Liberated Piecing Workshop for Quilters Guild Region 14 Contemporary Quilt Group

Last Saturday I was invited to teach a workshop on Liberated Piecing for the Region 14 Contemporary Quilt Group.

We had a great day making liberated stars, square in a square, asterisk and hash sign blocks, wonky trees and houses.

Here are some of the finished blocks.

Hope to see some finished items at the next meeting in April!

You can read Sandra's report on the workshop here

Log Cabin Cushion Cover for Running With Scissors Sheffield

On November 12th I did a workshop for Running With Scissors in Sheffield.
We made log cabin cushion covers in the 'Quilt as you go' method.
Here are the finished cushions!

It was a lovely new venue in Meersbrook Sheffield and everyone had a very enjoyable day with lots of time to play with bright modern fabrics.

I will be returning to Running With Scissors for a two day Patchwork Quilt workshop in the Spring of 2012.

Strings and Crumbs Workshop

On October 15th I did a workshop for the ladies in my Embroidery and Quilting group entitled 'Strings and Crumbs'.
In the morning we made string pieced stars.
Here are some photos of completed blocks.

In the afternoon we moved on to crumb piecing.

Cherry made a lovely doll quilt top.

Things get a bit messy with all those scraps!

Here are some of the lovely crumb blocks they made.

Liberated Piecing Workshop at Boston Spa

This past month I have been very busy teaching. I have had 4 Saturday workshops in a 6 week period and have also been lucky enough to start a new weekly class on Wednesdays in Thorpe Hesley near Rotherham.

Anyway, I think it is about time I reported on some of those past workshops, starting with the one on October 8th for the Tuesday Quilters at Boston Spa.

We started with a nice easy liberated square in a square block.

 Then we moved onto liberated stars

 Lots of lovely blocks produced.

 This one was the most liberated - Gwen Marston herself would have been proud of this one!

 In the afternoon we moved onto asterisk blocks which are great fun to make.

 And at the end of the workshop we tried some crumb piecing.

We had a lovely day and the ladies went home with lots of inspiration for new liberated quilts.
I am looking forward to joining you all again for another workshop in 2012!

Liberated Piecing workshop

In October I am going to teach this workshop for the Tuesday Quilters in Boston Spa and I realised that I had never posted these photos from the workshop I did with Barnsley Creative Embroiderers last October.
For this workshop I give instructions on how to make 6 liberated blocks and people decide what they would like to do.
Its a great way to use up your scraps to make charity quilts or it can be the start of a new quilt.

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It was a very enjoyable day and some great quilts were made following on from this workshop.

My Quilts on display at Great Northern Quilt Show Harrogate September 2010

Looking at the blog I realise that I have not posted photos of my quilt entries from the Harrogate Quilt Show. No rosettes this year but it was lovely to see my quilts on display.
This first quilt is Liberated Stars and was entered into the Cot Quilt category.
It is heavily machine quilted and features mitred borders, piping and wide binding - all techniques I worked on in workshops done with Philippa Naylor earlier this year.

The second quilt is called New Stripes on the Block. It is made from over dyed striped fabric that is pieced in the liberated style. There were many quilts in this small wallhanging category which outclassed my quilt in design and quilting but I really love it - just wish I had had enough fabric to make it bigger.

Applique Workshop and a quilt for Matthew.

On August 11th I taught an applique workshop for my group - Creative Embroiderers Barnsley.
We used bondaweb and then blanket stitch by hand to surround the shapes. The techniques I covered were the two stage blanket stitch, how to lock in points and internal curves and how to join in a new thread invisibly. All these simple tips help to give a much neater finish to your applique.

Here are some of the results.

On the same evening we presented this playmat and bag to one of our members, Joan and her new baby Matthew. The playmat was made by some of our members including myself and Kath (in photo). Kath isn't really so short - I am just tall!