Februarys meeting was at Joan’s house. I wasn’t able to be there because Larry and I caught the flu and were not able to get back from Hawaii in time. We’re still stuck in paradise for another week. Luckily Deanna took a lot of pictures and notes, so I’ll try to post something from those.
Joan
Joan had two quilts to share. The first is the unfinished quilt top from last meeting. Looks like she has finished the quilting and it looks beautiful. I love the blue colors.
The second quilt was made from the layer cakes and charm packs from Sandy. She has started in the middle and is free motion quilting it. The back shows the quilting better. Good job
Marty
Marty also made two quilts. The first is a quilt top of a nice colorful four patch with two patches in a 9 patch. Made from Betsy’s fabric and Deanna’s pattern that uses a 20 fat quarter bundle and matching pink fabric. Unfortunately 4 of the fat quarters were so light, they fade away in the photo. clever use of simple blocks
After participating in the monthly block challenge for 2 years the next step is to make a quilt top with the blocks. The instruction for the blocks was to use black and white with a pop of color. A yard of black, white. And grey was used to piece the blocks together.
The third picture shows the backing fabric. Nice use of all the black and white fabric to tie it all together.
Deanna
Deanna’s first quilt was a partially sewn top given to her by Susan Dague at open quilting. Deanna finished the top and quilted it. The next two quilts have cute panels in the middle, Deanna added borders, did free motion quilting on the panels and walking foot quilting in the borders. All 3 quilts will be donated to EBHQ Community Quilts
Deanna’s fourth quilt is from a Bento Box pattern, using leftover 5” squares cut from another quilt. Surrounded by indigo rectangles. Most of the fabrics are Japanese.
Alice
Mary
Mary made 2 quilts. The first one is a community quilt that I brought to show my quilting as we’ve been having lots of discussions about learning to free motion.
My second quilt is the back first and then the other photos are of the twin sized animal quilt I made for my friend’s grandson. My granddaughter pointed out the majority of the backing fabric has a “Minecraft” feel. Who knew?!
I brought the quilt back to the group so everyone could see the finished product. Though I’d been thinking about having Hello Stitch quilt it for me, I went with the encouragement of our group in December and quilted it myself - lots of animals in the quilting.
I found the first quilt top hidden away in my quilt stash. No idea I had it or when I made it but it must be mine as I recognize most of the fabrics, so I must have made it.
The final quilt I made from a photograph I took of the Alexander Calder sculpture “The Eagle”, which I took at the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle. It generated lots of discussion about whether I needed the artists permission to co”copy” his art. I had tried to create all the background sky, shoreline, Pugent Sound water and walkway by piecing together scraps. Gave up on that and went with small squares to give the feel I wanted.
Mindy
Our next meeting will be at Marty’s house March 2 at 130.
