Empty Spools Seminars  

 

                       

5 day retreat at Asilomar Conference grounds in beautiful Pacific Grove, California. In this class the students could bring there own picture to make a pattern from or use a new pattern I designed especially for my classes at Empty Spools Seminar.

This is a documentary of my first class with Empty Spools in August, 2007. It was a wonderful time and all the students in my class went home with a  beautiful flower quilt. Here are some pictures of the works in progress.

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Very colorful classroom. Everyone is hard at work.

              

 

Dorothy's beautiful iris.

Dawn's quilt in process and below at the end of class. She just needs to add the thread work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                               

                                                                                                                                            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ellen working on her lily. She took this picture form her own garden.

Barbara was working on her pink poppies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rena working on her hydrangeas.  She almost gave up but persevered and went home with a great flower quilt. Well done!

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet Irena with her red poppy.

Jackie's coneflowers turned out fabulous.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jacqui did a sunflower from her own picture.

Nancy from Orange County.

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Lorrain and her wonderful pink lily. She also had her own photo.

Patty did a beachscape and Virginia did a red poppy she called the Mediterranean.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Molly and her pink poppies.

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Plastic overlay helps with design placement.

 

Nancy did a California Poppy.

She is retiring soon and moving to another state. She wants to take her poppy with her to remember California.

Shirley from England was like having a little bit of royalty in the class.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are two of the finished poppy quilts.