Gwen's Beaver Island retreat: Meet Kathy Clarke

Kathy is one of those people who's smiles light up their face making you want to smile too. Her laugh is infectious too!  Kathy was just a few tables down from me pointing out onto the vista of the ever changing lake, she work away on her medallion which she named " creatures of the world".

Look at all those  spikey strips around her focus fabric!  Each house has an animal inside, and so does each liberated star.

When her medallion quite "talking" to her Kathy took her black and white fabrics and started making dozens  of HST, half dark half light for the next border.

You can see these HST that have been chained pieced hanging down in front of her medallion.

these are bits that she cut off to square up before cutting her fabrics for the HST that she gave me

I sewed them together using Gwen's techniques and made my own study in black and white

I added the blues of the lake, then quilted it all over in a wave pattern in variegated black and white thread.

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We had some good laughs, learned some cool stuff together and worked out some of the problems of the world.  It was my pleasure to meet you Kathy.   Happy Sewing back in Wisconsin,  Kim