Friday, May 5, 2017

May Meeting at Betsy's House

The weather cooled down enough to have a very pleasant meeting for May.  We had a full house, except for Arleen who was missed.  Next meeting at Mary's house.

Bobbie has been working on more of her Indian panels and brought two to share.  Pretty fantastic!





Mindy continues down the English Paper Piecing path with multiple flower hexies and with a great grey ombre background.    Here is a photo of her layout.
 And here is another view of the background fabric.

She has also been doing more handstitching.


Sandy has completed her painting based on a photo she took in Hong Kong and it has been accepted into the student show.  Now we cross our fingers that she wins a prize.  Here's a photo of her photo of the painting.

Inspired by a couple of shirting quilts she saw at the SF Guild quilt show, Mary dove into her stash of shirting fabrics from a while ago and made this beauty.  Better than either of the quilts at SF!


 And the back

Joan took a class from Tara Faughnan and stepped outside her usual quilt design style.  She had a lot of fun putting together this beauty.
 
And the leftovers are on the back


She also is using information from Sue Spargo's book to embellish a quilt she had "finished" a bit ago.  Never to late to add more.

And can you believe it, she made yet another quilt, this one a "one shape" quilt shaded from light to dark.  Beautiful.

 She plans to leave the edge as is.  It certainly adds interest to the piece.


Betsy has been fun playing with HST again, this time inspired by fabrics in a layer cake called Citrus.  This is another in a series of HST quilts and grew to a queen/king size.


And staying in the HST theme, Betsy used blended ombre fabrics to create this quilt from a photo she saw online.  The struggle was to make sure the HSTs were oriented in the correct direction in each block!


Marty too has been busy.  She made another one block wonder that proves picking the right fabric is key to making a spectacular quilt.  And the turquoise grunge fabric for the border really adds to the whole quilt.