The Quilting Group and the Quilt Project

On Thursday mornings I meet with a great group of  8 women who like me, have been bitten by the quilting bug.  We quilt for about two hours and a lot of that time is taken up with talk about family happenings, discussions about various television and movie events, complaints about our aches and pains and decisions about where to have our lunch after the quilting session..  We've been together for about 8 years...some of us coming & going during those eight years.  We have two wonderful and truly patient teachers who once or twice a year arrange group quilting projects.  The teachers give us new directions on a monthly basis and we work on the new directions each month or however much time it takes to complete the assignment until we each have a beautiful, completed quilt top.

Our latest group project is one I picked.  It's called Scrap Jar

and as you can probably tell by the title, it's a beautiful scrap quilt.  

Each block is made up of a star using whatever scraps you have
in your stash.  I chose to do mine in brights.  And the star is made up of several components.





We've been working on our quilts for about two months and here's how mine is going together...

Step one of course was choosing the fabric and scraps to use in the quilt.  As I mentioned I chose to use brights with contrasting white fabric for my background.  

I've got the fabric cut into 2-inch and  4-inch squares & rectangles. I have begun to assemble them for the corner sections and the sixteen-patch sections which will be done as a set of four four-patch sections that are then assembled into the sixteen- patch.

 
Here's a photo of a few of my four-patches.  No photos of the sixteen-patches yet.  They are part of next month's work.

 And did I mention the flying geese?  Yes, there are tons of geese
flying around throughout this project.  I have a photo of some of my finished flying geese.  They are so much fun to make for a scrappy block.  I started with 51/2" squares of the bright fabric and combined them with the same size squares of white and light-colored fabric. This is how they turned out.

                                     

                                                                                             
 
That's as far as I've gotten on the Quilt so far.  I'll keep you posted on further progress as it happens. In the end, there will be twenty star blocks.  I think it's going to be very beautiful and I'm so excited to finish it and share it with you!


I hope you are having a great week and are enjoying some quilting or crafting of your own.

Grammy                                                                                                                      

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