April 2019

Earleane moved here from Florida. Not only does she have sewing talents but she plays the dulcimer.

New member Denise has a new long arm and plenty of room to quilt in her new house.

Members participating in the Block of the Month.

Jill shows the block for this month

Barbara goes over the latest by law with members.

Sandra presented the program for this month, " English Paper Piecing" (EPP)  This quilt is a Dresden Plate. It was her Uncle's childhood quilt.

This grandmother's garden quilt was given to Tracy.

Sandra's first project. She can take it where ever she goes to put in a few stitches when she can. Sandra explained that EPP projects are portable and that once you finish a round you can take out the papers out of the past rounds and reuse the paper. You should leave the paper in the round you just finished till the next round is done.

Tracy showed us some new tools that will help with EPP. There is a new hexagon punch by Fiskar. The extra large size cuts 1 inch hexagon templates. It is around 10 dollars. Tracy shared templates and fabric with all who wanted to try EPP. 

Tool that Sandra uses to pull out the paper templates once sewing is done.

Sandra showed how to start sewing the fabric onto the hexagon templates and then showed us how she stitches each hexagon together with a blind hem stitch which is virtually invisible on the right side of the work.

Some of Susan's work in which the stitches do not show on the right side.

Show and tell started with Dianne's Thistle quilt.

Hidden Star quilt by Dianne

Donna's quilt from retreat for her nephew.

Kaye's finished quilt that she started " a long time ago"

Kaye's snowmen blocks

Denise made this modern take on the churn dash pattern.

Shelley's reproduction of an antique dresden plate quilt.

Shelley's handmade dolls.

Linda is working on the gypsy quilt.

Grandson's wedding quilt by Susan

Jan took a trip to Hawaii and took a Hawaiian quilting class while she was there.