Embrace the Chaos- Libs Elliott workshop in September

After almost a year of anticipation, our guild workshop with Libs Elliott had finally arrived!  25 eager students were up bright and early and ready to start class.  

Libs gave us some of her background about design school, her start into quilting, her quilt commissions and of course her design on the collectable Absolut vodka bottle.  Then we got right to playing a game and coming up with our own unique layout to her Embrace the Chaos quilt design.

We were given a large selection of possible blocks to choose from and once we had picked 5, Libs then started our BINGO style game to come up with the layout for these 5 blocks. 

When we were all happy with the quilt design we took some time to colour in our blocks for reference.  Here are a few of the quilt layouts from the students.

And some students cut out fabric for reference as well as matched the pencil crayons exactly to their fabric selections! 

Mid morning snack break consisted of some wonderful baked goods and home made cookies- thanks to those that knew we would need a sugar fix throughout the day.  Not many left by the end of the day though. 

Here is everyone hard at work making blocks. 

And once we had enough blocks made, it was time to lay out our blocks into our personal quilt top. 

I think this might have been the only quilting class where there was more vodka on the tables than coffee!  Thanks to Libs for autographing all our bottles! 

Thanks again Libs for such a wonderful day!  I can't wait to see 25 finished Embrace The Chaos quilts over the next few months!  

Here are 4 finished quilts at our October meeting Show and Share.  25 students in the class, 4 quilts finished- 21 more to come for Show and Share (but who's counting?)