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.

 

 

 

 
 
 

February Meeting Highlights

Sorry for the delay in getting these photos up!

Here are two baby quilts that Bev put together and quilted and bound with the fish blocks made by our members.  The quilting looks great and is a stitch that her Husqvarna machine does with her walking foot - very Effective.  Thanks for your hard work Bev!

Here are a few of the pieces from the workshop that Dawn led.  The pattern is Moonrise by Hollis Chatelaine.

I try my best to get good shots of everyone's projects, but sometimes that doesn't happen.  Use your imagination to see the really interesting fabric Dawn purchased from Spoonflower to make this cute purse.  She loves it and couldn't stay still when telling us all about it!

 
 Thankfully I did get a few better pictures of Dawn's latest original art quilt - "Waterhen Mermaid".  Dawn has a cabin located in Waterhen, Manitoba and this mermaid is surrounded by wonderful freshwater fish.  Stunning!

Karen and a simple but very effective quilt based on two easy blocks a snowball and a nine patch.

Cheri and her version of the Rock Candy pattern by Jaybird Quilts.  (Pattern and specialty rulers available in our library!)  Check out her fancy quilting!  Just beautiful Cheri!

Joan and her One: Quiltwork.com Leaf Series runner.  I love the echo quilting around the leaf.  Sometimes simple is the most effective.

Sandra's quilt made from the "Hello Luscious" fabric line.  So pretty.

And another finish by Sandra "Antique Rose" made from some fat quarters that were "ripening" in her stash.

Hiding behind this quilt is Bev.  I didn't get a close up of the quilting.  The crosshatching in the brown triangles was really a nice touch.

Gloria is hiding behind the next two quilts.  The first things we have seen come out of her studio since the arrival of her new longarm.  This one is from the guild stash of fabric.

Great work Gloria, can't wait to see more!