February Quilt Guild

This month Geralyn presented a demonstration on how to make Flying Geese.  She showed us the traditional way but then presented a much quicker way and one that would make 4 units at a time.  Here is one very short video I found if you want to see the method again.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOoB3CWsR6M


Thanks so much Geralyn!

Jana brought her fun Chevron quilt for Show and Tell.  Made with a layer cake, it sews up quickly.  

Sallie showed us her beautiful hand appliqued, hand quilted quilt that her mother made for her.  This is one that you really need to see in person to appreciate the gorgeous work that went into making this masterpiece.  Definitely a heirloom quilt!

Sallie also showed us her queen size quilt she made for her own bed.  Love the colors in this one!

Holly is making cute applique shirts for her children based on cartoon characters!  I'm sure her kids will be  very excited to wear these!

Margaret was very generous in bringing several pin cushions that she had bought several years ago to share with some lucky ladies!  Names were put in a bowl to be drawn to take home a fun prize!  You can tell Janice, Ellen and Holly were pretty excited to be winners!

We are hoping that we now have enough blocks to make Holly's charity quilt.  Several yellow/aqua blocks were added to what she already has at our meeting.  Since we hopefully have enough blocks for that quilt, Hailey presented a new block/pattern for us to start another humanitarian quilt.  The 12" block pattern is called Friendly Hand and can be found at http://www.quilterscache.com/F/FriendlyHandBlock.html if you didn't get the pattern at our meeting.  We will be making it in the reds/tans combo.  Bring your block to our March meeting to give to Hailey.  You can make as many blocks as you want.

At the end of the evening, everyone who brought a fat quarter was able to exchange for a new FQ.  This night was suppose to be us exchanging the kind of FQ's that you would like to receive for yourself.

Next month we will be exchanging 1 FQ that you DON'T like.  Ohoh!!!  Could be interesting and fun to see what everyone gets!

Also at our March meeting we need to bring 3----6" squares of different fabrics.  We will put them all in a bag and pull out 3 different squares.  We will then be able to take them home and with only being able to add 1 more color, we have to make a quilt block with the fabric.  Should be fun!

Next meeting will be March 21st at 6 p.m. at Valley Fabric Shop.  Don't forget to bring your ugly FQ and your 3----6" blocks.  Also bring your Show and Tells!  It's so fun to see what everyone is working on!