June Meeting

 

Our June meeting was a sit and sew and we went around the room and showed what we were working on and our favorite tools or gadgets. 

 

 

Helen took a class and this is what she is working on.

 

 

Joyce's Christmas quilt

 

Joyce's Wheel of Fortune Quilt

A blurry view of the side corners of the quilt. These are pansies...

 

This is a little cupcake quilt made by Susan.

 

Susan said her family pitched in and made this little quilt. They are all learning to quilt...

 

Here's some of the things our guest has been working on.

Deanna has been paper piecing. This is all scraps and she said it would be a large quilt eventually.

 

I think she said this was called Pick Up Sticks...

 

This one is called Cheese and Crackers.

 

 

Jackie's beautiful Vintage Valentine quilt. She's giving this one to her daughter. Lucky girl!

 

This is an Autum quilt I made for my husband.

 

This was done a long time ago and it was a Buck A Block quilt.

 

This one is a Yellow Brick Road baby quilt.

 

A Pinwheel quilt made from the More Quilts for Baby book.

Another autumn quilt I finished.

 

Linda showed what she worked on year's ago...

A Christmas quilt made by Rita.

 

These are some baby quilts Rita made for community service.

 

Jessica's working on her blocks for her quilt.

 

Ruth's baby quilt for community service.

 

Another one by Ruth.

 

Jessica made this one.

 

Here's some of Sharon's latest quilts.

 

Bev's latest quilts.  She's been busy!

 

I love this one!

 

Sally's stars.

 

Look at Dee's little Twister quilt.  Love it.

 

Here's two of Martha's blocks.

 

Some other things Martha is working on.

 

This is a knitted cross made for Martha's daughter...

 

Here's the instructions for the Prayer Square above.

 

Cast on 18 Stitches. They suggest size 9 needles to come out 3 X 3 1/2 inches.

 

Row 1-5: Knit

Row 6: Knit 8, p2, k8

Row 7: Knit

Rows 8,10, 12: K8, p2, k8

Rows 9,11,13: Knit

Row 14: K5,p8,k5

Row 15: Knit

Row 16: K8,p2,k8

Row 17: Knit

Row 18 and 20: K8, p2,k8

Row 19 and 21: Knit

Row 22-26: Knit

Bind off all stitches.

 

 

Martha made this cute house wallhanging from dimensional log cabin squares.

 

 

Martha's Big Hobo Bag

 

Martha's small Hobo bag.

 

This is Annalee's best tool! 

 

Sandy took a class for this one

 

Here's Sandy's blocks she's working on. She's doing the same quilt that Martha is doing.

 

Diana's Stocking quilt...too cute!

 

Some great blocks by Daphne.

May meeting

At the May meeting, our guest speaker was Carol Misken. She has started using brighter colors in her quilting and wanted to share her new colors with us.  She has been influenced by several different people she is following over the internet. Some are traditional quilters like Bonnie Hunter and alot are more modern quilters.  A list of the websites she gave us will be at the end of her pictures.

This is a strippy Log Cabin variation.

The quilt on the hanging rack is a Scrappy Trip Around the World.  Directions and lots of free patterns can be found at Bonnie Hunter's website.  WWW.quiltville.com.

This one is called Not Quite Low Volume and can be found at Red Pepper Quilts.

Rita Hodge is from Melbourne, Australia and here's a link for you to go there. The directions are not on the website but Carol gave us a handout with her directions on it...

Twinkle pattern

www.quiltville.com

Bonnie Hunter's website

www.simplicity.com

Info about the Easy Angle ruler can be found on this site along with alot of other info too.

www.redpepperquilts.com

Rita Hodge, Melbourne, Australia- modern quilter

Twinkle pattern by Cheryl Wittmayer

www.ragmerchants.blogspot.com

Now for some of our folks!

Here's the church quilt for this year!  Great job, girls. It looks so good. Diane came up with a cute name for it too. It's called Sew Many Presents! 

The back of the quilt.  Creativity takes over when you don't have enough fabric!  I love the back of this one too.  So cute!

Look at this big, beautiful Texas quilt!  It's amazing and it belongs to Daphne. 

Sharon did a present quilt too. She said she will be making five of these for gifts this year.  I love this quilt. Everyone of these I've seen are so different and cute in their own way....

Sandy made this one for her son. He just kept bringing over Harley T-shirts for her to include into the quilt...Love it and no, it doesn't look like Halloween!

Here's a boy baby quilt for Nancy's grandson. No, he's not here yet.  Nancy is ahead of schedule! 

This one is Jessica's and she finished it at retreat.  I love it. the picture doesn't really show the great colors she used.

Here's one of Jackie's.

Here's Diane's cute stocking quilt.  She's giving this one to a friend but wants to do an exchange on this one. 

Here's our Summer blocks.  Diane and Judy B. worked on these at retreat...Remember, all the fabrics are batiks.  Diane passed out instructions at the meeting, so if you didn't get them, see her or Judy B.

Here's the instructions...