Linda B's Quilting Projects

A few years ago I decided to offer a beginner's quilting class, and I created Linda B's Quilting. The first class brought me 3 registrations and we created a lap quilt. I had a lot of trouble finding a space, reasonably priced, where we could set up each week and create. I finally managed to secure some space in a church through a friend - as a result she was gifted the sample quilt from the class.

Here are a few pics of our class projects.

Class #1 - Playful Pinwheels - made with holiday fabrics. This was an all inclusive class, all materials provided, instruction for a quilt, start to finish. In this class we covered all the basics, from squaring our fabric, to cutting, to sewing creative blocks. We worked through the entire quilt, start to finish, and created masterpieces.

Class #2 - Sampler Quilt. This time each student provided their own fabrics. Each week brought a pattern, instructions and demo. We are still waiting for a few quilts to be completed! 

mine...

For this class we expanded our block patterns/techniques and increased our quilting vocabulary. I think there were seven registrants.

Laura's...

Dot's...

 Angie's...

 Leanne's

 Carol's...

 Sister Carol's...

 Marge's...

Class #3 - Variety Class - this time a variety of projects were offered. Not all students chose to complete all the projects. Again, students received patterns, instructions and demo's to complete each item. I believe there were about 6 people in this group.

Zipper accessory bag

Dresden Tote

Appliqued Table Runner

Hexagon Tree Skirt (or table topper for the smaller project)

Class #4 - Stars of Bowness - this is my design. I created a sampler and then my own large Stars quilt. Again, each individual chose their own fabrics. Each week gave them patterns, instructions and block construction demo. Again, there were about six people in the class.

Sample Stars of Bowness

My Quilt

From here on, we decided to break from teaching classes. I could see that everyone had developed their skills and were creating their own styles. We talked about it and decided to continue forward as a club rather than classes. Each individual would be working on their own projects, we would meet regularly to discuss projects, trouble shoot and encourage each other. Plus, to maintain a group focus we would create some charity projects - whatever we could bring to the discussions.

The QB's were born out of this - we have about 7 or so members in the group. One has moved to B.C., so she maintains connection through our regular group emails. We have not only grown into fellow quilters, but we have become friends.

Linda B's Quilting

I'd like to say, we've had a busy couple of weeks, but then I'm left to wonder, when is it not busy? With a family of five, there always seems to be activity, and almost never a non-busy time. So rather than thinking about that, I will simply let you know about a few of the things we've been up to.

I've been teaching a beginner's quilting class. I call it "Linda B's Quilting". I advertised in the local community newspaper and ended up with three students looking to learn how to quilt. It's interesting, as two out of the three have already done some quilting, but are looking to learn some of the finer techniques. I love it!

The class was set for six weeks with two hour classes each week. Since it was designed as a beginner class I chose a simple pinwheel design, off set by alternating solid blocks. Since we are headed into the Christmas season, I chose a few beautiful seasonal prints, using an embedded print cream fabric as the background. The finished product should measure approxinately 54" x 54" - a nice lap quilt.

Through this experience I met a few great gals from the neighbourhood. Carol is a lot of fun. She loves to laugh and always has a tid bit to share about her grand daughters or her experiences from living in northern Canada. She had never quilted before, but upon retirement started pursuing new hobbies, When the opportunity presented itself to learn to quilt she went out to buy a new machine and signed up. I have loved getting to know Carol and I hope we will remain friends and quilting buddies.

Carol squaring up and pressing her pinwheels.

And the finished product!

Freddie has done a little bit of quilting in the past, and offers a lot of encouragement and so much insight. Freddie was hoping to learn some of the more technical parts of quilting, proper techniqes and such. I really hope I was able to help her with this process. She has a great eye for colour choices, and swapped out the cream solid squares for her own choice - bright red!

I think it goes well with the design and cannot wait to see the finished product.

Angie was the only one I had met previous to the class. Angie is a busy mom of young children and still finds time to quilt. She has completed a few quilts as well, and much like Freddie, was looking for some of the more technical skills. Angie has been busy most of our class nights, but has been working away at her own pace, often sending me photos of her progress. I cannot wait to see her finished product as well.