Gwen.

This is the first quilt book I ever bought!!

I met Gwen Marston here in this book about 3 years ago.

My "quilt mother" Gerda took me to a few quilt shops.....

and I bought this book!

I was hooked!

I read this book cover to cover many times!!

I even made a couple of the quilts described.

I found out about that same time there were quilt magazines,

quilt guilds,

and lots of quilt shops!!

You could say that Gwen is my "quilt hero"

since she's the one (through her book)

that got me going!!

Today I was able to take a class from Gwen!

What a treat!!

She talked about 19th century quilts,

showed pictures,

talked a bit about history,

and then...

gave us a lovely "show and tell".

I learned today what a dog tooth border is and

how to make one!!

Woo! Hoo!
The red border on the above quilt has the border.

Sorry you can't see it too well...

but it's basically a long red piece of fabric

cut with that triangle edge...

and then appliqued down!!

Someday I'm going to add one to a quilt!!

A few of her small quilts.

Most of them were hand quilted.
I love the pot on this one!



Lovely.
Simple.

The double hatched quilting on this one

was amazing!

Pretty in pink!

I like the four panels that match,

but don't match too perfectly!

It's hard in this picture to see

that it is NOT perfect.

That's the charm!

Here's a quilt with more modern fabric.

Fun, huh?


Well...

I'm dreaming about doing four big blocks

with pots and flowers or leaves.

I didn't get too far today.

I cut four pots.

That wasn't too hard.

Then I did this tiny bit of reverse applique.

That's it!!

It took me all day to do that???!!!

OOps! Guess I was talking too much.

It was fun though!!!!