Christmas Party 2010

 

13 members celebrated our Guild Christmas Party today at Danny Boy's restaurant in Sandusky this afternoon after a brief business meeting!  We all brought a white Elephant gift to exchange! We had a great meal (everyone ordered what they liked from the menu).  Some us even brought home doggie bags!   

There were a couple of sew 'n tells: 

Carolyn brought a big bag of loot from her recent trip to California!  Fabrics, patterns, magazines, etc, and all so "Carolyn" in her favorite colors!               

I brought in my finished scrappy Wedding Rings top.  It looks pretty cool with the light shining from behind the quilt . . .

Hope everyone enjoys the Holiday's!

November 2010 Meeting

The picture above is the Guild's 2010-11 Raffle Quilt.  We all worked on the blocks at last months meeting and Doris has been busy sewing all of those blocks together.  It's now ready to be taken to a local longarmer!

This months meeting was really exciting as we had several demos:

• English Paper Piecing
• Lil' Twister and the Twister rulers
• No Waste Flying Geese
• 10 minute Block

I think everyone really had a great time with the demos.

So here are the results of our Sew 'n Tell

This is one of the first quilts that Pam made.  It's a rag quilt and the shot below is of the bottom portion of the quilt which I seemed to have cut-off in the picture to the left . . .

Rhonda is making several of these cute trees for family members!

Roberta is making these cute snowmen for her family members - she must of had at least a dozen of them!

Kathy made a cover for a pillow and a machine embroidered angel for the top of a tree!

Linda B made this quilt for our guild service project, a local shelter

Here is another quilt for the shelter made by Linda

Linda also made a cute flip flop tote!

Doris made a quilt from a classic block pattern found in the Nov/Dec 10 issue of Quiltmaker magazine. 
This classic block was re-designed by Anita Grossman Solomon and utilizes a revolutionary piecing technique.



 

Here is a foundation pieced string quilt made by Doris!

Here's another from Doris with a neat border fabric - and she even mitered the corners - very impressive!

Doris also made this Paddington Bear quilt.  It was a long time in the making for a family member - looks like it was worth the wait though!

Pat M made this cute bag to hold the essentials, credit cards, and a cell phone! 

This is just one of several blocks that Jane's daughter, Kelly, who is a beginner quilter, brought to show us. 

Carol finished the quilt for her daughter, it's machine quilted and bound! 

Here's a purse Carol modified with pockets to suit her needs!

Here's Eileen with a baby quilt suitable for a boy that she was working on at our Guild Retreat last month.  It's done!

Here's Eileen again, this time with a baby quilt for a little girl and it's done too!

Kare just needs to add borders to this top she was working on at the guild retreat . . .   

 The end!

October 2010 Meeting

 This month's meeting was well attended, especially by gnats, but that didn't stop us! After the business portion of our meeting, several of us stayed to work on the 2011 Guild Raffle Quilt! We got all but two of the blocks done! Now the committee will be assembling all of those blocks into rows. A special thanks to all the members who stayed to help with that project!





 We all got a "massage" from Irene with her little magnetic roller thingy!  It felt great and was really relaxing.  Look at this pic of Deb, she is in "the zone"!

 Rhonda showed us a cute Tote Bag she completed!

 and Linda B has been sewing away making quilts for our service project (a local women's shelter). 

 Here's a crazy quilt top also made by Linda B.

 and to frost the cake, Linda B made 20 pillowcases for a local shelter too!

 Sue T was recently in JoAnn Fabrics and saw a clutch made from Duct Tape . . . she researched it online and made one - it was really cute!

 Sue T was also inspired from the tote that Kathy W showed at the September meeting and decided she wanted one like it, so this is Sue's version!

 Here is a quilt Sue T made and the blocks have embroidered cats on them and they all resemble her cats!  Just how many cats do you have Sue?

 This is the back of the cat quilt - it was just as cute as the front!

 Joanne finished her 2010 Guild Retreat Quilt.  Leave it to Joanne to finish it before our next Guild Retreat on the 16 + 17th of this month . . . I'm just sayin' . . .  

  Joanne also showed us a  recently completed large wall hanging of English Paper Piecing.  Joanne will be teaching a class on this technique at the LQS and the November Guild Meeting.  Hope to see you there!

September 2010 Meeting

We had lots to sew 'n tell at today's meeting!

This is Carolyn's first quilt and she is one of our newest members!  It's a Suduko pattern in bright greens, yellows and purples with black borders that she is making for her daughter!

Doris has been working overtime making 8 pillowcases for the Guild service project!

 Kathy was taking a class on this new design technique and was supposed to be making a backgammon board, but she doesn't know how to play, so she made a tote instead!

Here is Deb with her completed Jacob's Ladder that she HAND QUILTED . . . it's taken her 2 years to finish it and it's gorgeous! 

These are Rhonda's Guild BOM blocks

This is Mary's Guild BOM block!

Jeanette made this gorgeous red + white sawtooth star!

Carolyn showed this top in July, but now it's finished!  The top was started by Jeanette and Carolyn's Mom and Carolyn finished the quilt for her - it's gorgeous!

This is a quilt Kare found online and tweaked it a little from the free pattern that was posted on Patchwork Times - it's called Scraps Ahoy!

Karen has made another quilt from one of Pat Speth's books More Nickel Quilts.  It is going to be a king size quilt when she adds the two borders!

July 2010 Meeting

The following pictures are of some embroidery blocks that Kathy has been constructing in classes in Upper Sandusky!  The yellow cone flower is my favorite!

Pat attended the meeting with 2 of her grandchildren!

This quilt was made by Carolyn for a family member in California!

The quilt with the flying green geese was made by Carolyn several years ago . . . Carolyn's Mom saw her quilt, liked it and decided to make one for herself and made her flying geese pink!  Same quilt, just different color schemes. 

Here is Mary with her Guild BOM blocks!