We met at Mindy’s house for our Holiday December meeting. Her house was filled with holiday decorations and the smell of apple cider and baking. Unfortunately Deanna and Alice were not able to make it, but everyone else showed up for the holiday cheer. Since January will be the same date as the Bishop Ranch get together, it was decided to cancel our Quilt Therapy meeting for January. February will be at Joan’s house on February 3 at 1:30.
Sandy
Sandy was the first to go and she shared her projects from the Carol Soderlund workshop. The first sample used the fabric that Deanna had given her which was half silk and half cotton. It was silk screened with a paper mask using procion dye. Beautiful.
The next four samples were also silk screened with thickened dyes on soda ashed cotton fabric. I think she said she learned the technique from Kerr Grabowski and was hoping to learn “new” techniques.
The last sample is an unfinished top from from a class she took in Walnut Creek. It also includes some discharged fabric.
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Marty
Marty had two projects to share. The first is a quilt that has been hanging on her wall. It is a favorite of hers and she realized that one of the black fabrics that she used had faded to a brown and threw off the whole black and white theme. She decided to remove the 8 pieces and replace them with a true black and white. It took a lot of unpicking and requilting, but it was worth it.
The second quilt is her bird quilt. Finished. Yeah. She quilted it using a straight line walking foot. Nice job.
Joan
Joan showed the unfinished quilt top that Betsy started. She appliquéd it onto a baby blue border fabric and then added another border. Nicely done. She didn’t say how she plans to quilt it.
Her second quilt is being quilted by Melissa Quilter.
Mindy
Mindy has been busy traveling, decorating and babysitting. Busy
Arleen
I had three projects to show. The first is a bed sized quilt made from 16 blocks of 12 inches left at the free table with a note asking someone to Please finish this. I used a pretty owl fabric from Betsy’s stash and used it to border the blocks and make the border.
The second quilt used the 17th block as the center and the owl fabric as tiny borders. I used some Michael James fabric that have been in my stash for a long time to circle the center. It was going to be the back of the first project, but because it looks so good, I’m going to make this another quilt.
The third project is the Cherish quilt pattern that I bought from Tales of cloth. I finished quilting it using both the walking foot and free motion quilting in the center hexagons. So pretty. I’m planning to give this to my friends who just moved to a new house.
Mary
Mary had 3 projects to share. The first is a twin sized quilt that she is going to give to her friends grandson. She is thinking of either having Hello Stitch quilt it or quilt it herself using some animal templates in the blank areas. She designed it herself. If the size of block didn’t fit, she would add a border.
The second and third quilts are her vanity square projects. She quilted it herself with free motion quilting and is very happy to have used up all of her vanity square blocks.
I got to see one of Mary’s Shutterfly books that are a record of her quilts. Impressive. Can you believe that she has made enough quilts to fill 5 books. Wow.
We ended the festivities with a pot luck and a white elephant gift exchange. Everyone was happy with the small gifts they received and our arms were full of fabrics and quilts. Thank you all for a wonderful meeting and Happy Holidays.
