Colonial Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild – Williamsburg, VA May, 2011
Posted By drsao on May 7, 2011
Today was a beautiful day……sunny, cool…….perfect. It was a great day to go to Williamsburg and be inspired by all of the beautiful quilts in show and tell!
Joyce and Sherry gave us a preview of all of the upcoming programs and we got a GREAT LAUGH out of her faux pas…….”If it is August, it must be Augusta Cole!” AND…..she wants us to bring our CRAP QUILTS —- oops SCRAP QUILTS…..to this meeting……we loved it! (YES, she really said this AND YES, she is blushing!)
Sherry and Joyce shared upcoming program highlights!
Debby Kratovil was our guest today and OH MY, did we ever learn a lot! Here are my TOP FOUR THINGS THAT I LEARNED!
Debbie Kravotil
1. It is perfectly OK to attach binding to a quilt with your machine!
2. You can add a WIDE BINDING (3 1/2:”) and sew it to the back of the quilt and flip it to the front – and VOILA, it will look like a little border! CLEVER!
3. Instead of doing inset seams you can put seams in your half square triangles…..I am not sure this makes sense, BUT I KNOW WHAT I MEAN!
4. Paper piecing works great for making crisp, clean star points!
AS USUAL, Catherine entertained us with her product report – loved the little FLOCKED fabric strip holder. Did you notice the fantastic DOLL NECKLACE that she was wearing? She made this!!!!
Cute FLOCKED Hangar for your STRIPS and BINDINGS!
Catherine also shared the baby quilt that I made and that Karen Murray quilted with words of encouragement…..why did she share it instead of me you ask? BECAUSE Catherine is so fluent and clever and entertaining and we love to hear from her! 🙂
Catherine sharing sao's quilt
Karen Murry quilted words of encouragement into the quilt
We had wonderful show and tells – of the NUT TUB CHALLENGE and from Catherine’s ART QUILT CLASS!
I hope you enjoy the pictures!
Sew much talent you have around you. I absolutely love the idea of a 3-1/2 inch binding flipped to the front and sewn. I am definitely going to try that one – guess you would just have to cut the backing and batting larger.
Lovely pictures, Shirley – glad you had such a good time. Judy C