Karen DuMont's Quilt

Last Tuesday I did the workshop at our quilt guild.  Karen DuMont was teaching us the quilt pattern Braid Parade which she designed. ( to see more click here)   Her prairie points are two tone and adorable.  We didn't get much sewn in class but I felt that this would go together fairly quickly so I have been working on it this week.
Here is my progress:

This is the pattern, it uses two jelly rolls or lots and lots of 2 1/2 inch strips.  Since I have plenty of fabric in my stash, I went with that and cut my own strips.

Here are some of my scraps.  I decided to do all batik, and my own hand dyed fabrics.  I have a LARGE jelly roll left of fabric I didn't use, so next time something comes around I'll have it ready.

We are in class with our instructor
Karen DuMont

Karen told us we could lay out the fabric pieces or brown bag them.
For those who do not know... you put all your fabric pieces in a brown bag, then
when you need the next piece you pull blindly from the bag.
My choice was to lay out my pieces.

This is how I have my sewing space set up to sew the braids.
The fabric swatches above each pile correspond
to the swatch that is pinned on each corresponding braid.
 I  quickly learned that I needed to put my piles
on a surface other than the sewing table, as I kept knocking them
off onto the floor, mixing them up.

Here are 8 braids sewn.
They will get trimmed after all the braids are done.

           

Here are two of the inner borders laid out.
I am in process of sewing all 4 inner borders.




Sew see you later,


Bette