Lecture & Workshop Comments

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Trunkshow, Lecture & Workshop Comments!

Bonnie - your program and your quilts were wonderful! And my guild thinks I'm a genius for getting you to replace Pepper Cory. So thank you thank you thank you!

Hate to hear you are leaving SC but great news about good job and benefits for DH and Winston-Salem isn't that far away.

Karen K, Charleston SC

Thank You so much for your OUTSTANDING presentation last night at the Cobblesone Quilters Guild Meeting. You are a "MUST Have Guest Speaker" for ALL Guilds!!!! You truly speak from the heart and it conveys your enthusiasm and talent so effectively that we can "feel it" sitting there in the audience!

What an inspiration and we all "identified" with what you were saying - shop less/sew more, use each and every piece/it has its own place, organize/be ready, utilize your time/sew a second quilt as you sew on one, etc. And Thank You for all the patterns, tips, etc. that are on your website.

Best Regards, Margo O'Brien
Charleston, SC

I also want to thank you for an awesome lecture, a wonderful class and an excellent adventure! It was definitely a gift to find that one of your internet heroes is as fantastic in real life as they are online! I will treasure our time together, and am looking forward to seeing you again!

Amy L, Falls Church VA

Women from Pax River MD plus me had a GREAT time with Bonnie Hunter at her StarStruck workshop today. Bonnie led us through a very helpful test of our machine's 1/4" ... I think a few of us learned that our 1/4" wasn't really 1/4"!!

Then we chain pieced and cut and sewed more and pressed and PRESTO, we all had gorgeous quarter or
full starstruck blocks. A couple of people made xmas blocks. One was patriotic. Some were in purples, some
in bright bold colors, some in autumn colors. They were all so pretty.

Everyone but me made everything from their stashes - Bravo Ladies! Way to go! One woman sewed her way through her oldest and most loathed fabric - Hooray! Get it out of the stash!

Tomorrow's workshop on the Pineapple Blossom pattern looks to be another wonderful day with Bonnie.

If you're within 500 miles, I highly recommend you get her to come to your guild!!! She's great! And it wasterrific meeting so many Stashbusters!

Kathy in MD

Hi All,

I want to ditto the part about if you live within 500 miles of Columbia SC, have Bonnie for a class and a lecture.

I was fortunate enough to attend both classes. I totally had too much fun. When we had Guild last night, Kathie showed up with her "stars" quilt top all put together. It was gorgeous. She did red, green, and gold Christmas fabrics. Just stunning.

Pam's starstruck was all scrappy. She and I just finished 4 blocks to show the pattern. We both attended the Pineapple Blossom on Sunday as well. She did hers all in Turquoise and White. Wow, is it stunning! Again, everyone who attended the classes did a different look and they all are just fantastic.

The icing on the cake was Bonnie's lecture and trunk show. What an inspiration. I think there were many converts to scrap quilting.

Thanks Bonnie, come back again, anytime!
Cindy N
So. MD.

It was totally fun, eight uninterruped hours to sew! So interesting to see how one quilt pattern is going to look so different in each different quilts. I sewed a few more blocks when I got home and then just pooped out.

I am proud that so far at least my quilt is totally from stash. I am hoping that I will find appropriate borders from my stash also.

It was too funny, it was a class of about 15 people and 5 of us were named Kathy!!

Kathie L.
Southern Maryland

Bonnie is a really nice person, a great inspiration and a really great teacher. She's very patient. Her style of quilt making really suits me, I am a scrapper and have enough stash to keep me busy for a long time.

I'm not officially no buy, but I've been restraining myself lately - only purchasing fabric to complete a project. Today was my first attempt at one of Bonnie's quilts but certainly won't be the last. I think I got carried away when I was cutting my strips, I may end up with a quilt big enough to cover all of St. Mary's County. Or nap quilts for everyone in my family. And their dogs.

Tomorrow should be fun also. I'm doing a variety of turquoises for my Pineapple Blossom.

Pamela in SO MD

Hi Bonnie,

I just wanted to send you a short note to tell you what a wonderful time I had at the two workshops you taught at the Pax River Quilt Guild. I will finish my quilts, I love them. Your lecture was great and now I am inspired to go cut my fabric into the right size pieces and get those 10.5 “ squares cut for backings.

Thank you so much and I hope we get to see you again. We are already talking about the letter block workshop.

Miriam Boles

I took Bonnie's star struck workshop on saturday and love the block so much I sewed more saturday night and then again yesterday and got the whole lap quilt top (minus borders) done!! I did it all in red and green Christmas fabrics and love the look. I am definitely going to have to do this quilt again.

Kathie L.
Southern Maryland

Our Guild was so blessed having Bonnie for workshops all day Saturday and Sunday. We did Star Struck and Pineapple Blossom. Then Monday evening she spoke at Guild on her scrap organization system. She shared a huge table of scrap quilts, many done with repro fabrics. For an hour we oohed, aahed and hung on her every word. Bonnie is also a licensed massage therapist and wow, she gives the best shoulder, back massage.

I really can't say enough about what a relaxing, fun, learning time we all had. Bonnie is so much fun! Check out her blog spot: If you scroll down to August 15, you'll see some pictures and what she wrote about her visit to Maryland. About a minute after the picture of Bonnie and me was taken, she turned to me and said, "I think you have spinach between your two front teeth!", and sure enough. I did!!

Keep taking stitches, everyone,
Kathy in Maryland