Deanna was scheduled to host our meeting this month, but needed to go help take care of her new grandson and while her DIL recovered from a C-section. Family first, and who can resist this face? So, both Joan and Mary offered to host, with Joan winning out, and Mindy helping with refreshments. Love this group of women.
The weather and smoke conditions did not make it pleasant to meet outside so we stayed in and kept masks on.
Joan claims this is her last big quilt, but we have our doubts. This is for a relative who picked out the fabrics and the quilt design. The color placement and addition of the triangles really enhance this quilt top.
Marty was inspired by a picture of a Christmas tree quilt so she drafted her own pattern and made this lovely quilt which will be finished in time to hang this year. The bows on the presents under the tree add a lovely detail.
Mindy has been adding all of the lovely hex flowers she made to her quilt trellis background.
And she has a chart to show where each flower will be placed.
She has also added her part to a round robin quilt top. Very colorful and a happy quilt.
Mindy has also put together another quilt top, with more to come on this one. Spot some Kaffe and Tula fabrics in this one.
Bobbie decided she wanted to make some quilts with tinier pieces and found a couple of designs in a book she reacquired a few meetings ago. She had lots of fabrics to use in it and charted out the patterns and where each fabric would go.
She even made up samples of each block.......but the experience was not the joyful one she had hoped for. She described this journey so far as a saga.
Time to regroup.
More on our Bee Sewcial quilt top. We each made blocks, Sandy assembled them into a wonderful quilt top, and now Arleen has done a great job enhancing the quilt with her modern style quilting. She did the binding and has handed it off to Betsy for a hanging sleeve and a label.
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Mary seems to be recovering from hip replacement surgery very nicely, carrying her cane with her as more of a symbol than a necessity. And recovery does not seem to have slowed down her quilting.
She is making two baby quilts, one with butterflies and butterflies of all sizes are quilted into it.
And an elephant quilt with elephants as the quilting theme. Personally, the elephant quilt is my favorite.
Both quilts will be finished and to their destinations within the next month.
Mary also made a quilt with the logo of her daughter's business. She was asked to only use solid fabrics and used the logo as her quilting motif.
Betsy took a 6 week vacation from Bay Quilts and used the time to try and finish up a lot of UFOs in her workroom. She managed to do just that and here are some of the quilts or tops now ready for the next step or a new owner.
A few meetings ago the group voted on the material to use as a binding on this hand pieced baby quilt. And it works perfectly.
Unearthed from the UFO pile was a one block wonder from over ten years ago. Happily finished now and ready for quilting or donation. Not one destined to remain in Betsy's house.
Started near the beginning of the pandemic, one person commented on Facebook that this quilt looked like the Coronavirus. Somehow this put Betsy off of finishing it until now. The border added out of a lovely Japanese fabric from Bay Quilts now guarantees this will be part of the lap quilt rotation.
After so many UFOs it was time to make some "new" quilts, but with leftover fabrics from other quilts. Two flannel quilts resulted, both disappearing 9 patch patterns.
The gray quilt is great for a baby with a jungle and alphabet theme! Ignore the bicycles....
This second flannel quilt is more a throw size and has a water/sea creature theme. Again, since leftover fabrics were being used, ignore the bow ties.
The last quilt seemed like a good idea on paper, but Betsy is not delighted with the results. But sometimes that is the way a quilt turns out.
