Travel with me, back to my home town, to teach a class of wall hanging quilts!
Early on, the Memory Maker Quilt Guild of Perryville, Missouri invited me to teach a class of wall hanging quilts. I was trilled to drive down memory lane, where I had memorized every crack in the sidewalks around my neighborhood.
First, the quilters chose from a variety of patterns that finished as 36″ square quilts. You’ll see in photos below that they picked a variety of patterns, including the bee, butterfly, seahorse, and even the cauldron.
Quilters learned how to audition both beautiful sides of their fabrics by using value as their guide.
Learn more about VALUE here.
Their unique focus fabric choices reflected their maker’s style in the finished wall hanging quilts.
In addition, the stitchers used fusible applique and broderie perse techniques for these patterns.
After making their fabric selections and cutting and piecing the background fabrics, the students began the fusible applique and broderie perse phase of class.
A softy for nostalgia, I like to drive down my old bike-riding routes and good, ole Church Street.
Whether we were riding bikes or just playing outside all day long, I enjoyed a carefree childhood. I remember taking turns rolling down our terrace, wrapped in a quilt (what was my mom thinking?), playing “Penelope Pitstop” (only Peppermint Patti would understand), and putting on plays and magic shows in our yards. Those are some of the warm memories of my childhood.
Karla
We had a great turn-out of quilters and I couldn’t have been more happy with their creativeness when using my patterns. See just a few of their wall hanging quilts below.
Use Both Sides Category at Memory Maker Quilt Guild’s Show
Imagine my delight to learn they were having a Use BOTH Sides category of their class quilts in their next quilt show!
Setting up a booth as a vendor, I was even more delighted to see them hang their class quilts right across from my booth!
Similiarly, for my home town guild to arrange a whole quilt show category on my behalf was quite an honor! Below, you see many of the class wall hanging quilts entered into the judging.
Whether it means anything to anyone else in the world, this means the world to me.
My thanks to the members of Memory Makers Quilt Guild. Hope you enjoy seeing their very creative quilts from class.
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