Thursday 19 October 2017

Carolyn Forster Workshop

Tuesday evening Carolyn Forster was the speaker at the Hamtune Quilters meeting. Table upon table was covered in quilts and her talk covered her quilting life. She was a very entertaining speaker and her quilts were beautiful.

On Wednesday a Perkiomen Valley Quilt workshop had been arranged with Carolyn. Perkiomen is an area between New Jersey and Pennsylvania and had a rich heritage of a certain type of quilt not found anywhere else.

Made of squares and half square triangles we were shown a number of different ways these could be made into blocks and then a seemingly endless number of ways the blocks could then be arranged.

Carolyn's samples

Eight of us enjoying a day quilting and learning a new method of putting squares and triangles together

End of the day display, mine being nearest the front 

2 comments:

Christa said...

I do not understand. Perkiomen is in the USA but you were at the workshop?

Happy Room Diana said...

Christa, Perkiomen in the USA has given its name to a type of quilt. If you google Carolyn Forster you will see samples of the designs.

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