Today we met at Mary’s house on a nice spring day. Unfortunately Joan was not able to join us, but she will be hosting the next meeting at her house. The meeting is on June 3 at 130. Mindy will bring the dessert.
Mary
Mary started us off with two quilts and plans for the third. The first quilt has butterflies but I don’t remember if she said where she got the pattern. She has been going to JoAnns every week and says the discounts are now 50 % off now. A lot of the fabric in the next quilts are from JoAnns.
The second quilt is her crumbs quilt which is finally put together and ready for quilting. She still has a lot of scraps and wants to start using it.
The horse fabric is going to be the focal fabric for the next project. These are the fabrics that she has gathered to make the next baby quilt. Nothing too bright or splashy but special.
Sandy has not been sewing this month but she brought some photos that she printed from Shutterfly of the Quiltcon Show. She took over 200 photos and printed the ones she really liked and inspired her.
Bobbie is making a king sized quilt. Since the blocks are on the design wall, I got a photo of it from Mindy.
Alice
Alice has a new quilt to show. Frogs with felt eyes. This is from a pattern she got from Etsy and is paper pieced. She searched the internet to find the fabric using water and bubbles and came up with these wonderful fabrics. The flowers in the middle came from her earlier project of 6 inch fpp flowers that seemed to really match the frogs. With Mary’s encouragement she made the back using all the fabrics and another frog. It looks great.
Deanna
Since Deanna wasn’t here for the last meeting, she had a lot to share. The first is her 16 patch of flower fabrics. They are made from 2.5 inch strips of all the flower fabrics that she has saved.
The second quilt came from a layer cake of batiks. The quilting is a simple stitch in the ditch. The interesting thing about this quilt is the binding. 1 inch binding. To get this you have to cut 4.5 inch strip of binding and be sure to leave about 5/8 inch batting. She machine stitched the binding on.
The third quilt is a string quilt started from Marty’s 1.5 inch strips. She used origami paper as the base and just started sewing the strips on. The back came out really nice.
The last top is made from donated blocks from her Frisco quilters in Texas. Apparently they had a whole box full of these blocks which everyone has been using to make quilts for donation.
Marty
Marty also had a lot of show and tell since she also missed last month. The first are her block of the month for April which was Card Tricks and May which is an X block. Since she is using black and white as the background and a pop of color for each month, hopefully she’ll be able to put them all together at the end.
12 x12 quilters graph pad is her design book that she found at JoAnns. She is using it to graph out her blocks and is having a good time figuring out the blocks that she sees and wants to make. I took a picture of the bird block that she is making. Nice.
The four patch of 3.5 inch blocks was put together with 6.5 inch blocks to make a simple but nice baby block. She said it was easy.
The second quilt is made with 5 inch blocks from Betsy’s stash. Simple and easy to make.
The third quilt is a disappearing 9 patch using white as the middle fabric. Also very easy to make
The fourth quilt is titled Becky’s Quilt for the pattern she got from Becky Keck. She saw Becky making this quilt at Bishops Ranch and copied the pattern.
Arleen
I had two quilts to share. The first uses a lot of the fabrics that I have made in the dyeing workshops. I pulled out all those little pieces of dyed fabrics that have been piling up. I also got some hand dyed fabrics from the Tuesday drop in. The backing is mostly Shibori pole wrapped fabric.
The second quilt came from fabric that Mary Benson put on the donation table. It was a whole plastic bag of 7.5 inch stripped fabrics. She must have been saving these for a long time and most of them were cut and ready to be sewed together. I added some stripped men’s shirts to lighten the fabrics. I added a 1.5 inch strip of blue to each row of strips to add a pop of color.
Mindy
Mindy is looking for true red fabric for her granddaughter Vannie. She is making a doll quilt and has made the doll and has some fabrics. She showed us her box of 3/4 inch hexagons. She cuts the paper using cricut and the fabric with a scissors. So tiny.
Mary made a nice raisin cake with yogurt. It was so nice to just sit around and talk about what everyone is doing. Marty wants to go to the Ruth Asawa Exhibit at SF Moma, so let her know if you are interested to set up a time. I won’t be able to go, but I saw the article and it looks like a good exhibit.
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