Shirley Anne’s Heart

Augusta Cole’s Cutting Bee January 31, 09

Posted By drsao on February 1, 2009

Saturday I attended my FIRST CUTTING BEE hosted by Augusta Cole…..and it won’t be my LAST cutting bee. It really was LOTS OF FUN.

Twenty-four quilters each brought in 20 1/2 yard fabrics cut into 4 1/2 and 2 1/2 inch strips. Half of the fabrics were lights and half were darks. We put all of the fabrics on long tables and then we each drew a number out of a basket. Augusta announced the starting numbers and those were the ones who were first in line…..I was NUMBER 12 – and yes, I sure did take a picture of my number! :):)

We walked (skipped?) around the tables and selected the ANNOUNCED number of strips until we had depleted the fabric on the tables. You MUST NOTICE IN MY PICTURES HOW SOME QUILTERS EVER SO NEATLY LINED UP THEIR FABRICS. It was pretty impressive. Also notice MY FABRICS flowing – NOT SO NEATLY – from my basket. 🙂

After we had selected and arranged our fabric, neatly or not, came more fun – trying to decide which of the many patterns of scrappy quilts that we wanted to use to turn our newly selected scrappy fabrics into a wonderful HAPPY SCRAPPY QUILT. Some of Augusta’s friends had another name for them – SCRAPPY and USE YOUR IMAGINATION FOR THE SECOND RHYMING WORD. I chose the Hidden Pinwheel Pattern! WHO KNEW that there were SO MANY QUILTS that could be made from only 2 1/2 and 4 1/2 inch strips! There were SEVERAL THAT I LIKED – so choosing was the hard part!

We had a wonderful time – we had a great lunch – got to see our fearless leader (Augusta) ride around the room on her scooter (to see how we were all doing!) And that wasn’t all – Augusta also did a couple of nifty demos – and many of us left with the square-up ruler! She also passed around her special exercise cushion – I have one and it really is good for getting a little exercise while sitting still! 🙂

If you haven’t heard of Augusta Cole, go to her website at www.augustacolequilting.com and you can read and see more!!!

Enjoy the pictures!!