Remember the awesome free motion quilting class last year?

Lisa is coming back for an advanced class.  

Lisa replied to my request 

for info on her classes.

"I have been traveling quite a bit lately and never seem to catch up!  Most of the time I have spent in Tucson, Arizona.  In March, Sandy Varley and I did the Southern Arizona Quilt Shop Hop.  There were ten shops covering a wide area, but we hit them all!  One shop gives you a birthday discount, and I was able to take advantage of it J.  Then at the beginning of April, I attended an Empty Spools Seminar in Pacific Grove, CA.  I took a week-long class from Teresa Hodgson, who taught color, design and interesting ways to piece curves so they come out nice & smooth.  Maybe I’ll be able to show my project from that class, if I get it done.

This will be my second year teaching at Quilt Walk, and I’m looking forward to it!  I had a lot of fun last year, and I thought it had a good “vibe”.  I taught my “regular” free-motion machine quilting class last year, and this year I will be teaching an advanced free motion class.  It’s kind of an extension of my first class, and one that was requested by some of those students.  We’ll work with patterns, different threads, decorative stitches, and do some bobbin work.  I can say that everybody who took the class last time I taught it enjoyed their time and learned a lot.

The other class I’m teaching is a quilt I called “Contempotangles”.  It’s a modern twist on a rectangle quilt.  The one that is pictured is HUGE, about 93” x 103”.  You can make your quilt as big or small as desired.  As with all my “project” classes, I have you cut just a few blocks-worth before class."

Emily Bailey, Teacher and Happy Chemo Quilts

Happy Chemo

If you were at last year’s Quilt Walk you may have seen me sewing and collecting blocks for Happy Chemo.  Well, I’m at it again.  If you read my blog, Emsscrapbag.blogspot.com you will have seen the quiltometer, the way I measure the amount of quilts I’ve collected.  Last year I set a lofty goal.  Some may say I’m overzealous.  But cancer sucks!  And I want to do something to make it a little better for those in the throes of it.  So if you can help me help them I would really appreciate it.  Please bring a quilty hug to this year’s Quilt Walk.  I’m looking for lap size (45” square to 60”x72” children’s and adult’s styles) Thank you to all those who have helped so far.  I know your quilts have made a difference.

Playing It Retro

Playing it Retro came to be when my sister, Julie Comstock, owner and designer of Cosmo Cricket, asked me to sew a quilt for Spring Market with her first line for Moda, Circa 1934.  Julie is a very talented designer but she doesn’t quilt.  So I helped her out.  I enjoyed working with her line.  Repeating the circles found in many of the fabrics I came up with Playing it Retro.  Who knew that helping my sister would land me, or rather my quilt on the cover of McCall’s Quick Quilts.  Wow, I’m still in shock!

Kaleidoscope

I love scrap quilts!  The interest created with all the different fabrics really appeals to me.  It’s probably a good thing as I seem to have an over abundance of scraps.  I had recently purchased a 45* wedge ruler after seeing  some blocks made with it on Stephanie’s blog, http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/.  I started playing with the ruler and my scraps along with a few ideas I’d seen on line and in books.  Before I knew it Kaleidoscope was born.   

Lets Go Dutch 

this is such a fun quilt Emily didn't say anything about this one but it looks like it would be quick and fun to make.  You know you can't have too much fun.  

Patty will be teaching for the first time this year.

She is so awesome.  Her class is the Christmas tree skirt.  She is usually here helping us all with the fabric in Jerilu's booth.  Her quilts are really beautiful.  She is a lady of few words so she sent these to me.  Thanks Patty.
 1^st photo – Buggy Barn stars

2^nd photo – Buggy Barn flowers

3^rd photo – village

4^th photo – Buggy Barn – Bramble baskets – current project and yes, I love the “Buggy Barn” method!

5^th photo – dimensional flowers

Sew Night x 2,

Sorry this is the back. 

I didn't get last weeks sew night up so here is last sew night and our new sew night.  

This beautiful quilt  Becky started last year at the Winter retreat at Rubys. 

Angela made this twister for her daughter who wanted red black and white. 

A couple of baby quilts.  So cute. 

Mostly we visited it was good to see everyone.

Judy came for the first time tonight and showed us her finished quilt blocks.  She is planning to use aqua blue and yellow.  I can't wait to see it finished 

This is called Gold rush from the quilt walk last year.  

Becky likes to piece her backs.  

Loretta does these for Cowboy collectibles. 

Here is Marylou's quilt quilted.  

We would love to see you at sew night.  

Great stuff from Sylvia Lewis, our guest today

"This will be my fourth year teaching at Quilt Walk!  It is one of my very favorite quilting events of the year!  I am a native Utahn, born and raised in Salt Lake. My husband and I are now living the rural life in Ephraim.  We have 3 children and 3 grandchildren, with another one due in October!  No, that baby quilt isn't started yet, I was waiting to find out if it will be a boy or a girl.

These photos are from my Jazzy class.  It is a fun block to play with and every student's quilt turned out unique!  I love log cabins and their variations and hope to do some more in the future.

I am also teaching the Dice and Splice Flag.  It is a fun way to quilt as you go!  The blocks go together quickly and most will be able have their quilt done in class.

I also love to knit, with lace shawls being my addiction right now. I blocked these two shawls while at Quilt Walk last summer and photographed them at the motel.  

I am looking forward to another wonderful Quilt Walk Festival!

 

What a fun quilt was chosen for the logo this year.

 This quilt made by Constance Palmer won the peoples choice award last year at the festival.  You can see a slide show of the quilt and details at the quilt walk site.  here

Sandy is teaching awesome classes this year.

Love them all.  I asked her to send some info about the quilts and what she has been doing since her last festival.  Thanks Sandy.


Sandy moved to St. David, a small town in southeastern Arizona a year and a half ago, and it's finally beginning to feel like home. She's found a quilt guild, a knitting group, and a book club, and a new favorite quilt shop in Tucson called Quilter's Market, which she describes as "Whimsy Cottage on steroids." Her two grandsons, ages 5 and almost 3, (along with their parents, of course) still live in Salt Lake, so she gets back to Utah every couple of months to be a "Babcia," which is the Polish word for 'grandma."

 Wild Flower Garden is a funky, free form flowerbed that will challenge you to throw away your rulers. The flowers are fast, fun, and no two will be alike.

 Yipes, Stripes! was inspired by a kit of Kaffe Fasset stripes and solids that Sandy bid on and won with Monopoly money at the annual Quilters Holladay Summer Clean Out Your Sewing Room Party. The kit had been purchased for a Kaye Evans Quilt Fest class, but the original owner had apparently been turned off by the pattern, which consisted of more than a hundred blocks, each with the dreaded Y-seam. Sandy figured out how to make a similar, but much less complicated block, added some more Kaffe's, and came up with two quilts for her new guest casita.

  Wedding Dance is the quilt she adapted from a Judy Martin pattern when her younger son(parent of the grandboys), got married. They had requested  a purple quilt, and purple not being one of Sandy's favorite colors, she figured out a way to do a colorwash from red violet to deep blue; the quilt pleased both her and the newlyweds.It has over a hundred different fabrics in it, and is a combination of traditional machine piecing and paper foundation piecing.

Sandy spent most of last year unpacking and setting up her new sewing room, and making Aurora Borealis for her other son, who got married last May. It measures 110 x 114, and was custom quilted by Jo Roman in Payette Idaho. It has more than 50 fabrics, mostly batiks.The neutral background batiks were extremely difficult to find.

This is Sandy's fourth Quilt Walk, and she's excited to be back.