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Saturday, November 9, 2024

October 2024

In October we had lots of show and tell from the members, a lesson by Vanessa and a speaker, Nicolle who showed us the versatility of Cri Cut machines. Vanessa asked members to bring quilts with examples of 'Y' seams since that was the lesson we learned about last month.

Dianne showed off some Halloween decorations

Dianne's quilt from a scrappy exchange group she belongs to


quillow for a Christmas gift by Dianne

Dianne's broken star that features Y seams

more quilts by Dianne


This Halloween quilt features crayon embroidery

Table runner by Dianne

Donna's quilt that has "Y" seams, made for her son

Virginia's quilts for show and tell




Jill's husband had this quilt framed for her

Jill said it is the hardest quilt she has ever done!




Sandra's quilt top from a quilt kit from ZCMI


quilts by Barbara



Cathie's applique pumpkin block

Betty's donations to her church's Christmas boutique


Pam and her daughter have been working on the Blocks of the month


Turtle quilt

Susan's example of a quilt with "Y" seams

Blocks by James. He is participating in a Pat Sloan sew along










Vanessa had lots of show and tell. Her finished "Mad Adders " quilt done in a Ricky Tims group

Tiny paper pieced thimbles by Vanessa






October minis by Vanessa






Our Speaker for October was Nicolle who told us all about Cricut machines. She passed out a cute Halloween kit for each of the members

Cricut can also be used with paper

cute burro by Nicolle

Squirrel and the animals in the following pictures were from patterns done on her Cricut machine




These pineapple patterns were made on the cricut machine

Nicolle explained that you can program designs into the cricut  so that you have an unlimited possibility for your designs.


An example of an early design Nicolle did of  a map of the United States




Jame's BOM
Vanessa's lesson was on how to put our block of the month quilt together

Another version by Vanessa

Finished BOM's for October- Pam won the prize drawing for completed blocks

Rope bowl made by Susan at the last Sit and Sew session