It seems that I always start the same way- today was a busy day! Yes, it was a busy day, we had 16 members out and had five sewing machines on the go! Four quilt tops (also known as “flimsies” ) were put together, three quilts were pin basted ready for someone to take home and quilt and one quilt was almost finished hand sewing the binding.
Audrey spent the greater part of the day hand stitching binding on an ice cream cone quilt. Hand stitching is a labour intensive job but is a very nice way to do binding.
Donna is working on sashing with corner stones for a batik quilt. We stitched the blocks some time ago and had many to work with. I believe this is the third quilt top to be put together from these blocks.
Rae is preparing borders for a little house quilt. This one is very attractive with trees and other features added.
Phyl is busy pressing the sashing seams on the batik quilt. Good pressing is a very important part of piecing, corners and points fit well and accuracy in stitching is much easier.
Sandra is in the “zone” working on free motion quilting on the heart quilt she started last guild day. The new machine with its large table makes the job easier.
Lorna was quilting as well. She was using a walking foot to do straight line quilting. A walking foot is much easier to use for straight lines than free motion and gives you good stitch control.
Marg F had taken several kits (fabrics that go together) that had been put together. This one included a panel so Marg showed her creativity and stitched a lovely quilt. Some young girl will surely love this!
This is another kit completed by Marg. We’ve named it Bunny Love.
The back of the Bunny Love quilt shows off the complexity of the quilting that Marg did.
The kit Judy took home worked well for this three yard quilt. She also did the quilting as well as the piecing.
We could tell that every one was busy doing summery things and quilting was put on the back burner for a time as Show and Tell had fewer pieces this time.
Sheri and Darby had this quilt to show. The pattern had four patches surrounded by borders. This pattern is another one that works well with jelly rolls, simple, but very appealing.
This is the third quilt Heather has completed. You’ll remember that Heather was one of our beginning quilters. The pattern she chose was Star Pop and she says this project was a learning experience in pressing, quilting and batting choice. She loves denser quilting and the batting she chose required some extra work.
You can see that her straight line quilting has the lines about 1/2 inch apart. The effect is quite stunning but did require extra care and some redoing!
Heather’s next quilt was one she made from jelly rolls. This one was quilted by Sheri.
Rae took home a kit that had the black cats on pink, added some of her own fabric, used a three yard pattern, made it bigger, and came up with this quilt! What creativity! This will be used as a comfort quilt.
Sandra used the Yellow Brick Road pattern to stitch this charming little baby quilt with little elephants on some of the fabric. Beautiful!
This fun bag was her second piece. The bottom of the bag is cork with gold highlights, while the handles are covered with grosgrain ribbon she found at Walmart to give it that extra little pizazz!
This completed our Show and Tell. As you see we had fewer pieces to showcase this time around, but I’m sure we will have more as cooler weather approaches.
September 9th will be our first fall UFO day. This is actually the second Saturday since the first one fell on the long weekend. Be sure to come out and use the day to work on those special projects. Hope to see you then!
Gladys
