Thursday Quilting

We have started getting back together again on Thursdays to do some quilting.  Now that summer is over things are getting back to normal and Pierina and I are back from Europe, we decided that we should start getting together again to do some quilting and visiting.  This was the first time that everyone was available so we didn't get a lot done but we sure had a fun time.

Joyce is working on her bed scarf  and

is planning some cushions to match.

We were trying to decide if she should leave

a border around the centre or not.

We decided that the border looks better

on than cut off.

So now she has to cut out some more squares

for her cushions.

Pierina is quilting her SunFlower table topper.

Maria is adding binding with piping onto her

Convergence Quilt.

She is using Ricky Tims method of binding

that we saw at the Super Seminar.

We had a visitor this week.

Bev is visiting from B.C., she is wearing a scarf

that Maria made and is knitting one

for herself.

I think I have to make a few of those.

I was working on the piano key border for

my Schnibbles Quilt.

It took me a while to decide how to put them

together and I finally decided that

the four sides should all be the same.

Peggy

Convergence Continued

I am still working on the convergence quilt that we learned how to make at the Ricky Tims Super Quilt Seminar and I think I have finished the quilt top.  We are having a meeting this week of all the participants to present something to the Quilt Guild about what we learned at the Seminar, so I have been working most of the week-end on it.

One of the gals who went to the Seminar with us sent me this picture that she took while we were there.

And here is one that I took

The butterflies are appliqued

onto the finished quilt top.

I used both examples to complete my convergence.  It isn't quilted yet and the horse on the bottom left isn't sewn on either but this is what I am taking to the meeting and asking for suggestions as how I might finish it.

If you look closely you can see the horses

in the convergence.

There was a lot of calculations done to put the coloured

swatches on the corners. 

A good learning experience for me.

Convergence

When we went to the Ricky Tims Super Quilt Seminar, one of the things he taught us was "Convergence".  He puts 4 fabrics together, sews them, cuts them apart and then sews them together again, cuts them apart and sews them together for a final time.  It sounds confusing but the out come is spectacular.

On the way home from the Seminar we stopped in Trego WI at Thimbles Quilt shop and purchased some fabric to make a Convergence quilt.  I found some gorgeous fabric.

The vibrant colours in this fabric really caught my eye.

I also found these

and I thought they went well together.

On Thursday Maria and I got together to make our convergence

quilts.  It took longer than we thought and

I finished it yesterday.

I used 2 pieces from the horse fabric

and

1 orange and 1 blue.

That is why there is more blue in one corner

and more orange in the other.

The horses are almost side by side, and you can see

the reflection on the one on the right but

not the one on the left.

Peggy