May 2018

Progress on our block of the month by Dianne.

Our guest speaker was Craig from Quilts Etc. "Quilting from a Man's Perspective" This is a handmade Lone Star quilt made by one of his relatives that inspired him to quilt.

Quilt Craig made for his grand daughter. He enlarged the animals, designed the border and quilted it on his long arm.

Quilt for his son. Craig sometimes uses Pinterest to get ideas for quilts.

Holiday Quilt

The back is a cuddly fleece

Floor quilt made for his grand daughter. Kissing Fish pattern

Craig does his quilting on a babylock Tiara

Flying geese quilt.

Used leftovers on back of quilt. Craigs tip: Plan your pieced backs to be off center. It is hard to center them for long arm machine quilting.

Another one of Craig's quilts. he likes to use 80/20 for batting and likes bamboo batting. He says the bamboo hangs nice on the bed and does not shrink.

The back is a houndstooth design

Last year's BOM

Halloween quilt

This WWI quilt was made as a block of the month in his men's quilting group

Each block represents some aspect of the war

The red poppy is England's flower of remembrance for WWI

World War 11 quilt Craig is working on. He told us many stories and facts about the World Wars.

This year's BOM.. Dream Vacations by Craig

Dianne's bags

Charity quilt by Dianne

Dianne finished last years BOM!

Lisa made the 2017 BOM for her grand daughter

Sandy is working on her red and white embroidery blocks

Tracy's modern quilt

A bit of the back

Peggy's Ricky Timm's convergence pattern.

Peggy's headboard quilts

Linda's Olaf quilt for Wyatt

Frozen Quilt

Trollstice

Finished Thimbleberries quilt - around 20 years old

Virginia's police project quilt - we are close to our goal of 50 quilts this year.

Pam wearing her pants from Bali and back of quilt she and her son quilted

Pam received blocks at Christmas from Lisa.. and used them to make this charity quilt

With the leftovers she made a pillowcase

Cathie's progress on the splendid sampler blocks

Finished challenge quilt from last year... when Jill was president

Barbara's quilt with lots of embellishments. She brought this to inspire everyone to do this year's challenge: a quilt with 3 or more embellishments.

Barbara's red and white quilt....she says it took a long time to do.

Marsha was gifted this applique quilt from the 40's from a friend in Moab... now she has to finish it!