Improv Mosaic Class

 

On Saturday, Lorraine Woodruff-Long taught BAMQ a great class called Improv Mosaic 1,2,3. This was the example of what we were working towards making in the end. Amazingly, some of us actually got there!

She brought so many great examples of her work, both those finished and others that were in process.

I loved seeing all the details of the piecing and the great straight-line quilting.

This one was on a table on top of stuff so it looks rather lumpy (but it's really not!)

Her "here's-how-I-do-it-demonstration" was really excellent and clear. A great example of how showing the steps several times gets the whole process across to your students. I learned some great ideas for chain piecing which were very helpful.

As we all worked on our blocks, Lorraine put hers up that she was making up on the design wall so we could see the process of how to assemble them. Friend Jaye was putting hers up there on the right hand side.

Here's how my block looks on the wrong side.

Lorraine took reaction shots of many of us with our blocks up on the design wall. Here's Tim getting his moment of fame. She then edited them all together in a super fun reel on Instagram.

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Hope it displays well for you above. It really highlights the fun we have as a group. And the diversity of how we all approached the work for this class. Always so interesting to see what we each come up with.

Here's how most of mine look all together up on the design wall. I made just a couple more of the small ones. It was a real challenge to use all these prints. The only solids I used were off of the free table, the dark teal on the big block on the bottom, the orange and blue checkerboard and orange center, as well as that one tiny square of neon yellow. I also grabbed two prints to add in with the ones I brought from home were the neon yellow grid in that block as well. And also the little blue fish in the center of the block above that one. I mostly stuck with using the FQs from the Advent Calendar.

This was a terrific class, I really enjoyed learning Lorraine's techniques for making this kind of quilt. She has a great teaching style, laid-back but very informative and clear. I liked that she was sewing her own blocks as we all were, and then showing us things as she went along. I'm really glad that our guild had her come in as a teacher!