Floor Cloths, The Fusco Way

Teresa Fusco is an amazing quilter and teacher. She is not afraid of color. She visited my quilt guild, Calico Cutters and I was lucky to take her floor cloth workshop with my DIL. It was a very fun day and not having to pack up and schlep my sewing machine was a bonus. 

The floor cloths are created by gluing fabric to a linoleum base. 

My DIL is a natural. She loves crafting, as she calls it. 

This is her floor cloth In progress. She is going to use it in her kitchen. I love the coffee cups. 

Teresa spent 2 nights with me. We had a home cooked meal the first night, thanks to my hubby. The second night we went out to a local restaurant, which was perfect after a busy day of gluing fabric! Creating is such tiring work. Ha! During dinner we decided to head home and make a Curvalicious floor cloth. I cut out the pieces for her and while she was working on that floor cloth, I was finishing mine from class. 

The purple batik was the one that Don made in Bali!

Here are both of mine. 

Both of us glued down the circles. 

If you want to learn more about Teresa and see some of her quilts, you can visit her website: www.TeresasQuiltingStudio.com. 

At our guild's regular monthly meeting the next day, I was so happy to see a finished Beachalicious by Beth McNutt. 

And a Curvalicious quilt in progress by Jean Fox. This is such an unusual design. 

A Visit From Linda Hahn

 Linda Hahn was our guest speaker this month at Calico Cutters Quilt Guild. 

 Her specialty is the NY Beauty quilt and has written 2 books about them.

This is her second book and there are lots of great quilts in it.  I bought it.

I have always wanted to make a NY Beauty quilt, so I signed up for it. 

 This was our project that Linda is holding.

We meet in a fire hall for our workshop. It's a nice big room.  

Linda has developed an easy method to make the block.

I am making my project combining dupioni silk and batiks.  These are my blocks.

This is all of our blocks together.

During the lecture today, she brought tons of  quilts to show the versatility of the NY Beauty.  

Linda has an amazing sense of humor  that she shares on the backs of her quilts.

 Pirates

Bathing Beauties