Saturday 5th April - Paula Doyle Giant Dahlia workshop

Well it was our first Saturday workshop as a group and 12 of us had signed up with Paula Doyle to do her Giant Dahlia course at the Trinity Centre.

Paula and her goodies

We all had an enjoyable time cutting out our pieces in our chosen fabrics and then joining using American Piecing technique (so no wrapping fabric round papers as in English Paper Piecing). 

Marking out the pieces

Ready for stitching

Stitching in progress

Made a start

Paula was an inspirational teacher and we all had lots of fun, although Paula did comment on how quiet we were in the morning!  That is because we were all busy concentrating on cutting out our shapes accurately I am sure.  The afternoon buzz built up especially as the first part of the Giant Dahlia began to take shape.  Lots of homework to do for us after the day ended.

Check out Paula's website www.greenmountainquilts.com and look at the Giant Dahlia in full colour in the Classes section of the website.

A very big thank you goes to Paula for her time and patience and helping to make it such a great day.

Come along to our meeting on 1st May for our 'Show and Tell' and see what everyone has produced from the workshop.
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Look out for details and reports of our next Saturday workshop with Julia Gahagan in September 2014.

Thursday 3rd April 2014

This month we planned to assemble the T-shirt blocks that had been quilted and keep working on some more.

Quilting the block

Joining the wadding

Two blocks joined

One row complete - three blocks joined

Another row completed

Sewing the rows together

Some members decided to carry on working on the Heart Tombola projects

Others decided to spend some time catching up on personal projects.

We also had some more donations for the Hearts Tombola

Fabric bowl and needle cases