We had a wonderful turn out for our meeting. The date had been moved to the first Tuesday of the month JUST for July, as the library has a reading program in July that meets on our regular meeting day. We got a great look at some of the books and activities that the library has planned - looks to be a lot of fun. Check with the Morganville Library if you have children or grands that you might like to bring to the reading program.
Judy presented our block this month. It is called "The Wood Box". Started out similar to a Courthouse Steps, then with a twist for the corners. Judy did a great job demonstrating the steps.
Ladies were hard at work putting their blocks together, or
busy on other projects they had brought. Guess when Jan and Leila started these projects they were finishing?
Judy picked some lovely colors to use on her block to show us.
Esther laid hers out so that she could see how the color scheme was coming out and to show us a pre-peek at what her quilt may look like.
Deb is using mostly fabric from her mothers stash. Not sure, but think only the brown was bought to tie it all together.
Machelle is working with holiday type fabric that is getting very interesting as it grows.
Donnis has added a couple of different blocks to her BOM stash. She might add more colors, she might use this, she might not.
Looking at Donnis' extra blocks brought up some other ideas. Click here to go to Missouri Quilt Co.'s disappearing hourglass video. Really neat what you can get from a pinwheel also (click here).
Susie started her color scheme one way, then added some darker fabrics and now is trying to decide whether to go back and make a block or two different as she sees how they are going together.
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After the BOM blocks were done, information was passed along from the workshop that Susie and Vevia took from Debby Maddy with the Clay Center Piotique Quilt Guild. They showed how you could tell if a fabric was directional and how to use it when you were doing half square triangles.
CLICK HERE to go to Debby Maddy's hints and tips on how to do this.
Susie then started working on her other project she brought in, so of course we all had to go look at it and see how it was coming along. She said something about bringing in the pattern for any one that was interested. Please let her know if you are interested so that she doesn't make extra or heaven forbid - not enough.
Judy has been wanting to learn about hand quilting and if it was something she might want to do. So she used her time wisely by watching Deb and asking questions.
After Iowana got to the meeting, Russ was kind enough to take a group photo of us ladies. He did a fantastic job of getting us all to smile at the same time. Then we all enjoyed our luncheon. The food of course was outstanding and we had more than enough. Thank you everyone for pitching in. Please note how kind the photographer was - no pictures of us eating.
After the luncheon, Machelle brought over the plants she had brought in to share. She can tell you the names.
For Show and Tell, Shirley brought in this quilt which many of us had not seen before. It is a stack and whack. Not the usual kind that are squares put together - these were cut in triangles and then joined to make the square. Very interesting to look at and got the imaginative juices of many going.
Leila had started this quilt waaaaaaaaaaaaay long ago. And Helen G. had quilted it. Leila decided that she needed a sleeve on it to hang, so brought it in to work on. She finished the sleeve just in time to show us. The border had everyone oohhing and aahhing. Now we know Leila's secret. And of course this was another quilt made from scraps. Leila can get more use out of fabric scraps than I can.
Judy brought in "Nigel" to show all of us. She was thinking of tie-ing it, after speaking with Susie, she may get it quilted. This is for a great-grandchild back east.
Iowana keeps busy, even when she is not feeling her best. And of course she has the angel of a friend that helps her out. Many of us wanted this quilt with it's blues and yellows, it is so gorgeous. Iowana is hoping to finish a few more - she has such an eye for color.
Take a good look at this table runner. Donnis told us that she brought it in to show us all what NOT to do. Okay, give up? So did we.
She took a short cut with the border on this one and did not measure and then cut to sew on. Instead she sewed the long borders on and then cut off the excess. Well after it got quilted, she went to bind it and noticed the gathers. Donnis - without telling us - we would have never known. It is very striking and we promise not to say anything to anyone about it and yes, we will measure for our borders first. Thank you for sharing the why's.
Remember Deb's baby quilt? It was already given to the new owner so we did not get to see it in person - but with the use of her I-pad - here is a picture of it. Sooooooo Cute!!!!!!!
Great Aunt Esther is passing along the art of quilting as shown here. Olivia was with her great Aunt for 10 days and this is the lovely quilt that was made. Olivia did a lot of the work all by herself. Thank you Esther for sending me the picture to pass on to everyone.
It was a good meeting of good friends.
Looking forward to next month and the churn dash that Shirley is going to do.
See you then.
