One of my favorite local
fabric stores,
The Top Stitch, invited
Anna Marie Horner to come to Spokane to teach a
workshop on making her
Prism Quilt. While I am not
necessarily very savvy of who is who in the fabric world, her fabrics are ones
I am very aware of, so I jumped at the chance to meet and learn from her. It was a great workshop. I have been working on understanding the role
of color and especially of value (shades and tones) in creating effective
quilts. Learning how to work with these
elements with highly patterned fabrics was something I had barely worked with,
so it was great having 20 minutes of her undivided time to show me how she
looks at things. There were 24 in the
workshop, so it was a hectic day for everyone, but Anna took it all in stride, always showing genuine interest in each of us and what we were
trying to do. I came away very impressed
and a fan!
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| Anna and me - she's a genuinely warm and fun lady! |
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| The beginnings of my prism quilt - it's got a ways to go, but Anna and I worked on this part together. |
On another note, as a
result of that weekend, my scrap stash has exploded! Time for more log cabins, since they are one
of the best ways to use up these scraps.
I recently bought the book
101 Log Cabins from House of White
Birches. In it I found the “Drunkard’s
Path Log Cabins” I had made templates for – goes to show, there’s very little
out there that hasn’t been done before!
Anyway, I liked the
Rolling Log block, but it was at 7 inches.
So I made new templates for
5 inches and
6 inches finished blocks. I am making a rainbow themed log cabin quilt
and thought these would make great corner stones. I also think this would be an effective block
if you used all one color, but either start dark and go to light, or the
reverse.
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| I have WAY more scraps than I can use - but I'll find a way! |
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| 5 inch Rolling Log block |
3 comments:
I have never seen the rolling Log cabin Block before - it is very cool!
Never saw this block before, how interesting and fun!
It would be cool done with alternating light and dark version of the same pattern. It world like like a piece of ribbon swirling around! Thanks for the inspiration!
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