bom hub test – Month 3
2023-2024 Block of the Month
Introduction - Month 3
(JUNE 2023)
Interpreting Book Covers: ALL ABOUT LAYOUT
Prompt: A favourite quilt-related book
- Cutting mat
- Rotary Cutter
- Quilting Ruler
- Snips
- Sewing thread
- Sewing machine or sewing needle if working by hand
- Pins
- Iron
- Fabric of your choice to match your chosen book cover
- Patchwork & Prose notebook and pencil for sketching or jotting notes of your ideas.
lessons with margaret
All About Layout
Focus on Fabrics
Faces and Photos
Fussy Cutting With Margaret
Seedfolks
Tutorials with jenni & Kay
Braid Tutorial
Kay shows you how to piece a simple braided block
Fussy Cutting Template
Jenni shows you some great tips to help with fussy cutting
Lecture 3 - Alice Walker’s book Everyday Use with mary fons
This month in her ten-minute mini-lecture, Mary discusses the short story everyday use by author of The Colour Purple, Alice Walker.
Take a look at the full short story here.
Galleries
resources
In this section you can find all resources mentioned in any of this month’s videos, from the live session to the book recommendations and even resources from our magical meet ups with Margaret Fleisher. Click on a section to expand and to read more!
Margaret Fleisher’s Books (@margaretfleisher)
Obasan – A Novel by Joy Kogawa
Uprooting Racism – Paul Kivel
My Education – Susan Choi
Icefields – Thomas Wharton
Zeitoun – Dave Eggers
The Color of Law – Richard Rothstein
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Stories – Alice Munro
The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 – Christopher Paul Curtis
I love Myself – Edited by Alice Walker
No Crystal Stair – Yaunda Micheaux Nelson
The Fire Dwellers – Margaret Laurence
Wolf Totem – Jiang Rong
On the Bus with Rosa Parks – Rita Dove
Wind – Ian DeBlieu
Seedfolks – Paul Fleischman
Live session recording
Live Session Chat
14 Jun, 2023 04:55:49 PM – Kay & Jenni – “Hi, how is everyone today?”
14 Jun, 2023 04:56:11 PM – Claire Phillips – “Good morning from CA!”
14 Jun, 2023 04:57:30 PM – Josephine Franc – “Hello from Brooklyn, NY. Doing well, thank you.”
14 Jun, 2023 04:58:04 PM – Jan – “Jan Gillingham from Portland OR. My first session.”
14 Jun, 2023 04:58:07 PM – Anna L – “Hello from Northern Minnesota! “
14 Jun, 2023 04:58:18 PM – Karen Elkins – “Hi from Karen in Silver Spring MD”
14 Jun, 2023 04:58:29 PM – Kay – “Good morning from Northern California”
14 Jun, 2023 04:58:44 PM – Cathy Hancock – “Good morning from Idaho City, Idaho, USA”
14 Jun, 2023 04:59:41 PM – Becky Ballard – “Good morning from HIGHLANDS RA”
14 Jun, 2023 04:59:45 PM – ada – “Hello from Maryland”
14 Jun, 2023 04:59:57 PM – Susan – “Hi from Susan in Pontiac, Illinois”
14 Jun, 2023 05:00:08 PM – Jaci Griffen – “Hello from North Cali!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:00:18 PM – Kathy – “Hi from Chicago!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:00:29 PM – Becky Ballard – “Good morning from Highlands Ranch, Colorado!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:00:35 PM – Emily Hayer – “Good morning from Sparta IL”
14 Jun, 2023 05:00:39 PM – Margaret – “Hello everyone!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:00:41 PM – Kathy Fedele – “Hi from Syracuse NY”
14 Jun, 2023 05:01:13 PM – Judy Swaim – “Hi, I’m in Winthrop ME!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:01:13 PM – EILEEN MASCARO – “Lake Tahoe, CA”
14 Jun, 2023 05:01:29 PM – Sherry Sanden – “Good morning from Washington State!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:01:34 PM – Eileen Wright in Atlanta, GA! hello all! – “Hi, Eileen from Atlanta, GA”
14 Jun, 2023 05:01:41 PM – Martha – “Good Afternoon from Michigan. “
14 Jun, 2023 05:01:53 PM – Anna L – “Hawaiian Adventure was awesome!!!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:01:54 PM – Marti – “Hello from Nebraska”
14 Jun, 2023 05:02:07 PM – Gay B – “Hi from Princeton, NJ”
14 Jun, 2023 05:02:10 PM – Judy+Swaim – “mME is Maine!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:02:22 PM – Carolyn – “Saint Louis, Missouri “
14 Jun, 2023 05:02:28 PM – Susan – “Golden Colorado”
14 Jun, 2023 05:02:29 PM – Carol A Pinto – “Hello from New Jersey!!!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:04:18 PM – Anna L – “These quilt blocks are marvelous!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:04:27 PM – Anna L – “Beautiful work everyone!!!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:04:59 PM – Margaret – “Such wonderful blocks!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:06:07 PM – Emily Hayer – “love the furry fabric on the bear!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:07:08 PM – Jaci Griffen – “Such wonderful creativity in all the blocks!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:07:11 PM – Gay B – “Fabulous blocks!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:07:21 PM – Emily Hayer – “Loved sweetness at the bottom of the pie, such a fun read!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:07:28 PM – Eileen Wright in Atlanta, GA! hello all! – “oh boy, chemisty brings back some memories!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:07:52 PM – Cathy Hancock – “Last month I had not even started but I was so inspired by the gallery of blocks that I made my first 3. And all of them are included in this month’s gallary of blocks! What a great affirmation.”
14 Jun, 2023 05:08:18 PM – Claire Phillips – “It is so fun to see all the amazing blocks all together!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:10:41 PM – Kathy – “Even though I keep track of the blocks posted on social media I find myself with a wide smile every time during the gallery time! Thanks for doing this!!!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:10:44 PM – EILEEN MASCARO – “Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America”
14 Jun, 2023 05:11:20 PM – Gay B – “Margaret’s videos are so inspiring”
14 Jun, 2023 05:11:30 PM – Emily Hayer – “I expect I will keep going back to these lessons forever, I love the inspiration it gives me every month! And the lack of pressure from just trying to do one block at a time instead of a huge overwhelming project”
14 Jun, 2023 05:13:50 PM – Joyce Oberle – “please give me a definition of “improve” what is it?”
14 Jun, 2023 05:14:49 PM – Margaret – “To me improv simply means that you’re not using a premade pattern. “
14 Jun, 2023 05:15:14 PM – Jaci Griffen – “@Joyce Oberle “Improv” is a theatrical term meaning in the moment – talking inspiration from the context and making something from it.”
14 Jun, 2023 05:19:34 PM – Emily Hayer – “a leap, but also a reward! I have discovered I’m way happier making improv than trying to follow a pattern”
14 Jun, 2023 05:20:54 PM – Eileen Wright in Atlanta, GA! hello all! – “Agree with Emily. I get stuck though. Like the first block came so easily but lately the ‘sewjo’ is lagging. The gallery here is good inspiration. I feel like I’ll have a creative explosion any time now tho!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:21:25 PM – Marti – “I’m having so much fun getting lost in my stash.. It’s like visiting old friends!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:24:54 PM – Gay B – “I’m checking my local library as you all go along for the books I haven’t read yet – already have two on hold! “
14 Jun, 2023 05:27:13 PM – Cheryl – “Liberated Quiltmaking ll by Gwen Marston is one of my favorites. Also Cultural Fusion by Sujata Shaw”
14 Jun, 2023 05:28:30 PM – Jaci Griffen – “All these wonderful books – hard to balance sewing and reading!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:29:02 PM – Cheryl – “Yes, Gwen did a 2nd version called Liberated Quiltmaking ll.”
14 Jun, 2023 05:31:15 PM – Cathy Hancock – “Jaci, I quilt during the day with the good light and rad at night using my headlamp.”
14 Jun, 2023 05:32:03 PM – Jaci Griffen – “:) Cathy. “
14 Jun, 2023 05:32:55 PM – Cindy Riegel – “Sorry, late from Grasonville, Md”
14 Jun, 2023 05:33:42 PM – Kay & Jenni – “Hi Cindy, no worries at all, thanks for joining us :)”
14 Jun, 2023 05:40:43 PM – Lyn h – “As a school librarian my students loved Dovey Coe and Shooting the Moon!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:42:55 PM – Anna L – “Yes! Audio books & quilting are a great match!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:43:04 PM – Lyn h – “Written by frances”
14 Jun, 2023 05:45:51 PM – Jane K – “Love a Tree Grows in Brooklyn!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:45:54 PM – Cheryl – “I inherited my grandmother’s copy of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. It has a lovely note in it from the author thanking her for enjoying her book. It’s dated September 1944!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:46:08 PM – Anna L – “Very good book – Tree Grows in Brooklyn!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:46:13 PM – EILEEN MASCARO – “Lonesome Dove – oneof my alltime favoraite books”
14 Jun, 2023 05:46:20 PM – Anna L – “Cheryl – that is awesome!!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:46:22 PM – Susan – “Shooting the Moon is one of the books I have chosen for a cover. My son and I loved it. We played some mean gin rummy!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:46:27 PM – Eileen Wright in Atlanta, GA! hello all! – “That’s awesome. I loved the book when I was young. I should re-read it soon!”
14 Jun, 2023 05:47:47 PM – Emily Hayer – “oh I am a print magpie too, lol”
14 Jun, 2023 05:52:42 PM – Emily Hayer – “I so enjoyed everyday use. I’m always telling people if my baby quilts last longer than the childhood stage, you’re not using it right, lol”
14 Jun, 2023 05:53:00 PM – Karen Elkins – “That was an amazing story Everyday Use..I shared it with so many people”
14 Jun, 2023 05:59:33 PM – karen Hobbs – “Oh my goodness!! These are so fantastic! What an amazingly talented group this is! I have not started but I am so inspired!! “
14 Jun, 2023 06:01:37 PM – Carol A Pinto – “What are the prompts again for month 4”
14 Jun, 2023 06:01:56 PM – Carol A Pinto – “my own cover…I know”
14 Jun, 2023 06:02:30 PM – Jaci Griffen – “Thanks!”
14 Jun, 2023 06:02:33 PM – Anna L – “Thank you so much! This is a joy!”
14 Jun, 2023 06:02:41 PM – Carolyn – “Thank you”
14 Jun, 2023 06:02:46 PM – Carol A Pinto – “love the extras this year!!!”
14 Jun, 2023 06:02:49 PM – Claire Phillips – “Thank you!”
14 Jun, 2023 06:02:57 PM – Kay & Jenni – “The prompt for this month is a quilt related book, or an alternative is biography/autobiography”
14 Jun, 2023 06:02:59 PM – Lyn h – “Many thanks!!!!”
14 Jun, 2023 06:03:02 PM – Cheryl – “What fun this is! Thank you”
14 Jun, 2023 06:03:13 PM – EILEEN MASCARO – “Thank you 🙏”
14 Jun, 2023 06:03:15 PM – Kay & Jenni – “We will confirm the prompts in the hub “
14 Jun, 2023 06:03:18 PM – Kay & Jenni – “Happy sewing”
14 Jun, 2023 06:04:04 PM – Kay & Jenni – “Someone is asking how big the blocks should be – we were going with approx 7.5″ x 9.5″ unfinished. But take a look at the month 1 lessons in the hub as there is more information there”
