My sister, Nancy, and I took two classes fromEmily Taylor this summer. Both of us had met her at the Houston Quilt Festival a few years ago and we have bought many of her patterns and made the quilts. But this was our first opportunity to take her class.

This is my first experience making the quilt with one of Emily’s foundation panel patterns. These patterns are printed on muslin. So not only do you collage the flowers, but also the background.

As you can see from this photo I skipped around quite a bit while working on this one, flowers, leaves and background.

The collage was started in Georgia, but not completed until I was back in Michigan. Next step, adding batting and backing.

Once I had the collage finished, I put the quilt sandwich together and loaded it on my HandiQuilter Simple Sixteen.

But before I even started quilting I decided to move it to my other quilting machine.

I started quilting on my HandiQuilter Sweet Sixteen. Lots of thread changes.

I did lots of stitching on this quilt and it is quite stiff. Perfect for a wallhanging.

Nancy and I both worked on roosters on our second day of class. I will add a rooster post next.