Went to the Surrey Arts Centre yesterday to look at the Fraser Valley Quilting Guild's small show and met 5 wonderful women watching over the quilts. They were fantastic. I didn't include any pictures because they weren't mine to show but if you want to see them go to http://www.fvqg.org/showtell.php for a look see. They were amazing and inspiring. They have a speaker this week - Kathy McNeil, and you must go heard of her for her quilts with such life like quilts of birds, that is a block of the month, and one well worth doing. Check it out at http://www.kathymcneilquilts.com . She taught at the FVQG a block that was closely related to her quilt (see below for the original).
In other great news one of the girls there also teaches free style quilting, and I spent about 30 minutes talking to her alone. One of the great advices she gave me was that it takes at least 250 hours before you become an expert at free style quilting, so it was encouraging considering I feel inadequate on it. After that I tried it on my valentine quilt. Here are the results...
Can you see the hearts....
Around the leaves and stems
The more I did it the better I got with the hearts....
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On a final note, I finished my Secret Santa quilt, and it looks fabulous. Like its London-based counterpart, Notting Hill by Joel Dewberry is a community of fashionable, European-inspired designs that blend a variety of patterns and stunning floral motifs. Try on this unexpectedly harmonious, fashion-forward and color rich fabric collection for a dashing result. It's very forgiving, easy to gather up the material, can be done numerous times and it will never look the same. I've made mistakes in this quilt, put the same fabric by each other a couple of times and still it looked great. The pattern is here, try it out. My quilt is done in flannel. The cat won't stop sleeping on it.
See the error? Still looks great! |
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