Rs Quilt Class Rescheduled!

Hi everyone! Sorry about last week. I had the flu starting on Saturday 13 and lasting through this last weekend. It's good to be on the mend! Anyway.... hopefully all of you who are taking the quilt class got a call from my husband canceling it. Hopefully he also told you that it is rescheduled for tomorrow, June 24, 2009. I hope you can all come! Sorry about all this!

OOPS!!!!!

Sorry everyone! The RS quilt class is NEXT WEDNESDAY June 17, 2009. I forgot it's the THIRD Wednesday and not the second Wednesday. Don't go tomorrow! Here is a picture of the finished block. Here's the pattern:
http://www.quilterscache.com/J/JacobsLadderBlock.html

Also, we need to be thinking of what we want to do next. Do you want to keep doing piecing to practice your skills, or would you like to do applique or hexagons next? We will do it all eventually, but would you like to take a break from piecing and do something new? Leave a comment and let me know!

RS Quilt Class 6-10-09

Tomorrow we'll be having the RS quilt class at 7 at the church. We are going to be making half-square triangles and making a block called Jacob's Ladder. It will be helpful if you already have the fabric cut when you get there. Here's the pattern:

http://www.quilterscache.com/J/JacobsLadderBlock.html

RS Quilt Class

For those of you who are doing the RS quilt class, as far as I know there was not one scheduled for this month. We are going to change the day and place and I don't know what they have planned. When I got the calendar at the beginning of the month it wasn't on it. I'll keep you posted when I know what's going on!

RS Quilt Class

For those of you who are participating in the quilt class this week here is the pattern:

Austin/ Sawtooth Star

I chose this one becasue last month we did basic flying geese and this pattern uses them to make a star. Feel free to cut your fabric ahead of time or bring it on Wednesday to cut. I'll post a picture of mine when I get it done!

RS Quilt fabric choices

For those of you who have never sewn I thought I'd do a little lost on choosing fabric. This is overwhelming to some people. For this quilt I am going to do mine out of fabric that I already have. The blocks I showed in the previous post were made from fabric I had left over from other quilts. I did decide to use all fabric 1930's style. This is a good quilt to make with scraps as we are going to be working on it all year long. That way you don't have to worry about running out of a certain fabric. Here are some other examples of scrappy quilts I made in the past. This one is made of 1930's fabric. Each butterfly is different. This quilt is made of Civil War reproduction fabrics. Each basket is a different pattern and made from different fabric. I don't think any piece of fabric was used more than once.

When you get to the fabric store the newer lines of fabric will be near displayed together. Using fabric from the same line is a good way to make sure all your fabrics coordinate. In this case, where I can't tell you how much fabric to buy I don't know this is what you want to do. You could end up with not enough fabric and have it sold out in the store or you could have way too much making the cost of the quilt more expensive. Here are some quilts I've made using small pieces from a whole line.

This one is from the Cotton Blossoms.

This one uses the fabric from Dandelion Girl by Fig Tree Quilts.

If you want to choose all your own fabric I would suggest choosing a fabric with a print that has several colors that you love. You can pick it to match the room where the quilt will go or use your favorite colors. You will make sure all your fabrics coordinate with this fabric. For example:

When this fabric was chosen it was for a block swap with friends. We each made blocks and chose this fabric to use as the central fabric. We could choose any fabric that coordinated with this one. In addition to the brown we used fabrics in the red, green and blue. Most people used cream as a background color.

This is the finished quilt. The main fabric was used in the outer border.

This piece was used in one that I will hopefully get quilted and bound in the next few days. If you were using this fabric as your central piece in addition to other oranges you could use the teal, green, brown and white colors to find fabrics that coordinate. I will post the quilt to this in the next few days so stay tuned!

Now you know a little bit about choosing fabric. If you need help feel free to give me a call. Remember, the first class is Wednesday February 18 at 7pm at the church!

Relief Society Block of the Month

For those of you who will be joining me in our Relief Society quilt class here is a little preview of what we are going to be working on this year. We had planned on doing a life quilt, but because many people were interested in the class who had never sewn we decided to do a basic quilting class. We will be starting with a simple nine patch. Each block will be 12 inches finished. 12 1/2 before it's set in the quilt. The quilt will be a large throw size. If you would like to make more blocks to make the quilt bigger that will work too!This is the block for March. Many patterns call for flying geese, which is what these arrows are called, as a sub block. The finished quilt will look similar to this quilt. This quilt is one that my friends each did a block to give to every other person doing the quilt. Although the quilt we make will not use these exact blocks the finished quilt will be a sampler like this. There are many different ways to finish your quilt and we will talk about that as we go along.