Gravity!

Gravity by Jaybird Quilts 
Our Gravity class with Kelly has come to an end
and quite a few of us landed with finished quilt tops!!! 

This is Kelly's Gravity 

Made completely with Grunge :0) 

which was a challenge in itself, as her color pallet was limited to the collection. 

Kelly pulled it off... well done!

Mary Ann's Gravity 

done in Kona solids following Jaybirds pattern to a T

and Mary Ann is new to quilting! Wow!!!

This beauty is Lynne's Gravity 

following the color wheel concept of the pattern 

all done in batiks for the star/diamond center 

and a very pretty and sparkly fabric collection for the background. 

Lynne you shine!!!

... and then there were those of us 

that follow the philosophy...

"You're not the boss of me!!!" 

and choose not to follow the directions 🌟

Here is Sandy's Gravity 

Love it! Sandy also changed the background layout 🌞
Sandy you are a star, so enjoyed meeting you! 

This was made by a surprise visitor... Carol 

Very different in neutrals 

with gold sparkle fabric for the star and white on white for the background. 

Carol is one of my favorite customers. She did not join in the class 

however, was making Gravity at the same time.

Last week surprised me when she brought her Gravity into my studio to be quilted!!!

She agreed to let me bring her top into class to share and then dropped by 

on her way home to meet everyone and see our quilt tops. That was fun! 

Carol, I hope you join us one of these days

This is my Gravity 

The star/diamond blocks are all batiks 

with a background that starts with Kona black 

then goes into shades of gray with Grunge
#GravityQuilt 

Now for the job of quilting a few of these beauties! 

I have lots of design ideas floating around in my head 😵

There were a few more folks in the class that were finishing their tops in class 

so there will be more stars shinning in Chico soon! 🌟

Kelly has new classes, workshops and BOMs in the works.

 Next up is Fancy Forest by Elizabeth Hartman 

plus some pretty kewl Kaffe projects visiting Italy! 

Kelly always adds fun info to entertain us while we sew. 

Come join in! 

Also coming up is Painted Forest starting this month.

A pattern from Scott Hansen of Blue Nickel Studios

My class sample is hanging up at Honey Run Quilters 

All classes and workshops are held in the classroom. 

Sign up inside Honey Run if you are interested 

plus there are LOTs more classes from beginning quilting and UFOs with Terri, a project bag and rope bowls with Dorrie, Pam has a Spring Basket quilt class coming up soon, Karen has a wool project in the works. Terri has a few more projects up her sleeve as well, the Fat Skinny Bag is a favorite. Pillow cases. Garments with Rebecca. Sewing machine classes. Between Cathy's and Honey Run, they have it covered! HERE is the entire class list on Cathy's website. Hope to see you there! 

Enjoy your weekend! 

Tot ziens, Jo

16 more days until Spring!!! 

November Goals

Goals for November:
Back to Gypsy Wife... I've actually missed working on this quilt :0) Will be fun to get back to it this month with the hopes of a flimsy finish.

Split Decision. Guild meeting last night with guest speaker Don Linn. Turned in my finished... yes finished Challenge quilt! BIG YEA! Today I attended Don's workshop on curved piecing. Quilt top almost completed to a flimsy in class! Just a few more seams to finish tomorrow at a sew day with friends up in Paradise. Looking forward to that.

Painted Forest workshop this week was filled. There will be a bonus sew day this coming Sunday... Everyone signed up for the first workshop is invited for a fun day growing trees!

Gravity. Continued workshops thru the end of the year with Kelly at HRQ for Jaybird's block of the month ~ Gravity. Only two blocks into it, pix soon of progress with two meetings this month. My fabric choices are batiks ranging from gold to purple for the star, not doing the complete color wheel and shades of gray in Grunge for the background.

 Enjoy your weekend... 

and don't forget to set your clocks back an hour

 (where applicable ;0)

Tot ziens, Jo

Painted Forest is Bee Haven!!!

Painted Forest, a pattern by Scott Hansen of Blue Nickel Studios

quilted with Bee Haven 

*I even LOVE the name of the quilting design!* 

with bees and cone flowers...

a delightful digital quilting design by Anne Bright Designs 

Quilted with SoFine 40, a variegated thread from Superior 

and the batting is Quilter's Dream Machine designed for longarms 

A nice bright yellow backing which also worked well for the binding...

Yep! Even the binding is done! 

Fast you say... that's right because it's machine stitched down with my trusty Juki! 

I am quite proud (can you tell :0) of my machine stitched binding!!! 

(There is a secret and if you come to my class in November I will share it with you) 

or you can take Terri's binding class at Cathy's/Honey Run Quilters 

and get the very same tip! 

Chico is the place to Bee Haven!!!

Painted Forest is a Flimsy

All of my trees are planted! 

Link for this pattern from Blue Nickel Studios and more on the previous blog post
 

I put the last blocks together last night at Honey Run/Cathys classroom

where is was nice and cool :0) with Ronda, Pam and Melanie. 

Pam finished binding on a sample quilt for HRQ

Melanie cut out two quilts and had a flimsy up the the design wall 

that was gorgeous! Happy to see her at HRQ again and back to quilting

If only I had a smart phone, I could have taken pix :0(

Ronda worked on her Toes 

We missed you Karen and Barb! 

Hope to see you at Toes tonight

Close ups of some of the trees in progress...

Fun quilt to make and Scott's pattern is great! 

All of the measurements/cuts were spot on :0)

Back to work for me now that my studio has cooled off from yesterday! 

Tot ziens, Jo

Painted Forest

Painted Forest

First 3 blocks

Pattern by Scott Hansen 

Blue Nickel Studios

I am having so much fun with this quilt! Modern, urban folk, whimsical, scrappy and just plain fun! ... and another quilt out of my box! I started this quilt at Sisters, OR at A Quilter's Affair when I took one of Scott's classes. Wow! Love :0) Finished blocks one and two in class and made block three today. These first blocks are symmetrical. Now on for more fun because the rest are not!!! Yea! 

Thank you Scott for a wonderful and fun class! 

Check out Scott's website and blog

for some of the new patterns and projects Scott is working on. 

If you ever have a chance to take a workshop with Scott... sign up! 

Link to Painted Forest Pattern 

 Scott has more patterns available as well. During the class at Sisters quilters stopped by with the quilts they made in classes. I saw Painted Forest quilted plus another... Twister...
and took pix of Scott's Christmas 1964 in the Instructor's tent at Sisters...

(The sun is shining thru from the back)

This looks like as much fun as Painted Forest :0) 

Enjoy your weekend 

Stay cool, forecast is low 100s this weekend 

and back into the 90s next week. Oh boy!

You know you live in Chico when the 90s sounds cool!!! 

Tot ziens, Jo