Showing posts with label Gwen Marston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gwen Marston. Show all posts

Monday, March 16, 2015

WIP.

Here is my work-in-progress from my weekend workshop with Gwen Marston.
It was a "liberated quilting with solids" class and I learned a ton. Not just from her, but from my classmates too...such creativity and inspiration all around the room! 
The liberated part was so freeing. I got my idea of the red squares throughout the quilt from one of Gwen's books. Started with one square and just kept adding on without a pattern, no measuring or pinning.
My quilt is made from recycled men's shirts that I picked up at our annual Rotary Auction. I was originally collecting them for the patterns, but this year I'll definitely be looking for great solid colors.  I'm incorporating a couple of the shirt plackets with buttons and one shirt tag, just for fun. I'm not sure what I'm doing for a border yet, but I like the way it looks on the batting, maybe I'll use a cream color. 
Happy Monday! 


Saturday, March 14, 2015

Quilting retreat.

Today is Day 2 of a three-day "Quilting with Solids" workshop with Gwen Marston.
I signed up for it over a year ago. Of course, if I'd known how busy I'd be right now, I never would have, but it's turning out to be the best escape. These are all Gwen's quilts she brought to show us. I'll post some more photos as I get further along on my own project. The retreat is in a beautiful, light-flooded room right on the water up in Port Gamble. It doesn't get much better than this!