January 2013 Meeting

Wanda Prince's beautiful patchwork and applique quilt made the paper this month. Here we see Ann and Wanda posing for their picture with the finished quilt. We have watched this quilt as she constructed it and there are some pictures in prior posts of Wanda's quilt.

 Quilt's of Valor.

Pillow case.

Table Runner and napkins by Viola.

Viola trying to avoid the camera showing off her Christmas napkins.

Viola Hiding behind another table runner.

Got Her! Here she is modeling her newly made apron.

Our activity in January was to make quilted journal covers under the direction of Jan McGee. Below are some pictures of the construction on those covers and some of Ann's finished journals. 

October 2012 Meeting

The October is a wonderful month for quilters. The weather starts to get colder and we start wanting to pull covers over our legs at night and it's a good a time as any to start new Projects! Or at least I did. Ann Bower demonstrated for us how to do a twisted nine patch or disappearing nine patch.

Connie showed us her prize winning quilt that placed both at the Green County Fair and the District Fair in Craighead County.

Cindy showed us her new present quilt that she is working on. 

She is also working on this gorgeous elephant applique quilt.

Patsy brought her own disappearing nine patch quilt. 

Wanda has been working on the border for her Quilt of Valor.

Here's Ann and Becky with the one of the first of the examples that Ann brought for her demonstration.

Ann showed us how she took a finished ordinary nine patch quilt block

and cut it thru the middle both up and down and from side to side.

Then she spun the blocks to make a new arrangement. 

September 17, 2012

Show and tell began with Ann Bowers Disappearing nine patch or I believe she called it twisted nine patch quilt which will be the next meetings activity/ tutorial.

Ann Bower again with another quilt.

Wanda Prince brought her lovely design that she made all by hand with a combination of applique and embroidery.

Cindy Albright is showing us one of her "Quilt of Valor" quilts that she had done. 

This one was a quilt as you go design, 

I think this quilt was from a trash to treasure design and was also done by Cindy Albright. Both of these quilts and a few others were on display at the Craighead County public library during October. It was a great show done by the Loose Threads Guild of which Cindy is also a member. 

This beautiful quilt was done by Joanne Schanda.

I don't know how they get so much done and do it so well!  Ann Ferris brought this darling quilt that she calls Mr Frog and Friends. So cute!

Jan McGee did they batik stars lap quilt. 

Then tonight we did pillow cases for the children's hospital

We all brought specialty prints and we whipped out several pillow cases. Lillian was kind enough to bring her serger so I think we mainly cut and got them ready to sew and then took them to Lillian or whoever was on the machine to run them together. 

I heard from Jan the next day and here is what her email said.

Hello LADIES!
    You are a fantastic group of ladies.  We made 34 pillowcases last
night.  Cindy gave me fabric for about 9 more.  I still have about 10
to make here at home.  SO>>>> that means I'll send more than 50 pillow
cases to Conquer Cancer.  THANK YOU SO MUCH!  I am overwhelmed with
your generosity.
    When you have a few minutes of spare time keep making
pillowcases.  I'll continue to wash, pack and mail the pillowcases.
To me. it is a great stress reliever.  I can make a pillow case in
about 10 minutes and feel I've put a smile on a child's face and that
makes me smile, also.
    Thanks again.  I'll get them in the mail early next week.  This
week is going to be busy.
You gals are the GREATEST!!!!!
Jan

That's all for now folks. Monday night we will we doing the nine patch don't forget to bring you squares. Ann Bowers with be doing the demonstration. Thanks

August 2012 Meeting

We had a night meeting in August. Several members brought quilts for our show and tell. Unfortunately, once again I have procrastinated and not uploaded them right away and forgotten who did what so you will have to guess or remember. I am posting in the order that I took them in.

 

I apologize for messing up this photo. But it looks like our challenge fabric.

I do know that the quilt up above makes me want to take out my box of charm squares and start making half square triangles. I love the color play.

Cindy made this "Quilt of Valor" I think.... Looks nice any way.

I don't know who is hiding behind this zigzag quilt.

This is so cute. Some little boy is really going to love this quilt.

 I love Patsy's angel wall hanging.

Three D wall hanging. 

In August we had a tutorial from Ann Ferris showing how to do pin-less semi paperless machine applique and piecing. She had been to a class/seminar with Sharon Schamber and shared some of what she learned. First she set up her machine and area and demonstrated how to do curved piecing and easy way.

This technique uses two sheets of freezer paper and washable glue with a pinpoint tip.

 

The seam allowance is ironed down.

Then the seam is glued.

Sorry,  I stopped taking pictures at this point as it was really getting interesting. She completed a New York Beauty block using this technique. Should have gotten more pictures. She sited two books written by Sharon Schamber and her daughter Cristy Fincher "Piece by Piece Machine Applique" and "Piec-lique". I went home and ordered the first title that night and I

Hope to see everyone at the 09/17/2012 meeting.