Davis 3rd BOM

I was asked to teach a quilting class for the Relief Society almost two years ago. My mentor told me to do a Block of the month quilt and do a different block each month so thats what we did. The first block is in the upper left corner and then the order goes right and down just like reading a book. We started this in Aug 2009 and finished Sept 2010 (skipping Dec). As you can tell from the blocks we went from simple piecing to more advanced piecing. I just did a throw size quilt wereas some did bigger ones by making more blocks.

I learned a couple things from this experience of mine.

1. Do a smaller project for beginners

2. Do a MUCH simpler project

This project also held a couple of firsts for me.

1. 1st teaching experience all on my own

2. 1st time ever using a fat quarter bundle

But I am happy to report that out of the 10 ladies that started this project:

1-completed a king size quilt

1-completed two twin size quilts (she only went half way)

1- completed all the blocks (I'm sure she finished the quilt but I never seen the result)

2- have the first six done

5- have at least the first block done

Ok so not roaring success but like I said it was a huge learning experience for me and I know how to do it better with much better results next time.

Scrappy 2010 BOM

I wanted to share this cool Block of the Month (BOM) that I've discovered over here at A Little Bit Biased. It has different blocks that correspond with each month. I've only got up to April finished and sewn on, I still haven't decided how I'm going to do May's flowers. The finished BOM quilt can be found here at Freda's Hive. You can click here for instructions to each block and the pattern is free!

I'm having a lot of fun with this quilt and learning different blocks and I'm using only scraps from my stash so it is defintaly a useful quilt.