October 2025

 It was a beautiful day at Mary’s house.  Mary kept the door open so a cool breeze could flow through the room making it comfortable.  No Marty and Sandy, but everyone else showed up.  It is getting harder to find parking around Mary’s house, but we managed. Joan parked at the Safeway parking lot.  Deanna will host the November meeting on Nov 4 at 1:30, and Mindy will host the December meeting on Dec 2 at 11:00.

Joan

Joan went first and showed us her completed hexagon quilt.  It is an EPP project that was appliquéd on the backing fabric.  The border was finished in Italy while on their 2 week vacation.  Someone mentioned there is a beautiful hexagon quilt in the window of Julie Silbers hopkin street shop.

Mary

Mary had three quilts to share.  All three are baby quilts destined to neighbors and old friends.  The first is an I spy quilt.  The centers of the blocks are very cute.  I guess you really have to be on the lookout for cute fabrics to make the centers.  

The second quilt is the bird block that Deanna and Marty have also made.  She finished quilting it and it is ready to go.  

The third is her owl quilt which she got from Etsy.  If you go to the EBHQ website, look for the 2025 show and tell.  Mary has a beautiful smile in that picture.  Of course Obie took the pictures.  Marty’s smile is just as big and you can tell how proud she is of her two beautiful quilts.

Arleen

I had three quilts to share.  The first is a panel that Deanna and Marty passed on to me.  I call it Sisters.  I used Betsy’s unfinished EPP hexagon project to put on either side of the panel.  I had to cut and add some pieces on the edges and corners, but it came out so nice.  Thank you Marty, Deanna and Betsy for making this possible.

The second and third quilts are made from the Victoria Finley book that I borrowed from the EBHQ library.  I made Herringbone and Cascade.  Cascade was hard, but it used up a lot of scraps.  Since I cut up more scraps than I needed, I might be making more of these.  Unfortunately, they are 90 inches.  I’m not sure whether to cut them shorter or just try and quilt it. 

Mindy

Mindy has a new grandson named Manu or Beans.  She has started a Christmas stocking for Beans and another baby in her family.

She found some beautiful linen fabric to surround the small hand pieces that Bobbie made.  It looks so good, now she has to figure out how to quilt it.

Deanna

Deanna has been busy.  She has 3 projects to share.  The first uses the donated blocks from Texas.  She sorted out the blocks that go well with turquoise and made a beautiful turquoise quilt.  The pretty border fabric came from the free table.

She called the second quilt a pink scrap quilt.  I don’t think they were scraps, because she used all 10 “ squares of pretty Kaffe Fassett fabrics paired with the pink.  She used a website called Quilters Paradise to help her with the calculations of putting the blocks on point and making the surrounding pink fillers.

The third is a bright and cheery Japanese fabric quilt.  I think she said she got the pattern from a YouTube channel called the Fabric patch from Washington.  It’s called a two fer quilt.  She cut 120 5” blocks and 120 3” blocks and sewed the black squares on one corner. The snipped off scraps are sewed together to make the two fer.

Alice

Alice brought her FPP flowers and birds quilt to show her hand quilting.  She is not confident in her sewing skills with the new machine.  She has made up 20 quilt sandwiches to use as practice pieces.  Good idea.  Practice makes Perfect. It has a stitch regulator which she still has to master.

Mary made a yummy granola and cherry dessert. So good it was wiped out.  We talked about the Cara Gulati exhibit at Bay quilts, the Alameda County reception tomorrow, the Japanese fabrics at New Pieces, the Hopkins street quilt shop, the Tuesday open quilting…. Isn’t it wonderful there are so many opportunities to share the wonders of quilting.  It just amazes me how fortunate we are.