Our group owes a lot to Eleanor Burns and her Trip Around the World quilt for getting the group started so many years ago. You can read a little about it in the About Us page if you are not familiar with the story.
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| The quilt that started it all. |
Fast forward thirty years or so. It's 2020 and we were at home in shock and isolation trying to stay safe from the Covid 19 pandemic. Many of us spent time on Youtube catching up on quilting tutorials and discovered Donna Jordan's many wonderful tutorials. Donna's videos are concise and well edited and highlight her time saving tips as well as her tricks for accurate piecing.
I'm sure those of you who have made a Quilt in a Day Trip Around the World Quilt will be fascinated with Donna Jordan's Christmas Around the World and her brilliant method for piecing it. It's interesting that she chose to tie this quilt and use a puffy poly batting. She is a long arm quilter and you can learn a lot about choosing quilting patterns and thread colours from those segments at the end of her videos. This method for quickly finishing this hand tied quilt is also a good alternate when we want to get something done in a hurry.
Thanks Pauline for the great post. Yes, Elenor Burns was the person that got me started quilting.
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