Diva's at Quilt Camp

This past week Diva's Kathy, Lori, Judy and honorary Diva Margie, and myself helped out at Quilt Camp for young people at my church.  The 9 camp participants were from 6th grade through college age. and with the Divas we were able to work almost one on one. That made a big difference in how smoothly the work progressed.

These 5 quilts are ones that were made by the girls who were assigned to the Divas.  Each participant was assigned to one adult as their primary teacher but actually everyone worked with anyone who needed help at any given time.


Kathy and Margie helped the girls who made these top 2 quilts. The one on the left chose the four patch option instead of focus fabric; on the right is the original pattern without any changes.  Both of these are going to be quilted by long arm quilters. These quilts on the bottom row are all different in some way. On the right Joanna chose one frame fabric; that and her dark background and raw edge applique give a completely different look to her quilt. The center quilt has an extra fabric as a background fabric and she raw edge appliqued ribbons in her focus squares, one of her frame fabrics blends with the background and though her quilt followed the pattern it also has a different look. The one on the bottom right is her own layout of the blocks that were all made according to the pattern. We are able to do some individual customizing this year because we had extra help.





Lori, Judy, Kathy and Margie demonstrated "made fabric" squares and got everyone started piecing on phone book paper foundation squares. It was a big hit and the squares will be used in a quilt that will be auctioned in the spring to benefit the youth group missions program at the church.
One of the girls said her mom wants to learn  how to make "made fabric" squares she is going to show her how. How great is that!






Below are quilts that the Divas brought for show and tell to give examples of the things that can be done that are different from the easy quilts that we use for beginning quilters. These quilts generated a lot of interest and many questions.




























Finally here is our group photo, though we are missing 3 teachers who had other commitments on Friday and one participant one participant who was sick. Our photographer Kim will patch in those people for the group photo which everyone will receive.

I was excited to hear

everyone talking

about "next year".

Divas at Quilt Camp 2012

Two of the Basement Divas helped out this week at Quilt Camp at my church.
We have 13 young people ranging in age from those going into 6th grade to one who will be entering college. They are fun to work with and the whole experience is rewarding. Divas Lori and Kathy came to help. Kathy's sister Margie came all the way from Madison Indiana to help us. Margie is an honorary long distance Diva.



Quilt Camp 2012 Participants and Adult helpers



 Lori couldn't come on Friday so she didn't get into the group photo but I found one of her earlier in the week. Lori is in the front on the right putting her precise cutting skills to work at our central cutting station. The others in the picture are Beth and Betty, two of the ladies from our church group and Emily, one of the young quilters.

Lori and Kathy and Margie all volunteered; I did not coerce them into helping us. They made a big difference; all week long the ladies in our church group kept telling me how much they appreciated having them and how nice they are. I hope they had fun and that they are eager to come back next year.