I’ve heard the ladies at the Guild talking about Wonky Log Cabins but I never understood how it was put together. I can see this as a way to use up scrap pieces, but I think you’d need quite a pile of scraps before you had enough to do a complete quilt with. This pattern is popular for our Community Quilt donations.

This was the first block for this lesson. I think this is the look the instructor was going for although it looks more off-centered than wonky.

This piece used a lot of fabric and there are a lot of useless bits left over. Maybe if the block were smaller that wouldn’t be the case. It seems like a variation on a string quilt, but with more cutting and waste.

The Bargello workshop was held in November (2011) while the Guild was still at the Soccer Center. I only managed to get half of it done on the day of the workshop, and I didn’t finish piecing it until January (2012). I thought the straight line stitching worked well on the piece. It’s a good thing it seemed fitting because by the time I started quilting it I had pretty much given up on free-motion!

I needed extra fabric for the binding and I was lucky that Lainey still had what I wanted in stock. Once I put my mind to it, I was able to get the binding attached and stitched down within a couple of days.

The pillow top is a sample we did during my free-motion quilting class. We were to put a motif of some sort in the center, stipple around the motif and do some free motion on the outside.

I tried to think of a motif but kept drawing a blank. I looked online but didn’t find anything that was the right size. In desperation the night before the class I traced around my hand.

I’m happy with the stippling in the piece, and reasonably happy with the free motion in the border. The hand thing is just a little creepy though!