May Show & Tell

I will include the challenge entries in a separate post.  We had some great show and tell to go along with it!

Dawn's small but labour intensive piece.

Dawn's Artisitic Originals:

Marion's runners from Genny's instructions:

Vanda's dresser scarves for her daughter's new furniture.

Cindy's Summer bargello.

Gloria tried to hide,

Bev's Rock Candy table topper.

Amy's wedding quilt for herself.

Reneta is hiding behind this jelly roll mashup.

And our guest (and my friend) Kathy with her Lug Nuts table runner.

April Meeting Highlights

For those of you that were unable to attend April's meeting you missed quite a show.  Lots of show and tell and a mini trunk show.  Here is a taste.

 Beth completed her quillow and a baby quilt with a fun backing fabric.

Genny made a cute playmat for her grandsons.

Karen M. was busy making placemats and two quilts.

Here you can see a little bit a the quilting detail.

Brenda complete this Halloween themed wallhanging.  Lovely quilting, but we were all impressed with how she did the lettering with a black marker!!!

Jacquie and her denim wallhanging and her handquilted hexagons.

Bev with some placemats that she used to try out different free motion designs.  Placemat tutorial is here.

 

And Bev's fun cat quilt for her seven year old granddaughter.

Personalized too!

Gloria quilted one of our club quilts.  (I wish I had gotten a better photo that showed the quilting.)

Karen p.'s very floral Anita's Arrowhead. It would appear that if you put enough different florals together they start to cancel each other out.  A great quilt to use up some fabric that may no longer be your taste.

Karen also had this bright red and yellow one.  Very sunny!

Karen demonstrated our comfort block for this month.  The Square in a Square.

A now a peek at Gloria's mini trunk show.  She pulled some of her favorites to share with us.

This was one from early on in Gloria's quilting days.  Inspired by a project on a quilting TV show.  Lots of hand blanket stitches on that small piece.

Gloria loves paper piecing, but after timing how long it took her to make one of these pineapple blocks she decided against making this project bed sized!

And one of Gloria's all time favorites - can't you tell by the smile on her face!  Thanks for sharing with us, it was a wonderful show!

Meeting this Week!

Just a little reminder that our monthly meeting happens this Thursday April 2 at the Old Fire Hall.
There will be a sewing time during the day beginning at 10:00 for those who are able.

Here is a link to an interesting article on "Scant" 1/4" seams.

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See you Thursday!

March meeting Show & Tell and Workbee

                              Brenda Enjoyed creating this seasonal quilt, Don't Drink and Fly

 

Sherri explained how she made her quilted floor mat.

 

 

                                        Karen made a set of stack and whack place mats.

                                          Amy made this houndstooth pattern quilt as a gift.

                                             Genny showed a small chevron quilt.  

 

Vanda was excited that she finally made a bag correctly.  She followed a tutorial from Missouri Quilting Company. 

 She enjoyed it so much she made seven bags, and this beautiful Ma Jong tile quilt. 

 

 

 

Dawn brought this fabric home from a Mexican vacation and

enhanced it's design with some amazing freemotion stitching.

 

 

 

 

 

After show and tell, members worked on squaring blocks and cutting sashing, for one the

 guild's next donation quilts.  It will be sewn together at the next UFO day.