I'm taking a month long workshop with Maria Shell. The workshop is called Round and Round and we will be making Medallion quilts. On this first week we were asked to make a sketch or a plan for our medallion, to pick a palette of fabrics and make our center block.
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| I want a rectangular quilt, not a square one. It adds a degree of difficulty! |
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| My fabrics, so far. Most of these colors are not showing up correctly. Oh well. |
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| My center block. It took me several days to make all of those tiny 1" HSTs. |
I joined the Improv That Block Squad and Sherri Lynn Wood this morning. We worked on improv-ing the Orange Peel block.
Here's what I had done by the end of the day.
I almost followed directions today.
Here's the improv block I made with direction from Cheryl Arkison on IG today, because it's Tuesday and it's Quilters Playcation 2024.
It's Tuesday, time for Cheryl Arkison's Quilters Playcation 2024.
Today's live feed was earlier and I missed it. But, when I tuned into Instagram at 1pm, the reel was up and I watched it then.
Cheryl made a 4-patch of 4-patches using small scraps. I made something slightly different, using my scraps.
This is week 19.
Here's my interpretation of Cheryl Arkison's week 14 of Quilters Playcation 2024 improv block:
It's been a while since I've seen blue in the sunrise.
Here is my block for today's Sunrise block:
I was soooo excited about the new Quilter's Playcation 2024 with Cheryl Arkison, I could hardly wait for Tuesday to roll around.
But, I was a little disappointed with this week's block. Cheryl demo-ed a block of strips. I didn't want to do that at the time. So, I went a little crazy and made a block with the braided curves, like I've been doing with my Sunrise blocks. I guess I have them on my mind.
Today on the Brave Patch Monday Sewcial we skipped the 30 Minutes of Play. Instead, I got the 'blocks' I've made over the year so far and put them up on my design wall. Then we all decided on where we thought the blocks should be placed.
I got a lot of advice, mostly unanimous, and moved the blocks around.
It was a lot of fun and gave me a lot of ideas and things to consider.
I got the Solstice Star quilt loaded onto the longarm and quilted straight lines one inch apart until I had to roll it. Then I moved onto something more fun.
I went back to the Cheryl Arkison Playcation 2022 blocks. Today was blocks 24 and 25.
We had a good time today on the Monday Sewcial. First it was 30 Minutes of Play. The prompts were a personal color, mine was Sultry Maple (?), shape=curve, inspiration=something from the kitchen.
Here's what I made:
I trimmed up a few of the parts for my project and then they didn't fit right anymore. It was very frustrating. I was conflicted about what to do about it. Should I add something in there? - then it would be wider and I really didn't want that. Should I just sew them together as is? - then it wouldn't be square anymore and I'd have to cut something off. I decided to let it stew for a while.
Today, I went back up to the studio after staying away for a few days.
I looked at the project and decided to try putting some more teal in the gap.
What do you think?
Here's how it looked at the end of day two. Still lots to do.
I'll sleep on it.
I can't believe that the more fabric I use on the project, the bigger the pile I take them from gets. How does that happen?
Took a workshop with Sherri Lynn Wood today on Improv Wedge Curves. Here's what I made:
