We met a Bobbie’s house on a beautiful Indian Spring sunny day. Bobbie has a new gate code which got us into the garage. Sandy was the only one missing and she was missed. We discussed changing the day of our meetings to the first Tuesday of the month to try to entice Alice to rejoin our meetings. Everyone is free on that date, so December 3 is the first meeting with the new date. The time will be changed from 1:30 to 1200 noon on that day to accommodate the potluck at Mindy’s house. The January meeting will be held on January 7 at Bishop Ranch at 1200. Since 6 of the members are at Bishops Ranch on that day, it was decided to meet there. It’s about an hours drive from the Bay Area so hopefully those who aren’t at BR can drive up for the meeting.
Marty
Marty started us off with the EBHQ block of the month. Starting with four 7” squares sewn together, they were cut 2 inches from the center and repositioned and sewn. The second piece was cut on the diagonal and then redone. Very cool.
The next project showed a new technique to make flying geese. The demo included instructions and a size chart for for the geese.
The 16 patch quilt top was started from a conversation with Ewa at drop in. The pattern is Bonnie Hunters Garlic Knot which she says is an overlapping 2 fabrics. Beautiful layout.
Deanna
Deanna showed us two projects. The first used up her floral fabrics into 2.5 inch squares of 16 matching dark and light floral colors. Such a sweet use of florals. This will be a children’s quilt
The second is her Irish chain quilt.. she used her walking foot to quilt diagonal lines. She then put on her free motion quilt to put stars in the blue centers. Very nice.
Arleen
I showed 3 tshirts and 4 baby quilts. My friend asked me to liven up her plain tshirts with fabric. I used Japanese scrap fabrics and put wonder under to iron it on and then free motion quilted around the fabrics. I think it came out nice. I got the Sashiko fabric from drop in.
The four baby quilts let me practice on the houndstooth pattern, bow tie pattern, walking foot quilting, serpentine quilting and Baptist fan quilting. I was able to use the charms and baby fabric from Betsy’s stash.
Mindy
Mindy showed us the stocking for George that is almost done and the start of her own stocking with the felted wreath. So intricate. She brought her Hexie quilt which she has been working on with hand stitching.
Bobbie
Bobbie is continuing to hand sew and embroider her boro pieces onto squares. She found an ombré pattern fabric which would be a good background.
Joan
Joan has been fabric hunting and found these beautiful grunge with gold highlights.
Mary
Mary has two projects. The first uses her sticks or leftover scraps which she sews into long strings. She is thinking of adding more sticks, but it is coming along nicely.
The second project is a baby quilt for her neighbor Megan. She made an owl fabric backing. The front has four animal blocks which she surrounded with four patches and complimenting fabrics. Nice layout.
We talked about finding a longarm quilter and Hello Stitch was recommended because of their computerized quilting and reasonable prices.
Thank you to Bobbie for hosting and making the delicious SaraLee apple pie with Hagen Daz vanilla ice cream. So yummy.
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