Ending the First Pieced BOM

If you want to get a day off to a happy, upbeat, productive start, go to a quilt meeting first thing in the day!

Today started with the last meeting of the Pieced Block of the Month Quilt from the Golden Triangle Fabric Center in Starkville, Mississippi.

I blogged about this project here and here.

We picked up our December block fabric and instructions, absorbed the instructions from Lou Ann Vasek, and then settled back for some eye candy!

The four organizers for this BOM pieced quilt showed their interpretations of this quilt project!

First, Lou Ann Vasek showed her version with pink "picture frames" around each block. It had been quilted by Mary Wallace, and it only lacks the binding to be completed!

Lou Ann put some extra blocks on the back for whimsey. I just love how these creative ladies add touches like this to the backs of their quilts!

This is the colorway that I chose to make. I certainly hope my first pieced BOM will look this pretty! The audience was also audibly appreciative of this lovely quilt.

Mary Wallace showed how she used her practice blocks to stretch her BOM to two quilts.  That is Mary in the rose blouse to the left.

I love the way she set the blocks at angles and blended the blue, green and maroon of the BOM with the tans of her practice squares.  That angled block technique surely has a name, but I've not gotten that far in my Quilt Knowledge.

Then Dot Livingston wowed us with her BOM with braided sashing and some extra half square triangles in the outer border.  WOW!

I can't wait to see this quilt again once it has been quilted!  That is Dot to the right. 

Dot has promised to teach a class on braided sashing.  Sign me up for that one!

Gloria Reeves took a different approach by adding to her blocks to make them quite large.  I forget how many inches she said they became.

Gloria quilted each block, and she is in the process of connecting each block for a finished quilt. 

I want to learn that "quilt as you go" method also!

That second photo of Gloria peeping over her quilt is my favorite picture from the day.

Lou Ann would not show her pretty face long enough for me to snap a picture of her AND her quilt.  Nor did I manage to catch on camera memory card Golden Triangle Fabric Center owner Everlyn Johnson.  She is always in perpetual motion!

Next time, Lou Ann and Everlyn!  *grin*

More pictures to show you of the pieced BOM for next year from this fabric shop! I've already signed up!

So, just an hour meeting this morning has me really jazzed to finish my first pieced BOM quilt!
I could not work on it today, though. 

We're pushing around the clock on the St. John the Baptist Catholic Church porcelain ornament orders. Blog post to come on that project, I promise!