On Monday, I was part of the guild workshop. It was just a 3 hour workshop and we ended up with so many wanting to attend that Diane offered to teach another class in the morning. I was part of the morning workshop. It was great fun as usual!
Diane is very funny, a bit cutting at times, but we all had a blast. Everyone needs a bit of time to play with fabric and laugh with girls!! 🙂
I made the iris wallhanging in the top center. The other choice for the workshop was the sunflower. Diane wore the queen’s crown, her husband had on a jester hat, and she had princess crowns for us. Then I got in big trouble for not wearing mine as it gave me a headache! In 3 minutes! 😦
They set up a wonderful display of her patterns that we could see during the workshop and for the program.
I just put these together in a page, not stitched photos but you get the idea. My favorites are the Flower Boxes (top photo, 3rd from the right) and the Christmas horns (bottom photo 1st on the lower left) so I bought those patterns. I also got the Welcome sign in a kit.
I had my project done by noon when class was to end so headed home. I was NOT done with my round robin project for the month yet and it was due that night! :gasp!!: After lunch and unstitching much, I finished it at 2. Ha!
I returned at 6 to help distribute the raffle quilt kits, exchange charm squares, and return my round robin. Diane gave the 7:00 program.
This is a beautiful Christmas hanging!
We showed our workshop projects (above). Very hard to get a photo with a large group! This is only 1/2 of us!
Show & Tell included:
Kathy's Farmer's Wife quilt
Donna's quilt given to Pat (in peach) who quilted it.
Barb's Mittens (with glow-in-the-dark backing fabric!! 🙂 )
Next blog posts…. the Round Robin reveals!! 🙂
and sew on... 
Hope your quilt raffle goes well! How much are the tickets? Did you get some good civil war fabric again this month? Still waiting to get to a good quilt shop here…
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Tickets will go on sale in 2012… usually $1 each or 6 for $5 sort of thing. I’ll keep you posted!
Yes, this month the charms were to be purple. I like the CW purples! 😉 I keep telling myself I need to wait until I get more months done before I make something with them. But I love them NOW! 😉
Oh these are beautiful! I like all of them but glow in the dark backing? Love it 🙂
Okay, so explain the iris thing — it’s a kind of applique on the black background?? Or not really?? Very cool kits/patterns, just trying to figure out how they work 🙂
Yes, the iris is a fused appliqué piece. We chose to use a heavy-duty fusible so that it stays without being sewn down. The pieces are cut from the colored fabric and arranged on a large black fabric with spaces to show the “leading” as in stained glass.
The wonderful part of the class is that she provided the kits. The kits included the pattern ALREADY traced onto fusible! 🙂 It was great fun and went quickly. Which one are you interested in receiving? 😉