Going Round in Circles!

Today Tuesday Quilters had a workshop taught by Janet Crossley. We worked on a 'Circles and Triangles' quilt of easy and quick blocks made by piecing half square triangles in contrasting colours and then fusing circle on top. I chose a dark purple and white fro the triangles and a multicoloured batik for the circles. Janet brought some samples to show us:

Everyone worked very hard and we got loads of blocks finished! I love workshops like this because it's fascinating to see which colours everyone has chosen. I always think they have made better choices than me!
Here are just a few:

Norma chose lovely warm colours.

Jean had gorgeous oriental fabrics.

Janet chose creamy yellow and raspberry to tone with her focus fabric.

Sue's green and black triangle were a perfect background for this beautiful floral.

Mandy chose vibrant batiks in purple and lime.

I found a multocolour batik to go with my purple and white.

As you can see it was lots of fun! I'm really looking forward to seeing some finished quilts - will they be ready for show and tell at the next meeting?

Happy Quilting!

Hazel

Tessellated Tuesday!

Our May theme was 'Tessellations' and June gave us a fantastic demonstration of how to put together the quilt shown above, helped by her lovely assisstant Norma. Thank you both for patiently showing this 3 times so everyone good see!

We had a show and tell as usual so here is a gallery of some of the quilts:

Eileen's scrap quilt. Her clever use of colour has created diamonds in light medium and dark shades.

June's Linus quilt has lovely nine patch blocks and freemotion quilting in the sashing.

Who made this lovely quilt? Can you see that the background is made from hexagons?

Hazel's little quilt is a tessellation of leaf shapes.

Tumbling blocks -a really easy quilt especially if you cut the shapes on a Go!

Next month our them will be Log Cabins so please bring along any examples you have - any size, shape and colour as well as your latest projects fro show and tell.