic structures.
We listened to some Philip Glass songs while we worked.
I continued to work on my Field of Jeans project from the weekend while visiting with my Brave Patch friends on our weekly get-together.
Here is where it ended up. I still have a bit to do. It seems to get more and more complicated as I go. But I figured out that if I put up the pieces, as a road map, it makes it a bit easier. I am ending up with some partial seams though.
I'm auditioning a bit of that bright red I rejected yesterday. At this point I like it and will probably leave it in. What do you think?
Our next selection for the Brave Patch Book Club is "This Long Thread" by Jen Hewett. I ordered it from her website. It arrived today, lovingly wrapped in tissue and she signed the title page. I can't wait to get started reading it.
Only because I spent the afternoon with my buddies on Brave Patch today did I get all this accomplished on the current Dancing With the Wall project from Coupeville. Otherwise, I would have left the studio because of the heat. But, I perservered and stayed up there sewing.
Look, I have very little left to do, besides sewing all of the 'blocks' together.
I thought I'd work on something simple while attending this week's Brave Patch meeting. I pulled out the Opening Night stuff and finished off another little star. I think I've only got three more to do.
Our Brave Patch community is currently working on their Improv Daisy patterns. So, I got mine out and started working on it again.
I had stopped because I was stumped on how to proceed. I got some advice and decided to just do one bit at a time and not worry about the whole thing.
That worked better for me and I was able to make some headway. I've got the top left quarter sewn together.
Sew, cut apart, press seam open, trim. Repeat 480 times.
That's how it goes for the expanded blocks made form a Quilt Freedom Workshop.
Oh, my aching neck and arm.
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| upper right is the picture of the original blocks I'm trying to replicate, but in different colors, of course. |
I attended the Floating Squares Zoom Workshop with Sherri Lynn Wood today. It started at 8am and I was upstairs in the studio until about 3pm. It was great fun and the day went very fast.
