What a fantastic couple of Saturdays we had at our guild with David Owen Hastings!
We welcomed David at our guild meeting and he presented his Minimal Design Maximum Impact lecture and it was both inspiring and a great lead up to his workshop on the following Saturday.
We welcomed David at our guild meeting and he presented his Minimal Design Maximum Impact lecture and it was both inspiring and a great lead up to his workshop on the following Saturday.
During David's lecture he talked about his influences such as Gees Bend quilters, Gwen Marston, early Amish quilts and Nancy Crow.
David also explained his stitched paper collage workshop and how architecture is a great place to look for inspiration and how you can use photos of building and simplify them to pick out specific lines to build your quilt from.
And of course Modern Quilts., Designs of the New Century book is a fantastic coffee table book to also flip through for amazing quilts.
Then on the following Saturday we had our Mini Mod workshop where David showed us some of his gallery quilts and personal quilts in his home.
And then we got right into learning how to make our Mini Mod Quilts.
In addition to learning how to make the tiny accent fabric strips, quilt as you go for assembling the pieces we also learned how to do some big stitching to embellish our mini quilts.
Here are some finished mini quilts our guild members were able to accomplish in this class.
So many different styles and colours, in addition to the interesting textured fabrics- this workshop was amazing!
On May 26th, David has a free online workshop with Matt Macomber- Here is the LINK for more information
On May 26th, David has a free online workshop with Matt Macomber- Here is the LINK for more information
If you get the chance to attend a guild lecture with David or one of his online workshops, we highly recommend it!
Thanks so much David for a couple of great events!
Thanks so much David for a couple of great events!
