Monday, September 29, 2014

Her Husband Thought She was Crazy

OR

Proof that Denniele is a good listener in class.

I taught a class a while back, about improvised quilts. One  lesson was "No Scraps Too Small." To prove our point, myself and my teaching cohort saved the scraps from everyone's projects - we all worked with them to improvise.

Denniele Bohannon was in the class. Since that class, she made a quilt that became a book, "Where Poppies Grow." It's the Kansas City Star block-of-the-month quilt book for 2014, a great achievement. What that means is that Denniele's blocks and the stories about her quilt, which honors the memory of her great-grandfather who fought and died in World War I, were featured in the paper once a month all this year.

The book is now out. It contains patterns for all the blocks. Recently, Denniele sent me a bag of scraps:


She saved ALL HER SCRAPS FOR ME. Does that explain why her husband thought she was crazy? Yep, every single scrap, I can tell. large ones right down to shards.

Well of course, i am delighted! I will make all kinds of things out of these scraps. Some will go immediately into two small improvised quilts in progress. Even smaller ones will go on cards I make and my business cards:

Ruler added for scale.
I must admit, the shards are too small for even me ... check out Denniele's excellent book, written with co-author Janice Britz, when you can. I love the stories about her great-grandpa.

6 comments:

  1. yeah, you've got to have an 1/8" bit of fabric showing after taking the seams or there's no point in playing with it...

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  2. Isn't it weird how someone else's scraps are more fun than our own? So nice that she shared with you!

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    1. Diane..so glad to see you. I love Deb's view on quilting and the world. Denniele.....your tablemate in Jean's Pine Burr class. (small world isn't it?)

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  3. I will work with some pretty small scraps, but my rule is, if it hits the floor, It gets swept up. (most of the time)... then I like to give the piles of super small scraps to the birds, and hope to find them in nests... eventually.

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  4. So glad you enjoyed the bag and the humor stuffed inside it! :)

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