August 2016 at Betsy's

This is the month before our latest challenge quilts are due and many were shown at the meeting.  We all contributed 2-3 magazine pages and at the April meeting each person picked a page to use as inspiration for the challenge quilt.  We could use the colors or shapes, or a word on the page, as inspiration for our quilt.  The perimeter has to be 80 inches.  That's the challenge.  Here are a few of the results with their magazine pages that were the inspiration.

Joan's Strata

Mary holding first try

Mary's Two Choices

Deanna has completed the background

Betsy's applique top is made

We have already seen Arleen's challenge piece (Arleen, you were missed at this meeting.)

But wait, there is more!!

Joan has finished Pele!  And it is spectacular.  And the best news is that she now knows why her Bernina machine has been misbehaving. 

Detail of Pele

Bobbie has been at work on her art quilt and has this panel of four ladies done.

Sandy has finished the baby quilt she was working on and tried doing machine binding using one of the decorative stitches on her machine.  Looks great.

Binding all by machine

Mindy showed one of the dresses made for the dance competition.

Mary had finished a quilt top that had started out as an exercise in an Angie Woolman color class.

 

Marty was playing with raw edge applique and showed this bright and lively quilt!

Betsy entered the Cherrywood Lion King challenge, but did not get accepted.  Here is her lion.

It's All About the Lion

The stitching on the back was interesting

And Betsy had made another scrap quilt, this one called Diamond Squares using a Missouri Star Quilt Company tutorial and scraps from bindings and baby quilts.