I spent Saturday morning with some of the Charleston Modern Quilt Guild members at their monthly Sit and Sew at the very fun fabric store Five-Eighth Seams (quilt fabrics and much more) over in North Charleston.
Cathy Beemer started teaching us how to make an incredible scrappy block that she is also making. Cathy is a MASTER piecer and quilter. This block is 30 inches square, and she will be making a quilt that is 90 by 90 with her scrappy blocks. Each block quarter piece will be scrappy and different.
Here’s an alternative center she showed us.
And a purple “lollipop” pattern.
More strip pattern ideas here–I could have taken more and more pics as Cathy showed us how to start off.
Cathy loves quilter Maria Shell’s work, of course. But she very much does her “own thing” too.
This quilt hung at Houston–I think she told me. And she has at least one quilt in this year’s QuiltCon, going on right now in Raleigh, NC.
I came home to the rest of my seafood chowder–cooked in the oven and made the day before.
And I keep meaning to show this picture of roasted veggies, just because they are so pretty. And, were delicious.
I’ve already color sorted my solid fabric strips and have cut out pieces for my first center. I’m going for the pinwheel!
But first, first…the last 1920-30’s reproduction quilt in the series of 3. It’s coming along.
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