What a day we had!! I think it turned out great! There was a lot to learn and many steps to do. Not all of it got done, but I did show everyone the steps they need to take to finish all three borders, and they have the booklet that was made with the instructions and pictures showing the various steps. Plus they have my number if they need some help. Pretty much everyone got to make four patches, half square triangles, and hourglass units. These steps plus learning about rulers, cutting and 1/4" seams, was enough to get them on the way to making the centre star block.
As with all workshops, everyone had their own take on the quilt and selected their own colours. I love how there was such variety in all the stars. You saw mine in a previous post and here are the other six participant's stars. I am hoping that once everyone finishes them, they will let me take a final picture showing their borders. It will be fun seeing them all!
Above we have fussy cut geese for the centre and the background, plus green for the accent colour. Below we have big bees for the background, cats for the accent fabric and construction tools for the stars. Both are so cute.
This one is a Christmas theme, with let it snow fabric for the star points, Christmas candy for the accent fabric and various chocolate treats for the background.
Autumn leave for the accent fabric and the double pink for the four patch with a pinkish red in the block above. Christmas theme again for the block below. Love the contract of the red accent fabric against the hunter green star points and I like how it picks up the holly berries in the four patch fabric.
Then we have our eager beaver, who made it all the way to the second border, however to keep things in context, this person had the advantage of the pattern in advance and had most of her fabrics already cut, so the others were not behind. They all had there checkerboard strip and the half square triangles done to do the second border, but ran out of time to attach them.
This person chose a pretty raspberry colour for her star points, green for the accent and blue and rose for the four patches. Her second border is a butterfly design.
Every one of these quilts is going to look very different. That's the part that I really enjoy!
Take care everyone.
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