September 2013

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!

August Guild Meeting

Okay ladies we ARE going to play STRIP POKER in September at our meeting!  Bring lots of 2-1/2" x WOF strips so you can play!  The more strips you bring, the more rounds you will be able to play.

We discussed making another humanitarian quilt with the blocks that Misty demo'd back in January.  You can reread the blog post and watch the video on how to make them here.  Misty will redemonstrate the block at our next meeting too.   We will decide on colors in September that we will use to make the blocks.  This will be a fast quilt and we should be able to make several of them because of their size.

We decided to use the blocks we made in December (see December blog post) to make a quilt for the "Make a Child Smile" charity.

We now have a guild library!  Several members have brought books to share and check out.

Cherie was kind enough to make the softee blanket that the guild presented to Hailey and baby Iva.  Beautiful baby girl Hailey!  Congratulations!


Janice discussed threads with us at our meeting.  In her research, she found that Aurifil Thread and Superior Threads have very good reviews.  She gave us a couple of websites on where to buy good quality thread.  http://www.hawthornethreads.com/threads/aurifil
http://www.superiorthreads.com/
Superior even has an education site on their website that is very interesting.
Janice told us that the higher the weight, the finer the thread.  This can be important when sewing different items.  She talked about tension with our machines.  Also interesting to learn was that spools of threads (different brands) are wound differently from each other.  If your thread is wound criss-crossed, then you should put it on your machine laying on it's side.  If your thread is wound round and round, it should be threaded upright.  Good info to know!

Show N Tell:

Jana was busy sewing little girl clothes for her granddaughters.  She was able to get all 6 of the grandchildren together for the first time and they had a photo shoot!  Patterns were found online in Esty shops.

Diane made a fun pocket quilt for her granddaughter.  Each pocket has fun bling on it!  So cute!

Janice made cute lil' ties for her little guys!

Janice also cut, sewed, bound AND quilted her pretty quilt!  First time she has quilted one of her quilts and she did a fantastic job with it!

Cherie brought several table toppers that she has made with the 5&10 Ruler.  Valley Fabric does carry the ruler.  You can also find the ruler here, along with videos on how to use these rulers from Phillips Fiber Art.

 

 

Gale finished her Labyrinth Walk quilt.  It is gorgeous!  It is a pattern by Chris Florence and Emily Sirkin and can be found in Quilt Magazine issue April/May 2012.  If you can't find that issue you can purchase the pattern here.   I was interested in knowing more about the designer and found he has a blog you can read here.  

Not sure who is demoing for our September meeting.  If it is YOU, it's YOUR turn on September 19th at 6 p.m.
And remember don't forget your strips!!!!!!!

July Guild Meeting

It's the middle of summer but we still had a good turnout for Guild Meeting this month!

First up is Show N Tell.
Ellen has been busy at her sewing machine!  Last month we talked about Jelly Roll Race quilts so she brought a couple to share with us.  Love how she split it into triangles.  Notice the pinwheels and dragonflies.

A closer look at a dragonfly.  It's body is puffy paint!

Another Jelly Roll Race quilt in country colors.  Love the ric rac and flanging she added to the border.

Ellen also showed us one of her baby sensory toys.  This one is a cute elephant with crinkly ears and ribbons.  Babies would love to get their hands on this!

 

Janice brought her beautiful batik quilt to share with us.  Love the colors!  Reminds me of a desert sky.

Was fun to see some other Jelly Roll Race quilts.  These are from Misty.  The first one was made with a layer cake.  She split the layer cake in half then sewed end on end with the fabrics.  So different than the quilts made with a jelly roll but just as fast to sew.

This one was sewn together on angles.  

And this one is also a Jelly Roll Race quilt but at the ends of each strip, Misty added a square of fabric.  All so different with just a little change!

In January, Misty showed us how to make these large 10 minute blocks.  If you jump back to the January blog entry here you will find the video on how to make this block.  Love how it all came together!  The colors are gorgeous!

Linda gave a great lecture on different types of batting.  We learned how many options we really have when we are getting ready to finish our quilts.  I learned that bamboo and wool batting will not leave creases in your folded quilts like some of the other battings do.  Very informative.

All listening intently as Linda speaks.

Misty also shared a couple of websites that have alot of quilt patterns:
victorianaquiltdesigns.com
Hopefully this link will go straight to the Diagional Strips Baby Quilt that goes along with the Jelly Roll Race theme we had at our meeting.
antiquecityquilters.com
This was another great pattern site.  The link should take you to the Wyoming Quilt.

And last but not least....Janice shared this with us from the fb page of Handi Quilter:


Next month our meeting with be August 15th at 6 p.m.  Invite your quilty friends!
Janice will be in charge of the demo that evening.
We really are going to play Strip Poker one of these days.  I hope it will be in August!  Bring lots of 2 1/2" x wof (jelly roll size strips) to play!
Also bring your favorite quilt book to share with everyone.  If you have quilt books that you are willing to loan out, bring those too and we will set up a library system to share our books.


See you next month!

June Quilt Meeting

Was nice to see several more ladies come to our meeting last week!  May was pretty sparse!

We discussed several items of business this month.

A few members want to hold a quilt retreat at Bear Lake in August or September.  If you would like to join in on the fun, please come to our next meeting where more information will be available!  Cost is approximately $39/night.  Not bad at all for a fun quilty weekend!

Demo in July will be given by Linda Bradshaw.

Misty has extra Flag blocks so keep sewing and bring your blocks to our next meeting so she can make another quilt top from them.  See the picture below of the first set of blocks!  What a fun quilt!

If you are interested in making quilts for sick children at Primary's, the quilts need to be ready to show at the Heritage Barn dinner/quilt show in July.  Details can be given to you at Valley Fabric.

During our meeting we discussed different ideas on making our quilt blocks or quilts with Guild members.

One of these months we WILL play "Strip Poker" with our fabric strips!  Bring your 2 1/2" strips to our next meeting and hopefully we can play the game!  That is 2 1/2" x WOF.  Similar to jelly roll strips.  You can cut your own from your own fabric or use fabric strips from jelly rolls you don't want.  The more strips you bring, the more fun you will have!

On with our Show and Tell:
Dawn brought a couple of very pretty quilts to show.  The first one is a baby quilt.  The pastels are so pretty.


Here is her gorgeous Bloomin' 9 Patch!  Love the soft colors!

Our first Humanitarian quilt top that Misty is making.

Next meeting will be July 18th at 6 p.m. at Valley Fabric.  Invite your quilty friends to come!  We would love to get to know more quilters in our area!
Bring your Flag blocks and your 2 1/2" strips too!  The Flag block pattern can be found on the blog in the April Meeting notes.

May Meeting

Not very many ladies showed up for our May meeting.  I know I can't believe it is already getting to be the end of May!  By unanimous vote, we decided to wait til June to play the Strip Poker Game.  Recheck the April blog post to see what to bring.  Also, continue to sew your Flag quilt blocks and bring them next month.  Pattern is posted in the April blog post.

Our show and tell:
Yvonne paper pieced this beautiful table topper!  The colors are gorgeous together!

She also made this runner for her table.

Gale has been busy doing some Redwork!  The pattern for the stitchery is from Wal-Mart.  Lovely work!  Her fabric in her borders even matches the theme!

Yvonne also made this colorful quilt for her granddaughter who is graduating this month.  Who wouldn't love having a quilt like this on their bed at college?!

A heirloom treasure for a special girl!

See you June 20th...6 p.m. at Valley Fabric!  Remember to bring your Flag blocks and your 2.5" strips to exchange!

April Quilt Meeting

First I need to thank Emily and Misty for helping with this month's blog post!  I appreciate the pictures and notes you took for those of us that missed the meeting.

First up was showing the blocks we made with our 3-6" squares we picked last month.  I don't know about anyone else, but I know that I had a tough time figuring out how to fit them into a 10" block!  Thank goodness we could add one more color to the mix.   Everyone was so creative!  Was fun...we will need to do it again sometime!

Cherie brought some of her projects she has been working on.  Always love tabletoppers!

Beautiful with the Stonehenge Fabric!

Charla showed a few new ideas from her shop, Valley Fabric.  Cute apron made from a man's shirt!  You can even take the sleeves and make bags from them.

Darling baby quilt!

Fun Row by Row quilt with the popular Sock Monkey fabric.

Our quilt BOM will be a Patriotic quilt to donate to the VA Hospital in Cheyenne.  Misty made up the Uncle Sam quilt block samples.  The pattern can be found at Moda Bake Shop here.  Bring your block to our next Guild meeting.

Holly showed a Blooming 9-Path she made for her demonstration.  The is a great pattern for large floral prints.  The pattern is in the "Tradition with a Twist" book that you can find here.

So pretty!

 

Gale shared tips on piping.  Ellen showed the group how she used piping on her finished "Let It Snow" quilt from the BOM contest, where she won 2nd place.

At the end of the meeting the ladies that brought an ugly fq had an exchange.  Still not seeing much "ugliness" in those fabrics ladies!

For our May Guild Meeting please bring 2.5" strips WOF to participate in the Strip Poker Game!  The more you bring, the more rounds you will get to play!  Should be fun!

FYI:
April 26-May 11:  Onthetrailshophop.com including shops in Wyoming/Utah/Idaho.
May 9-11:  Home Quilting Machine Show at South Towne Expo in SLC  visit hmqs.org for more info.
May 2013: Valley Fabric Shop will be participating in a Shop Hop.
June 2013: Quilting on the Green in Green River, WY.

Next meeting:  May 16th at 6 p.m.