I had a block included in Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks, Vol.7’
issue this spring. A friend of mine, Renelda Peldunas Harter, also had a block
in the issue. We used the opportunity to visit with several quilt shops in our
region. Visiting the shops was great
fun. It was the first time I had been to a couple of the shops and they were
wonderful in atmosphere and quality.
We each gave a talk at the shop about the blocks we had
designed. We spoke of what inspired us, how we design – paper or digital, or
both- and the construction the featured block. We brought samples of the
featured block, a quilt, and other quilts of interest from past block entries.
We encouraged the attendees to try their own design process and perhaps enter them into fairs or magazines. You never know when or where the next great trend may come from.
The Shops we visited:
Capital Quilts, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Patches Quilting & Sewing, Mt. Airy, Maryland
Seminole Sampler, Catonsville, Maryland
The Scrappy Apple, Winchester, Virginia
