July 2025

 The first of July we met at the purple house on Buena Avenue.  Marty was reminiscing about living in the same neighborhood in the house with the bulletproof windows.  Wow.  Deanna, Bobbie and Mindy missed all the great stories and were sorely missed.  The next meeting will be at Marty’s on Tuesday August 5.

Joan started us off with nothing to show but kept us company and was able to work on her knitting.

Sandy also did not have anything to show but was happy to get out of the 95 degree heat to the 65 degree Bay Area.  She is working on her garden and home renovations.

Alice

Alice showed 4 projects that she is working on.  The first is a door runner.  She found some old projects with fussy cuttings of Tula pink in elongated hexagons.  She had the checkerboard squares and completed the top in no time.  Now to finish it.

The second project is also a Tula pink fabric called fairy dust.  She found some cute dog fabric and had to put it together with the paper pieced center dog.  It is in memory of her dog who recently passed away.

The third project is also EPP using the 6 inch squares that she made during Covid.  She has many more of these so look forward to more medallion quilts.  They are so colorful.  I look forward to seeing what she comes up with these.

The fourth project is a drunkards path in black and white with a pop of orange.  She’s not sure if she wants to keep going with it or change the color choices.

Somehow we got on the topic of Jen Kingwell and she brought out the book and her project that she made from the book.  What a surprise.  So this is a bonus 5th.  Good thing she was at home to show off all these projects.

Arleen

I had 3 quilts to show.  The first is in progress.  The center is a block made from Alice that she didn’t want.  This is surrounded with butterflies from the pattern that Mary had and pinwheels.  The last row in the medallion is material from Marty.  What a collaboration.

The second is also a medallion quilt with the center block made from Alice.  This is surrounded by butterflies and the final row is a landscape fabric from drop in.  The colors from the landscape really highlighted the colors.

The third quilt is a 16 patch block made with Japanese fabric.  I was inspired by Deanna’s flower 16 patch.  This is freehand cut with a rotary cutter with no rulers.  Two fabrics were laid right side up, freehand cut into 16 pieces, sorted to a checkerboard design and then sewn in place.  It had to be done this way to make for uneven pieces some larger than others.  Once all the blocks were completed, additional blue strips were added to make the blocks the same size. Somehow I’m loving the wonkiness of no pins and no rulers, just cut and sew.

Marty

Marty has been busy. She started us off with an apron she made. 1 of 6 that she is making for presents.

The second project is batik blocks from drop in that she put together from a packet provided by children’s quilts.  It was finished in two days.  I love projects like this where it only takes a couple of days to make.  She pieced the back with blue fabric and is going to hand it in to children’s quilts.  

The third is her block of the month which is four half square triangles cut two inches from the center and rearranged.  The variety of blocks that you can make from this basic block is so rewarding.  Here are a few pictures.

She hinted at a quilt that she has finished, but couldn’t bring because it is going to Hello Stitch to be quilted.  Marty you really know how to hide a surprise.

Mary

Mary had two projects to show.  The first is her crumbs quilt made with a lot of crumbs that still seem to multiply.  She free motion quilted it.  We thought it was walking foot quilting, but she said it was easier to quilt it with a free motion foot.

The second is walking foot quilting on a children’s quilt.  Now this one seemed like free motion quilting.  Maybe I have it backwards.

What a colorful display of quilts for show and tell.  Alice had two bowls full of fruit and a fresh blueberry pie from Fat Apples.  It was just devoured in seconds.  We missed our friends who couldn’t make it and hope everyone stays safe and well until next meeting.