The Kackling Kousins would like to wish you peace, love, and joy this holiday season. We are looking forward to spending time with you in 2024.
The Kackling Kousins
On Monday, December 4, 2023 the Kackling Kousins spent the day at Hoover's Bernina Sew teaching a group of quilters how to make a "Holiday Cathedral Window Table Mat." This group of ladies were so much fun and it was totally our honor to teach them this technique in the timeless art of quilting. Here are a few highlights from our day together.
Holiday Cathedral Window Table Mat
December 4, 2023 -- 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Hoover's Bernina Sew, Mifflinburg, PA Register soon by calling Hoover's at 570-966-3822
WOW! What a great group of Quilters to teach free motion quilting on Tuesday, October 17!
It was truly rewarding when several students opened up their BSR (Bernina Stitch Regulator) for the first time. The BSR offers many amazing features and techniques. The class practiced over 18 different free motion designs.
The Kousins started a new Block of the Month (BOM) at Hoover's on Monday, October 16, 2023--Egg Money Quilts: Vintage 1930's Samplers.
During the 1930s, most eggs were produced on rural farms with small flocks that scratched their way around the barnyard. The farmer’s wife was usually responsible for caring for the chickens, and the money received from the sale of the eggs was hers. Surely some fabric was purchased with these precious funds, and along with chicken feed sacks came the quilts uniquely associated with the Depression.
It was so exciting to see the fabrics that everyone selected. We completed the Grandmothers Flower Garden and the Road to California blocks. Stay tune for more photos as the Egg Money BOM continues.
The Kackling Kousins spent the day with the QB quilters from the State College Centre Pieces Quilt Guild. What a FUN day!!!!!
We started the morning with the Quilt-As-You-Go Workshop. The Workshop focused on the history and the techniques used in making "Potholder" quilts during the Civil War. The quilters learned that this method of quilting is still applicable today for finishing up all those blocks that most quilters have stored away and for completing community service projects.
As you can see from the photos below, each of the quilters that attended the workshop were very successful in learning this technique.
The Kackling Kousins then attended the Centre Pieces Quilt Guild meeting in the evening. They started by asking the Guild members if any of them had a stack of quilt blocks pieced together waiting to be quilted and assembled into a beautiful quilt? Most answered YES! We assured them that they were in the right lecture for getting some of these projects completed. Samples were shared and the quilters in the Workshop shared their blocks with the group.
We thank the State College Centre Pieces Quilt Guild for having us. We would love to visit your Quilt Guild and share this history and quilting technique. If you are interested, please contact one of the Kousins at 814-571-4436 (Kate) or 814-280-6529.
The Kousins spent the day at Hoover's Bernina Sew on Tuesday, September 19, 2024 teaching a class on Machine Quilting with Rulers. As Amanda Murphy says, "Quilting with rulers is free motion quilting with training wheels." Quilting with rulers can be done on a longarm machine or domestic sewing machine. Ruler work helps create accurate quilting across a quilt. Quilting rulers give you a precise quilting pattern. Combining ruler work with free motion quilting is a "show stopper." The designs you can create are endless.
Thanks for a great day ladies!
