Hello everyone, welcome back to our blog page! As usual we had a busy day with members and some guests coming and going throughout the day, 19 in total.
There were five quilts assembled and pin basted today. One almost complete quilt had binding applied in readiness for hand stitching. One quilt top that was laid out last month was stitched together and will be sandwiched and pin basted next month.
Bev is folding a pin basted quilt that will be available for taking home to be machine quilted.
June and Beverley are browsing some articles that Marg brought in which she is offering for sale.
Sandra and Patty are preparing for tonight’s meeting.
Our fall raffle quilt is complete!
Here we have a close up shot of the quilting, fabulous job, Heather! The name of the panto she used is “Resplendant”.
Here is all the information you need to give yourself a chance to win this beautiful quilt!
Comfort Quilts:
Marg brought in four quilts she made up and donated to the guild. Thank you, Marg. There will be some lucky people who will receive theses quilts.
Number 1 will be appreciated by some little girl.
This is the back of number one. Marg was able to find this material in a thrift store. This is quite a unique piece of fabric.
Number two.
Number three, a dinosaur Mahjong.
Number four. Check out the beetles on the brown fabric!
Show and Tell:
Marg has been a busy lady! This quilt has corduroy, minky and I’m not sure what the dogs are but it is a very tactile quilt.
This one is a lovely example of what can be done with a panel.
Marg’s third quilt is a perfect example of “lots of quilt math”! As she said , it took a lot of figuring to get those borders to match, what angles to cut and then to mitre the corners! Perfection!
Marg’s final quilt was one made from leftover panels she had from the Reflections project we did a number of years ago. I hope no one ever asks me how we did the project as I have no memory of the process, but use the resulting table mat I made regularly.
Myrna shared the fish purses she made for our booth at the Cranberry Markets.
I am continuing to work on Christmas gifts for my family. These are placemats from a kit I purchased at Mami’s in Duck Lake. I managed to make six placemats, a table runner and a mug rug from what was supposed to be four placemats and a table runner, although I did have to buy additional fabric for the binding!
The table runner.
Lynsie shared this lovely quilt, entirely made from half square triangles.
This is Laurie’s Roman Holiday quilt which she made in the beginner quilter class. Beautiful job, Laurie!
This is a zipper by the yard with a special pull on it for the Halloween lover’s cushion.
Program:
Cindy refreshed our memory on the construction of the chandelier blocks which we will be using to make our second Christmas raffle quilt.
The Christmas fabrics for the quilt come from Marg H’s stash.
Quilter’s Corner:
Sandra demonstrated putting a zipper in a designer pillow using a binding strip.
She uses zippers by the yard for her cushions, but any kind of zipper, as long as it’s the right length, will do.
This example is just an ordinary Walmart type of zipper.
This way of putting in a zipper adds a special touch to the back of a cushion. Note the striped binding material and the silver coloured zipper teeth.
The winner of the Membership draw was Donna.
Before heading home, we picked up our block packets for the Christmas quilt, some more projects for the markets or a quilt sandwich to machine quilt. See you all next month.
Happy quilting,
Gladys
