My friend Twana and I attended a “Borders Galore” workshop
today with Winnie Fleming. She spoke at
our guild last night and is a charming lady and a great teacher.
I did not progress as far as the other students because I
did some of the prep work late at night and cut some pieces that were supposed
to be 3 and 3/8ths at 3 and 7/8ths then crosscut them into triangles. The angles were wrong and I had to cut more
fabric. I also had to buy more fabric
but fortunately the class was in a quilt store.
We worked on mitered borders and making pieced borders fit
any size quilt with a floater border (my picture shows the pieced border next
to the block but not the floater on yet.)
This was a very helpful workshop and I feel like I can do a much better
job on all future quilts.
I enjoyed having a day off work and playing with like minded
ladies. I inadvertently added comic
relief when I volunteered to go pick up the lunch they had called in – because I
walked out of the store and walked right back in as I had ridden to the
workshop with my friend Twana and I had no vehicle to use.
