Lizzy House and the Meadow Quilt
Today was fun! I got to spend the day at the Wonderfil Threaducation Centre in Calgary with nine other MQG ladies and Lizzy House on what will be one of the final dates ever on the Meadow quilt tour, as Lizzy is getting married soon and plans to travel less and be more home-based from now on.
For those who don’t know, the Meadow quilt was designed around Lizzy’s Hello Pilgrim line of fabric around 4-5 years ago and took many days and “anxiety naps” to figure out before Quilt Market. Throughout this time when she was having problems getting a pattern to work, she was asking herself if this was wrong, or was this just difficult, a question that seemed to come up a lot when she was talking about the way she designs and actually a useful way of thinking about life in general. She’s fun, friendly and a funny lady too.
Because of the way this design works, it is not a pattern as such, as Lizzy explained, and the tuition for success with the design is essential which is why you can’t and won’t buy it anywhere. I saw it around on Instagram (look for #meadowquilt) and not knowing how it was put together bugged me, so I was glad for the opportunity to have a go myself.
My fabric pull
Lizzy worked with us to put groups of fabrics together by colour and value and we created little colour maps as well as assembling a block or two. My sewing machine decided to mimic another lady’s machine (Agnes had a Baby Lock version of the same machine) and have a minor breakdown partway through sewing curves, so I took the stitch plate off, reset the feed dogs and put it back together again and it seemed to be fine after that.
This is my sample block and colour map…
This signature block will go on the back but it’s another project that will have to go on the back burner for the while.
Why?
Well I have now checked what I am allowed to say and can announce that I am indeed working on a rhymes-with-cook as Reene suggested on Instagram, and it will be for Stash Books by C&T Publishing. I can’t say any more than that but I will need to get it pretty much all completed by the start of October. I’m not planning on giving up blogging at all, just reducing it for a while, still I do have some other stuff to share, so keep coming back, OK?
April 2, 2016 3:56 am|
Congratulations on the book deal! It’s a lot of work, I know, but soon you will see the fruits of your labor. I hope that you will teach from your book once it is finished. In the meantime, do what you have time for, choose what’s important, and don’t forget to relax!
April 2, 2016 4:42 am|
What a fantastic opportunity to take a class with Lizzy House! It must have been fantastic! And congratulations on the book deal! Excited for when we can learn the subject. Are there any Billy Bass projects in it!? 😉
April 2, 2016 8:15 am|
Congratulations on the book deal,,, a lot of work,, but also a lot of fun!
April 2, 2016 8:26 am|
Great that you’re blogging again! The class sounds like fun, if a little bizarre! I am a bit jealous that you have a whole new mqg to hang out with!
April 2, 2016 2:16 pm|
That is awesome news!! You are going to have your plate full for awhile, but it will be worth all of the work. Enjoy it.
April 2, 2016 2:29 pm|
Wonderful news! The class looks like great fun too.
April 4, 2016 10:25 pm|
That looks great and fun. Looking forward to hearing more about your new adventure.
April 10, 2016 10:41 pm|
Woohoo! A book!! I think your book will be great fun and I can’t wait to see what how it all comes out. Fun to see all the updates here, and to read this great news!