We met at Bobbie’s house on a cool and breezy day. Some of us were having a hard time getting in the building but fortunately Bobbie came downstairs and we were able to get in. We’re still not used to the new apartment. Mindy and Joan were not able to meet today but hopefully we’ll see them next meeting.
Sandy
Sandy started us off and although she didn’t bring anything we were able to catch up. She was glad to be in the Bay Area after the heat wave of 107 at her house. With the heat she doesn’t have the energy to start any projects let alone go outside. Hopefully with cooler weather and a new exercise program she’ll get the energy to work on her dyeing projects.
Mary
Mary had three quilts to show. The first is a donation quilt that she used to practice her free motion quilting. She showed us how she quilted it. The second is a crumb quilt. She sewed small scraps together into strips and then added the crumbs to to the blue fabric. The third quilt is a small old project that she practiced her free motion skills on.
Bobbi
Bobbie is going to enter her pods quilt into Quilt National at the Dairy Barn. She has been busy and shared 4 different projects. The first uses up small scraps of fabrics. She puts the fabrics on a base fabric with wonder under and covered with tulle. This was free motion quilted. The second is a selection of squares of interesting fabrics surrounding by her collection of stripes. The third is an EPP project that she is taking with Jean Smith. The fourth is going to be a triptych of circuit boards.
Alice
Alice is working on her EPP project. Instead of the white stars she has decided on a pinkish fabric. She is not sure how far she’ll get with this project because it’s not as fun as she remembered.
Deanna
Deanna had a lot of catching up to do and brought 4 projects along an elephant pattern for Alice and a FPP project for Mindy. The first came from fabrics she picked up at drop in. The pretty fabric was cut into squares, surrounded by a red border and simply quilted. The second donation quilt is drop in fabric of manatees and fish with lettuce and water fabric. Nice and colorful. The third is 30’s fabric from her Moms stash. At first she was going to do something similar to Marty’s strip pieced quilt but decided to make something easier. The last quilt comes from a layer cake of Andover fabric. Beautiful fabric. This quilt will be for her great niece and was quilted by Melissa Quilter.
Marty
Marty started off with an old project. Japanese Puzzle. She likes to figure out how to draft this pattern, but after trying the pattern with leftover fabrics decided not to continue. The second project is Flight of Imagination. She is still thinking about this one. The third is a pattern she drafted from her trip to Nebraska. Using 4 fat quarters, she made the block with the pretty fabric. The fourth project is Route 66 donation fabric from drop in. With 4 patch squares, the quilt came together. The last project is the quilting of the strip fpp quilt.
Arleen
I had 2 projects to show. The first is the grid quilt using shirting and blue hand dyes. I added the colorful fish and quilted them with glitter thread to give them a silvery scales effect. The second is an old project. Using all of my Kaffe Fassett scraps, I put them on a green background. I found a quilting motif called Magnolia from an Instagram user ipatchandquilt. Hopefully I can finish the quilting.
Everyone had so much to share. With the bright sunlight and good weather it seems we are all busy working on so many different projects. Hopefully the weather will get better for Sandy to prosper in her dyeing projects. I can’t wait to see what she does.
Bobbi made a ladyfinger strawberries with cream cake. I should have taken a picture. It was so good. We will meet next month at Alice’s house. Stay cool and keep creating.
