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Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show

Writer's picture: Sarah FielkeSarah Fielke

Hi all,


I arrived back from the USA after a veeery long travel home yesterday and took the remainder of the day to recuperate a little - having left at 4.30am to get to the airport in Bend, I finally flew out of LA after a huge layover at midnight, and then had a 14 hour flight. Phew!! That was a long one - and it was my birthday too, boooo to birthdays in transit lounges. Oh well, I got plenty of reading done (finished Slough House No. 4 by Mick Herron, Spook Street, and started Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby van Pelt), and made a very good start on the tapestry kit of Anne Boleyn I won in an instagram competition recently! Emily Peacock is one of my very favourite designers of any kind, so I couldn’t resist entering, and I won - something that’s never happened before :D All very exciting. 

Sisters as always was wonderful. Its such a great show. I know I banged on about it last week, but it really is! I love every moment I spend there.


Monday I taught my first Quilter’s Affair class for the week in my Tiny Town quilt, and I was so busy with everyone buzzing about all day I forgot to take a single photo! Here is Tiny Town instead, hanging in the Teacher’s Pavilion of the show on Saturday. 



A lovely student from last year’s Quilter’s Affair also brought her finished quilt to show me! I love seeing  what everyone gets up to :)



If you want to make this quilt, the pattern and templates are available here… and for those of you who made it AND Spooky Town already, the Christmas Town pattern is coming very soon!!


On Tuesday and Wednesday I taught my Climbing Scrap Mountain class. This is so much fun. Everyone brings a bag of scrap from home, and we tip everyone's fabrics on the floor and work from the “mountain”. 



The class kit contains a booklet for over 40 quilt layouts, all using a template set in which every shape clicks together in different configurations. On day one, we make scrap “fabric” using either the string or crazy piecing methods, and on day 2 we cut and design our quilts. 



It’s a class I took 5 years to design and build, and I taught it for the first time at Sisters last year. It’s SO MUCH FUN, and everyone goes home with a quilt in progress, and the ideas for dozens and dozens more in their bags. Here’s all my awesome students having an excellent time - 



If you want to take this class from me, you can do it on demand via my website!


The final two days of the week were spent teaching Big Woods with Tula. She didn’t actually teach at Sisters this year, she just attended, and sat in on my BW class and heckled me from the sidelines. On day one we made our house blocks, and day 2 we appliquéd our trees. I had a lot of brand new appliqué students in class and they were all absolute champions!!