Workshop with Susan Brubaker Knapp

I spent the day at a workshop with Susan Brubaker Knapp today.  She brought many of her small art quilts with her – I loved all of them.  We worked on a small quilt of a barn based on a photo that she took.  First here is her quilt.

Here are some close-up photos of the wonderful thread sketching on the piece.

Mine doesn’t look like this wonderful quilt yet but I did get all the pieces cut and fused.

Instead of doing the thread work on my sewing machine, I think I will do it on the longarm.  Susan does the thread sketching before she puts batting on the piece but I am not sure that will work out well – I may need to use batting.

Danielle got a lot of the thread sketching done on her piece.  Here she is hard at work.

And here is what her barn looks like now.

She has a great start on a wonderful art quilt.

Tomorrow Susan will be doing a presentation and trunk show at guild.  I am looking forward to seeing the rest of her quilts.

Melinda