As it turns out the lady in question, Shirley, runs two groups of twenty people per month. One is for beginners and one is for a more advanced set. Surprisingly enough, both meetings are in our village hall (so no excuse really is there?) Even though I'm currently on my 3rd quilt, I definitely class myself as a beginner as I don't really know what I'm doing and would love any advice I can get.
Therefore, I decided to go to the beginners group which was on Saturday. I wasn't really sure what to expect, I knew it started at 10am and went through until 4pm but I couldn't imagine what we could possibly do for 6 hours. How foolish was I? It ended up being one of the best Saturdays I've had in a while.
Each month, Shirley shows us how to make a 12 inch patchwork block. In theory, at the end of each year you could sew all of your 12 sample blocks together to make a great big sampler quilt. Cool huh? This one is made from 4 units called log cabin and you can arrange them in different patterns like Barn Raising, Straight Farrow, Zig-zag or Sunshine and Shadow.
I can't remember which pattern it was that I chose to sew mine together as, but I've included some illustrator versions to show some of the other options I could have done. It's all based on light versus dark so you can create stripes or shapes across the quilt. These are just the 4 units sewn together:
and then these are what the patterns could turn into if you were making a quilt:
Apart from the constant guilt feeling that I had (and an excited for being naughty feeling) for leaving my girls at home with their dad, I really, really enjoyed it. My husband thinks I'm a little odd!
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