Our December meeting includes a potluck, a gift exchange and good company. We met on a beautiful sunny fall day at Bobbie’s house. Unfortunately, Deanna Alice and Mindy were not able to make it but hopefully we’ll catch up with them in the future. First Tuesday of the month seems to work out very well with everyone’s schedules so we will keep that for the future. The next meeting will be held at Bishops Ranch on Jan 7 since most of the members will be there. Sorry, but I will not be able to attend the Jan 7 meeting. I hope the others who are not at the quilt retreat will be able to find a ride for the meeting.
Joan
Joan started us off with two quilts. The first uses fabric from her stash which she cut into 10 inch squares or layer cakes. It’s a good way to tame your small pieces into standard sizes. She cut the squares in half and used sashing and borders to complete it. Very good use of her stash.
The second quilt is made from a pattern that Deanna gave her called Totally Tulips from Missouri Star Company. She said it was very easy to make with good tips to make it easy. Nice use of colorful fabrics.
Bobbie
Bobbie decided to start a new quilt using these fabrics that she picked out. She is going to change the pattern a little by putting skinny lines in the bigger triangles. I think she should use the black and white lines fabric for the small triangles.
Arleen
I attended the Bay Quilts open house in October which highlighted the upcoming workshops in the next few months at the quilt shop. I liked the broken grid quilt made by Stacey Sharman who is having a class in February at Hello Stitch. Instead of taking the class, I figured out how to make the quilt. This is how it came out. I found it a very easy pattern and very scrap friendly. You start out by cutting strips of 2.5” from your length of width about 42 inch fabric. I started off with all my red fabric. With some white fabric you cut strips in 2, 2.25, 2.5, 2.75 and 3 inches. So in various widths. Then you stitch three strips of say red on each side of the white. Iron. Use a 10 inch ruler and set the ruler on the diagonal with the white strip on two corners. You should be able to get three 10 inch squares, 4 half triangles and 4 smaller triangles. Cut the squares on the diagonal (not the white diagonal). The block consists of four of these triangles. Sew the smaller triangles together to make more triangles.
Sandy
Sandy wore her show and tell. Her vest. She made this 20 years ago and it still fits. She started with a grey sweatshirt which she cut off the sleeves and the side seams. I think she stamped, painted, added triangles and quilting. Bias stripes were used for the sleeves and raw edges. She overlapped the side seams and used zigzag to close the seam. Ingenious.
Mary
Mary finished the sticks quilt top and the baby quilt for Megan which she showed last month. Just in time for the baby to arrive in Scotland. Yeah such a good feeling to finish a project on time.
We all enjoyed the potluck of handmade food. Chinese chicken salad, crab mold with crackers, Greek salad with feta, chicken rice casserole, banana bread and lemon squares. Just enough to make us all full with lots of leftovers to take home.
The white elephant gift exchange went well. Nobody wanted to steal anyone’s gift. As Sandy said we were all just happy to get a nice gift. I was tempted, but like Sandy just felt so happy to get a gift.
Thank you to Bobby for hosting the quilt therapy meeting. You are so gracious and easy going that we all had a good time. Mindy said she would like to host the February meeting. I would suggest Mindy hosting but at Bobbie’s house. Just a suggestion. The February meeting with be at Feb 4 at 130.
I just got the email from QuiltCon that my quilt was not selected. There were 2,269 submitted with 460 chosen. Too bad. It would have been nice, but I’ll keep trying.
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