First, we had Show-and-Tell. I showed my baby quilt top and my paintings of the Christmas tree farm and another one that I have not posted here yet. I dropped the paintings off at Michael's on the way home to get them framed.
Roberta had an array of beautiful hand-made cuffs.
I loved the one she was wearing.
Our hostess, Toni, made a great-looking T-shirt quilt, quilted by my friend Cathy Kirk.
Marion made a unique background display for quilt pins from a folded fabric technique.
After a delicious salad lunch, we proceeded to show off our red/purple flower blocks for our group challenge. Don't they look beautiful grouped on the table?
Several members made more than one block. What a wide variety, from the simple broderie perse rose, to the traditional blocks at the upper left, to the exotic in the second row!
We decided to slice each block into four equal parts. Marion volunteered to be the slicer and dicer.
As soon as they were cut up, we started playing with the pieces to recombine them.
Everyone got one section of their own block back, and chose three more. I thought we played very nicely during this game!
When I got home I tried mine in different combinations on my design wall.
We decided we would add stems and leaves to our blocks. I found some pieced beige fabrics already in strips, probably left over from some Debbie Mumm-inspired quilt projects in the nineties.
Now I have to figure out how to join my flower squares, design a stem and leaves, quilt, and embellish. Each person will make an individual quilt with a hanging sleeve. They will be hung together if we decided to enter the in a quilt show. Can't wait to see how they all turn out!
2 comments:
Jeanne, What a great idea this is! I think I will suggest it to my small quilt group next time we meet. We usually try to do a "group project" at least once a year.
wow so this is how the flower came to be. What a great idea.
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