Grandma's Flower Garden from Sue Urich

Hi All,

Only two quilts left before Christmas! Here is a special project for friends. The blocks were made by their then 12 year old mother (who hated every minute of sewing). Of course it was just the blocks and all the papers were backstitched in not just basted. Any way I know it is kind of a different treatment since they were appliqued on and the "piecing" lines quilted. Enjoy your down time after Christmas!

Sue

Hugs and Kisses from Sue Urich

I never have any interesting quilts to bring to meetings, but thought this was different enough. DH walks in and says that must be a baby quilt with all the hugs and kisses ( X's, O's ) on it. Well if he got it so will the client.

November 2008 Meeting

Linda's mini quilted Christmas candles.

Lucinda's "Give me some ideas" quilt top.

Steve's Halloween freehand quilt.

Linda's chenille quilt for granddaughter.

Another one on Linda's.

Linda's freehand work.

Linda's Dissastified Customer Quilt

Well, yesterday I got a call from my second dissatisfied customer. It was a Harley one and she brought black backing and some orange striped fabric. She said that if there was not enough fabric for the back, she could get some more. Well, there was not enough, so I used some black that I had and the stripe for the back and then used her black fabric for the binding. Anyway, she was upset that I did not use the striped fabric for the binding. I checked my worksheet to see if she had specified using the stripe for the binding and she did not. I thought that if she had actually specified it I would have given her some refund. She also did not like the back, because she said it looked chopped up, because I had pieced it in such a way that the stripe was not on the edge, but pieced in. She said she had never seen a quilt with a back that was pieced. I will send the picture to Tim to post. I did notice when she came to the house both times she seemed to be a little nervous or fidgity and kind of distracted, like she was not concentrating on task at hand. This is the first quilt I have done for her, but maybe it will be the last. She did say that she was really pleased with the quilting.

September 2008 Meeting

Thanks to Shelley and Ann for hosting the meeting at Quilters Quarters in Spring Valley. Thanks also for imparting all of your knowledge on getting started on our whole cloth challenge. I have to apologize for not getting a photo of the Quilts on a Stick that Shelly and Ann brought. I don't know what I was thinking! They were wonderfully cute and creative for those of you that were not able to be at the meeting. You'll have to take my word for it.

Cathy, Janet, Steve and Linda.

Barb, Michelle, Bertha, Shelly (sneaking around the back) Lucinda, and Cathy again.

Heidi, Sandy, Nancy (Sandy's Sis), and Barb again.

Linda, Ann, Heidi and Sandy

Ann's whole cloth layout.

"Give me some ideas on how to quilt this," asks Heidi.

Shelley's show and tell.

Close up of Shelley's work.
Lucinda's Show and tell.The back of Lucinda's.
Heidi's Stars and loops.
Ann's Show and tell.

August Meeting 2008

Shelly's show and tell.

Close up of center block.

.....and the back.

Shelly's snow day quilt.

August Meeting 2008

Steve and Janet's show and tell.

It was worth all the ripping!!

Annette's black and white challenge. Nice feathers!

August Meeting 2008

Steve is demonstrating the Statler Stitcher.

Double Knit Quilt

What are you going to do with all of that vintage double knit fabric? You could make a leisure suit or you could make a quilt! I'm not quite sure what to do with this thing. Will there be a double knit category at the Des Moines Quilt Show this fall?

The Underground Railroad Quilt

This quilt was a start to finish quilt for Michelle and me. She pieced and bound it an I quilted it. The neighbor woman is a great admirer of quilts but she doesn't sew , so she has been a great customer of ours. She has a brother -in -law that is black and is interested in the Underground Railroad. She and some other family members commissioned us to make this for his birthday this summer. We had such fun doing it. Michelle got the patterns for the blocks from the book "Facts and Fabrications: Unraveling the History of Quilts and Slavery" by Barbara Brackman. I included the names of the blocks and descriptions from the book. Some of the blocks, as you can see, have different names than we know them by. I had a mistake in the block posts....."Birds in the Air" is a block to recall freedom.

Tim

Underground Railroad

"Jacob's Ladder"
A block to recall buying freedom.
"Slave Chain"
A block to recall the slave's clothing

"Triple Link Chain"
A block to recall family ties.

"Box Quilt"
A block to recall the abolitionist movement.

"Creole Puzzle"
A block to recall free blacks.

Underground Railroad

"Underground Railroad"

A block to recall the network of help.

"Aunt Dinah"
A block to recall Americanization.

"Lincoln's Platform"
A block to recall the Emancipation Proclamation.

"Chained Star"
A block to recall capture in Africa.

"Birds in the Air"
A block to re

Underground Railroad

"Charm"
A block to recall African tradition
"Beauregard Surrounded"
A block to recall the Civil War.

"North Star"
A block to recall abolition fairs.

"Trip Around the World"
A block to recall colinization.

"Cotton Boll"
A block to recall the slave economy.

Underground Railroad

"Christmas Star"
A block to recall the plantation Calendar

"Lost Ship"
A block to recall the ocean voyage.

"Cabin Windows"
Ablock to recall plantation housing.

"Catch Me If You Can"
A block to recall the escape.

"Rocky Road to Kansas"
A block to recall the exodusters.