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! |