Kawandi Time

 

Kawandi quilting is a technique that comes to us from India, hand-stitched from the outside in and traditionally made with old saris. It's very trendy right now in the quilting world so I thought I would try it since it gives me an excuse to play in my scrap bag, including my stash of scrap batting. 

There are lots of tutorials and videos on how to do this so I won't waste your time, besides I barely know what I'm doing so I can't really claim to give instruction. It's fun! This is a very small project, maybe 12 inches square, made with my smallest scraps.

Maybe something new for Eugenie or Shireen!

Crumb Time!

For this month's Block Lotto challenge, our guild's vice president, Bruce, gave us the task of making a crumb block or "made fabric" block and inserting a tree branch. 

Here is my crumb block. I love doing crumb quilting. It used up quite a bit of my green scraps but don't worry, there's plenty left. 

His sample was around 12x17 inches so I made mine about the same size (improv needs to have some rules) but I used a marbled brown fabric instead of the solid he suggested. I don't think I own much brown solid, just a fat quarter somewhere, and I didn't think I could cut a long enough strip from it for this project.

Here is my completed block. I'm so happy with it! I've never done a Block Lotto before and I've been a member since 2016. So that was fun! I hope I win the lot!*

*For those of you who don't know what Block Lotto is, it's a monthly challenge where we are assigned a block and for every completed block you bring to the meeting, you get a raffle ticket. Then someone draws a ticket and the person with the number on the ticket wins all the blocks!

Guild Meeting and Stuff

 

 

This past Saturday was the March meeting of my quilting guild, the NYC Metro Mod Quilters Guild, in Manhattan. So fun! I love seeing my pals, hanging out and talking about quilts and quilting- and of course seeing everyone's awesome work.

I brought my latest herringbone to show and tell and got some nice feedback. That was nice, and I picked up a bunch of free stuff from the giveaway table. Someone gave away what must have been $100 worth of thread! I got that along with a bunch of fabric.

Pictured above is a quilt pieced by Eva, our guild's secretary, with orphan blocks a bunch of us donated at the last retreat. That is my cat block in the center!! And my book block on the right hand side. But I was so, so happy to see my cat block in the quilt and featured so prominently. I made that block along with some other Alice in Wonderland themed blocks a while back and left them in a pile because I didn't like them, and I liked the cat least of all. It's so nice to see it brought back to life. I don't know where the quilt will end up but I have to say, I really, really want it. The chances of me getting it are slim to none, but still.

We also heard a detailed wrap up of the recent Quilt Con show in Houston, which is the annual quilt show put on by the Modern Quilt Guild. It was really neat to see photos of many of the quilts featured in the show, including several by our members, and hear our members' experiences of attending.

What a fun afternoon!