Today was the London Friendship Quilters' Guild "Quilt 'til You Wilt". Karen and I were keeners and arrived just before 8am to set up our sewing machines. Karen worked on Indian Orange Peel arcs all day and managed to make a lot of progress finishing 30 arcs bringing her total to 80! She has started another 20 so soon will be at the 100 mark!
I worked on my Blue Ridge Beauty blocks and got quite a few done. I think I will make this quilt queen size so I still have more blocks to make. The pattern is by Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville.com.
I have bits and pieces of every blue fabric I have ever owned in this quilt!
I decided to start a new project this afternoon. I have been intrigued by Tonya Ricucci's free pieced letters so I tried out a few from some food fabric that I have in my stash.
My husband gave me Gwen Marston's Liberated Quilts II book for Christmas so I made some liberated baskets to go with my FRESH letters. I think there needs to be some borders between the FRESH part and the baskets so I will have to see what I can come up with.
This project made me hungry! Luckily, we were well fed all day! (and we did not have to do the dishes!)
I also pieced my block for the next Elgin Piecemakers' guild Chemo Quilt.
You can see more pictures of our QTYW day on the London Friendship Quilters' Guild Blog soon.
Sounds like the perfect day :)
ReplyDeleteYour fresh quilt makes me feel hungry! Great job!
You sure got a lot accomplished!
Wow, what a productive day. I love the Blue Ridge quilt and your liberated baskets.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see everyone is working hard on their units. I look forward to class number two!
ReplyDeleteWould you be so kind as to provide a direct link to the free letter patterns? I'd so appreciate it?
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