June Date Change

Friendship Quilting Day is now going to be June 23rd (in lieu of June 16th)! Hope to see you there!

May Meeting Recap

In case you missed it. Here is the recap from our May (5/21) meeting:

• Thirteen quilters attended.
• Betsy gave the treasury report.
• We showed several pizza box squares. We are done! Our June meeting will be the big reveal! We're going to do a potluck, meeting on our usual day, but half hour earlier at 6:00. Melanie will be coordinating the food... keep an eye on your email!
• Show and tell from Micha, Diana and Terry.

Verse from Linda: 

Romans 15:13 " I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit."

Companionship Quilters Calendar

• June Friendship Quilting Day - June 16th
• June Group Meeting, potluck and Pizza Box Reveal - June 25th (Quilt Group meets the last Monday of the month, January-November)
• June Retreat June 7-10, 2012 - there is still one spot open!
• September Retreat - September 20-23, 2012

Next Meeting: Monday, June 25th, 2012 - Special Time!

• 6:00 - 9pm - Room 420 (or possibly the Fireside Room) 
• Potluck - Melanie will be telling us what to bring!
• Pizza Box Block Exchange Reveal
• What to bring to meetings:
• Show & Tell
• $2 donation for kitty
• Baby quilts for baby dedication

Show and Tell

Terry finished this Block of the Month quilt that she started maybe 10 years ago.
JoAnn's got her copies of the pattern she was missing... nice!

Diana's finished umbrella girls quilt!

And the back of her quilt. She built in pockets in the corners to put a dowel to hang it from,
and a couple of loops to keep it from drooping in the middle.

Micha showed us her cute necklace she made... of wrapped felt!

April Group Meeting (April 30th, 2012)

In case you missed it. Here is the recap from our April meeting:

• Fifteen quilters attended.
• We showed several pizza box squares. Most boxes already have the 12 needed blocks. There are still about 3 boxes that still need blocks. We will schedule the “reveal party ” when those boxes are finished - likely a Friday potluck at the end of June!
• Debbie Walker reported on the Baby Dedication Quilt ministry. She currently has about 9 quilts. Dedications are typically on the 2nd Sunday of the month. We are always in need of “boy” or neutral quilts. We had one baby dedicated on Mother's day.
• Show and tell from Terry, Betsy, Debbie, Diana and Cherice.

Companionship Quilters Calendar

• May Friendship Quilting day – cancelled
• May 21st Group meeting (May meeting is a week earlier due to Memorial Day)
• Quilt Group meets the last Monday of the month, January-November. 
• September Retreat --- September 20-23, 2012

Next Meeting: Monday, May 21st, 2012

• 6:30pm - 9pm - Room 420 
• Socializing 6:30-7pm 
• Announcements 7pm 
• Show-and-Tell 
• Pizza Box Block Exchange

Show and Tell from April meeting

a picture of the baby quilt Terry has already given away from her iPad

Cherice's baby quilt that she free motion quilted herself!

Betsy's baby quilt

and the back.

Diana's quilt for one of her kids' leaders... made from a pattern from last year's Quilt Shop Hop!

Diana's mystery quilt from a magazine.

Diana's musical pillow case.

Debbie's baby girl quilt

Debbie's baby boy quilt

Terry's bag - clever!

Tissue holder - "Gifty Project" shown at October Meeting

Here is a little project to make a fabric cover for those little packs of tissues you carry in your purse.

I do realize that having a fabric cover for your purse tissues is completely unnecessary; the little tissues already come in a plastic sleeve! But to me, a project doesn't have to be useful  if it is only made out of scraps.

You can make a tissue holder that matches your purse. Very stylish I'm sure.


There are probably lots of easy ways to make this, but I wanted mine to have no raw edges -- even on the inside. It is not cool if you pull out a tissue and it has threads stuck to it.

Tissue holder                  Cut fabric 6x14”

With RST (right sides together!) sew across 6” ends together to form a loop. Leave a large gap for turning. Turn loop right-side out and flatten, leaving seam side up. Seam should be off-center as shown.

Fold over left and right edges, with slight overlap in th center and iron into place to crease folds well.

Turn loop wrong side out and refold, so that overlapping occurs neatly inside. Side view of the loop below:

Flatten again and sew across each raw edge. Find the turning hole and turn inside out. Flip the flaps to other side.

Christmas Tree Skirt Instructions and Demo

At the October meeting, Nan Sanborn demonstrated how she and her sister make quilted Christmas tree skirts. She handed out diagrams and instructions. Her diagrams and instructions can be found here Tree skirt instructions.

Nan also provided a full size template for cutting the wedges of the tree skirt. If you were not at the meeting to get one of her templates, check with Nan, or ask to trace someone else's. Nan noted that newer fabric keeps getting narrower. Her instructions were written for 45" width fabric. You can still use the same instructions for the new narrower (42"?) fabric, but instead of lining up the short edges of the strips, the strips have to be shifted/staggered to fit the template as shown at right.

Coin Purse with window - October Meeting Demo

I found these instructions on the internet for making  a cute little coin purse with a window in it to display your ID or a picture. It's called the all-you-need-bag.

Click on picture for full instructions.

The instructions are fine, but the first little bag I made didn't turn out exactly like I wanted it to, so I made some notes as to what to do differently. So, hopefully if you make one, your first one will turn out perfectly.

The pattern describes  a super easy technique for putting in a zipper. This method could be adapted to make little zippered bags of all sizes. I plan to make an eyeglass case and an make-up bag to match.

The pattern calls for 2 fat quarters, but I've added cutting diagrams and you need only two pieces 7x9".
Here are the cutting diagrams and the rest of my notes.

Click on picture to see full sized.

Thread Catcher Project from October Meeting

 

ThreadCatcher

Click on picture to download pdf instructions  for the thread-catcher project shown at the October meeting. I happened to inherit some fabric that has textured rubbery dots on it. I'm sure it was for making non-slip soles on toddlers footy pajamas. It helps a little, to put this on the underside. But my first one did not have it, and so it  probably not necessary.

October Quilt Group

We had a good time! Here are some pics:

Diana made a quilt that she already gave to her sister.

Debbie W show her horse quilt top... done in Buggy Barn style!

Sherri did this baby quilt that she even free-motion quilted herself!

Linda was worried about this one, but it came out great!

Linda made this for her new grandchild - the "wee Wally."

Terry made this baby quilt - with the "H" pattern.

Terry also made this fun quilt!

Gail modeled her tree skirt!

Gail also made this pretty jelly roll quilt.

This is the Comfort Quilt top that we finished on Friendship Quilting Day in October. Many hands make light work!

September Group Meeting (and a little more)

Photos from group:

Micha's Baby Quilt

Lori's Jelly Roll Races Quilt - to be for Rich Wisler

Barb's Artsy Slashing Quilt - hand quilted even!

Diana's Quilted Spider Placemats

Betsy's Lilacs Quilt

One side of Linda's Baby Quilt

And the other side of Linda's Baby Quilt

Linda's scrappy Asian Quilt

Linda's Warm Colors Quilt

We also had fun at the August Friendship Quilting Day:

Diana's Baby Quilt

Debbie C's Safe Haven!

And at the the August Group Meeting:

Melanie made this for Spain, and donated it to the Comfort Quilts

Val made this cute dress from a
tablecloth from her
daughter's wedding! Clever.

Sherri decorated up her Jelly Roll Races quilt. Cute!

Linda made this cute I Spy type quilt.

Linda made another cute kid quilt.

And Linda also made this fun Asian
themed quilt with her larger scraps.

The start of Barb's Artsy quilt.

Debbie W made this fun Buggy Barn Quilt
- One of these looks like their horse!

Rainbow Quilt

I thought this was adorable - I have enough in my stash to make one of these for baby quilts - anyone have any white fabric they want to contribute?? I may not be able to work on one - but I can cut squares of colors for folks.....sue

http://www.hookedonneedles.com/2011/09/rainbow-quilt-version-two.html