Spelunking: sport or practice of exploring or studying a cave.
I’ve been exploring a cave, a quilt cave to be specific and to be more specific, Kevin the Quilter’s Quilt Cave 🙂 This past week I was thrilled to get together with Kevin, Jan of The Colorful Fabriholic and Dar of Dar’s Patchwork Garden at the Quilt Cave. You can see Kevin’s post about it here, Dar’s post here and Jan’s post here. We got to visit the chicken coup and see Henny Penny & friends, then we got to check out the three newest members of the chicken brood (a group of chickens is call a brood, I looked it up 🙂 ).
I totally swiped this pic from Kevin’s blog so you could see how cute the little guys are.
Our task, should we accept it, was to make QOV quilt blocks…..I might have sneaked off a couple of times to cuddle the chicks as they are so darn cute!! But back to the program….
I was so inspired by this quilt top in a shop window in Paducah that I blogged about it.
Jan read the post and remembered the top (I drug her past the window three times, I’m surprised she could have forgotten). She drafted it in EQ and Kevin said, let’s all come to the Quilt Cave and make these blocks. And so we did. Jan made a test block….good thing too, as she imparted the wisdom she learned doing this pretty very challenging block. Kevin found Barbara Brackman’s post about the snake pattern here. Very interesting……
We all managed to make an entire block by ourselves…….let’s not talk about how friendly we got with our seam rippers 😉 It always takes a bit to get back into the paper piecing groove.
Dar is camera shy but I got her in this pic of the wonderful accommodations the Quilt Cave offers. See her blue and white polka dots in the back there, lol?
A wonderful part of the Quilt Cave was we didn’t have to lug and set up our machines…..Kevin had vintage machines ready to go…..it was just sit and sew time! We had a blast and when we were calling it quits for the day, we had 14 blocks done!
We are all pleased with the progress but even more so with how awesome the blocks look. So Kevin, thank you for asking us to join you, for the fabulous accommodations, the fine dining experience and thanks also to Jan & Dar along with Kevin for the great camaraderie. The Cave Quilters will return 😉
What can you ask for? Good friends, a beautiful quilt and a great cause.
Beautiful blocks! Definitely worth the challenge!
(I would have been out cuddling those chicks, too!)
How fun to relive our fun day through your eyes and blog post! I am looking forward to our next meeting! A vintage machine will be waiting for you! Oh, and so will the chickies!
You have such a smooth way with words and everything you said was “absolutely true”. I would have been out holding the chicks more, but was afraid I’d be tempted to sneak one home in my sewing bag!
Well said, Cherie! I can’t believe how many blocks we got done! I’m so looking forward to getting together again.
Oh, what FUN!!! And you’re all going to do it again – even better!!!!! (great, terrific, wonderful post)
Wish there was a cave around here!! That will be an awesome QOV quilt! (We used to raise chickens…some don’t grow up to be awfully broody).
Absolutely love this pattern. And the selection of colors really make it…love the scrappy blues, Someone will LOVE it. How honored he/she will be!
Any chance you might share the pattern?