Progress with Sue Ross and Gwen Marston Quilting fun

I am looking good in terms of progress on my block-by-block quilt program with Sue Ross.  I founds these pickles harder in that in coming to a point in the foundation piecing it made it more difficult to turn the edge over neatly when appliqueing the pieces to the block.  I think I like the orange piece of Laura Gunn in the middle.  It also looked nice with nothing there, but I thought the orange fitted with the rest of the quilt.  I am looking forward to putting it together on the wall at Material Obsession on July 27th.  And seeing what the final two blocks are to bring it all to a grand finale.

In other news I did a one-day class at Quiltsmith with Gwen Marston and I deeply regretted not doing both days. 

 The process of working with 3/4 inch strips of solid was a bit fiddly at first, but then completely compelling ... addictive even.  The only problem is that now my scraps simply cannot be thrown out unless they are less than 3/4 inch square. 

This is my Gwen block.  It is a mix match of a whole lot of different things I was trying.  I kind of like it.  And you know, it really doesn't cost much money, as you are actually using up all those teensy weensy little pieces.

In other breaking news, I had an awesome weekend with my three sisters visiting our brother in Perth, to help celebrate his 50th.  Our lovely close family connection was renewed afresh.