We gathered today at Marty’s house on a cool early spring day. There were eight of us today with only Deanna missing. It was so nice to have so many of us together that everyone kept talking trying to catch up on each others lives. Hopefully Deanna will make the next meeting which will be on April 1 at 130 at Bobbie’s house. The May meeting will be at Mary’s house.
Marty
Marty showed us her Quiltcon brochure and had three projects which she finished. The first is from the EBHQ block party. It is a disappearing 4 patch using a shoo fly block. The block is 12.5 inches.
The second project uses more 5 inch squares from Betsy’s stash. She made another baby quilt of half square triangles, quilted and machine bound it. So colorful and perfect for a baby quilt.
The third project uses 1.5 strips from the donated fabric table. They were sewn together end to end then cut and the strips sewn again. With green borders and wavy quilting it came out very nice.
Bobbie
Bobbie had two projects that she wanted to show. The first is Larrys Circuit board finished. She found some nice circuit fabric and used it as a background. She is going to have Hello Stitch do the quilting. Her second project is the little stitches that she was working on. She used raw silk as a background and is going to enhance it with more slivers of fabric, more embroidery and slow stitching. The details are beautiful and the fabrics she uses are so exquisite.
Mindy
It was so good to see Mindy’s hexagon quilt. She plans on adding French knots, hand stitching and more leaves. Wow. It’s all coming together nicely.
Arleen
Deanna saw some Hawaiian and Japanese fabric at Wednesdays drop in and saved them for me. I decided to try the block of the month and used the Hawaiian fabric for it. I cut the fat quarters to 18 inch square and made the block which came out to 15.5 inches. I hope to have enough for a bed sized quilt.
My second project is a quilt that I saw on Instagram from @mingeimuseum. Instead of black, I used dark browns. I drew the block on a 10 inch square, then cut out the fabric using scraps from old projects. I love using scraps, it is so satisfying trying to tame the fabric.
Joan
Joan came with a bag full of quilts. She is on a mission to make quilts for her son and is well on her way towards her goal. The first is the broken grid quilt that I made and gifted to Joan because she said it looked so cheerful. It makes me happy to know that it will be loved.
The second pattern came from the Kaffe in Italy book. It is made with Grunge and fabrics from her stash and will be quilted from Hello Stitch.
The third project is the snowball block. She cut fabrics from her stash and made packets of snowballs that some of us helped her to put together. All of the fabric came from her stash. Marty came over and helped her with her machine. Amazingly it is a king size. Perfect for her son Greg.
Alice
It was so nice to have Alice back in the group. She brought her Anna Maria Horner quilt and two blocks that she made. By the time she started the quilt, most of the fabric was no longer available so she had to pivot and find fabric that would fit. Luckily she found two of Anna’s black eyed Susan fabrics. Using that as the theme, she found a black eye Susan pattern on Etsy and made 4 of them for the center. Very well done.
The frog pattern I think was inspired by Mary, so Alice found a fpp pattern of a frog and made it with felt eyes. Mary said her old quilt was washed so much that it was bleached and is falling apart.
The 16 star block was a study to see if she could do it and yes it came out well.



Sandy
Sandy passed around her phone with photos from Quiltcon. She was so inspired by the show she took so many pictures. One of her favorites was from @susanjlapham. She had two projects to share. The first is from the Cindy Griselda workshop. She used the fabric and colors that she had chosen from another workshop. Using these scraps, she sewed them together for Cindy’s class. I think it was a success. The details make it so interesting.
The second project is from Maria Shells Circles and Curves workshop. It has braided curves. I like it. I want to try to make those braided curves.
Mary
Mary had two projects. The first is a project she finished with quilting and facing the quilt. I can really appreciate the quilting. It is hard to do the free motion quilting.
The second is a twin size quilt made with purples and flowers. It is going to her friends granddaughter. She made the backing fabric with the leftover purple and flower fabrics. I like the way she sized the fabric blocks according to the flower. Nice.
As you can see, everyone had so much to share and so much to catch up with. It was so good to see everyone. Marty made us a brownie cake, sliced fruit and nice juice and tea. Thank you Marty for hosting.