![]() ![]() She taught this class at the Pine Needle in 2007 and I happily jumped in, using a palette of blues, greens, and yellows, a combination I still love to this day: Star Garden, 44″ x 62″ (2007) The bottom quilt in the stack pictured is based on Billie’s original design called Maisie’s Garden. The basic design was a combination of 9-Patch and Rail Fence blocks but I threw in some Sawtooth Stars to jazz it up a bit: Starry 9-Patch, 56″ x 63″ (2007) I learned so much in Quiltmaking II and III that I decided to take Quiltmaking I when she offered it again. I took Billie’s Quiltmaking series out of order, starting with the second class. The fourth quilt I am holding in the first photo is Starry 9-Patch, finished in 2007. Happily the ditsy print in the borders hid a multitude of FMQ sins. I stitched in the ditch around the star blocks and did free motion quilting in the borders. Billie insisted that we learn how to do that. Swinging on a Star was the first of my quilts that included free motion quilting (FMQ). Little did I know that setting foot in a quilt shop 20 years later would cause me to abandon all hope of using up that old fabric as I quickly began accumulating a much larger amount of new fabric that would become known as “my stash.” At the time I started this quilt my focus was on using up cottons I had accumulated in the 1980s while making charity quilts for babies. In this class Billie taught us how to draft blocks (including some from Quiltmaking II) that finish at 9″ square, and how to set them in a “Twist ‘n Turn” technique described by Sharyn Squier Craig in her 1996 book of the same name. We start with the the quilt at the top of the stack - Swinging on a Star, the quilt I pieced in 2005 under Billie Mahorney’s tutelage in Quiltmaking III, the third installment of the Quiltmaking class she taught for so many years at the Pine Needle Quilt Shop in Lake Oswego (current home of the Lake Oswego branch of Montavilla Sewing Center): Swinging on a Star, 46″ x 58″ (2006) Three of the quilts pictured above were made before starting my website/blog in 2012 so I thought it would be fun to do a “Throwback Thursday” post and show you these early quilts as well as the more recent ones. When I showed a picture on my blog a couple weeks ago of a stack of six quilts I had donated to Hopewell House, a hospice care facility in Southwest Portland, some of my readers asked to see pictures of the full quilts.
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