February 2024

 The rain started just as we all got to Deanna’s house. For the first time in a while, we were all able to make it through dark clouds, rain and a flat tire.  It was so nice to step into a warm and welcoming house filled with friends.  The next meeting will be at Marty’s house on March 13 at 01:30.  With VIC so close, I thought I would include a picture of the parking at the Kaiser Convention Center.

Joan

Joan just got back from Washington and showed the quilt that Melissa Quilter finished for her.  The beautiful fabric was enhanced by feathers,, swirls, leaves and flowers.

Alice

It’s a 13 lbs, 9 ounce baby girl. Congratulations to Mom and grandma.  Alice showed us a picture of her new granddaughter.  From her phone she also showed us a quilt in progress which is like a drunkards path pattern. It is a Norwegian pattern from Warm Folk which uses vegetable and fruit fabrics.  Nice.  She has finished her elephant quilt and has put it on the living room wall.

Deanna

Deanna has been very productive with 4 quilts.  The first was a pattern from Missouri Star which was quilted by Melissa and made from a layer cake with grunge fabric.  The second and third were quilts made with Tildas World fabric.  The fabrics are so soft with a nice hand.  The fourth was her Many Trips around the world.  She used binder clips that she got from Amazon for 5.99 for a pack of 100.  They helped to stabilize the binding which was machine straight stitched from the front and then blanket stitched again from the front. Very secure and very well done.

Marty

Marty had three quilts to share.  The first was a wall hanging that she made titled Memory of Japan 2023.  She used machine embroidery and is thinking of adding more embroidery.  The second quilt was made with some of Betsy’s fabric.  It is one of her favorite patterns of using a 4 patch next to a square. It makes a cheerful baby quilt.  The third quilt, also from Betsy fabric was a jelly roll of dotted almost metallic fabric with blue dotted triangles separating the strips.  After the strips are sewn together, they are cut into 50 inch and then sewn together.  The blue border pulls it all together.

Arleen

I had four quilts to show.  The first was from a downloaded pattern from Kitchentable quilting.  The Charlotte quilt uses a jelly roll from Betsy and some grey grunge fabric put on point.  She made a complex pattern into a simple one.  The second quilt was the block put into rows.  The third and fourth quilt is the same pattern from the Sarah Nishiura workshop.  I learned how to do foundation paper piecing and grid designing. I really enjoyed her class.

Sandy 

Sandy has been very busy taking 3 classes in the past two months.  The first was with Carol Soderlund which was a dying class using minimal water.  The second was the Sarah Nishiura Zoom class and the third was a four week Zoom class with Maria Shell.  The quilt top from this class was  amazing.  You could see all the intricate work and precise piecing needed. She enjoyed all the classes and I’m glad I took her advice to download the zoom app on my iPad.  

Mindy

Mindy is hard at work on coordinating the Round Robins.  It looks like she is in both the Improv and Traditional RR.  Unfortunately I couldn’t download her starting piece, but this is a photo of the starting piece from the Improv RR.

 

Mary

Mary showed us the quilting she has done on her blue and gold quilt.  Her free motion quilting is improving with every quilt.  The second quilt is her own design trying to use up some of Betsy’s triangles of purple and sea foam green.  Good Job

With so many quilts and so much to share, the time passed by so quickly.  Deanna served a wonderful cake with handmade whipped cream and fresh fruits.  Yummy.  Thank you Deanna for hosting.