What a weekend!

This was the weekend of our Mentor's workshop for the Blue Mountain Quilter's Guild - topic - Applique.
8 of us were showing 27 participants our methods for doing applique. We had 4 people demoing various hand applique methods and 4 or us doing machine applique methods.

My applique method of choice is raw edge, so I explained my process of developing a quilt from design concept through to finished quilt. As I don't like to waste time, doing raw edge applique leads to being able to stitch the applique down as some of my quilting. Of course, I love doing free motion quilting, these days, so I kinda got carried away, and my sample ended up being as much about the quilting as the applique!

My biggest surprise was that so many of the particiapnts in the sessions had thought of raw edge applique as being complex and difficult - I think I've made a few converts this weekend!  Every report I heard was that the weekend was a great success. 
It was a very interesting concept - each of the mentors designed either a flower or the vase, and then we worked round robin style with all of us working on the same sample top, each in our own technique, and then we each worked on a sample in our own preferred method, using each other's designs.  This resulted in a great variety of samples showing everyone's technique, and the effect using different colours and layouts can have.

Here are the samples made up by some of the other mentors



Edna's

Joan's



Brigitte's



Bonnie's



Louise's



Joanne's

I missed getting one picture, so am missing Lyn's sample - not quite sure how that happened?!
It was a lot of fun, but boy am I tired now!  Hope you had a great weekend!

Happy quilting!

Janet

not so much

I was hoping to get a lot of quilting done this week, but that just didn't happen.  I did get a few hours in yesterday, working on my workshop sample, and am really happy with how it's coming along.

I'll get some more done on it today, and if I'm really lucky, maybe even finish the quilting!

Hope you're having a productive weekend, too!

Happy quilting!