February 2023

A small group of us met at Mary's on February 14.  For various reasons Arleen, Betsy, Bobbie and Deanna were unable to join us.  We missed them, and I'm particularly sorry they didn't get to try Mary's chocolate raspberry brownies, which were very rich and delicious.

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, March 14, at 1:30pm at Joan's house.

We talked about the next challenge for our group and decided to go with this one:  each person drew a card from a deck of playing cards and will make a piece inspired by the drawn card.  We drew cards for our missing members.  The challenge is based on a 1994 book titled Art Quilts:  Playing With a Full Deck by Sue Pierce and Verna Suit.  The book shows the pieces created by 54 fiber artists based on the 52 playing cards and 2 jokers of a standard American deck of cards.  Sandy will bring the book to the March meeting.

Not everyone has sent me suggested text for the following photos from our show and tell session, so I've added what I could remember.  If you'd like to add more or make corrections, please send to me via email.

Mary has been continuing to quilt EBHQ donation quilts.  Photos show the front and back of an almost finished donation quilt.  Lovely quilting!

Mary is ready to pin and quilt the quilt she's making for her baseball fanatic grandson, Dexter, for his 10th birthday in May.  The back is all the sports teams in Seattle where he lives, except for basketball.  Mary knew the Sonics left Seattle [and became the Oklahoma Thunder] but didn't realize there's a WNBA team there.  She thinks she'll offer him a basketball pillowcase!

The front is all baseball in a disappearing 9-patch pattern.

The Round Robin projects for EBHQ are starting thanks to Mindy's hard work as coordinator -- with a big assist from Mary.  This is the central motif Mindy will add the first layer to.

Joan showed parts of her next English paper piecing project.  At least the pieces are larger than her previous ones.

Sandy shared a pieced top from a recent online workshop offered by quilt artist Pat Pauly.  The workshop has given Sandy ideas for starting to use up the piles of hand-dyed and printed fabrics she's accumulated over the years.

Sandy also shared a recent project not related to fabric or quilting.  This collage consists of twelve images, one for each month of 2023, and was created in a Soul Collage workshop focusing on the new year.

Marty showed a beautiful square-in-a-square top pieced entirely from batiks.

Marty used gorgeous Asian fabrics donated to her by Deanna to create another lovely block based on Bobbie's original design.  She asked for advice on possible fabric substitutions and settings.  The block on the left is the original one Marty made, the one on the right incorporates some of Deanna's fabric.