For the Love of Baskets Class is in Session

 

Hello Everyone,

 

The baskets of good holiday wishes for the 4th of July are brought to you by the girls in my For the Love of Baskets class at In Between Stitches.

 

Lorraine set up her little Featherweight and made her little cutie from the kit I put together for the quilt.

 

Chris' husband surprised her and bought the kit prior to the class. What a guy!  Happy Anniversary you two lovebirds!

Here's her block, on the pattern layout sheet.....just waiting to be stitched.

Kaye is using fabrics from her stash and what a wonderful stash it is!  Kaye and I first met at the shop over five years ago while I was drooling over her stash.  She adds little bits to her stash and makes beautiful quilts.

Sylvia bought the kit and dug right in.  She is relatively new to quilting and made these two little gems.  She's all ready to set up a quilting day with my sister Gail, and the two of them are going to have baskets-o-plenty when they get together.

Gail, my pattern tester, is having a great time making her beautiful blocks from her stash.  I like the addition of the light lavender background.  I think it is going to make her quilt sparkle.

Gail made copies of the block layout sheet so she's laying out four sets of blocks at a time.  Once you get to this point, the blocks just fly together.

The girls are making their half-square triangles 4 at a time using my tutorial located HERE under the virtual classroom tab. They were beginning with a 4" block not an 8" block that I used in the tutorial.

Happy 4th of July everyone.

Soon,
Lynn

It's Official

Hello Everyone,

 

It's finally official and I can let the cat out of the bag. I'll be teaching my patchwork math for quilting components class at Quilting in the Garden on Wednesday, September 25th! For details click HERE.

 

 

 

It's even more exciting that Sue Abrey (Quilt Sue) is coming from England and Sue will be teaching Naughts and Crosses on Thursday, September 26th from her Pick Four book!  For details click HERE. What could be more exciting than that you ask?  Well, Sue is going to be staying with me for her first visit to California! 

 



 

Sue and I have become blogging buddies over the past few years and now we finally get to meet. Mr. Joe and I will have the pleasure to wine and dine her, show off our beautiful state, and really get to know each other.  We'll spend some time at the cabin and the bears promised to stay away during her visit.

 

We will be together at Alden Lane Nursery on Wednesday and Thursday in each others class. We would love to meet many of you during our classes and at the quilt show on Saturday & Sunday at the In Between Stitches booth.  I have a strong feeling Sue's sense of humor or (humour) is going to keep us in stitches!  This is a "twofer week"......you can take my class one day and Sue's the next.  We plan on having a great time and I know you will too at Quilting in the Garden.

 

More details about our classes will be available soon on the Quilting in the Garden website.  I'm off to teach at the shop this morning.  Stay cool!

 

Soon,

Lynn

Country Charmer Quilt Along

Hello Everyone,

 

This is the first of the month and that means it's Country Charmer QAL update time.  The first of the month keeps rolling around way toooooo fast!

 

I want to thank Lesley, The Cuddle Quilter for organizing the QAL.  Go to Lesley's blog HERE for the QAL information.  Lesley just finished her sashing and posted pictures.  It is gorgeous, as I knew it would be!  Also, happy Canada Day to Lesley and all of my Canadian blog readers.

It's never to late to join in the no pressure, no deadline QAL.  Just work on it when you can.  My quilt is traveling to Oregon and will be on display in The Quilt House booth at the Oregon Summer Quilt Expo.  Stop by The Quilt House booth and tell Janet that Lynn sent you. The quilt expo is in conjunction with the quilt show in Sisters Oregon.

 

The quilt will then travel to the International Quilt Festival in Long Beach the first weekend in August and will be in The Quilt House booth again.  My quilts travel much more than I do!

I'm off to the shop to work this morning.  This is day 4 of our oppressive heat wave. Severe heat warnings were issued again this morning.  Melissa has invited everyone to come to the nice, cool shop for a fun day of sewing both today and Wednesday.  The shop will be a great "cooling center" so you can sew in comfort. I'll also be at the shop tomorrow teaching, so I'll be cool, calm and collected while spending the day with my friends.  Come on down and join us!

Soon,
Lynn