LOQ2 - The Quilt

The quilt project we worked on is entitled "Jewels of the Garden" and is a reproduction of the 1860 quilt in the archives in Winterthur Museum’s collections. Our instructor was Gail Kessler a fabric designer at Andover Fabrics (New York City), she designed the "Dimples" line. Gail also owns and operates a quilt shop in Pennsylvania. She recreated and wrote the instructions for the quilt(as there were none with original). The project is very challenging -- nearly 1,000 hexagons ... you gotta love your rotary cutter and iron for this one!

This is how I lay out the hexagons to form the flower. So far I am enjoying creating these flowers. The end result should be beautiful.

This is the center most portion of the quilt that will measure 48 inches wide,

and this is Gail's finished quilt -- hopefully mine will look very similar.

Fons & Porter provided all of the fabrics and sewing accessories. BabyLock provided the use of the sewing machines -- which were not used -- but new!!! -- and no, we didn't get to keep them. Of course all of the "provided" materials were paid for by the class registrants. Flying out my luggage weighed in at 38 lbs., coming home it was 51 lbs. So that's lots of stuff being "provided"!!!