Thursday Quilt Guild

Thursday evening was Pride of the Prairie's guild meeting. Our speaker was Chris Moline.  She came armed with beautiful old and new English paper pieced quilts.  This beautiful basket quilt is all hexagons. The white background, white hexagons. I think they were the 1/2 inch ones.

She said a lady in Chicago made this wonderful quilt.It was at least double bed size. It too, is made using 1/2 inch hexagons.

See the way this brown flower looks? Chris called it a dog bone hexagon.  It looks like one!

These mini quilts were made using 1/4 inch hexagons.

How about the stars.This is a mini quilt.  Can you imagine working with these tiny pieces.

This looks much easier to handle.  They are 2 inch stars, and is one quarter of the quilt.  I was one of the folders after the quilts were shown, so I got a good look at them.  Naturally, I photographed my favorite ones.

My friend Jo, this one is for you.  These are 1/2 inch applecore paper pieces.

I think this one was inch or inch and a half.

One inch tumblers. (I am on a tumbler kick now, and this one was wonderful.)

Check out the teeny tiny rick rack in the binding.

Here is Chris's quilt. The fabric is old and she has been working on it for quite a while.  She says it takes her about a year to add a row.  This quilt is currently in a huge hexagon.  Her stars are one inch paper pieces. Amazing.

Here is my hand  against the top so that you could get a perspective of how small these are.

It was a great evening.  Chris had packages of  Paper Pieces for sale. She has co-authored two books, "Piecing It All Together", and "All Dolled UP" with JoAnne Louis.  Inspiration was all around.

Have a great week.  Don't forget "Holiday Lane Blog Hop" starts on Wednesday.  You can check out the link on my sidebar.  My day is Thursday.  My project is done! Yea for me.  Now to get if photographed.  I can't wait to show it off.

Happy Sewing

Mary