I found a group of bloggers online who were contributing to the Brushfire Quilt Project. Each person quilts two squares and sends them to a lady in Australia. She and a huge team of workers will put all the squares together into quilts during a 24-hour quilt-a-thon next month. There were very few rules, but one said you had to use a star pattern. I found a tutorial for making "wonky" stars without cutting perfectly and measuring everything twice. I involved my girlfriends too during one of our craft nights and here's what we came up with:
From left to right: Laura's, Becka's, Krista's and mine. We had so much fun learning this "liberated" style of quilting that we're planning on making our own full quilts using the same star. I was really inspired by this to start quilting, something that I used to think was only for lonely cat women, homemaking meetings from the 50's and widows (hmmm, kinda like family history!). And honestly, I'll leave the REAL stuff to the professionals (like the amazing stuff here, here and here). But I guess simple quilting can be for 30-something women who want to be creative too.
It was good to send these off to Australia and know that our efforts weren't purely selfish.
5 comments:
Linds - those look really GREAT! I will have to go learn from the wonky tutorial!!!
These are lovely Linds! Glad you had fun on Sat. night.
That is super cool! And they look really good!
I like that! I'm so on my way to the tutorial...if I only had some fabric to play with. Thanks for sharing!
Looks like fun! You all impress and inspire me.
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