November 2019

November's meeting began with Peggy and Maja telling us about a project to use orphan blocks to make quilts for charity.  Next year we will be challenged to make quilts from orphan blocks for elderly people in nursing homes.

There were a large variety of ideas that people came up with to use up orphan blocks.

They will be approximately 45 x 60.

Then Cathie gave a program to explain points on good binding techniques. Thanks to Cody M.  all members present received  one of her books explaining all the details of award winning bindings.

Jill gave us some information about a swap exchange we will do next year.

Peacocks on the back of Bernadette's stack and whack quilt

Flannel quilts by Dianne

Dianne's Thistle Quilt

Helen's quilt contains 357 small stars

Leanna's mom made her this curvaceous log cabin

She finished this quilt fest mystery at our retreat.

She worked on this glow in the dark quilt at retreat.

Bernadette's stack and whack quilt

another stack and whack

Pat made this top at retreat - backing will be a cute fabric with mice on it

Donna shows a charity quilt Sherri made

Fast fun four patch by Donna

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Tree by Virginia

Jan told us about a new basting product from Alex Anderson. It is a powder rather than a spray, so you don't have to worry about inhaling the fumes of the spray basting products.

Wool project  Jan is working on 

October 2019

First off in our October meeting Challenge Quilts were shown.The theme had to have something to do with birds This one is Donna's

Quilting on Donna's quilt

Dianne's quilt made for her great grandson

Linda's challenge quilt

Pam's challenge is actually a bed runner

It goes with this quilt.

Pam is learning edge to edge quilting and digitizing and learned a lot on this quilt

Ruth's quilt

Tracy's

Close up of Tracy's birds. The saying that goes with this quilt is "Every mother crow thinks her own crow is the blackest" It is for her son.

Diane E.'s challenge

Jill's challenge... when she washed it one of the reds bled, even though she had pre washed them...luckily a color catcher got the errant red out!

Julie's quilt

Leanna's quilt

Cathie's quilt

Sherri's quilt and the 3rd place winner.

Virginia's quilt was the 2nd place winner.

Bernadette's quilt was the 1st place winner of the 2019 Sandy Stitchers quilt challenge!

Bernadette used a piece of fabric that she never wanted to cut up on the back of her quilt. Win-win!

She combined house blocks with a block she had seen in another book to make her own design.

Dianne is making quillows

Table runners by Dianne

Dianne, Sherri and Jill's quilts from Quilt Etc. BOM this year

Blocks made by Pat and given to Dianne. Dianne will give this quilt to festival of trees

Kay is crocheting a lime dishcloth

Members then shared quilts that they had entered in shows and discussed judges comments. Leanna shared several quilts that had been judged in shows from 2016 on.. 

She shared the judges comments and said she mainly enters for the fun of it and does not take the judges comments personally. 

One of Bernadette's favorite quilts that she entered in a show.

One of the most difficult quilts Bernadette has made.

Pam's table runner. She used a binding foot for the binding and said it worked great.

One of the quilts Shelly has entered in a show.

Shelley won first place this year at Quiltfest!

Barbara's second place winning quilt at Quiltfest. When she saw this pattern in a quilt magazine she just knew she had to make it. It just thrilled her!

Now she has a ribbon to match the quilt!

Pam took a wool class and made this pincushion.

Tracy shared information about how quilts are judged to educate the members.

Cathie's Halloween quilt entered in the quiltfest theme category

Cathie's bigfoot quilt is finally done and ready to be gifted to her brother!