I started my trip off with a bang, taking Elizabeth Hartman's Patchwork City workshop on the first day. As any casual follower of this blog knows, I'm a huge fan of Elizabeth's work, so it was so exciting to finally get to meet and learn from her. I tried to play it cool as much as possible. :)
As I expected, she's a great teacher, and I learned a lot of new techniques for freezer-paper templates and fussy cutting. It was also so helpful to get her input on fabric color selection and placement. I am loving where this quilt is going. We made three blocks from the book (I didn't quite finish my third one), and I can't wait to get back to work on this project. I'm planning to make the biggest quilt in the book, which uses all 75 blocks, so I better get started.
My third day was another workshop, this time with Lee Heinrich. The workshop was on advanced piecing techniques (paper piecing, partial seams) and focused on four blocks from her book Vintage Quilt Revival (another favorite around here).
I finished three of the four blocks, so I need to wrap up the last one and then decide what to do with them. I'm not sure if I'll finish the sampler from the book or maybe just turn these four into a table runner.
After the workshop, I went to the keynote lecture with the Gee's Bend quilters, which was fun and really interesting (though I wished we'd gotten to see more of their quilts!), followed by a super fun dinner meet-up with some of the other ladies from the STLMQG. What a great way to end the trip! I was up at 3:15 the next morning to fly home (Boo. But bonus -- Anna Maria Horner was on my flight to Nashville!), but I'm so glad I got to experience all the fun of QuiltCon this year.
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