Pat, Jana, Pam, Rachel, Amanda, Deb, Rachel, Sherry, Glenn, Diane, Patsy, Jen, Jan, Carol
Upcoming Meetings:
- Mar 10
- Apr 14
- May 12
- June 9
Demo Sign up:
- We need volunteers to do demos at the meetings.
- Mar - Freezer Paper Applique - Deb
- Apr - ?
Retreat:
- We took deposits for the retreat.
- We have 8 going.
Upcoming Sewing Saturdays:
- Feb 21 - Ginormous Tote Workshop Please print off or have the tutorial on your phone/tablet. We will not be distributing the tutorial. The designer is excited that we are doing her tote as a sew along and hopes to see pictures of finished totes. She said the longest time will be doing the quilting. Please have your blocks/tote fabric created before you come or else you won’t finish in one day!
- Mar 14 - No Sewing Saturday due to Retreat Weekend
- Apr 4 - Stack and Whack Workshop - You will need 6 repeats of a large print fabric
- Apr 25 - Strips and Curves Workshop
- May 16
- June 6
- June 27 - Charity Quilt Assembly Day
Library Quilt Update:
- We are taking donations of wonky houses and trees for a quilt to be made to benefit the library.
- We would like the blocks made with a white or a white on white background. The color and size of the houses are up to you. Have fun with them! There are lots of tutorials online on how to make wonky houses.
- The quilts hanging will be swapped out for new ones the first or second week in April. Please consider loaning a quilt or two to be displayed. Repeats are always accepted as well.
- If you would like to sell a quilt, the library suggests a 20% donation if it sells.
- We discussed the possibility of doing a bookshelf quilt on a Sewing Saturday
Charity Quilt Update:
- Deb is going to contact St Judes to find out exact sizes requested as well as if skull fabrics can be used for quilts since they are so popular right now. We are girl fabric heavy. Please consider making some boyish quilt blocks if possible.
- Missouri Star has a skateboard quilt that would be great for boy fabrics. White or white on white backgrounds are great.
- The current block would also be great in more masculine prints.
Madison Station Quilters:
A representative from the MSQ contacted is to see if anyone in our guild would be to come to their March 12 meeting to give a talk on what is modern quilting and show off some quilts if possible. Nobody stepped forward to give a talk. We hope to be invited to do this in the future.
Project Linus:
- The guild was contacted tonight about a Project Linus mystery quilt/contest/fundraiser.
- Information can be found here http://www.projectlinus.org/lukey/ for those that are interested.
- It costs $15 to participate. It is a mystery quilt do no info about what kind of quilt it will be is unknown. There are cash/product prizes.
Show and Tell:
Pat showed
- a skateboard quilt top
- a wonky house block
- a modern log cabin quilt top
- a St. Patrick's Day wall hanging
- a drunkards path block
- a photo of a quilt she made for her mom
- a pick up stick quilt and "boxer short" fabric for the back
- a wonky house block
- pink and orange charity quilt
- 3 tops using drunkard path blocks.
- One was abstract animals and two are charity quilt tops.
Demo:
Sherry demoed a method for creating Drunkards Path blocks using the Circle Savvy ruler with very little waste and Deb shared a tip for sewing them together accurately.