This month we decided to make a couple of boy quilts for the Make a Child Smile organization. We will be making the 10-minute block with the centers being the same fabric and our blocks being fabrics from home. Misty showed us how to make the block again. The video can be found here if you need help. Just click on the link to take you to the You Tube video.
Hailey showed us her darling baby's lil' dress that she made without a pattern! So cute!
Gorgeous quilt from Yvonne! The colors were beautiful all together. Notice the braid border. What a wonderful quilt for someone special!
Debbie shared her wonderful Fall quilt. The green gives it such a wonderful pop of color with the gray and brown blocks!
Janice is continuing to learn to quilt her quilts with her sewing machine. What a sweet quilt for a special little one!
Makayla will soon be learning to sew and her mom, Misty, made her a sewing bag to take to class each week! So cute!
Dawn demonstrated how she prepares her quilts to sew on her sewing machine. She tapes her backing fabric onto the floor with masking tape so it won't move. Then she sprays Sullivan's Quilt Basting Spray onto the fabric. Walmart carries it. Layers her batting, then her top onto each other.
Dawn then pins and pins all three layers together. She uses a handy tool called the Kwik Klip to pin all the pins closed.
This is Dawn's favorite book that helped teach her how to machine quilt on the sewing machine. You can find it on Amazon for a penny for a used copy!
She also gave us some hints during her demo. She likes to use Blue Water Soluble pens to mark her quilting patterns. Friction pens work good too as does the Chalk Roller.
Dawn uses a walking foot for quilting straight lines and a darning foot for curves.
Very interesting demo. Thank you Dawn for sharing your talent!
Next month's demo will be given by Ellen. Our meeting will be October 17th at 6 p.m.
Bring back your 10 minute blocks to our next meeting.
And do I dare say, bring your 2.5" x WOF strips to play Strip Poker!
