darting birds in red and blues |
A rose after the rain in Hyde park at the Cooking Institute of American.........up here we call it the CIA. |
Gwen letting us know what to expect at her retreat |
Showed us some of her works in progress |
Showed us some of her well loved medallion quilts |
Gwen giving a demo |
Gwen helping to spark ideas |
Gwen's quilt left to be studied, handled and to inspire us. |
Gwen's amazing hand quilting |
embroidered label |
more hand quilting |
study the use of fabrics and their placement in a quilt |
Beautiful applique |
easy shapes are just as effective as intricate ones |
the wicker room where the quilts are left for study |
more close ups |
a liberated star made by Gwen for Andi :0) |
Gwen doing her trunk show |
wonky stars |
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. | . |
Meet Julie, those are tiny little tumblers in the center |
Okay sorry that is a bad picture of Gwen but check out Julie's scarf! |
Julie rocking another great scarf |
Julie's medallion taking shape and yet another terrific scarf look. |
Jackie having her books signed |
Little Gracie |
little liberated stars |
Jackie's progress on her medallion |
Nancy's delight :0) |
Nancy has all the pieces Gwen cut and has added a tiny HST red border around the medallion |
Nancy soaking in Gwen's critique of her work |
Nancy's work at show and tell |
Slowly they are adding up |
Thanks Randy for keeping up with this sow along :0) See what everyone is up to at WIP Wednesday over at Lee's blog... |
Fern taking pictures for me on my camera |
Fern made the tiniest HST border I have ever seen! |
tiny, less than inch wide |
Fern was trying to decide whether or not to include the star in the center of her medallion. |
Gwen critiquing Fern's little quilt creation. |