Bonnie Hunter, Oh what a night and day!

Last Thursday, our guild "Pride of the Prairie" has the honor of having Bonnie Hunter speak and do two workshops. This has been on my calender since the first announcement.

Bonnie is a fun, warm, and friendly. She autographed her books and had cute magnets for sale.

Her quilts are wonderful, and so much fun to finally see in person. They are so colorful and beautiful. She loves to tell you were and how old some of those fabrics are.  She would point out where the millennium, music or ugliest fabrics are.  She has the theory, if you cut the uglies up small enough, you will never know what it was.
She gave up all her hints on taming the strips we cut, and what sizes for organization.  Bonnie is full of tips and hints.  One of her great ones, is finding 15 minutes to sew a day. 
Bonnie travels with a Singer Featherweight and sews in her hotel room in the evening. She works on her hexagon quilt, which is hand piecing.

These two quilts are the workshops, The top one (which I took), is Patches and Pinwheels.  The second one is Midnight Flight, which was in the 4th issue of Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks.  Our guild was the first one she had tried out the teaching techniques on.  Both quilts are wonderful.

More of Bonnie's quilts.

Here I am with part of what I got done in the workshop on Friday.  I said mine looked so bright, as I am using some really old fabric. She assured me that I was doing great.  Her quilt, has been used and loved for about 10 years.  There was a contest to find who had the oldest fabric.  I really do have fabric from companies that no longer exist

Patches and Pinwheels

Bonnie, during the workshop.  She was great about posing for pictures, and autographing our books.

Another great quilt.

This guild member came with all her pinwheels, and 16 patch blocks done, and ready to start putting them together.  She said she had been working on them for 2 months.

Marilyn working on hers.

Cheryl used triangulations to make her pinwheels.
Bonnie again gave us tips on how she makes her pinwheels using the Easy Angle.  There are always more then one way to accomplish the same result.

Bonnie's hexagon quilt.

She was working on hers while waiting for her introduction. (15 minutes of quilting time.)

Some of us in our workshop on Friday.

Here is some of my progress.  I was using precut squares and strips.

Progress, one of my rows is on it's way to being sewn.

It was a wonderful couple of days.  My sister was visiting (she is not a quilter), and took 2 friends( that are quilters)  and her to the guild meeting.  I was in hog heaven, and grinning from ear to ear the whole evening.  It was so much fun being able to share my interest and excitement.

I now have 3 Bonnie Hunter quilts in the works, using those old and new fabrics.

Have a great rest of the week.  I have a lot of catching up to do.

Mary