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Friday, October 11, 2019

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!