The long awaited Kansas Troubles workshops and trunkshow have come and gone!
We had a fantastic two days spent with Lynne and everyone that attended the workshops and the trunkshow! Thank you to all those that came out, I hope you had as much fun as we did! A thank you to Lynne Hagmeier as well for making the trek all the way from Kansas to visit our shop, and sharing her techniques and quilts with us, and to her granddaughter as well!
During the 3 workshops Lynne taught us an amazing technique called Layered Patchwork and we applied it using several of her templates, all of which were designed to be used with precuts. The first quilt we did was a sampler quilt with several different styles of blocks involved, and everyone was able to complete a few of each style. Today we had two sessions. The first one several ladies were able to finish their tops, and there was even some trading going on, to create two borders instead of just one, I love the creativity that flows when you get 30 quilters together in the same room. Our second project today was called Twisted, and because I was actually sewing this one, I have no pictures of it, however everyone was able to compete a couple rows of the quilt!
At the end of the first day we kicked everyone out of the building for an hour in order to set up for the dinner and trunkshow. When everyone arrived for the evening portion, we shared a meal together. Afterwards Lynne gave us the history of Kansas Troubles Quilters, and showed us many quilts and patterns, each with a different backstory.
For dessert we had some fruit from Edible arrangements as well as a beautiful cake and some delicious cupcakes made for us by Crazy Cakes from Lethbridge.
We realize that there was limited room in the trunkshow and the workshops, and also that July is a difficult time for some people to attend, and so we will be teaching some classes this fall at our store using Lynne's patterns and techniques.
Now that we have some some room in our brains again we will be starting to work on the fall class list though it won't be released until August. We do need a little bit of brain recuperation time first. We also have some new promotion ideas that we have been
tossing around, and will finalize the details on those!
Esther and I have taken lots of notes, and we have learned a lot from hosting this event and are super excited for the next one. Yes we are going to be doing more of these! If you have any feedback please let us know.
Thank you again, from all the staff at Chicken Feed Quilts. I know I write that often, but we really do thank you, without your support this event would not have happened!
Kayla
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