Sue Benner gave me a very challenging first assignment and I was a half a day or more behind the newbies. The three pieces are now complete except for quilting. Here is the piece I had started to layer yesterday. I went in this morning and added some black and white shapes and filled out the squares. Sue likes the color use that I have done in this piece:

This piece is a crowd favorite, but Sue thinks I did not do enough to blur the background. I have fused organza spirals to this.

This piece was a lot of work. Sue kicked my butt to get this where it is. Everything I tried – she nixed. But it worked. This is a great piece now and you can’t see the background.

The rest of the class started on the curvilinear exercise this morning. I went back and did mine tonight after a couple of glasses of wine!! We had to rotary cut curved pieces of several fabrics and arrange them on a fused background, a whole cloth background or directly to the batting. I chose the last. Here is my work:

We were given a quicky homework assignment. Cut three fabrics into curved pieces. Fuse them into a block that could be trimmed to 10 inches. Cut the block into nine patches and then rearrange and fuse them. Here is my effort:

Sand, of course, dessert du jour:

Mrs. Mel did her slide show tonight and she was hilarious. She explained blogs to everyone. I’d say that 30% had no idea what they were. I, however, met more loyal readers today.