August still
had some great summer weather, but later in the month things cooled down a bit,
which made it a lot better for some quilty activities.
But before that there were still some summer outings with Whopper, he loves those evenings on the beach.
On one of
those very warm summer days I drove down to Marcha’s shop (click) for her Open House. I was not the only one to drive that way, unfortunately I arrived rather
late because of the traffic jams, which meant that I had to miss lunch as I was
expected at Karen Styles’ (click & click) workshop shortly after my arrival.
Luckily,
Yvonne (click), who was there to promote her book, came to my aid with some
sweets, enough to give me that sugar rush to enjoy Karen’s workshop.
Karen’s workshop was about tips and tricks to make clamshells , which she used
in her beautiful Okehampton quilt.
As I had never
made clamshells before I found the workshop really helpful, when I ever want to
use these in a project, I know exactly what to do.
Because of my
late arrival I had less time than planned to look around at Marcha’s Open
House, but there was lots to see (here are a few pictures from the quilt exhibition), to do, to eat and drink and of course I did want
to do some shopping.
Karen’s Circle
of Sisters quilt is always a star attraction!
It’s fun to
see Marcha’s shop-quilt grow, quite a few additions during the Open Days I am
sure, I am somewhere in the middle:
Two days later I traveled in another direction
to Juud (click), we spent the day (another hot one) sitting outside in the
morning working on our Judy Newman projects, so we called it our ‘Judy Day’.
After lunch it
became a too hot to be outdoors so we moved inside, imagine that. Practically
the whole year we want to be outside and then when we can it can get so hot you
prefer to be indoors….
Multi-talented
Juud in ‘domestic goddess’ – mode in her kitchen, making us a yummy and healthy
dinner which we enjoyed in the garden 😊
The end of a
lovely day, with lots of chatting and sewing and looking ahead to all sorts of
fun quilty things in the future.
So this month I started a Judy Newman quilt, for me it just had to be the Sugar Plum
quilt. During the days when Judy was at Emma’s (click) and I was helping out, I
saw this quilt the whole time and of all the quilts Judy brought with her, this
is the one that represents those wonderful days in France most, the happy,
airy, light colors, the cheerfulness of it all.
So far this is
what I have done and using Judy’s templates and book, the curved seems are
really not difficult at all.
Thank you for
visiting my blog,
Phyllis
