Next meeting is at Betsy's house on Friday, September 20, at 1:30.
Quite a few of us had completed our challenge piece for the "pair, pear, pere" challenge.
Joan's touching piece is a tribute to her father (pere), using photographs printed on fabric and featuring a sketch of him in the center.
Joan created a quilt using up her Asian fabrics in a disappearing 4 patch design sashed with a fabric to set off the blocks.
Sandy showed some silk scarves that she made using old silk men's ties. Here's a link to the process she used: https://lyndaheines.blog/2016/09/10/dyeing-scarves-with-silk-ties-revisited/
Blank silk scarves are available at Dharma Trading Company.
Sandy brought a cute cat doll that she made. Unplanned, but she and the cat share a similar expression in this photo.
Deanna showed off some border quilting on a new baby quilt made from Tula Pink fabrics. She used a decorative stitch on her new BabyLock sewing machine.
Deanna also had her finished challenge piece, a Prickly Pear quilt. She pieced and then painted the background and the prickles on the cactus.
Marty had cut out fabrics for a workshop that ended up being cancelled. Instead of letting them go to waste, she made a children's quilt out of them.
And a few more pieces incorporated into the back.
Marty show some blocks she had made a while ago in a workshop that she is now considering revisiting to make enough for a quilt.
The blocks were from a Karen Eckmeier pattern shown in the book Layered Waves.
Marty also has her challenge piece finished and chose the Yin and Yang pair.
She tells the meaning on the back.
Betsy has been playing with indigo dyeing for the first time. These pieces show the various designs she tried and the different depths of blue depending on how many times the fabric is dipped in the indigo.
Betsy has also been hand piecing what originally was planned as two quilts. But, she is tiring of this particular pattern and is now considering combining the pieces into one baby quilt. The group was in agreement that this would work. Yeah!
Mindy continues to work on her hand quilting project.
She also showed a piece of decorative ribbon/braid that she found at Tale of the Yak.
Mary had a retrospective of the various quilts she has made out of the "made" fabric she pieced together from various scraps when she was undergoing radiation a few years ago. Quite a variety.
Mary is also working on a piece honoring the Lady of the Bulb, a sculpture in the Albany Bulb park. The inspiration photo is on the left. She is piecing is using the Ruth McDowell techniques. The second photo shows the border Mary is considering for the piece, which we all liked.
With border fabric.
