Tuesday, June 16th, Inspiration

Tonight was quilt guild and I have heard of our speaker for years, so was thrilled to finally hear her and see her quilts. She was not a disappointment and the group was hanging on her every word because she is such a great orator and teacher. Bonnie Hunter, from Winston-Salem, North Carolina is a scrap quilter. I have been interested in scrap quilting for about a year as I have noticed my stash of fabric has many small bits of fabric that don't necessarily coordinate. In fact, I went to a scrap quilting seminar while at the show in Madison, but didn't gain a whole lot of information from it except to collect neutral fabrics.

Tonight I volunteered to help fold the quilts after she showed them, so I got to touch every one of the close to 20 that she brought. Tomorrow I am taking a workshop from her and I am thrilled to be with a quilting hero for a whole day!!
This is the quilt she will be teaching us, "Sister's Choice". It will be perfect for the huge amount of Thimbleberries fabrics that I have collected over the past 5 years. I am really scared that we are going to have to share and mix up fabrics, which I really don't want to do!! I registered for the workshop only this morning so have been cutting 2 1/2 inch strips in every spare moment.