Deb brought a new "Friend" to our Morganville meeting this week........Pat.
Welcome to our group Pat!!!!
Pat had gotten a quilt that she was very interested in sandwiching and hand quilting. Yes it was only yesterday, but I forgot to write down where she got it. Deb mentioned Machelle's sandwich work last month and how nifty using all the tables were.....so.....
Tables were set up and Deb showed Pat how to "iron" out the batting wrinkles.
Everyone had to check out the quilt. So full of someone's history. We saw shirts, dresses, aprons, flannel shirts, etc in the various fabric patterns displayed.
The pieces were embroidered on a back square that also were very interesting to look at and contemplate where they might have been collected from. Deb also taught Pat how to baste her sandwich together with thread instead of pins.
Leila is working on another hand pieced block and Susie is working on her Jacobean blocks. Think she said she has three left to do.
Judy finished her end table mats and is now working on her coffee table runner. She is doing the faux piping binding.
She also brought in her square - disappearing 9-patch and with a little help from her friends, recreated how to sew the 9 patches together to produce the same look. Now that was a fun zig saw puzzle to reconstruct. Thank you Judy for the brain work out.
Machelle and Donnis compared notes....
Donnis has finished her retirement home quilt and it is off to the quilters, so she brought in left over strips and is making another quilt with two different blocks. Looking forward to seeing this one also.
Machelle was working on a tea cup caddy.
Deb and Pat compare quilting techniques, use of different thimbles, etc. Discussion of quilt hoops was joined in by quite a few of us.
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Lunch was great as usual, for those that bought from the restaurant - fried chicken.
After lunch was our almost favorite part of the day - SHOW 'n TELL.
Deb (*note correction) this lovely baby quilt. She would not let us look close at it as it wasn't as perfect as she would have liked it. She's crazy of course - just looking at this quilt made us all want to grab it and run away and take a nap. So soft and comfy looking.
(*Deb e-mailed us to make sure that we noted that it was machine quilted not hand quilted, and the flannel on the back made it drag so some of the stitches are a little big. Thank you Deb)
Does anyone remember what year this quilt was taught by Bonnie? Several names of the pattern were passed around and it looks like North Wind won out.
If you look up North Wind quilts, wow, there are a lot of ways to set them also.
Judy showed how she used two different fabrics sewn together for her binding that make the Faux Piped Binding as show by the green on the front of her end table mat. She brought along the directions which are show below. (click here)
Here is another site that you can go to and learn more.
Judy will be putting the faux piping on the coffee table runner also.
Leila just got this quilt back from the quilter (Susie) and had to show off the beautiful quilting. Leila - it is a beautiful quilt. WOW!!!!!!! The star blocks she hand sewed together and machined the courthouse step blocks.
Click on the picture above to make it larger so you can see the quilting. yes it is gorgeous.
Do hope that Leila brings this quilt back in when she has it bound. We need to see this one twice, or even more.......
Vevia finished her wall hanging using two of each block taught last year. She put it together with sashings and cornerstones AND hand quilted it. On the back was the legend naming the block and who gave the instructions to make. She also finished a baby set for a new great-great niece due in August.
Just had to get a close up of it.
See the arrow above that one piece - that is how much the last row faded on this pillow cover that Machelle had made her mother. She took the last row off and is thinking about what she will do with the remainder. Really weird that only one fabric faded like that.
Deb showed us the project that she is working on from her book she brought in last month.
Here is the back. She will be adding a stiffener and then folding the sides towards the back to give it the curved look. Looking forward to seeing this project finished.
Vevia almost forgot to show us her purse she bought in Paducah at the quilt show. She got to meet the Hmong woman that does these and the woman's husband showed Vevia how it is done.
Click here to read up on this ancient group of mountain people. Correction Vevia - it is pronounced 'mung'.
This is one piece that Vevia has at home obtained at an auction. Pat is going to bring in one of her pictures made by the Hmong's next month. Very very tiny and beautiful work. They also do some fantastic 'story cloths' using embroidery.
All quilters - this is what Vevia found in Paducah. Esther had shown us the Finger Gloves (click to find out more), you get 12 for $4.99 and they can be cut to length. Then the Quilter's Tips which Vevia got 6 for $5.99. They are made of different materials and Deb is trying out the quilter's tips to see how those are. Great for gripping.
Have fun this month and stay safe.
