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CHARM PACK CHALLENGE!
While at Fall
Quilt Market last October, we picked up a Charm Pack for each of
your employees and CHALLENGED them to make quilts for our April
window. These pictures only
begin to show the delightful
results (and there are three more quilts - one on the wall above
the view shown at the right, and two on the diagonal bar in the
store). We have ordered patterns (and most are already here) so
that you can make the one that you like the best.
On the left in the left-hand picture is
Emma,
a great "beginner" quilt; each of the charm squares is cut in half
to create the patches in the stacks of "Chinese Coins." The
instructions may be found on pages 18-21 in
3 Times the Charm!
7 Quick & Easy Designs - 21 Unique Looks, by Barbara
Groves and Mary Jacobson, Leisure Arts, 2011. In
Charming,
to the right of
Emma, Shirley used 2 charm packs, setting
the 5" squares on point. The pattern for
Charming is our
own, and includes instructions for cutting the side-setting and
corner-setting triangles.
Morning Star graces the far
corner of this window, and gives you lots of practice with the
Sew-&-Flip technique for adding triangular corners to
rectangles. Look on pages 82-85 in
The Big Book of Nickel
Quilts, 40 Projects for 5-Inch Scraps, by Pat Speth with
Charlene Thode, Martingale, 2013.
Jennifer, at the far right, is
from Barbara Groves and Mary Jacobson's follow-on book,
3 Times
the Charm! Book 2. 21 Irresistible Options Using Charm Packs,
pp. 10-12; in this design, each charm square is sewn with a 5"
square of off-white background fabric, to create squares from two
half-square triangles. In
Fiona, to the left of
Jennifer,
every other block features a charm square set on point; the
pattern for this quilt is on pp. 22-25 of Groves and Jacobson's
first book. At the far end of our display wall is a classic design
that we have called
Honey Bee Blossoms. We adapted our
design from the Sewn into the Fabric - Pieces of our Lives pattern
#117-D,
Queen Bee, and from
Honey Bee, in Barbara
Brandeburg's book,
Fancy Things Cabbage Rose; we have
created a pattern for you.
Ribbon Twist, on the wall
at the end of the window, was inspired by an 1851 design in Jinny
Beyers' book,
The Quilter's Album of Blocks and Borders,
published in 1986; and we have created a pattern for this one,
too.
The three CHALLENGE quilts not shown in our pictures are
Leslie
(high on the wall, at the end of the left-hand window),
pattern on pp. 18-21 of
3 Times the Charm! Book 2; Lafayette
Square (on the diagonal bar, facing the street), pattern on
pp. 22-25 of
Precut Quilts, by Jane Vogl and Jenny
Clinard, Leisure Arts, 2013; and
Labor Day Madness (on the
diagonal bar, back to back with
Lafayette Square), pattern
on pp. 130-33 of
The Big Book of Nickel Quilts.
THE REMAINDER OF APRIL AT THE QUILT WORKS
Sunday, 20 April. We are closed in
observance of Easter Sunday
Monday, 21 April, 10:00-4:00. Class: Gimmie Five
Monday, 21 April, 5:30-8:30. Class: Save the Selvages
Tuesday, 22 April.
SENIOR DAY
Tuesday, 22 April, 10:00-12:00. Class:Basic Rotary Skills
Wednesday, 23 April, 5:30-8:30. Class: A Little Something Jacket
Wednesday, 23 April, 6:00-9:00. UNM Class: Quilting 101 for the
ABSOLUTE Beginner
Thursday, 24 April, 1:00-3:00. Class: Introduction to Machine
Piecing
Thursday, 24 April, 6:00-8:00. Class: English Paper Piecing
Friday, 25 April, 1:00-3:00. FREE DEMO:
UNIQUE NOTIONS
Friday, 25 April, 1:00-4:00. Class: Tumbler Block Quilt
Saturday, 26 April, 10:00-12:00. Class: Basic Rotary Skills
Saturday, 26 April, 10:00-5:00. Class: Yin & Yangish Log Cabin
{NOTE: This is an added class.}
Saturday, 26 April, 1:00-4:00. Class: Color Confidence
Sunday, 27 April, 2:00-4:00. Class: Beginning Hand Appliqué
Sampler
Tuesday, 29 April.
SENIOR DAY
Saturday, 3 May, 10:00-3:00. Class: Easy Curves Table Runner
