April 2011 Meeting

 It was an exciting and informative meeting today with several guests in attendance.  Joanne gave a presentation on entering quilts in local fairs and quilt shows. 


First up with sew 'n tell is a fussy cut Winnie the Pooh Quilt made by Eileen.  I didn't notice it when I took the picture, but the boxes all appear to have a shadow - what a cool effect Eileen, great job!

This is the hexagon project aka Grandmother's Flower Garden, that Eileen was working on at our Guild Retreat last month, and she is almost finished with the wreath. 

 Another one by Eileen made from a package of charm squares.  The pattern was on the April 2011 front cover of American Patchwork & Quilting magazine.  Eileen tweaked the outer border using piano keys instead of the flying geese.
  

This is Eileen's last sew 'n tell, a quilt top that is soon to become a Twister Quilt!  Hopefully at next months meeting she will have that top completed so we can all see a before & after . . . that is a subtle hint Eileen!

This is Mary's Stash Digger Quilt from the guild 2011 February Retreat and it looks great!

Two of today's several guests brought sew 'n tells with them.  This one belongs to Terri and it was gorgeous.  It is all applique and that center basket/vase is absolutely stunning!

This is another quilt of Terri's and this was was made from all of her scraps!  It was gorgeous too!

These are 2 purses that Terri made too that were embellished with machine embroidery!

This was another guest, Janice, who brought her miniature wall hanging in for us to enjoy!  The flowers were dimensional + awesome!

This machine embroidered purse was made by member Kathy W.  Unfortunately, I did not get a picture of the zipper pull !

Here is Janice again with her machine embroidered purse!

This is Kathy W's Twister quilt

Kathy sure has been busy, this is her Stretched Star quilt

This is Kathy W's Double Pinwheel Quilt!

This is Roberta's Spring Fling quilt top!  Really Springy!

These next two pictures are of an online program Roberta is participating in.  It's a Row Robin - this first picture was sent to her be another program participant and Roberta now has to add a row of blocks to it.  The blocks could be any pattern and she is allowed to choose colors as long as they are in the original color family!  By the time this person gets this back, it will have five rows made by other people!  What a neat idea!

These are the blocks Roberta will be submitting!

This is Janet's "crayon" challenge project from the 2010 Guild Retreat.  Her tote has several pockets inside + out!

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This is Janet's Stashbuster Quilt from our 2010 Guild Retreat!  Great job!

This is Janet's Stash Digger Quilt from this years Guild Retreat!  Janet has been really productive since she finally got a foot control for her machine . . .

This is a t-shirt memory quilt made by Kare

This is a comfort quilt Linda B made for donation!