January 2010 Meeting

Today we had our January meeting and we had a workshop afterwards to go over the pre-cutting and sewing instructions for the Mystery Quilt. The Mystery Quilt will be constructed at our February Retreat!  This year we will have 24 members attending the weekend retreat and I will be posting pictures as soon as I return home for everyone to enjoy!  Below are the pictures from today's sew 'n tell:

First up is Deb with a Christmas Tree wall hanging  and then an "I Spy" quilt for her grandson to use at Preschool!

Next up, Janet made several pillowcases for a local shelter.  Two of the pillowcases she made would be suitable for a woman as she made them from some floral fabrics.  They were very pretty, don't know why any of the rest of us hadn't thought about the adults that may be in the shelter too as we have all been making pillowcases from children's novelty fabrics!  The other two pillowcases were made from some Halloween fabrics!

Janet has been busy finishing her version of the Guilds BOM.  She isn't really happy about her choice of the rust colored fabric for the sashing, but everyone else thought it was a great choice!

Pam was busy making pillowcases too from M&M NASCAR fabric, a ladybug print and a bunny print

This is Joanne with her Thimbleberries Safehaven Quilt that she just picked up from Rachel, the longarmer!  Below is a closeup of the quilting on this quilt - it was exquisite, especially the checkerboard border where Rachel quilted an orangepeel design in each block which makes it look like a cathedral window quilt design!  If you would like to see more of Rachel's work or contact her to have one of your own quilts quilted, click on this link:  Sew Behind

This is another of Joannes quilts called Stacked Coins that was also quilted by Rachel!

This is a quilt that Joanne made for a family member that she quilted herself on her domestic sewing machine!

And lastly is a picture of the sweatshirt I received for Christmas from my granddaughters!