this is gonna be a great week!

There is so much happening this week, Tonight, Blockbusters art quilt forum is playing with couching, (7-9, $10.00) Wed is the Open City Tote class, (full) Thursday is Quilts of Valor, Both sessions of the String Pieced Jacket are full. If you are interested in either full workshop call and leave your name and number. If we get enough we can add additional sessions. Next week there is the Dresden plate Block workshop. Id like to tell you more about this. We are using the patterns from Egg Money Quilts by Elanor Burns. The full text of the book makes a sampler quilt, but each block has a single block project as well. We will be working our way through and aiming for a full sampler quilt. The Dresden plate block is particularly lovely, and we have chosen to begin with it. If you use gold yellows for the wedges and an rich brown for the center and you have a fall sunflower like the sample. The book uses reproductions and a scrappy look, to help you get started 30's Reproductions are this Saturdays Special, 20% off.

This weeks Creativity Central has to do with squares. They are the most basic shape in quilt making. Right angles are built right into the very structure of our fabric. The exercise for this week is to find ten perfect squares in your daily life and snap digital photos or sketch them in their surroundings. -A variation on an exercise from "Caffeine for the Creative Mind" by Stephan Mumaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield. This activity is all about noticing things in a new way, and then framing them within a boundary. Give it a try. See you soon.