ROAD TRIP a Hit !!!!!

In case you do not recognize the location or all of the people - Morganville Friendship Group met the Linn Group at "Our Daily Bread" in Barnes, KS.  (To see the pictures enlarged, click on one and you will get an enlarged version of pictures only, click on the upper right corner "x" and you will be back to the story)

 What a great turn out, 20+, had so much fun - did not count exact heads.   Thank you Daily Bread for the wonderful set up you had ready for us.

 Everyone always wants to make sure the photographer gets in at least one picture - so here you are - the nut waving her hands.

 If you get a chance, visit "Our Daily Bread", Mon - Sat, 9am - 4pm.  Lunch is served 11 am - 2:30 pm.  It is a wonderful "Bake Shoppe" full of lots of goodies as well as the restaurant part.  They now have a few of their products available at Rays in Manhattan and they ship.  You can go to www.Our-DailyBread.com to see more.  And mark your calendars - Antique & Junque Festival in Barnes is Saturday, August 17th.  Fun begins at 9 am.  Food, music AND City Wide Garage Sales.

After lunch we headed over to Linn where Deb introduced us to their meeting building.  Oh oh oh oh oh - what fun.  Everywhere you looked you found inspiration.  Not only do they have classes, BOM, and sew days - they also have a group that hand quilts.  Some of the ladies that take classes and join in on the sew days, were ones that Bonnie taught to quilt - lots for everyone to talk about and Bonnie - you were missed.

 The hand quilters had just finished a 126" x 126" quilt recently and had just put this one on the frame on Monday.  It was such fun to follow the bow tie maze and look at all the possibilities with the large and small ties.

 They do a lot of quilts for shelters and other organizations and the pile below is just a sample of their work.  Have you been checking out the walls?

 Everywhere there was something - loved this Stitch a little and talk a lot wall hanging.  Know anyone like that?  hahahahah

 New techniques were talked about......

 all the time that your hunger and thirst for our craft was being fed from every nook and cranny.   Think we could all say that - Sewing definitely mends the soul.

 Lori is showing off a top that has the same fabric in it as some fabric that we had gotten from Bonnie. 

Its great to get together and share - from our group,  Susie gave a class on Twilling.  The picture below is the quilt that Susie did showcasing the twilling in the flowers.

 Susie had plenty of kits made up for everyone that was interested in learning.

 Three easy steps, several samples and they were on their way.

 Ruth  and

 Maydean were two of the ladies that zipped right through Susie's instructions and were making great progress.  Think Susie has converted another group to twilling and left behind quite a few new instructors for anyone else that may be interested later.

 Before we left for the day, Jan found us a perfect sign............... 

Thank you to our drivers for the day and to our Linn hostesses.  Hopefully in September, some of the Linn ladies will be joining us for Tilted Logs.  See you all later.

June - small but powerful!!!!!!!!!

Maybe there were only 5 of us at the June meeting - Missed a lot of friends not being there - but we did accomplish so much and learned a lot.

Deb is working on embroidering her panel to bring out the lines.  Susie gave her a few suggestions and of course we all oohed and aahhed it.  Also learned a bit about Pearl Cotton, sizes (larger the number, smaller the thread) and a brand new holder for your spool.  Thanks ladies for sharing.

Susie is working on another quilt that will have twilling incorporated into it.  Susie was able to get this much done in one day - now of course if we had not have talked, show and telled, talked, ate, talked - you get the picture - she could have gotten a lot more done.  hahahah

Donnis brought in this lovely table runner to show us what the tilted log cabin was.  It got entered into our possible someday classes and then no one could remember exactly what it was.  Good memory Donnis, she even found the book it was in.

Donnis even gave us a quick class - start with a lot cabin block - don't you just love this scrappy one?

Cut

Move

Sew together and join and this is what she ended up with.  Ooh ooh the ideas that we came up with from this.  We want to do this in September.  Everyone do up their log cabins before and then cut and re-join and see what we get.  More information will be forth coming as to sizes, etc.  Looking forword to seeing what people come up with and you only need three or four blocks - no huge assignment.  Thank you Donnis.

Donnis also had this lovely doll blanket that she had made from orphan blocks.  What a darling quilt.

Deb really loved the border miter class last month.  She had four more placemats done and brought them in for us to see.  Doesn't that look like an alligator skin or leather.  It is really cotton and very soft.  Deb did find out that she is not thrilled with invisible thread as it shifted her fabric some.  But we tried to encourage her to give it another try with a longer thread length.  Hope she does and we get to see what that does.  If anyone has hints - we are all ears.   Great job Deb.

Deb had also picked up this Embroidery Pocket Guide at the long arm show in Wichita.  Cost about $5, is laminated and folds up for easy carrying along with you.  Everyone is on the lookout for where they can get one.

 

We are hoping to take a road trip on July 3rd, UFO work in August, and tilted logs in September that's what is on the list for upcoming.  Machelle is always looking for ideas to present to the friendship group - if you have something - let her know. 

Looking forward to seeing EVERYONE next time - Bonnie made it safe and she is already missed.

Have fun and remember to bring your show and tell.