Quilt, Slash, Create Again

Oh my goodness. I woke up this morning to the winter wonderland above (is it still November???). This is the table on our deck:

10 1/2″! Wow! It is beautiful (says the one sitting inside with a cup of hot tea, while her husband blows the driveway 😂). I couldn’t resist sharing these photos. And our church service has been postponed until 3pm so we can safely travel there. Blessing upon blessing!

So let’s get to today’s post:

Almost ten years ago I started playing with a technique that produced some fun art quilts ~ and resulted in a popular class. Perhaps you were in one of them and know where this is going 😁. You’ll find out why I’m revisiting this creative class at the end of this post. As you’ll see ~ the class title says it all. This was the first pair of quilts that resulted from this crazy idea:

And this is the back of that pair of quilts.

It all began with a stack of blocks made from a Kaffe Fassett stripe I acquired in a Milwaukee Art Quilter’s challenge. I decided to sew those striped blocks together. I then cut a piece of gorgeous green hand-dyed fabric the same size. I made both of these tops into quilt sandwiches; one with a black tone-on-tone on the back, and the other with an old UFO quilt top made of flying geese. I quilted both with diagonal lines 2″ apart. Then the fun began. One quilt was placed on top of the other and a circle was cut through both. After separating them, I swapped the circles and zig-zagged them into their new place. The results were so interesting that I couldn’t resist cutting/stitching a few more circles in the same way and then doing a big “swoosh” across them too. It was such fun I just had to make another pair of reversible quilts. This time with a beautiful turquoise and pink floral on all sides; a dark pair and a light pair.

The pairs are fun to hang together. Hmm. What would happen if I cut triangles???

Or rectangles (oops – I never bound one of them)!

Are you intrigued? Well, the reason I’m sharing them now is that I will be teaching at the AQS show in Paducah again this year, and I thought it would be fun to teach something I hadn’t taught there before. While noodling on this I pulled the triangle quilts out because I like to hang them at Christmas. I think they look like trees 😊. That’s when it all came together! I proposed the class and Lauren at AQS loved it. I guess I’d better finish the last binding.

If your guild is looking for a fun and easy art quilt workshop? Please let me know!

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And one more thing…

Mom and Dad are still doing OK. Mom is sleeping more and more, but we were blessed to have yet one more Thanksgiving with them both. In this photo we all arrived with pumpkin pie. Mom gobbled it up 😊!

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