Quilt Group info from January 2014 Group

Hey! Quilting was fun last Monday! A few things we discussed and show and tell here!

Friendship Quilting Day Changing to Baby Quilting Day

We've changed the date of February's Friendship Quilting Day to February 15th, and the purpose for the day as well! We are completely out of baby quilts now, so we thought it'd be smart to have a Baby Quilting Day, in lieu of our original plan. Let's do some getting ahead of the game again. Please come February 15th (9-4 or whatever time you can) - even if you don't have time to sew, maybe someone could use help with pressing!

I offered an idea of a quilt I made - here's a link to the pattern for Oh Fransson's Baby Charm quilt. (Please print your own copy - apparently that's the owners' rule.) It uses primarily charm squares and a background fabric, which I've seen as white, dark brown, and I made one with blue plaid as the background. The picture is one I made - I didn't have charm squares... just cut some fabric squares.

You don't have to use this pattern that day (or if you have other pressing projects, you're certainly welcome to work on them that day too). We have another pattern called Snuggle Up that we use often for baby quilts and makes a cute one. Here's the pattern link to Snuggle Up.

Beginning on Missionary Quilts - First one for the Zyskas

Here is a link to the Sugar Cubes Block pattern. We're going to make this block for Joe and Brenda Zyska's quilt. The directions are in the link above. Any color goes. The really main important thing is that the lights go diagonally through your block! That what makes the pattern work. Please bring what you have done to our February group meeting and we asses what we have so far. Then we will bring them in April, and assemble them in May.

It'll look something like this when done:

We're also going to start working on a nine-patch-a-day style quilt for the next missionary quilt coming up. You can start making them now if you want (from 2 1/2" strips). But at next group meeting Val is going to show us a quick way to make 2 at a time!

UFO List

And one last thing. Diana and I decided we liked the motivation of having a UFO (UnFinished Object) list to help us get things done. We're going to make a list of 10 unfinished quilts (not all of them, so our list isn't so overwhelming), and draw a number each month to pick the one we're going to work on. If you'd like to play along, bring a list to the February meeting and we'll get started!

Show and Tell

Whew! That's a lot! And here's a link to the Show and Tell for the month: