Fashion Show and Class for the Yorkshire Rose Quilt Guild, Toronto, Canada

 Last week I was honored to be invited to present a Fashion Show of my garments and a two day Seminole Patchwork/Jacket Class for the wonderful Yorkshire Rose Quilt Guild in Toronto Canada.

 The meetings and classes are held in the beautiful basement of the local Mennonite Church.  Lots of light and design walls and even a complete kitchen!  Lots of fun and conversation  and too much good food.

 By day two jackets and vests were beginning to emerge, all with Seminole Patchwork from Day 1's class.

 Some students opted to use the Butterfly Jacket Pattern.

 A beautiful, subtle fall colorway.

 This will be a Kimono Jacket with lots of color.

 Suzanne Neilson sent me photos of her completed vest.  Click on the pictures for a closer look at her spectacular Seminole Patchwork

She incorporated one of my molas on the back of the vest.  What a terrific job.  Thanks for the photos Suzanne!

Butterfly Jacket Class Finished Jacket

Jay Zitter just sent photos of this terrific Butterfly Jacket which she made during my class at Quilter's Corner's in Ithaca.

She loved the Seminole technique and made several strips including the band at the bottom.

The lining is a pretty printed batik from Indonesia.

Butterfly Jacket Class in Ithaca

I just finished teaching the Butterfly Jacket to a great group at the beautiful Quilter's Corner's Quilt Shop in downtown Ithaca. Setting up.

I always encourage students to make strips which become strips of squares from their final fabric selections before they begin designing their jackets.

And almost everyone seems to want to incorporate Seminole Patchwork in their garment.

Auditioning squares of Australian fabric for a jacket back.

And the pale green/red jacket begins to take shape.

The animals are part of the flannel base, not part of the jacket.

Butterfly Jacket Class with the Weaving Guild

I spent three delightful days last week with the Weaving Guild in Rochester. The first day was a fashion show for the guild, followed by a two day Butterfly jacket class. Almost everyone opted to add some Seminole Patchwork to their jacket.

The Weaving Guild is much more than just weavers. They teach classes on several of the fiber arts at their new location at the Piano Mall in East Rochester. Here a gorgeous jacket begins to take shape from silk and parts of a skirt from Indochina.

A hand embroidered square is going to be part of two vest fronts.

The silk jacket progresses.

Two jacket fronts are finished.

This one uses a mola in the back for its main focus.

A gorgeous hand dye is the focal point for the front of this jacket.

The silk jacket at the end of the day.


And finished a few days later. The back.

Made by Eileen Driscoll from Ithaca.

Butterfly Jacket Class at the Bobbin Case

On Tuesday and Wednesday I taught a class called the Butterfly Jacket (my name for it) at the Bobbin Case Bernina shop in Rochester. This beauty was all sewn and just being fitted before adding the lining and the finishing work.

The starting point was the beautiful hand dyed fabric in the back panel.

Beth made this wonderful jacket from hand stamped fabric from India which she had purchased at a local quilt show.

The striking back panel is pieced.

The lining has already been added to this one and its ready to have the side seams sewn before its finished.

The beautiful back panel came from John Marshall.