Wild and Crazy Class

Last Saturday our quilt guild held a class with Cathie Hoover, from Mo-o-o-o-o-odesto. She is the self proclaimed Queen of Rick Rack. She has this wonderful Wild and Crazy Quilt. She taught us her method for sewing together her wild and crazy quilt block. She provided curved templates for the block at class. It was so much fun seeing everyone's fabrics, and how they were putting them together in this block. I want to do the 16 blocks for a quilt, with embellishments. I purchased some wonderful large rickrack in anticipation of this class. Cathie also brought some rickrack we could purchase, of which I did (of course). I have a few other trims and ribbons, but it is the rickrack that I adore. My pictures are of my one block (in parts), and Cathie's Wild and Crazy Quilt that she had hanging at class. She was also our program presenter at our September guild meeting. That was a great meeting, too, by the way. Cathie is teaching this class in January, 2009, at the Road to California Quilt Conference in So. California.

Cathie is also a breast cancer survivor. She has designed a darling cow quilt block (pictured above). You can get a copy of this block from her by sending her a check for $5 which she will then donate to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer research. To find out more about Cathie, visit her website, http://www.cathiehooverstudios.com/. She has some wonderful cow themed quilts that are whimsical and colorful. I think red is her neutral color!