Barn Quilt Workshop blog post
A group of ladies gathered at the Keswick Ridge community Hall on Monday, May 15th 2023 and they didn’t bring any sewing machines or needles just paint brushes and canvas. We had a group of 13 ladies participate in the Barn Quilt workshop hosted by Heather Olmstead.
Everyone arrived and got all set up before the class began.
We put the teacher at the head of the class and someone even brought the teacher an apple 😊 Heather gave us a nice overview of how to prepare the canvas/plywood using the yellow frog tape.
Trisha also shared some of her tips and tricks of doing barn quilts with us. She was like having a second teacher there for us – which was great! This beautiful blue quilt block is one of her previous creations.
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After Heather’s quick instructions we all got to taping and painting!!
After the taping and painting comes the blow drying. We had four blow dryers going the best part of the day. One hair dryer was from a participant’s teen years, one was only used to thaw out pipes under a kitchen sink in a mini home, one was just in a bathroom cabinet waiting to be used and the fourth was used only on barn quilts projects.
When we needed a break from blow drying, taping and painting we enjoyed a lovely treat from Ruth and Marilyn with our tea or coffee. Ruth said she would share the recipe with us.
One of the participants did a lovely tulip and Trisha kindly showed us all how to shade the tulip on the canvas. Trisha explained how you needed to be ever so gentle with the brush and the amount of paint you have on the angled brush.
Heather shared these photos with me to include in the blog post – wow some of these are stunning!! I hope they bring the finished product to our June meeting.
Thank you so much ladies for joining us for the last workshop for 2022 – 2023!
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