taking a quilt class

Not this weekend but next Mom and I plus a couple close girlfriends are making a 4 hour trek to take a quilt class.  Seems like quite a ways for a class when we have a couple quilt shops in town, but it makes for an amazing excuse for a mini vacation.  I feel a little bad about this mini trip I’m going on, but I’m even more excited about it.  We are taking a Bargello class.  What’s that you ask?  Google Bargello quilts and you’ll be amazed by the watercolor-like designs of melting colors in fabric.  It looks hard.  I’ve been told it’s really just sewing strips, cutting those strips and then sewing them again.  I’m not so sure it’s that easy.  All the more reason to be excited for a class to explain it to me. 

The kit/design we’re doing in class is the Cascade design.  Here are a few links to some examples, Blue, pinks, golds.  Since we’re traveling to the shop for the class we needed to have our fabrics picked out and cut ahead of time. We could order a kit, or bring our own.  Mom and I are bringing ours, my friends ordered kits.  The fabrics should be prints and big enough prints so that different blocks aren’t the same.  And they should be in graduating shades.  I’m always drawn to batiks and instantly bali pops seemed to be the way to go. 

I choose the Watermelon bali pop.  Mom went with the Key Lime.  A bali pop comes with 40 2.5inch strips.  The pattern we’re doing calls for 24 strips, so we got to pick and choose which fabrics to include.  Watermelon is a bit out of my comfort zone…there’s a lot of pink!  I still really love it and left a lot of the pink out.  Granted a lot of the pink left out were nearly solid and they weren’t recommended anyway.  Pictured are the strips that will be included.  I’m excited to see how it turns out in all our quilts. 
Winter weather has finally hit, with snow blowing all over the place today.  Hopefully it will calm down on our mini vaca weekend.

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