October 2022

 Mary hosted our group on October 11.  Deanna and Betsy were absent.  Mary served a wonderful carrot cake, and Sandy brought chocolate zucchini cake to share with the group.

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, November 8, at Joan’s house at 1:30. 

Obie was kind enough to photograph the curvy challenge pieces made by [clockwise starting upper left] Marty, Mary, Arleen, Bobbie, and Joan.  These will be submitted to EBHQ for display at the November Show and Tell meeting.

 

Mary has been busy.  She started us off with the finished giraffe quilt we last saw in August.  Mary’s quilting skills are amazing!

 Then she shared a couple of donation quilts.

 

Mary is now ready to quilt this stunner for her second oldest grandson who asked for a quilt with shields and thunderbolts.

 The back features a rainbow.

 

Marty created these two blocks using Bobbie’s original block design.  This is an excellent way to use these focus fabrics. 

Marty has also been busy with donation quilts.  The photos show front and back of one and the front of a second donation quilt.

 

And she’s finished the quilt composed of blocks on point that we saw last month.

 

The backing she chose to use definitely moves this piece into the category of a two-sided quilt.  She says she’s going to keep this one.

 

Mindy shared photos of her Halloween decorations at home as well as the current status of this colorful floral arrangement we've seen before.  [NOTE:  apologies, Mindy, if I’ve posted it upside down!]

Mindy’s EPP project is growing. 

 

Bobbie didn’t show anything but described her work to date on the backgrounds for her velvet and silk seed pods project.

 

 Joan shared her finished wall hanging using the gold and blue flowered handkerchief that displays the “resist, persist, dissent” quote from Justice Ruth Ginsberg.  We think Joan’s daughter will be delighted with this piece.

 

Arleen showed us the wood-handled rectangular bag she recovered.

 

She continues to play with the remaining scraps of Kaffe fabric in her stash.