Esther and Judy did a great job demonstrating and showing us oodles of possibilities with the continuation of Shirley's August block. Shirley gave us a sneak peak last month of what the Missouri Star Quilt Company was doing with a pinwheel block.
Thank you Judy and Esther that you took it another step forward and worked out the sizes and such for us to make them a 6 1/2" block.
Judy spoke to us about the first sew 1/4" around the whole 7" blocks placed face to face and then cutting them on the diagonal, pressing and squaring up to 4 - 4 1/2" half square triangles.
Esther explained that this is the part where how you put the 4 hst's together is how you get different looks.
Susie,
Machelle and Donnis went right to work. And with Esther loaning her sewing machine to Vevia.......all the ladies were on the right path.
Squaring up was a very important part of this block. You can go to the right of this blog and print out your own pattern with clear instructions on how to make the pinwheel into a churn dash with the smaller pinwheel in the middle.
After you trim up the 4 hst's and sew them together, press and square up to 7 1/2", you then cut into 9 equal squares. How you turn these and sew them together gives you three looks as Judy showed us in the picture above. You can have the dark churn dash, a light churn dash or ...........
The picture above shows you how everyone did.
Then Esther showed (one of the blocks belong to Donnis) us that if you decide to put your four half square triangles together in an hour glass block, press, square up and cut into 9 equal sections - you can turn
and come up with two additional looks. Thank you to everyone for the enthusiasm and fun day we had trying this and that with this very versatile block.
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Show and Tell was Wow!
Donnis finished the twin's quilts (they have been born since our meeting: Collins Jeri. 2 pounds 8 oz. Cooper Jo. 3 pounds 14oz. - Congratulations to all!!). The Disappearing 9 Patch looks so good in what ever color palette you use.
The backs were gorgeous as well.
Using the three pinks made a lovely girls quilt.....
with just as beautiful of a back.
Susie brought in her 2013 Clay Center Piotique Quilters Guild Challenge winning quilt to show us what she has been experimenting with. This was done with several layers of battings sewn and cut away. Colored fabric added, etc. Lovely to see.
Now she has finished a whole cloth where she used some of the things she learned in her challenge quilt. This one was done with a variegated thread, different battings, wide and close quilting, etc. You would have to talk to Susie to get all of the low down on how she did what. She even made the edges curvy with bias binding.
We are just sorry that our pictures do not do Susie's work justice. Click on the pictures to blow them up a little more. This is one quilt,
that you have got to see in person and take your time with it.
After lunch and the show and tell,
Machelle continued making her blocks for the day. She wanted to try the hourglass setting and see what she got. Fabric is very important to the look you get. Machelle was not as pleased with the result as some of the light colored stars came together at the wrong points.
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Next month, Esther will be presenting the "State Fair Sunflower" block.
She brought in two blocks done, so that we could see different color choices. Esther's are the top two on the left. The bottom two on the left are Joan Streck and Betty Piester's respectively (from the book Esther got the pattern from). The three going up and down on the right use other color choices. Sometimes the green for leaves is prominent, other times that square becomes part of the flower.
Looking forward to seeing your color choices.
See you next month.
