Pixeladies Piece Party

We’re getting ready for the Northern California Quilt Council‘s “Meet the Teachers” event on July 18 in Castro Valley, CA. Each one of the 30 teachers has three – yep, three – minutes to tell the attendees what they teach and why any guild would want to hire her or him. It’s no easy feat to accomplish (especially for a talker like Kris), and you’re always trying to figure out how to stand out in a crowd. We’ve thought about wearing boas and bling, but that’s already been done.  One class we’re highlighting this year is our Pixeladies Piece Party. It’s our version of the scrap quilt but much more fun with our tribute to the 1960s. Last year’s sample, which formed a cool border to a quilt, was in a lovely palette of blues and browns. Lovely, it turns out, is just code for invisible because you don’t see the subtle color shifts from 20 feet away among a crowd of 200. By showing off our color supply of scraps in this year’s sample, we hope to get more bookings for this class. It’s also easy and fun, so let’s see if we can bring that out in the 1 minute we have to devote to this class.

Step 1: Sort through your scrap box. Think of color when you do.

Step 2: Take your scraps and sew them together. And listen to us as you sew along ’cause we have lots of tips and tricks to make your piece look really “groovy.”

Step 2: Decide on a shape and cut the piece to size.

Step 3: Finish the piece into a table runner, quilt, vest, whatever. (Okay, so we’re not quite finished. We plan on connecting the panels so that you can rearrange the panels or display just two or three at a time. We just have to engineer that part.)

Step 4: Eat some Sock-it-To-Me cake because this is, after all, our homage to the 1960s. We’re serious about this. A homemade Sock-It-To-Me cake comes with every class!