Mountain Heritage Challenge – CELEBRATION

On my design wall …

I’m taking on another challenge to use specific fabric to make a quilt that depicts CELEBRATION. I decided to use a technique by Marilyn Doheney that I learned in a class that I took HERE.

First I sewed together strips of the challenge fabric to make a strata.

Then, using Marilyn’s ruler, I cut the strips into wedges.

I took those wedges and sewed some of them together making a ‘fan’ that I’m hoping will look like fireworks.

Another strata and more wedges produced more design possibilities.

And Amy’s cat Clyde just happened to walk by at the most opportune time!

Linking to
Patchwork Times “Design Wall Monday”
Anything Goes Monday's at Stitch by Stitch
A Round Tuit
Show and Tell Tuesday

Marilyn Doheny Quilting Class

I was priviledged to take a quilting class with Marilyn Doheny that was hosted by MQA. Marilyn's work involves sewing strips of fabric into stratas and then cutting the stratas in a lot of different ways.

Here's Marilyn and me with a quilt she made.

This quilt was made with all plaid fabric.

This quilt is so bright and playful, Follow the Yellow Brick Road.

Here you can see the stratas that produced all the different shapes.

This was a 2 day class in Starkville. These three ladies, Sharon, Barbara, & Gail drove down from Iuka, MS and spent the night here with us so they could take in the class too. They were a lot of fun and I enjoyed learning to know them better.

Here is a picture of my fabric and some of the pieces that I made.

Another lady had these beautiful fabrics to work with.

And this fan is just gorgous to me.

To see more inspiration from our class visit Terry Turnage's blog.