Guild Retreat

Three weeks ago Sue spent a long weekend at her local guild retreat.  However with all the activity of April she somehow missed writing about it.  On Friday of the retreat we had a 1 day workshop with Terry Kramzar of Pennsylvania.  She led a workshop called "pieced quilting in layers". 

Sue had seen her work in a Quilt Odyssey show a few years ago and was eager to learn her technique.  Terry was an excellent instructor and really nice.  Her technique involves layering squares of the background fabric with fusible batting and quilting those two layers.

Various piecing techniques can be added next including an appliqued center square, adding triangles, and inserting strips.  Then the squares are joined into rows and then the rows are seamed to create the finished piece.

It's a very simple but effective technique, and low stress sewing.  No matching seams or points.

We had 19 people in the workshop.  Below are some of the projects the group worked on.

This is Sue's 5 x 5 grid of squares sewn together.

In addition to the class, Sue worked on a few other projects.

This fat quarter pop up, with the pieces previously cut out, was a quick starter.

Sue added the flower petals to 4 of these "free wheeling single girl" blocks to make into preemie quilts. 

And she started the quilting on this portrait from the Hollis Chatelain class at the beginning of April. It was a fun and productive weekend!