Many of you have been following my Mariner's Compass class that I am teaching in Massachusetts. This is a favorite class for me to teach because there are so many choices in colors for the quilt that can be chosen and every student's quilts look different. But not to mention spectacular. So let's take a peek...
One of the things that continues to always amaze me is the different choices in colors from all the different students. In this blog post you can really see some of the differences.
Hello Everyone,
On Saturday, I taught the first session of the Mariner's Compass class in Sturbridge, MA. What a fun group of students. They made great progress and worked on their compass flowers and their spokes. I love the beginning of the class because we get to see all the wonderful fabrics that everyone has chosen.
Let's see what everyone has done so far...
Hello Everyone,While I was in Arizona, I had to place my quilts on my bed there and do a little photo shoot. I am so glad that I did. Have you ever made quilts and not ever placed them on the bed? I have and I just had the need to do it and I am so glad that I did.My quilts look just wonderful on the bed. Let's take a look.This is my Mariner's Compass quilt. The bed is a Queen Size bed, but this is a King Size quilt. When the pattern was actually published it was reduced in...
Hello Everyone,Saturday was the last class for the Spring Session of the Mariner's Compass Technique of the Month (TOM) and I would like to share with you a few photos.Michelle travelled from NJ to take this class with me and this is her gorgeous version! Noreen and Nancy working to construct the units together.This is Noreen's version. She chose to do the Queen Size and worked on those pieces at home. I love that she did the borders in black and white fabrics.Here is a look at what the studio looked like that day.Shirley's version. She is almost done... she was...
Hello Everyone,Yesterday was Finish It Up Friday at my classroom studio. I love it when the ladies come to sew with me. They are always so inspirational. Let me show you some of what we were up to... My friend Deb finished up Color Boxes done in Kaffe. I took it to the studio for a photo shoot because it is now available in the shop not only as a pattern but a KIT!! Just click here to see!Karen brought in a TON of show and tell. I always love to see what she has... so let's look...This one I just adored!...
Hello Everyone,Yesterday, I taught the 5th session of the Mariner's compass class at my studio. It was a great day. We even had a little show and tell too!Michelle, one of my students, brought in several quilts to share. This one was spectacular!It is a quilt that she made from a book from the Quilt Mavens. Gorgeous right?Here is Michelle's Mariner's Compass on the design wall. It is coming along. I love her black and white ropes.Noreen has a wedge made!Here is hers on the wall.Mine is almost a QUEEN! I just have one more queen border unit and then...
Hello Everyone,One of the things that I ADORE the most about teaching is seeing progress! I am a huge fan of seeing progress photos and taking them along the way. But as we are getting closer to the completion of the classes, this is when I get beyond excited.Let me share with you some of the photos from yesterday's Mariner's Compass TOM...Nancy was auditioning some background fabrics. We think the turquoise on the right is correct choice not the lavender... your thoughts?Shirley has most of her inner ropes completed! It is really starting to shape up.Love the choice of the...
Hello Everyone,Wow, where does time go.... this week I have actually been home, but busy taking care of some home matters as well as teaching locally. It is great to be home, but boy TONS of spring things to do. Plus the weather has been pretty nice here and things are starting to finally feel like SPRING!!So I am getting caught up on quilty things. These are some images from my class that I taught on Sunday. This is the rope section of the Mariner's Compass Class that is going on in NY. All the ladies in the class have...
Hello Everyone,Saturday was the second session of the Mariner's Compass Technique of the Month (TOM) class that I am teaching in the studio. I love teaching this class as I have some AWESOME students!!Just to show you how awesome, Noreen had taken a class from me before the TOM. The pattern we made was A Touch of Spring. She finished it and brought it in to show me and I was blown away!!!It is simply gorgeous, lots of scrappy love!This just shows a little but...Here is a little more, and...Here is Noreen and the whole shebang! See what I mean......
Hello Everyone,Yesterday was class number 3 for the Mariner's Compass that I am teaching in New York. Let me tell you these ladies are fantastic!! They are making phenomenal progress. Today's class we made the sails and the Compass Rose.Here are some images of what the ladies have completed thus far.Love this bright and bold version.... but you know me, I do bright and bold often!This is another version of bright and bold as well. Love this one too! Okay, I am beginning to sound redundant... I love this one!And oooooo... how about this one!Beautiful!!Gorgeous!All the Compass Roses are complete for...
Hello Everyone,About one month ago we had Blizzard Nemo! That was the weekend that this class was due to start, so we had no choice to push the start date back. Finally yesterday we began!!Here we are working really hard.... I must say that they made great progress too!Michelle's swatch page. It is going to be bold and beautiful.Noreen's swatch page, gorgeous brights.Michelle was cutting this absolutely WONDERFUL fabric!! I LOVE this color, unfortunately none of it hopped into my bag to go home.We also had Wonder Woman in class! Yes, Nancy brought this lunch box today. Do you want...
Hello Everyone,Yesterday, I taught the second session of the Mariner's Compass Technique of the Month at the Quilted Basket in Wappingers Falls, NY. I wanted to share some progress photos with you.Completed compass flower from the first session.Compass flower.Compass flower.Today's session was the Feathered Star. This is Unit K. There are three units to this Feathered Star. This is the longest unit and most time consuming.Blue Feathered Star.Andrea brought in her Total Eclipse from the class that I taught there in September. I adore how this turned out!! Great job, Andrea!MaryAnn brought in her Sunflower Illusions from the same class....
Hello Everyone,Yesterday was the first session of the newest Technique of the Month... the Mariner's Compass. I taught the first session at The Quilt Basket in Wappinger's Falls, NY and would like to share some of the happenings.I would also like to say that being the first session of a new pattern there was some learning to be had, by myself, as an instructor too. This was partly due to the fact that the pattern was just release a couple of weeks ago and when I made the quilt, I made it from absolutely no written instructions. That said the...
Hello Everyone,Remember my post from a couple of days ago? Click here to see. I have been working hard and now have the 74 X 74 version of my Mariner's Compass. There is more to come though. It will end up being 105 X 105 and wait until you see that!!Let's take the tour...This is the center, I am really in love with the colors that I chose. Bright and bold, that is my motto.Here is the octagonal version. I could choose to leave it like this and it would make a great table topper for a large table. But...
Hello Everyone,This weekend I was able to squeeze in a little time to devote to my Mariner's Compass quilt! I was excited about sitting to work on it and got quite a bit accomplished.I thought I would show you some close ups of the various elements of the quilt.This is half of the center of the compass. One of the things that I like best about Judy Niemeyer's patterns is that she designs them so that ALL your points will float. In other words, the very tip of the spike does not go to the seam. Therefore, there is no...
Hello Everyone,Back in July you will remember that I was in Montana taking the Teacher Certification Class from Judy Niemeyer. If not you can see some of the posts here. I showed my progress on the new Technique of the Month (TOM) the Mariner's Compass. Since I have been back I have been working on my daughter's college quilt. Now that it is off the design wall, I put the Mariner's Compass up on the wall.This is the center. Remember, this is not yet pieced together. I have to get all the pieces joined.This is all that would fit on the...
Hello Everyone,Yesterday was our last day at the Certified Instructor Judy Niemeyer Instructor Retreat! I am NOW officially certified to teach her techniques and patterns nationally!! WooHoo!!Anyway, this post has less pictures... sorry. We all began piecing our units together and subsequently had to take them off the wall to do that... so here are some photos that I know you will appreciate.Jodie's quilt was the one that was mostly whole on the wall. Isn't it fantastic? I just love the orange and red. I can't wait to see this completed.Sue was able to get a TON done and was...
Hello Everyone,We have all been working and playing hard! Wait until you see the transformations of the Mariner's Compass quilts that we completed yesterday!!This is a truly talented group of ladies and we are having soooo much fun! So let's take the tour, but remember to click here to compare them to Wednesday's photos to see the progress made.I had to put Ginny's quilt first! I am in LOOOOOOVE with it and if she is not careful our bags might just get switched on the flight... ;) This is mine and I must say I really love it! I switched a...
Hello Everyone,Today was quite a productive day! Besides having a 3 hour meeting on Teacher Certification, we were still able to get tons of sewing completed. When you see the sets of photos coming up you will see what I mean.Remember this is the NEW Technique of the Month that will not be available for classes until January 2013. So if this is something that you would like to learn and have a guild or shop in your area that would like me to come and teach... send me an e-mail.Onto the progress photos.My Mariner's compass. I am really liking...
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