This three day retreat commenced with a day working on Thangles. Thangles are an easy way of producing half square triangles from an oblong.
The thangles paper was added to two strips of fabric and stitched on the dashed lines then cut on the solid lines.
Here are some of Val's quilts
Students busy working away
Some of the students work
Day Two - Take 9 fat Quarters
Work in progess
Day three
Crazy patchwork - one of Valerie's quilts
Some of the students work in progress
We enjoyed a super three days with Valerie and so much so that we have invited her back to teach again next year. The dates will be announced shortly on our website here -
quitsandwich.co.uk
You can also find details of our other workshops and retreats & of course our longarm quilting service.
Today we also have had a delivery of new quilt backing fabrics from Moda... I have put them in the online store http://www.quiltsandwich.co.uk/#!quilt-backs/cyhn
