We met at Marty's house this month. Mary and Mindy were not able to join us.
Marty suggested a field trip to see the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit for our June meeting. Here is the link to the BAMPFA exhibit. https://bampfa.org/program/virtual/rosie-lee-tompkins-retrospective
If we decide not to do the field trip, a reminder that Mary had offered to host the next meeting at her house.
Joan brought a lovely gold, brown, and green quilt. The second photo of the quilting detail shows the colors much better.
Joan's second quilt was her round robin quilt. Joan did the center, then added the bars and outer border to get a quilt to the size she preferred. The photo of the back shows the quilting a bit better.
Joan showed a one block wonder. The first photo shows the back fabric which was the one used to create the front blocks. The narrow purple and black inner borders and larger green grunge outer border really let the blocks shine.
Arleen has been quilting her McDowell fish quilt. She wants to change the fabric eyes to button eyes to give them more dimension.
Arleen saw a picture of her next quilt and drafted the pattern. She wanted to use some fabric she had purchased at a quilt show combined with Kaffe stripe fat quarters that she had. In a new, modern way, this is an "Arleen" quilt.
Betsy had her Patchwork of the Crosses quilt using black, red, and white fabrics. Melissa Quilter had quilted it with wreath feathers around the hedgehogs and curving feathers around the border.
Betsy's addiction to EPP continues with two more quilts. The blue and white one is the same pattern Joan showed last month--Everyone is Different but Everyone is a Star. The purple and orange one is the Star Mandala pattern.
Betsy doesn't normally use panels, but this panel by artist Ira Kennedy from Texas caught her eye when she saw this pattern demonstrated on the Jordan Fabrics tutorials YouTube channel. She created the window panes and added the border using complementary fabrics.
Deanna brought her red, black and white wall hanging (which Marty very much wants her to put in the Marketplace at the next VIC. Joan suggests that Marty wants to buy it!). The second photo shows the variety of patterns used for quilting.
Deanna also had a one block wonder to show.
The back shows the quilting in better detail, including lines of a pink polyester thread.
Marty showed a couple of cute baby quilts. The quilting on the bicycle quilts really suggests motion of the tires.
Marty also showed this needlework piece that she has finished. The second photo shows the back which is almost as neat as the front......not surprising but really amazing.
Marty also had this lovely blues and oranges quilt out of Japanese fabrics. The straight line crosshatch quilting works well.
Sandra finished assembling the quilt top from the individual blocks each of us made for the Bee Sewcial quilt. It looks fantastic. She had some blocks left over. Arleen has volunteered to make the back for the quilt using these leftover blocks and leftover fabrics that were given to Sandy when the blocks were sent.
