Had a fabulous time in Glens Falls with Bonnie Hunter and the gals from Wings Falls Quilt Guild. Met
so many great ladies there!! The workshop was lots of fun. I didn't get as much accomplished on the project as I had hoped. Unfortunately, Bella, (our navigation system) got me lost. Or maybe it was the navigator and not the navigation system?? Whatever!! Anywho, I barely arrived in time to get Barbie, my featherweight set up and pull out some of the precuts I had done to prepare for making the Charlotte basket blocks. I did my blocks with batiks and a white background.
Bonnie gave instruction and would come by to our area from time to time. Once I had made progress with my blocks I asked her to take a "shelf" pic with me. You know, where you put the blocks on your "boob shelf"? She, of course, was very sweet and obliged! The pic with Bonnie shows the middle section we did in the morning. We
did string piecing in the afternoon for the outside corners. The bottom
pic shows 3 full blocks done and another center started. I got them all together after the weekend. I think I'm
going to make mine into a wall hanging. Not sure how many blocks I will
make yet. I love working with batiks! Check out Bonnie's blogpost of the fun day sewing Charolott's basket blocks
here! There is actually a pic of Barbie and moi! I'm pretty engrossed in my sewing of those string blocks!
A few of us dined that evening in Saratoga with Bonnie at the
Old Bryan Inn. A rum and coke while we were waiting for our table sure tasted great!!
Learned lots from Bonnie both the day of the workshop and the next day during her lecture/quilt trunk show.
I was the last person that was accepted into this workshop and I feel sew fortunate that I was able to get there! If you get the chance to attend one of Bonnie's workshops or trips,
don't walk, RUN....JUST DO IT!!
