Deb Karasik: paper-piecing workshop at QA

Dawn's Block

Patty's Block

Cindy: Shares antique Spider Web Quilt

Wonderful setting for really fun scraps!  My eyes have been jaded by the gorgeous fabrics of recent years.  These old scraps now seem more exciting and interesting.

Patty: Antique Spider Web

Patty found this fun quilt at goodwill.com.  Is having the blocks end with curved pieces unusual?  The circles and pillow setting blocks remind me of the Double Wedding Ring.

Maureen: From the Scraps

Mareen did a magnum opus quilt a while back, and then made this amazing original piece from the scraps.

Mary: Star Quilt

Mary reported that this was one tough piecing challenge. Pattern source to follow.

Buffy: Rebels Winter Challenge, 49"x62.5"

Challenge fabric is the large off-white background floral in the center.  I mixed it with Sujata's scraps.  Didn't quite work, but lots of free-motion practice.

Scraps/Strips Therapy Quilt, 19"x24.5"

Started to relieve stress of trying to piece handwoven Guatemalan fabrics.  Used scraps from that project and just started sewing.  Top finished in one afternoon and evening.  "It just made itself."  Reminds me of great trip we took to the Guatemalan Highlands about 4 years ago.  Prints by Alexander Henry.  Guatemalan fabrics from Goodwill.

Buffy: Improv Quilt

Started in Gwen Marston workshop last spring, and finished at a quilt retreat with friends in late summer.  Solids plus scraps.  Finished with facing technique featured in JOURNEY TO INSPIRED ART QUILTING by Jean Wells.  Followed advice from Cindy Needham to quilt "every stinking seam", which really works to keep quilt flat.  Used Madeira Monopoly for ditch work, and it really disappears.

Cindy: Top from Karla Alexander Class

Starring Rose the Famous Rebels Mascot.

Miki: Mini Spider Web

Wonderful combination of unusual fabric and color create an engaging quilt.  Amazing background fabric is not pieced.