Anticipating the Show

In September I’ll be teaching a class at the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show in Madison entitled “Quilt, Slash, Create”. I taught this at the Madison show a few years ago and all three classes sold out (praise God!) This past Spring I had the privilege of teaching it in Paducah as well. What fun!

Cathy was in that class and recently she sent me a photo of her finished quilts, along with this note:

“Chris, I took your Slash and Create class at Paducah in April. I thought you might like to see my finished wall art. I loved making my first “modern art” quilt. I’m already planning my next one!”

Great work Cathy! Keep on creating!

In the beginning of July Doris sent me this in an email:

“I’m so excited to be enrolled in your “Quilt, Slash, Create” class in September (I jumped on it right away because I am sure it will fill up in no time); however, my brain is not processing how this works in terms of the FQs I am trying to choose.”  

I must admit that wording the supply list for this class was a bit tricky for me because the students start with 4 fat quarters and end up with two 2-sided quilts. I responded to her that “the quilts will be reversible so you’ll want 2 fqs for the front that coordinate, and another 2 for the back that coordinate, but front and back don’t have to go together. Then I linked her to a post I’ve done about this technique. You can click here to read it!

I think you can see that in this first photo a tone-on-tone black fat quarter was paired with a colorful pieced 18″ x 22″ quilt “top”, but it could easily have been just a bright and colorful printed fat quarter.

The backs of these quilts used a different black print and another pieced “top” from my UFO bin that I created by weaving curvy strips of fabric together. This second piece could easily have been a lighter printed fabric (but it was fun to use up both the bright and light small pieced “tops”).

I hope that helps everyone visualize what’s going on. If you look at Cathy’s quilts at the top of this post, you can see a good example of using just fat quarters – no previously pieced “tops”. Either option will work for the class in September.

I’m also presenting a lecture each day entitled “Tell Me a Story”.

Here’s the description: “Looking at a quilt can be very satisfying, like eating a good meal. But when you know the quilt’s story, that’s like getting dessert! This talk will include quilts, photos, and stories ~ some from Chris’ collection not previously shared, and many others from her friends. It promises to be fun “with a cherry on the top!””

You’ll need to sign up for this lecture to understand that last part of the description 😊.

As I’m looking through all the lectures, workshops, and special events ~ I’m finding many that tickle my fancy. I love to learn new things too! To read about all the offerings you can choose from go to: https://quiltshow.com/

I can’t wait for the show!!! Hope to see you there!

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