Christmas Party

Had a great time at our Christmas dinner and exchange!  Yvonne and Dawn brought a couple of show and tells.

A pinecone made by folding 2 1/2" squares.  The fabric made it look so real!

Yvonne made a beautiful and fun Christmas quilt!  

Next meeting is January 16th at 6 p.m. at Valley Fabric!  Hope to see you all there!  Bring your friends along too---the more the merrier!  If you have any quilt blocks that need to be turned in (like me) please bring them so we can get the charity quilts finished.

November Meeting

What a brisk, cold night we had for our meeting in November!  Since there were only a handful of women that came, we put off our demo until January.

Misty did bring the flimsy's she has sewn from our blocks that we have contributed the last few months.  If you have any 10 minute blocks at home, please bring them to our December meeting so we can finish up our humanitarian quilts for the year.
 

 

Next month is our annual Christmas Party!  We will again have a pot luck.  A few of us are bringing soups so please bring whatever you would like to compliment them!
VERY IMPORTANT INFO:
our December party will start at 5 p.m. (NOT our usual 6 time)!!!!!!!
Starting earlier will give parents and grandparents time to get to the Ft. Bridger concert.

We will also have a GIFT EXCHANGE.  Bring a gift that costs no more than $5.  It can be anything.
The exchange will begin at 5:30 p.m.

See you at our December meeting on December 19th at 5 p.m.!

October 2013 Meeting

We had a fun meeting in October!  First off is Show-n-Tell:
Misty practiced her quilting skills with these cute panels and quilting them on her machine.  Very nicely done!  If you click on the picture, you might be able to see the bling she put on each panel too!
 

Debbie made a gorgeous quilt and then quilted it herself using a longarm.  She traveled to St. George, Utah and used one of the longarms at Let's Quilt.  Click on the store name to find out more about it.  Debbie had never used a longarm before and look how great she did!  Cost was $15/hour and took her about 4 hours to quilt.  So impressive!

Debbie also made this scarf for Cherie, who is posing in her best "Vanna" pose!

Cherie showed us a fun Halloween quilt!  She made her own pattern.  So Cute!  The borders surrounding the ghosts are small pockets where she can put candy.  The ghosts are made of tricot with button eyes. 

Closer look at details.

Cherie also made a gorgeous table topper.  Similar to a bargello quilt but is called a Stargello.  Cherie will be teaching a class on how to make these tabletoppers here.

Our demo this month was by Ellen.  She showed us how to make fat quarter bags.  What a fun way to use up our fq's that we have in our stash!  

Notice the bling on this bag!  These would be fun to make for the little girls in your life!

I can't believe I am going to say this!!!!!  We ACTUALLY played STRIP POKER!  Was fun being able to win other ladies strips.  Some ladies were more lucky than others though I noticed!

Cherie was very generous in bringing prizes to play another game.  I was one of the lucky winners and found lots of charm squares with a Western theme as my prize.  I think there are enough squares to actually make a whole quilt.  Thank you Cherie!

To play the game, everyone was given a paper plate.  Cherie told everyone that she was going to flip a coin and you had to guess if it was going to be heads or tails.  So we all had to put the paper plate either on our head or cover our behinds.  Ummmmm.....you can see that Cherie was getting a kick out of her game here!

Of course so was everyone else!  Again, thank you Cherie for your generosity!

We are wrapping up making Humanitarian quilts for the year but decided to make 2 more 10-minute block quilts---this time for girls.  We will use purple and pink for the centers of the blocks.

Here are a couple of pictures of the boy blocks we made last month.

They really turned out cute!

Remember to bring back your blocks next month if you took fabric to make one.
Our guild meeting will be the 3rd Thursday, November 21 at 6 p.m.
Demo will be by Jana and Janice.
Next year we would like to make a quilt for ourselves.  Be thinking of what we can do as a guild, whether it be a Row Quilt, Round Robin, Mystery, ????  Come with your ideas and how we can make it work for our guild!

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!