September Meeting

 

 

Ok guys, I forgot to take pics of the mug rugs this month....I guess I was just out of touch by missing the previous month.  If anyone will send me pics, I'll be happy to post them later.

 

Next month, the theme for the mug rug is: no squares or rectangles.  Make an odd shaped Mug Rug to exchange.

 

This month we had our ususal business meeting. It was a little different this month as we needed to discuss next year, so we had our guests speak first... This is the Mother/Daughter team, Sandra and Annette of  Plumgood Quilting. They have an online quilt store and are long arm quilters too. They teach classes too. Here's a link to their website and here's their info too. I have also added them on the sidebar of the blog for future reference.

 

 

Sandra Ashworth or Annette Jenkins

Plum Good Quilting

1515 N. Town East Blvd.

Suite 138-224

Mesquite, Texas 75150

972-372-4932

 

They talked about a different way to do binding and they showed  boards with examples.  She also talked about piping. 

 

 

 

Here's a quick quilt she made with strips.

 

Working with piping and ric-rac.

 

More piping...

 

Here's a cute pillow she did. She also gave us a pattern for this.

 

Thank you, ladies for a wonderful program.

 

Now for some Show and Tell from our members....

 

Glenda has been a little busy, don't you think?

 

Some wonderful memory quilts.

 

 

 

She made this cute bag too.

 

 

She made this as a raffle quilt but decided to keep it.

 

 

This is her wonderful Christmas Package quilt...

 

Jackie made this and quilted it with the Baptist Fan pattern.

Judy B. made this and is giving it as a gift. 

 

Helen's cute bag.

Dee made this sweet blue quilt.

 

This is Dee's Civil War quilt. These patterns were from Barbara Brackman's Block of the Week last year.  This is lovely.

Sally's Vegetable Cat quilt...So cute!

 

 

Linda W's sweet nursery rhyme quilt. This is a gift for one of her daughter's friends.

 

Linda W's wonderful Crazy Patch quilt.  She took up tatting to add to this lovely quilt.  She has all different kinds of momentoes on this little quilt.

 

Bev's sweet Christmas quilt. 

 

Bev made this for her daughter's upcoming wedding. This is her daughter's bridal bouquet.  The picture doesn't do this justice.   

 

This is Martha's Bento Box quilt. She hosted a great exchange for this.  I think she ended up with 35 people from all over the country exchanging blocks for this exchange.  She did this locally and over the internet.  It was a fun exchange.

 

 

Martha made this using a panel called Little Genius's

 

 

Yes, she's an over achiever!  This is her OhmyGosh Quilt.  So great!

 

This is Sharon H's little scrappy pineapple quilt.  She got the idea from a book called Trash to Treasure Pineapple...

 

Last but not least, this is Annalee's beautiful Hanky quilt. She made this for a friend of hers.  This is the friend's Mother's hankies.  I think she will be showing us how she did this later in the year...Beautiful!

 

We have such talented ladies in our group. I can't wait to see what everyone is working on next month.  Now, get busy and show us what you are working on.  Until next time, happy sewing!

 

The August Meeting-Our Annual Picnic

Hey guys, I hope you enjoyed the meeting. I'm sorry I missed it .  The food looks great!  These pictures are all brought to you this month by Martha, she was kind enough to take the pictures for me.  I didn't even have to ask her and I really appreciate her filling in for me.  Thank you, Martha, I appreciate your kindness!

Our leaders were given blocks to thank them for their service...Thank you ladies, it's been a wonderful year. 

Ruth had a lovely quilt.

Sharon made another bag.

Sharon and some wonderful quilts.

This is the back of the quilt above.  Great backing!

Rita's been working hard!  Here's her Wheel of Fortune quilt.

Here's her Ohmygosh Quilt.

Here's Martha's Ohmygosh Quilt

Here's one by Glenda

We had a visitor too.  This is Jackie's oldest granddaughter from Seattle.  She's making 9 patches and working on a 9 patch quilt.  Way to go!

 

Mug Rug Info for the rest of the year!

Here are the mug rug themes for the remaining months of the mug rug exchange:

September – solid-colored fabrics. That’s it. Any design you want with solid fabrics—no patterned fabric. Stretch yourself!

October - not square or rectangle. Let’s use Martha’s idea and make it wonky! See an example here (it’s a hexagon) http://patchworkdelights.blogspot.com/2011/09/hexie-mug-rug.html

November – use an image pre-printed on the fabric. See an example here (a flamingo) http://opus-gluei.blogspot.com/2011/05/challenge-102-pinwheels.html

December – anything you want! Have you had an idea all year and haven’t been able to use that idea yet? Now’s the time. It’s Christmas but you don’t have to do Christmas. Cut up a block you made years ago, or make a new block; use part of the mug rug you made in January and part of the leftovers from the one you made in June; make something you’ve been wanting to try; copy one you’ve seen done already that you just loved; or give it a theme of your own choosing!

And for those of you who have not participated yet, here is a very easy reversible mug rug tutorial: http://www.stitchingbystarlight.com/2011/04/reversible-mug-rug-tutorial.html

And here’s another very easy one: http://www.incolororder.com/2011/03/scrappy-stack-mug-rug-tutorial.html

Happy mugging!

July Happenings!

Hello everyone!

 It has really been hot, huh?  I keep hearing people say, yeah, it's hot but we haven't had days and days of over 100 degrees like last year...Well, that's true, but I still say, it's hot!  I'm trying to stay cool any way I can.  That means I'm staying inside alot!!!  I wish I could say, I'm sewing alot but I cannot.  I hope you guys are sewing more than I am...

If you missed the July meeting, you missed a good time!  This was a working meeting but we had fun too.  We worked on Covers for Kids this month.  Let's start off by showing you the wonderful Mug Rugs our ladies are doing.  Haven't these been great!  I want everyone of them.
 Y'all are doing a great job on these!!! This month's theme was food and there were some really cute ones and I took a close up of Sharon's so we can all have her brownie recipe!

Next month, the theme is Log Cabin.

Here's some of the Covers for Kids quilts we made. I heard that we ended up with 8 finished that night and a few people took some more kits home.  I also heard that the 2 samples that were missing have been found...

If you haven't seen the Church quilt for this year, here it is.  It turned out so pretty.  Great job, ladies! 

How about some show and tell from our members?!!!!

This one is Rita's Floating Four Patch.  It is wonderful.   It looks so different from Bev's. Same quilt, same finish but so different. I love both of them.  I'm still working on mine.  I would like some more blocks. I am making a few at a time and have put together what I have.  I think mine is 11 X 11. When we were doing this exchange, I thought I would make this but do it as a small throw.  Once I started putting it together, I liked it more and more. Now that I've seen these, I want it to be lots bigger.  I think I heard at the meeting that if there is enough interest, another exchange might be done.  I know I'm interested, anyone else????

We had an old member come back to see us.  Welcome back, Susan. Glad you joined us again...This quilt was recently put together by her. The blocks were made by the  members as a thank you to her for being our leader for the year.  I think she said this was 10 years ago. 

This one is Sharon's. I think she said this was her retreat quilt and she took it to all the retreats and worked on it.  It's Kaffe Fassett fabric and looks great.

This is called Texas Braid. It is a Bonnie Hunter pattern and was made by Jackie and her ladies at the library.  Jackie quilted it and they are raffling this quilt off to raise money for the Royse City Library. She will bring raffle tickets next month to sell,  so bring your money!

Jackie said she's working on UFO's and found these chicken placemats to work on. These are cute. We all know Jackie likes her chickens, hey, where were the eggs this month?????

 

This is Linda's month by month wall hanging. There are 12 little quilts that snap on to the middle quilt, here are three that she has made.   These are so cute.

Ooh, I love this one.  My favorite colors!

This one is Nancy's.  Love it...A manly disappearing 9 patch quilt.

This one was the Jelly Roll Race Quilt. Can you tell this one was Nancy's too?  I love her peeking over the quilt! Ha ha, so cute.

Last, but not least, she decided to be different and do the Omygosh Quilt in black background fabric.   Looks good, Nancy.  The black will be great!

  Ok, just so you know, the block on the right is wrong. The vertical middle 4 patch squares should be going up and down, not sideways.  I sent an email out to everyone about this correction. 

Ok, get busy ladies and bring in that show and tell for next month.  Stay cool and sew!