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.

Miki takes Gwen Marston workshop: Liberated Medallions

Exciting start!  Another great workshop, sponsored by Two Thimbles, Bellingham, WA

Buffy takes a Gwen Marston Workshop on Small Quilts, 5/19/12

First, my favorite of Gwen's small quilts.

Second, Gwen and Buffy, with Buffy's small quilt.  Photographer, Nifty, says she sorry about the antler, but we were meeting in the Bellingham, WA, Elks Club.  My quilt was made from the scraps from the Carol Taylor workshop.  Still lots of scraps, of course.

Gwen had a list of the advantages of making small quilts.  To her list, I would add:  a good way to use batting scraps; and one can make just as many mistakes on a small quilt, moving one's learning curve along.