December 2022

We gathered on Saturday, December 17, at Mindy’s for our annual holiday potluck and gift exchange.  Everyone was present, and we feasted on delicious food and did our usual White Elephant game with the gifts.  Thanks to Mindy for hosting and letting us enjoy her amazing holiday decorations.

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, January 10, at 1:30pm at Bobbie’s.  She asks that we come prepared to shop from her extensive fabric stash.  She’ll be moving to a smaller apartment soon, and the more we buy, the less she’ll have to move.

In addition to feasting and gifts, we also had our usual Show and Tell.  Joan started us off with this gorgeous teal/green two-sided queen quilt.  She reports she was attracted to the Kaffe Fassett floral fabric just because.  Then she went through her stash and found complimentary fabrics which read as solids but had subtle, small prints. She bought the last of the bolt from Bay Quilts, but it turned out not to be enough, of course.  Very, very luckily, New Pieces also had it, so she was able to finish the front.  The back was made with leftovers from the front, and of course, she still has quite a bit left over.   She free-motion quilted this queen-sized project herself. 

Joan reminded us that she’s the featured artist for the January quilt show at Bay Quilts and asked for help with installation.  The opening reception is on Sunday, January 8, from 1-3pm.

Mindy's newest puppy was busy admiring everyone and everything.  He was particularly taken with Arleen's bag.

Arleen shared a checkerboard quilt inspired by the interior surface of her frying pan.

 

She’s also completed another top from the never-ending Kaffe scraps.  This latest one starts out as standard hexagons and then goes completely wild.

 

Mary finished the thunderbolt quilt for her 7-year-old grandson that she shared at our November meeting before the binding was finished.  The quilt’s now  in Seattle for his Christmas present.  Since then, she’s been quilting donation quilts for the guild.

 

Sandy shared two Piecekeeper Project Bags she made following ByAnnie.com’s instructions.  She also showed a new handbag she made using denim from her stash and the Hillside Tote pattern by Noodlehead.

Bag fronts:

and bag backs: 

Betsy showed her finished Homage to Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt which is English paper-pieced.  It was quilted by Melissa Quilter who made the garden "tiles" have purpose with the quilting and changed thread colors for the various flowers and leaves.  Betsy finished the edges not with binding, but by turning in the edges and hand stitching around to maintain the zig zag edges on two sides.  The backing fabric Betsy used seems the perfect choice.

Deanna shared a baby quilt she’s finished that she’ll donate to EBHQ’s community quilts project.

Mindy is quite happy with the finished Round Robin top that started with her teapot fabric square.  She liked the process and the result so much that she’s volunteered to be in charge of 2023’s Traditional Round Robin Challenge for EBHQ.

 

Mindy also showed four gorgeous Christmas stockings and reports that the snowflake stocking is going to another little girl who is her godson’s daughter.   The others were made during the Covid lockdown for John, Jena and Vawnnie.

 

Marty’s 18-inch square mini-Christmas Tree was based on a Youtube video she watched.  It uses 2" squares (2 3/8th" for the half square triangles) and off-set seams so it goes together very easily.  It did not make a dent in her Christmas stash.