Workshop Tuesday......

The cold wind and snow on top of Mt Maroma didn't deter Group members form attending this week's meeting where twelve of the twenty nine ladies joined in Jan's workshop learning how to fold small pieces of fabric Korean-style to add to other techniques to make a smart cushion cover.  Jan used a Rami Kim design to demonstrate how "chopkey" folding is done.

Jan's sample cushion panel

After warming drinks the girls got down to work making narrow pintucks in a strip of fabric for the centre cushion panel.   As always there was a large range of fabric and colours being used.

Diane used a lovely pack of fabrics she had found many years

While Mary and Cath used solid colours as their base fabrics

 It was interesting to see how the different fabrics used created an illusion of shaded textures on the pale fabrics especially.

Once the centre panels had been made it was on to the folding to produce the little folded patches for the cushion side panels.

Elsewhere in the meeting hall group members were busy too.  Christine Speller displayed three pieces  of bargello work she's made to use as samples for her future workshop.  Christine has made two bargello quilts since taking part in a Group workshop in mid-2010  and really enjoys the technique, adapting it for her new designs.

 Maria continued to  work on her Mystery Quilt, adding the first of the borders,

Gill worked on her project for the latest Diversity group challenge, using her cleverly adapted wine case light box, (the Diversity Group can be followed by clicking http://www.vinuelasewandsews.eu/diversity/diversity_gallery.htm )

and Jenny worked on the sample wedding ring block for her future workshop, and in the background Margaret, Sue, Christine, Carol and Sheila worked on their projects.

This tulip blocks form part of Rozanne's current project

and this is the striking centre panel of Kath's latest project, a king size bed quilt in Celtic Knot work.

Cath has added these lovely delicate machine appliqued butterfly motifs to her Mystery quilt,

and Helen Hulm has added Celtic Knot designs to her Mystery quilt.  (Apologies go to Helen for an earlier post where I mistakenly stated that Helen had decided not to add applique to her quilt).

These two mystery quilts are work in progress, below by Group member Chris, and above for Sharon a visitor to our Group when staying with her friend Group member Jill. Sharon attended the first two Mystery Quilt workshops, and then worked over the Internet and phone to get to this stage.

That´s it for this week's busy meeting, next week the Diversity group members will be spending the session practicing techniques using transfer paints, disperse dyes and transfer crayons, and I´m sure there will be more work being done to complete the "chopkey" cushions.  See you then, Rachel