Last Friday evening, I did a trunk show/presentation at the monthly meeting of the Blue Mountain Quilters Guild.
On Saturday, I did a workshop for the guild on Freezer Paper Piecing. I provided patterns – a choice of a fairly simple Maple leaf pattern or a more complex Japanese Maple leaf pattern. Here are the 2 class samples that I made a while ago.
All of the participants elected to make the simpler maple leaf block – and by the end of the day most of them had completed their blocks. I made a photo collage of 9 of the blocks (I think there were actually 10 finished blocks, but I must have missed taking a photo of one of them). I love seeing how each block looks so different, based on each person’s fabric selections.
Everyone said they enjoyed the class, and they now have another technique in their ‘toolkit’. Here’s some additional information about the tips and techniques I teach at this workshop.
If you live in the metro Vancouver area, you may be interested in knowing that I’ll be doing another trunk show/presentation on Wednesday, March 18th at the Seymour Quilters’ Guild meeting.
Meanwhile, the collaborative quilt I’m working on with my sister Anne is back on my design wall. On the left you can see how it looked when I last worked on it. On the right, you can see what it looks like now. I moved a few pieces around in the middle section. I hope to have more progress to show on this by the end of the week.
Thanks for stopping by. Today, I’m linking up with these blogs – click on the links below, where you’ll find many creative and inspirational projects.
Love the leaf blocks
I like your revised collaboration…the weight has shifted, I think, and it’s a bit more “balanced”…without losing interest. 🙂
Thanks for your comment. I have a hard time looking at this objectively, so it’s great to have an objective opinion.
beautiful leaves ! I’d love to try them someday.
The leaf blocks are great, I shall have to try out your FP method – thanks for sharing it with us.
ukcitycrafter@live.co.uk