January 2009 Meeting

Lucinda's cute snowman tote.

Shelly's Memory Fabric Pages from Quilt University.

Shelly always has something very unique!

Annette had a neat freehand swirl this red and blue pinwheel. Check out that scalloped binding!

January 2009 Meeting

Lisa Potter's first attempt at the longarm. Pretty impressive first project!

Michelle and Tim's Underground Railroad.

Tim and Michelle's Asian "Empty Nest" whole cloth.

Ann's whole cloth. (I posted mine first so I wouldn't have to follow this act!)

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.