Take Four Fat Quarters!

I got home last Friday from teaching in PEI and Quilt Canada in Halifax (pictures coming soon!) One class that I taught was Take Four Fat Quarters, a fun approach to using just four fat quarters and playing around with a variety of options. there were place mats, wall hangings, table toppers and a tote bag.
One student, Barbara McCunn, finished her tote bag and just sent me a picture. the bag uses my Dragon Bones technique from my book Accent on Angles, available from www.fabricimagery.com
Barbara's niece had hand dyed the fat quarters for her, a great job by both of them!

Shattered Angles - Bracebridge, ON

Last week I had the privilege of teaching my Shattered Angles technique to the Pine Tree Quilt Guild in Bracebridge, Ontario. I drove from my daughters house near Ottawa, through Algonquin Park on a lovely spring day and arrived in Muskoka area while the sun was still shining!
The members of the guild learned my Shattered Angles technique and had fun trying out new fabric combinations.

Preparing the strip units

Trimming the blocks

Carol decided to work with my Dragon Bones technique instead

A smiling group of successful quilters!

Dragon Bones and Fish Fingers

I just returned from a fabulous five day teaching trip to Saskatoon Quilters Guild. The snow arrived my first night when the temperature dropped to -22 C, a nice brisk cold! Luckily, being Canadian, I had my warm woolies!
The first two day workshop was Dragon Bones and Fish Fingers, a playful technique that's featured in my book Accent on Angles. In this workshop students are using insertion strips to divide up their fabrics that can be cut into squares, rectangles or other shapes. There aren't many rule sin this workshop!
Here are some of my students work, I'm sure you'll agree that they are outstanding!

I'll be teaching this workshop at Quilt Canada in Halifax next May, hope to see you there!

Dragon Bones and Fish Fingers

I developed this technique after cutting through some blocks by accident! Have you ever had that happen? I didn't clear my cutting table properly and the blocks were tucked under some other fabric....big oooppps! So remember the adage about making "lemonade"?  I joined the blocks back together with a contrast strip and thought the style worked quite well.
So I'm teaching Dragon Bones at the Creativ Festival in Toronto, in Saskatoon next month and at Quilt Canada in Halifax, NS. I've made  lots of samples, because there are SO many different designs you can do with this technique and I've got ideas for many, many more quilts!
Now I need some help naming the quilt, put your thinking caps on and help me with this. My husband will pick the one he likes best. Leave the name in the Comments section or on my Facebook.

Now if you are wondering how to make the blocks there's a couple of cool projects in my Accent on Angles book available here.