Wobbly Houses – Katharine Guerrier

Liberated piecing techniques are applied to house blocks to give your quilts that contemporary look. This is an improvisational way of working without templates and no two house blocks turn out the same. Quick pieced flying geese units are adapted to make pine trees, then a border of irregular sawtooth sashing and simple blocks completes your quilt or wallhanging which can be made any size from small wallhanging to king size. You will learn a variety of piecing techniques including how to fit all these separate pieces together into an effective and individual quilt. All template free. A relaxed day when you don’t have to worry too much about precision piecing. Ideal for scrapbag quilts to use up those bits. Students will need to be familiar with the rotary cutting set and straight stitch on the sewing machine. Any spare blocks you have from previous projects may be fitted in to these quilts so bring them along if you have any.
 
STUDENT REQUIREMENTS
Usual sewing kit: pins, needles, thread, scissors, unpicker,  etc.
Rotary cutting set including the shorter (12 ” x 6 ” or 6 ” square) ruler if you have one, plus medium size board.
Sewing machine.  Bring the manual for your sewing machine as well.
Fabric marker. Optional – camera.
A few pieces of A4 plain paper or notebook  and pencil, sharpener, eraser and ordinary ruler
FABRICS
Bring along a selection of fabrics in contrasting values and colours (including green for the trees) – fat or long quarters and smaller pieces including brights, florals, contemporary patterned (i.e. geometric, marbled, textured etc),  ( eighths or quarters) . Twelve to fifteen different fabrics minimum. About half a metre of of pale blue to represent sky – this could be textured as in hand dyed or marbled or just plain blue.
Hand dyes if you have them would work well for some of these blocks.