Exuberant Color

Still on schedule, barely................
I taught my class and didn't get home until 3:30. I had a mild headache from the thunderstorms that went through in the early morning hours so I didn't get into the project until later in the evening. I started putting the pieces of the "Tuesday project" on my design wall trying to keep them straight this time. If you have never put a diagonal patterned quilt on a design wall you have no idea how hard it is to keep it straight.
This is the inspiration quilt in one of Kaffe Fassett's books. You will notice that he has 4 squares in the center and 12 squares surrounding it in each of his square areas. I have one in the center with 8 surrounding it. The main reason is I get 8 pieces across the fabric and would have to cut 2 strips to get 12 and then I would have 4 left over.

This is the book that it is in.

Here I have stacked the sewn strip sets and am cutting them off to make the 4 patches. I'm glad I had gotten all of the sets sewn on Sunday night.

Here is a string of 4 patches coming off the machine.

And now on to the results in the class today. This quilt will end up 5 across by 7 down so there are still more squares to be sewn.

The batik one is coming along nicely.

I didn't get a picture when she had the last block on the wall for this one. She got all of the seams sewn in one direction before she left.

This one is completely sewn together. Rather than make circles, she chose to make trails through the top. She has 2 borders planned for it.

Aren't they great? The other class is on Friday so I'll report their progress on Sat.