Meet Paula (in the pink shirt) POE teacher |
As a new circuit teacher, I've been wanting to meet some of the members of GSQA. I had planned to attend a meeting last month but there was that whole "spend 13 days in Cabrini hospital" episode and missed my opportunity. Since I'd also hedged my bets a little and signed up for the Pursuit of Excellence (POE) class, I decided to go for it.
Meet Renee, great helper and quick notes presenter |
In the end I came home with one finished project, this little trash bag, and some blocks. The other project is a Cathedral Window shortcut that is really cute. I hope to find time to make a large bag using this shortcut. The idea was not necessarily to finish anything but to learn the techniques and practice enough that we could demonstrate the process to our own guilds.
Also, I won a door prize, which is always fun. It's these books and a pack of the cards, which will make great thank you notes.
Sewing curved seams should have been no biggie as I've sewn lots of those. However, it's been a long while and I discovered that there's a way to sew Drunkard's Path block so that they lie down without clipping the curves. The trick (I hate to admit) is to SLOW DOWN. I scream those two words because it's what I had to do in my head the entire time. Oh yes, I dialed down the machine speed, but my hands and head were not in sync. Anyway that's another story.
I have decided that I like this crew of quilters. (Who has met a quilty bunch and NOT liked them? Impossible, I say!) Someone please give them warning that they will see more of me. And they will be my friends. Honestly, Saturday was much too soon.
So what about you? When and where was your last quilt class? What did you learn?
Lots of quilty love...
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