Wednesday Class

Today I forgot my camera, so there are no pictures to show what the ladies were doing. They brought their old jeans and some squares of fabric today and got down to cutting cirlces from the jean fabric. Here is my picture along with a cathedral window panel.

Some are going to make a bag from the sixteen panel and others a pillow. A couple are thinking of making it into a large quilt. The idea for the blue jean circles comes from here.

Last two classes

I haven't posted as I have had a few things going on what with work and.....

Anyway the last two classes the ladies have still be trying to work out how they are going to put theire kaleidoscope blocks together. Here is Fernanda's

and Carmen's

and Mariya's who this week became a casulty of the dreaded rotary cutter!

And finally here is Sofia's who is normally a red fabric lady!

And here is a show and tell from Aldora who popped in to show what she had been working on at home, as she is not able to come every week to class. 

HECTIC!!

Sorry but just haven't had chance to post anything for last Wednesday, things here are a bit hectic to say the least. I will up date you on the news when I can.

Finished

Today, I managed to find a couple of hours this morning to finish off my bag. It is a pattern by Melly & Me. I really love it, but I am not sure if it is too posh for me!

And when Sara got back from her morning down by the river (Tagus River) with her Dad and grandfather, she had ideas that she was going to keep the bag for herself. I don't think so!

Well!

I know I promised to show you today "my something for myself" but had to go and work, plus household jobs, so bang went me going into my sewing room and finishing my project. Hope I get a chance on Sunday to finish it off.

Anyway I forgot to show Fernanda's triangle project, so here it is. It is going to be a mat, originally it was going to be for her cat to lie on it, could still be though!

All Day Workshop

Yesterday we had an all day workshop on using Bethany S Reynolds Kaleidoscope technique. This is mine and I will admit that joining those hexagonal blocks gave me a challenge!

And one of the hexagonal's close up.

I must admit each time I joined a block together I got this wow feeling. And I think the ladies did too. Here is Carmen cutting some of her strips up.

Fernanda and Helena busy putting their blocks together to see what surprise laid in store for them.

And here are some of Manuela's with her brown and Sofia's (blue/yellow) and just a bit of pink, not red though.

And I only managed to take one of Fernanda's blocks. It will be interesting to see how Manuela, Fernanda and Paula's blocks come out because they are using the same fabric design but one has a black background, one is brown and the other has cream as it's background.

A lot of time was spent on helping them to cut their fabric up, which I think is the part that takes the longest. But once you get sewing it starts to come together. We will see next Wednesday how much homework they did. Today I took it easy, no not really. I went into my sewing room, to make something for myself, which will be revealed tomorrow!

Door Organiser

Well Teresa sent me a picture of her finished organiser. She decided to use Tilda fabric. Isn't it beautiful.

Half Triangles

Today the ladies wanted to know how to make half triangles. We used this method which is a quick way for the project we were doing. There are obviously other ways, but I like this way.

Here are some of the examples of the ladies.

Can you guess, this is Sofia's who has decided that she is going to change some of the colours to make it work better.

And Maria hasn't decided which way she is going have hers. This way

OR this way

I now there is hardly any difference, but we managed to get down to these two!

And Carmen needs to make a few more

The other ladies were still deciding which way to go and Fernanda was thinking of placing plain black squares at various intervals, which was looking really nice when I last saw it, but sorry no picture, yet.

Saturday's Class

I managed to make it to class on Saturday full of cold and a croaky throat. The project this week was to make a door organiser like this.

But before work started Sofia showed us her finished Mat & Ruler Bag, it was red which is her favourite colour.

By the end of the day Fernanda and Paula had done this much and were going to go home and finish the binding off by hand.

and Sofia just needed to choose a button and ribbon to finish it off.

Theresa who does everything very neatly wouldn't let me take a picture until it is finished. She will send me a photo. Don't forget Theresa.

This Wednesday those that haven't done half triangles before are going to make this.

You can visit here to see a better picture of the project.

Wednesday's Mat & Ruler Class

On Wednesday with kind permission from Angela the ladies started making their Mat & Ruler bags, so that there will now be no excuse why they won't bring their mat and ruler to class!

No one actually finished their bag at the end of the morning, but hopefully next week we will see some finished. Some got as far as the pocket for the ruler. We were putting flying geese blocks down the middle and then they were going to go home and do their homework!

We had a new lady join us and to say she had never used a sewing machine, she managed to get her quarter inch dead on. Only thing I had to keep reminding her was to close her rotary cutter (if you look closely in the picture you will see). No homework for her, as she hasn't got a sewing maching at home, yet anyway!

And finally Aldora who is recently new to quilting but not handicrafts, made a cover for her sewing machine. Isn't it cute?

I am working on a project that is for an up and coming workshop, which I can't show just yet.

Wednesday's Class

This week the ladies were shown how to make a Wonky Rail quilt. Here is Manuela busy sewing her strips together.                                                                                                                                                               

Here is Helena's who is going on to make some more into a large quilt, which by the next time I see her she will have completed it!

And here is another colour variation which is for this lady's (oops name again) grandaughter. Which is her second project on from the beginners. 

Here is mine, which I haven't quilted yet, because I still haven't decided whether I am going to add some applique to it or not.

And here is a small sampler for those ladies at the class who might be interested in doing this project on 12th May. I wish now I had made it bigger, as it would look lovely on a bed for the summer.

And finally in the post yesterday turned up my parcel from Australia, which Irene and I are excited about. It is Lynette Anderson's latest BOM called Scandinavian Christmas, we managed to get just the patterns rather than do it as a BOM with fabric, so that we can choose what colours we want to do it in.

Tomorrow is the 1st May and is a public holiday here in Portugal, so no class at Arco Iris A Metro.

Saturday at Arco Iris a Metro

Well didn't get a chance to take photographs of the class on Saturday, only this one. It was done my Mariana who is 12 years old. Isn't it lovely. It was her first attempt.

The class was very busy with pupils and quiet a few ladies came just to do some shopping for fabric and the shelves at the end of the visit by these ladies was well........
I will be much happier when the shop has been altered, so that all the ladies are in one place and I can get to them easier!
Today I have decided to take a rest from quilting after yesterday's class, but tomorrow back to my sewing room. I will most probably just sit this afternoon and do some cross stitch, which I haven't touched for quiet a few weeks or is it months.