rose garden

I recently spent another fabulous day with the members of Walton Textiles, this time making beautiful rose gardens. We had a lot of laughs and everyone was tremendously productive, in fact by the end of the day everyone had pretty much finished their curved-pieced quilt top and covered it with sprays of flowers.  

Looking great, Gabbie!

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The nice thing about this workshop is that the pieced quilt top builds quickly. Once you get the hang of the technique of cutting and piecing the gentle curves (not difficult, just different!)  you are off. In just an hour or so everyone had their quilt top done. 

Free cutting gentle curves with confidence

Then stitching... look, no pins!

Zooming along

All in less than an hour!

By lunch time everyone had a fabulous quilt top to work on.
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A clever way to use up some left over pieces of jelly roll

After lunch we began adding the flowers. There are so many different options..... We discussed size, shape, colour and layout before everyone got back to work.
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Working on layout takes time and space, the floor is often a good place to work!

Landscape or portrait? 
The curved background can be used in different ways to good effect.

Amanda began quilting her fabulous quilt top towards the end of the afternoon.

I hope you agree, they are all fantastic. I know that at least one is destined to become a cushion, one a wall hanging, one a table runner and another is going to have a twisted log cabin border added. Ladies, I am looking forward to seeing them once they are finished!

To find out more about the 'Garden of Roses' workshop and download the accompanying brochure, please clickhere. 

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