June 2023

 We met Wednesday June 14 at Deanna’s house just as Deanna was cutting some of her roses to place in a vase for todays meeting.  This month only four of us showed up as Joan, Bobbie, Sandy and Mindy were not able to make it this day.  The next meeting will be the second Wednesday on July 12 at Marty Suess house. Marty has some books from Gay Perry’s estate that she wants to share with us.  Since Sandy is not available, Arleen is typing this blog post.  Please let her know if you see any corrections or would like to add anything.  Here is a picture of Deanna’s lovely roses.

Deanna started us off with some blocks she made.  The pattern comes from Missouri Star quilts.  She has been grandchild sitting and was lucky to be able to finish the 20 blocks as the kids have been keeping her busy.  Although the video was free, she decided to buy the pattern at 4.95.  Unfortunately, there were a lot of mistakes and omissions in the pattern, so she ended with a lot of notes on the pattern.  You’re encouraged to buy the 10” fabric pack from the Missouri Star, but she added some of her batiks that matched.  We had a lot of fun moving the blocks around to make different patterns.

Marty was next and showed off a scrap quilt she finished from scraps left at the Tuesday drop in from none other than Joan. What a coincidence.  The colors look like Joan too.  Marty made 4 patch squares and appliquéd the center hexagon in the center square.  She quilted the baby quilt in a simple grid used some of the green in the binding.  Very nice.  She is thinking of donating it to Community Quilts.

Mary’s quilt has grown to a queen size.  She used up all the grunge and focal fabric and went to all 3 quilt stores looking for more. She ended up making borders with what she had.  The border is a square in a square pattern.  Mary is going to send it to a long arm quilter to quilt.

Arleen showed a Shutterfly photo book she made documenting some of the quilts she has made over the years.  She has given 8 of her quilts to family members and decided to make the book to help her remember who got what.  She also showed the latest quilt she is making.  It is a Star of the East block, set in an original design.  Using 2.5 inch Shibori Blues roll up and leftover blue fabric she tried to make another Asanoha Hemp leaf pattern.  The piecing is difficult, but the pattern looked too good to stop.

Although Mindy was not able to make it, she sent photos to share with us.  She wrote “The hexi flowers, all of the flowers are sewn on…next will be the leaves.  My round Robin I have made a border with a nine patch and pinwheels.

Thanks for sharing Mindy.  If Joan, Sandy or Bobbie have any pictures they want to include, send me a message and I’ll put it on the blog like Mindy.  We ended our small group with a lovely Strawberry shortcake and Vanilla Ice cream.  Thanks Deanna for the lovely desert.