Jared Takes a Wife

My sister Isabel and I went to Road to CA on Thursday. We took a Bonnie Hunter class (from quiltville.com). The class was called Jared Takes a Wife. Here is Bonnie's sample quilt hanging in the classroom. It's was so pretty.

She shared with us with us a GORGEOUS quilt she is making. You can read more about it here. It was so vintage! The piece she is holding up was one of the borders. So pretty!

These are my quilt block "parts". We did pretty good by getting to this point by lunch break.

The afternoon, we did more sewing and I got three blocks finished before we packed up our stuff at 4:00. Bonnie was fun and it was a great class. I highly recommend any of her classes to anyone. Here are me, Bonnie and Isabel. We're happy cuz we were sewing all day and the next day, we shopped and looked at quilts. Who wouldn't be happy about that!?? :o)

These are my blocks I finished at the class. I auditioned them in the hotel room that evening. I needed to find another fabric for my sashing. This one was a bit too 'peachy'. I found a great subtle floral fabric and am just loving this quilt so far.

Gotta go get busy making more blocks!

If you'd like to see more blocks or class photos, you can see them here.

And here are pictures of the quilts at the quilt show....here.

Class with Darlene Zimmerman

The Orange County Guild holds a quilter's camp every other year to alternate with our quilt show. My sister and I took a class called Finishing School by Darlene Zimmerman. It focused on edges from her book The Quilter's Edge. It was an excellent class and both me and my sister feel like we will add scallop borders, flanges and wavy borders to quilts now.

This is a sample of her bunny ears scallop border.

Darlene was helping Isabel with the bias binding on the scallop border. She sure made it easy!


One of the many quilts Darlene brought with her. Adorable!

And here's Darlene encouraging....um, yeah, that's it.....her top pupil. LOL

Gotta go finish sewing before I get in more trouble. :o)