::Quilting Inspiration::

October 9, 2011 by sewkatiedid

I’ve had a full week of inspiration.

Thursday ended my coin quilt class. My students impressed me as usual with their outside the box thinking.

Friday was our Friday night sew-in. I thought I’d share a few quilts present.

Noelle’s blocks from her Denyse Schmidt workshop. It was fun to watch her work on these.

I didn’t get a full shot of Cathy’s quilt. Her free-motion quilting is always amazing. She’s so focused. I tend to power through with the pedal to the metal and she’s smooth and meditative.

Sue put together another Value Quilt. Her piecing is precise, every point is sharp. I thought I was a bit done with value quilts, but think I have another in my future.

I love the added touch to the binding on Grace’s quilt, the colors with the grey and the single print added to the stars.

I brought my Scrappy Sunshine Quilt and another that I’ll show you later this week.

For the life of me I can’t remember the lady’s name that came with this jewel. It was so lovely and she was hand quilting the whole thing.

One block a night she said. I loved the colors and some of the fabrics are favorites.

That’s all I got pictures of before I got to work on a simple charm square quilt with all the leftovers from Scrappy Sunshine. Not super original, but easy for travel.

I spent all day Saturday teaching an Improvisational Techniques Workshop full of fun people. Everyone gravitated towards their favorite technique in the last two hours of free-time we had.

Today is football, hot and sour soup and a quilt back for Scrappy Sunshine. I love Sundays off.

Any quilting today for you?

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::Half Square Triangle Class:: $65 Thursday October 13th 6-9pm at the Quilting Loft in Ballard.

This versatile quilt block lends itself to endless design layouts. Come learn how to match seams and create perfect points. We’ll play with a layout that suites your style and you’ll walk away with ideas for a multitude of quilts.

::Centered Zip Pouch:: $45 Thursday October 27th from 6-9pm at the Quilting Loft in Ballard.

Come learn the ins and outs of constructing a professional looking lined centered zip pouch. Once you know the ropes you’ll be a production machine. Pouches make great gifts and are perfect for all levels of sewists.

Posted in Improvisational Quilting Classes, Improvisational Quilts, Quilts, Seattle Modern Quilting Guild | Tagged improvisation, improvisational patchwork, quilting, seattle, Seattle Modern Quilting Guild, workshops | 10 Comments

10 Responses

on October 9, 2011 at 6:55 pm | Reply Kim

Thanks so much for sharing the Friday sew-in pictures. So much inspiration and beauty in this one single post. The value quilts popping up everywhere have been so much fun to see.

My Sunday started out with quilting, but now I’m ripping.
on October 9, 2011 at 7:05 pm | Reply Thrifty Household

Those quilts are very, very beautiful indeed…
on October 9, 2011 at 8:02 pm | Reply Debbie

Very inspirational indeed! I’m piecing today, not quilting, but very fun trying to make an idea in my head reality!
on October 9, 2011 at 8:34 pm | Reply Sunday Stitches 10-9-11 | Sleepy Owl Studio

[...] Friday night was a Seattle Modern Quilt Guild Sew-in. My dear friend Katie (of Sew Katie Did) posted some great pictures. I’ll add add these simply because they make me smile. I love how engaged everybody is ~ [...]
on October 10, 2011 at 4:54 am | Reply Vanesa

You ladies are up to some awesome stuff in Seattle! What a great idea to post on WIP from the guild sew-in
on October 10, 2011 at 1:41 pm | Reply elsa

All lovely quilts and I do so want to come up to take a class with you sometime, it would be so fun!
on October 10, 2011 at 6:30 pm | Reply happy zombie

All the quilts are beautiful, but the gray and yellow one… I’m still waiting to exhale! Oh so beautiful!
on October 10, 2011 at 9:48 pm | Reply Katy

Love all those quilts, but I think the grey one at the bottom may be my favourite
on October 12, 2011 at 8:21 am | Reply Brigitte

Lots and lots of inspiration, an enriching post indeed, and I’m everytime again impressed by the warm/cold color quilt
- on October 12, 2011 at 4:49 pm | Reply Sew Katie Did
  
  This one I refer to as a value quilt, it uses every color and value you have in your stash. There is another blogger that put a spin on it with just warm/cool and those are gorgeous too, but it has created some confusion.
  
  xo