Marty
Marty showed 5 quilts this month. The larger one (blue, maroon and grey) is made from Betsy's stash and is Tween size. The rest are all from her stash; she used EBHQ's patterns for children's quilts that are on their website. All will go to EBHQ for distribution. Just for fun she tried to count the quilts that she has made, start to finish, for EBHQ this year and it totaled 32. She has some more in the pipeline for next month's QT meeting.
Susan
This is my Wensleydale foundation paper pieced quilt. Looking for a border and then it is off the to quilter.
Mary
The first piece I showed was a tiny thing that I found hiding in my stash. Found backing fabric and quilted it in the interest of continuing to finish the oldest UFOs that appear in my closet. It looks like it probably started in a circles class but it’s so old that I really have no idea! And what do you do with 30” X 30”?
The next top is one that I started from being inspired by the piece shown in the newspaper scrap. I quickly veered off of that and ended up not even trying to represent the whole thing. We’ll see where it goes with quilting added.
The radiating piece required a special ruler (15 degree angle) and was a great way to use up scraps. I asked for advice about proceeding from here and it seems that folks thought I should not add a border and Sandy thought I should face it instead of binding it. I guess we’ll see next time
The final quilt, front and back, was inspired by one I saw on line. It will go to my youngest grandson’s elementary school auction in Oakland in the winter.
Deanna
My first quilt was made from half-square triangles using scraps of 1930s reproduction fabrics. I have enough scraps left to make another quilt!
The second quilt was a disappearing hourglass design made with batik 5" charm squares and solid white 5" squares. These were sewn into half square triangles, then into hourglass units, which were then cut into 9 pieces and rearranged. I got the pattern from Brita Nelson, the Questioning Quilter, on YouTube. She has lots of patterns for disappearing blocks.
The next two photos show the front and back of a quilt made from French or French-inspired fabrics, which I free-motion quilted.
Arleen
I was able to attend via zoom with the help of Susan. I've been working on using scraps that I purchased locally in Hawaii. The fabrics are so cute and great for children's quilts. The first is a string pieced and the others are pieced together.
