March Meeting

We had two guests from the American Cancer Society talk to us about the organization. One of these lovely ladies works with Glenda. They were very excited to get our pillows, the little hearts of hope and the hats.  I think we ended up with 127 heart pillows....

 

 

 

I did the program this month on the Disappearing 4 patch quilt and the Disappearing 9 patch quilts. These are fun and easy to do and use up alot of scraps...

This is one way to set the disappearing 9 patch blocks.

 

Another setting for the disappearing 9 patch blocks. 

 

 

Now for some show and tell from our members...

 

Jackie made this Blooming 9 Patch quilt as a birthday gift for one of her daughters.

 

 

Deanna made this one. I love the chili pepper border on this chili cook-off T shirt quilt.

 

Back of the quilt.

 

Deanna's Pokie Little Puppy Quilt.  So adorable!

 

Back of the quilt.

This one is from Judy B.

 

Another one from Judy B.

 

 

Omigosh from Joyce

 

Miniature Omigosh...Joyce, measure twice, cut once but be sure all the numbers are on your measuring tape!  I loved her story and the quilts look great too.

 

This is going to be a Block of the Month from Thomas Sewing Center.

 

This is Helen's Fan Stack and Whack.  Beautiful!

 

Annalee's Political Tshirt quilt. The borders were great on this one..

 

This is Sandy's beautiful black, white and red quilt...

 

Linda B made this beauty.

 

 

 

 

Martha is working on this one this year. Just Takes Two for 2013 

 

 

 

 

This is for Sally's great grandchild...I've always heard her say, "this ain't my first rodeo" so this is very appropriate for this new baby. Congrats, Sally!

 

A quilt for the baby.

 

Gotta have a pillow to go with the quilt.

 

 

I made this pink brick scrap quilt after seeing Sharon's quilt.

Hey, look at this!  This is so easy to make. It looks good with scraps or monochromatic. 

3 1/2" X 6 1/2" bricks and 3 1/2" squares.  That's all there is to it...Easy, peasy.

Here's my 3D Bowtie Quilt. Not pretty but will be useful.

 

My Michigan Garden Quilt. This was a Thimbleberries pattern from several years ago. It's been hanging in my closet for several years and just got quilted. I love it.

 

Well, ladies, another great meeting and lots of great projects were shown. Please come see us next month and bring your show and tell too. We want to see what you are working on. Til next time, happy stitching.

 

February Meeting

 

Last month passed very quickly for me and I'm still trying to catch up! 

 

Last month, the demo was done by Martha as we worked on the little hearts called Hearts of Hope.  Please bring your little and big heart pillows to the March meeting as we will have a representative from the Breast Cancer Center at the meeting to take these items.  Thanks for all of your efforts, I hope this has been fun for you...

 

Here's some Show and Tell from our members:

 

Glenda made this cute baby quilt.

 

 

 

Essie and Glenda did this one.

 

Here's a lovely quilt by Deanna

 

Another one of Deanna's, she's been busy!

 

Martha and Jackie showing the little quilts they made from the piping class they took at Plum Good Quilting with Sandra and Annette.

 

Jackie was hurriedly trying to finish this one for her Son-in-law's birthday. Her daughter was visiting with us and she was leaving the next day to go back to Seattle and take it with her!

 

Great quilt, Jackie!

 

Irene made this one..

 

Another one by Irene

 

She picked up her crochet hook again after a few years and made this shrug.  Too cute!

 

 

Ruth and Jessica made these 4 little quilts for community service.  Ruth said she has challenge herself and Jessica to make one each month for community service.     

Ok, get busy and bring your show and tell for the March meeting. Have a great month! Til next time, happy stitching.

Supply List for the February Meeting

A note from Martha....

Just in case you missed our meeting last Thursday, I am sending you a supply list for a fun project we will be doing at our February meeting. Hope to see you then.

To Bring to February Meeting:

· Needle and neutral thread

· Scissors

· Thimble (if you use one)

· Buttons, charms, flowers – any small embellishments

· Permanent markers in any color

· Charm squares or any 5” block in bright colors

 

We will be making something really special at the meeting and then you will take it home to finish up and bring back in March. Hope you all want to participate in this fun project. We will share our hope and love. See you then.

Our January Meeting

Last night, we met at the church for our first meeting of this year...I'm amazed this month has gone so fast!  It was good to see our members and our three guests.  It's nice to have new people come and visit with us and I hope they come back again...

I'm really missing the Mug Rugs!  It was sad not to have those little quiltlets up to look at.  We've had so many months with blocks and other things to look at on the walls that it was strange not to see anything at all last night! Oh well, I know we will have some great things this year going on! 

It was so nice to have the hot tea and refreshments last night.  It was like our own little tea party...

Our program last night was very good. I enjoyed seeing all the embroidered items, pillows, red work quilts, blue work quilts, samplers, doilies, etc.  Thank you to Joyce, Judy B and Martha for such a nice program...
Here's a few things they showed us.  I didn't take pics of everything but hope you enjoy seeing the ones I did take.

Ok, how about some show and tell from our members:

Jessica started us off with her crocheted scarf...If you want to donate yarn to her and her Mom, please bring whatever you have. They use it to make hats and scarves for those in need...I think she said her group made 500 scarves last year...that's great!

Too cute!!!

Here's the start of  Daphne's Bento Box quilt

Some stars she is working on

Here's the fabric she's been using to fussy cut from!

Isn't this great?  This is Linda B.'s scrappy star quilt.  She was in  a group with three others and she won the blocks.  Now, they are making more stars and will have three more wins so everyone will have a quilt...Great use of scraps!

Here's Sharon's Row by Row all quilted up. This was such a fun quilt to do. 

Susan is making cupcake blocks for her granddaughters and needs 6" pink squares of fabric...

Here's the quilt I quilted for a friend going through chemo.  The blocks were made by non-quilters..  I think they did a super job.

Here's the tablerunner I finished last week...

Jackie finished this little quilt over the Christmas holidays.  She won these blocks several years ago. This is the first time she has quilted with metallic thread.  Great job, Jackie!

Glenda made this quilt for a friend of hers.  She used the husband's shirts to make it...He had some shirts with his intitials on them and  there are pockets in the quilt too.  Lovely job, Glenda. I know she will cherish this quilt...

Glenda also made this. Well, she didn't make the dresser, she just decorated it!  She used selvedges on the top and sides of the chest and the drawers are covered with some of her favorite fabrics.  So cute!  What a great idea! 

Top view, she said she will put a glass on the top to protect it.

Side view

Martha participated in a 3-D challenge.

Here's another challenged she did. This one is the Dallas Modern Quilt Guild.  They were given the fabric and had to make a quilt with it.  She made a Bento Box quilt...

Here's the last challenge for this group.  She used the left over fabric from the last challenge to create a block.   

Next month, we will be having a Make and Take program for February. Martha passed out a little flyer at the meeting of things to bring to work on. She has some of the supplies, just bring what was on the flyer to participate.  She will send out an email to everyone so if you weren't at the meeting, you will know what to bring.   

Glenda advised that we need to start making heart pillows again for community service.  She will look for the pattern and we will be working on these in March.  More info will be forthcoming.  Ok, ladies, get busy and come back next month and show us what you have been working on!

Til next time, happy quilting!