We met at Deanna's house this month and continued to wear masks to be cautious. We missed seeing Arleen who had a sore throat and stayed home.
Deanna made a delicious almond cake served with ice cream and fresh strawberries. And we got another treat by tasting her quince paste with manchego cheese and crackers. Delicious! Those who wanted were gifted with their own block of quince paste to eat at home. Thanks Deanna!
Our group challenge quilt now has a hanging sleeve, a label, and is with Bobbie who will enter it at VIC as one of her entries.
While Arleen was not able to join us in person, she did send pictures of what she is working on. Just realized that these could be added to our blog so here they are.
The fish quilt is still in progress. Arleen has added button eyes and more hand quilting to it.
Arleen decided to submit 2 quilts to PIQF, even though she doesn't plan to attend in order to support quilt shows. The Tokyo quilt show has disbanded and we don't want more shows to close. Both of her quilts were accepted. Congrats to Arleen!
Joan had to leave early so we started with her story about meeting Roberta Horton. Both were teaching at the same location and Joan introduced herself to Roberta and showed her a quilt she was making for her son. Roberta liked it enough to include it in her book "Plaids and Stripes" as an example of how to use directional fabrics in quilts.
Deanna had previously shown a baby quilt for her grandson with a space robots theme. She had pieced some squares in a pattern not intended. Never fear. Those pieces have now become a new, wonderful baby quilt.
And the back has lots of character too.
Deanna also has made a quilt for her daughter-in-law's sister daughter (did I remember that correctly?). She had a pattern that she used for the dimensions but created a setting that most of liked better than the quilt pattern's choices.
Since she doesn't usually work just in solids, this was a new experience. Here is a close up of these wonderful flowers.
Marty has made another lovely baby quilt.
She has used the stitch options on her sewing machine to quilt and it adds so much character to the quilt.
A few meetings ago Betsy had a house quilt kit that she offered to others in the group. At our August meeting, Marty opted to take it. And look what she did with it! Such a cheery and fun little quilt. Thanks to Marty for saving that quilt kit from obscurity.
Betsy brought several quilts that were part of what she did with her summer vacation!
In preparation for her grandson moving to a big bed, Betsy made a science themed quilt. She particularly loves the monsters on the border.
One of the UFO's that got finished was this batik woven quilt.
And in keeping with trying to use only fabrics in her stash, the backing fabric was there and seemed to be made for this quilt top.
The little baby quilt was English Paper Pieced and is now quilted and bound.
Betsy's friend Arlene made a rail fence quilt to learn quilting and Betsy used the leftover strips and some white on white fabrics she had to make this easy scrap quilt. The pattern is called Lakeview Terrace from Missouri Star Quilt Company.
The back fabric is an echinacea print by Anna Maria Horner and seems made for this quilt top. Beautifully quilted by Melissa Quilter with leaves, vines, and echinacea flowers.
Sandy has been busy. She showed a Compass Bag that she made with fabrics from Stone Mountain purchased at the beginning of the pandemic.
She also has made a rice bag in a larger size that her previous one and she can use this as a project bag. She used fabric strips made in a class with Sujata Shah.
Sandy had a lovely fused quilt from a Sue Benner class that is finished and ready to decorate some lucky space.
Sandy wants to have some handwork to work on while watching tv in the evenings. She has two projects ready.
One is a hand pieced/quilted wall hanging with the good luck triangles on the corners. Apologies for the poor quality photo. Hopefully, Sandy will bring to finished quilt to a meeting so a good quality photo can be taken.
The second project is hand embroidery for a linen scarf.
Mary is recovering from hip surgery but you wouldn't notice that watching her walk around and up and down stairs.
She has been working on community quilts for the guild, but also has made this lovely abstract quilt. She asked for input on how to finish it off--borders or no, color binding....and as always happens she got many different suggestions.
Happily, she also brought her wall hanging that had been inspired by a New Yorker cartoon. She communicated with the cartoonist asking for permission to use his cartoon as inspiration, sell the quilt, etc. Such a fun quilt.
Bobbie brought two blocks redesigned from the input she got last month. They work so much better and are lovely.
She also showed this wonderful black, white and red wall hanging. On suggestion from Joan, Bobbie added the narrow dark gray strips to edge the larger black and white stripes.
Mindy has added her top and bottom borders to the Round Robin she is working on. Since the quilt is so big she isn't doing side borders. The quilt now moves on to the next person.
She also brought another Round Robin she is working on. Primary colors and the border works so well with the rest of the quilt.
And Mindy is working on another Christmas stocking. Can't wait to see the next pieces she adds.
