Tuesday Treasures- First Class

While I was busy sewing up all my rail fences I was telling The Rooster's sister all about my new found happiness.  She also sewed and I was horrified to hear she was going to make quilts after she had explored garment sewing to her satisfaction.  Oh, no.  She had to start asap because there wasn't going to be enough time for us to do all the quilts we would be planning.  So we enrolled in an Irish Chain class and I don't think she got much garment sewing done after that!  :^)

This looks to be about 1990 judging by DS#3.   I finished it with the requisite narrow inner peach and wide outer blue borders.  It stands to reason that once you know how to sew strips it is an easy progression to cutting them up and sew them into new configurations.   Now I don't remember what happened to the Irish Chain quilt but again not my style but when in Rome class...

 Realizing time was of the essence I tried miniatures.  Isn't this a hoot!  So not me but that was the fabric I could get.

This is another value study but I see the chains could have been stronger.   I also practiced my machine quilting on these smaller quilts.

I did take to sewing and cutting like a duck to water enabling me to get lots of leftover strips from later projects chopped up into scrap quilts.  The rail fence blocks that didn't make it into last week's treasure became a table mat.  That's a penny on the light square.  I've learned I rather like small than big but goodness that takes time and fiddling. :{

Squares aren't my favourite shape but I was quite into blue and yellow for a time.  These fabrics were for DD#2's double wedding quilt.  I really wish I could do a project without having so much fabric leftover.  :O  But I did get to practice some machine quilting on those bigger lap quilts. 

The treasure nugget I carried away from this hunt was that monochromatic scraps work wonderfully in quilts especially with a bit of an accent colour.