The Cambridge Quilters Group meets twice each month, one meeting in the evening and the other on a morning. We started last Wednesday's meeting with a bit of a 'show and tell' as they say. Jeannie showed us one of her latest creations as you can see in the photograph. This was made with placing smaller squares on each corner, stitching and then flipping back, trimming and pressing. Jenny Doan, from the Missouri Star Quilting Company, calls this technique, 'snowballing'. If you do it on each corner you get an overall 'ball' effect. Jeannie quilted this is simple diagonal lines which works really well.
The main part of the meeting was led by a member called Rhoda who shared her 'quilting experiences'. Rhoda took up this craft after she retired and she explained how she didn't seem to 'get on' with the class she joined. However another teacher really inspired her and she got 'hooked' onto flowers.
Here's Rhoda's flower quilt. Lovely pastel colours on a light background. I'm not sure how each flower was made but it looked exquisite and so neat!
Next, Rhoda showed us a magnificent quilt with her lovely flowers in the centre. An heirloom if I ever saw one. Wow!
Finally, a close up of Rhoda's 3D flowers inspired by a couple of books but mostly the one on Japanese folder flowers. I've included a picture of the book and the technique is known as 'Kanzashi' flowers. I do admire Rhoda's meticulous work. I've tried doing these flowers and found them to be very fiddly and time consuming but then, I hate hand stitching!
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