Birds Spectacular with Gail Lawther

This week we have had another fabulous retreat with Gail Lawther here at Quilt Sandwich, The Royal Bridlington.

This time it was a Bird Spectacular. Each day Gail showed the students different technique to create their master pieces.

Here are just a few bits of the students work

Gail Lawther will be back again next year. remember to sign up to the newsmail list to be kept informed - and you can do this by emailing Fiona@royalhotelbrid.co.uk.

Workshops and retreats can be found on our Quilt Sandwich website here - http://www.quiltsandwich.co.uk/#!workshops/c24c2

Stained Glass with Gail Lawther

Gail Lawther is with us at The Royal Bridlington for a three day retreat / workshops.

The morning started after coffee and homemade biscuits with a quilt show by Gail. Her quilts are truely stunning - but I'm sorry I'm not allowed to post pics of all of them which is a shame because they are really worth seeing.

Today was stained glass - one of Gails signature techniques. The ladies had a choice of Mackintosh Rose, Rialto Bridge or Gondola Scene.

We started with reverse applique techniques for the larger areas then the smaller ones were applied with Bondaweb before the fusable bias was added and machined in place using a twin needle.

So here is some work in progress

This is Sue with her rose

And later this evening some of us manged to get them finished.

Here is my Rialto Bridge

Heather displaying her Rialto Bridge

Heather has also brought her Japanese Inspirations which she started with Pat Archibald a couple of weeks ago

So Tomorrow we have a choice of a Seacape or Maouri Curves.