July 2026

 We met at Marty's house. There were 5 of us (Mary, Joan, Mindy, Susan, Marty) with Deanna, Arleen, Sandy and Alice missing. We shared stories about our health and well being and then moved into our quilt sharing. Our snack was carrot cake with cream cheese frosting; our continued conversation including some discussion of inviting some new people to join our group.

Susan The 62 is mine which is a repair I am doing of my great Aunts 63 year old quilt.

60 is a couple of squares from the foundation paper Piece Wensleydale quilt I am working on.  

59 is the back of a quilt I started in 2008 and finally finished for my daughter...

58 and 73 are oucs of my front of the quilt (with my daughter).

55 is the front of my 4 patch Posey, 56 is a close up and 57 is the back.



Mindy

Joan The first quilt that I showed at our get together is called revenge of the napkins as you know I collected actually stole napkins from restaurants on trips that I took for several years they’re integrated into the into the motives. Actually, I got the idea of doing that from looking at what you were working on at our last meeting with Marty thanks to my husband who was able to cut things more accurately than I can now and my daughter who put made the yo-yos that went in the center of each one of the squares the front of it was in good shape in the back. I don’t know if Susan took a picture of it, but it has one full napkin that Richard bought for me at Tallia and West in Phoenix and it has a Frank Lloyd Wright design on it. It was quilted by Melissa Quilter. The yellow thing is the front of a very large queen size bedspread. I’m trying to use up my yellow fabrics and Richard and I just cut fabrics for the back of it and I still have a lot left over. Oh my goodness hopefully next month there will be a picture of it completed. 

Marty showed a whole-cloth quilt that she made in a workshop with Lucy Hilty in 1993 (and finished in 1995). She included this because Lucy was the subject of the presentation at the recent in-person EBHQ meeting. It was a fun process of designing, marking and hand quilting the piece and considering Marty chose too thick a batting, being a relative novice to quilting at that time, it ended up taking a toll on her right arm.

Marty then showed 3 donation quilts two of which were made using patterns that EBHQ has on their website and the third is a design that she likes that uses nine-patches with two different fabrics and a third fabric in the center square. These are all child size.

Mary

Arleen This is a Japanese Puzzle quilt  that I have been struggling to make. Without a dedicated sewing room I have to make do with my small space and my mom's old machine. Ugh. Lots of mistakes but I decided to just keep going. Don't look too close.