Today we met at Marty’s house on a beautiful day although the weather was a little chillier than yesterday. Everyone especially Sandy was not complaining after the heat wave we had. We decided to go back to our 130 start and keep it at the first Monday of the month. Deanna and Alice were both missed. The next meeting will be at Mary’s house on Monday October 7 at 130.
Joan
Joan started us off with three projects. The first was completing Betsy’s English paper piecing project. She found the perfect border and added more fabric to the backing. Melissa Quilter will do the quilting on her long arm. The second was the smaller EPP piece which she appliquéd onto a backing. This piece was simply quilted in the ditch with with minimal quilting and will be a nice table topper. The third pice is called Sisyphus an Ode to a Greek god. She took her EPP pieces, took off the paper backing and appliquéd them onto a pretty green background. Her trick to appliqué the pieces was using a rotating Olfa mat, basting them on the fabric and going slowly.
Mindy
Mindy has also been busy with three projects to show. The first was her improvisational round robin piece. They just finished the round robins on Saturday and everyone got their pieces back. She said next time she is going to just do the administrative work. With so many projects going on, it gets too hectic. The second project is completing stockings for George and herself. George’s is almost done and she is just starting on hers. The third project is a mobile that she made using beads. I wonder if this is for the baby?
Mary
Mary returned from Bishops Ranch with two projects almost completed. The first is translating a picture to a quilt. She saw a stained glass that she liked and copied the basic sun, foreground, background and path. She took it to the Copy store and had it enlarged to 200%. Then Ruth McDowell style she put the pieces together. She’s not quite satisfied, but it she’s getting there. The second project used scraps on a Victoria Finley Wolfe pattern that she got from Sandy. She called it a Crumb quilt which used scraps of 4.5 inch green and orange crumbs put onto an aqua background. Nice.
Sandy
Sandy took a short three hour workshop from Maria Shell. She was able to make grids with a selected color palette. She made four pieces which will be turned into pillows. The piecing is incredible. She started off ironing the back seams open but after a while didn’t worry about it too much. I agree it takes a lot of concentration to iron all those pieces.
I had three projects to show. The first is the silk grid piece from last month. I found a nice yukata back and quilted it using the yukata flowers as a guide. The second is the same grid pattern using white and colorful 10 inch layer cakes. I put a border and additional squares to make it 80 by 80. The third project is the Sewpowerful purse project. I bought the webbing at PIQF looked up the pattern on the internet and made 10 purses. I’m going to check to see if any of my friends want any.
Marty
Marty has been very busy. She has 4 projects . The first which I couldn’t take a picture was of a pinwheel from EBHQ Quilters Gather Block Party. She took the four days of scrap quilting, which gave her some ideas of how to use up those scraps. She mentioned Ginger Barlow and a quilter who prints her EPP pieces on freezer paper and some other ideas for scraps. The second is a block using 2.5 x 4.5 pieces. It looks like an expanded bento box to me. The third project is an EBHQ pattern using 3.5 x 6.5 pieces sewing 12 pieces in a row and putting sashing in between 4 rows. Very nice. I think you can find the pattern on the EBHQ website. The fourth project uses the 2.5 x 4.5 blocks sewn together in pairs and scrambled. Every time she scrambled it, her hands would try to make order out of the scrambling and it came out very orderly. I think it looks nice.
