Craftsy Block of The Month 2016

I really wanted to do the Block of The Month offered by Craftsy last year.  I wasn't totally jazzed about all the baskets but Jinny Beyer was teaching it and I knew I would learn a lot by doing the quilt.  My heart just wasn't in it so I never ended up doing the quilt.  I had bought fabric for it but also used some from my stash.  Here it sits.  Every time I look at it, I sigh.

Along comes 2016 Block of the Month with Lynette Jensen from Thimbleberries.  She has wrote so many books.  Books I have read and learned from.  Here she is teaching a free class on Craftsy. Yippee!

Bonus, I can use all those fabrics I bought from last year.  It will work very well with the 2016 quilt.  Yeah!

If you don't know about Craftsy yet, it is an online learning center.   The site has TONS of amazing classes.  Quite a few of them are free.  I have bought many classes through them and have not been sorry about my purchase.  I have learned quite a bit. I am not saying all of this because Craftsy is paying me to. I just am saying it because it is a great resource.

Below is a picture of the finished quilt from Craftsy.

Source: Craftsy

Who met Bonnie Hunter?

Me- thats who. I took a class, Crumb Piecing, from her in Tonawanda with my friend Jan.  Had a blast.  Very much enjoyed the class and enjoyed Bonnie's style and personality.

 These pics are all of Bonnie's work. Her quilts, her blocks.

This quilt above is my friend Jan's.  Its called Lantana, after the flower.  It was Jan's choice of colors for Easy Street.  Beautiful, right?

Scrap Therapy Plus One... Little Squares

A few of the ladies from my guild and another guild attended a class with Joan Ford. She is the author of Scrap Therapy: Scraps Plus One and Cut The Scraps: 7 Steps To Quilting Your Way Through Your Stash.  Here is a link to her blog- Hummingbird Highway.

Here are some of her quilts.  Way nicer in person.

See how tiny these little patches are.  In her quilt, 99 Bottles, there are around 500 give or take.  If you want details see her book Scraps Plus One.

Here is my box of scraps to work from. I wish I had brought more 2 inch ones.  At the last minute I decided I wanted to do blue theme.  But in the end I am going with whatever for a total scrappy quilt.

Here is our teacher, Joan Ford.  A real good sport that thankfully has a good sense of humor.  We might have become just a tad rowdy on her.  Nothing out of the norm for our group.  No one would ever call us straight laced.  Just a warning there.

This is all of us, ah hem, except for the people that just would not get their tails out for a pic.