Daytime Stitchers

Daytime Stitchers met at the Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library in Benton Monday morning. 




Jo gave a tutorial on making stuffed pumpkins. 

She had materials available to copy her patterns. 

 

Using the pumpkin shape, cut 4 pairs of fabric, right sides together.  Stitch around each pair with a 1/4 inch seam, leaving the bottom edge open.  Clip curves and turn right side out.   Fold 1/4 inch of the bottom edges to the inside on each pair.  Then stack all the pairs and stitch down the middle through the whole stack.  This will give you 8 sections of the pumpkin.  Stuff each section and then stitch the openings closed by hand.
 Add leaves and stem.

After the tutorial everyone showed us what they were working on. 

Jill brought one of her Sunbonnet Sue blocks. 

Charlotte has finished her Sunbonnet Sue quilt top:

 

Using a honeybun, Cathy made a cute little skirt for her granddaughter and was working on a matching blouse.  Check out her wool pincushion: 

 

 

 

Marguerite brought several things to show us.  The pastel carpenter's star is finished except for the corners.  She ran out of the fabric she had intended to use for the corners so was asking for our adviceon what to use in its place.   The red and green paisley is fabric that she needs

 to complete another quilt.  If you have any of this fabric and

you are willing to share, please let her know.

 

 



 

Marguerite has also been busy embroidering and learning how to make in-the-hoop projects.  She made these Easter egg zip pouches and digitized the design for a t-shirt.  She also brought some hand embroidery that is colored with crayons.  She will be doing a program for us on this technique.

 Cely is almost finished with her quilty friends paper doll blocks! 

 

Sue has finished piecing her quilty friends quilt!  (I need to get busy!!)

 

 

 Jane is sewing the binding on a table runner that she recently made.

 

She has also made several infinity scarves.  (I caught her mid-demo.)

Pat had several pincushions she had made.  These are filled with crushed walnut shells. 

Cheri was working on knitting a pot holder.

Shirley is working on a wool applique.

She was wearing a jacket she had made with fabric she had "created" using the quilt-by-the-mile technique.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miss Beulah was working on knitting a scarf:

 

Jo brought another lovely piece of redwork:

 

Henrietta was working on this cute little stitchery from Plum Creek Collectibles. 

 The pattern is available here .

 

Linda brought this stamped cross-stitch.  It is going to be beautiful when it is all completed.

 

 

 Sharon was busy making ties to go on a bumper pad for a new grandbaby.

 

 

Patsy was working on a bullseye quilt.  She had a stack of completed blocks that were very colorful.



 

Nola was busy making dozens of tissue covers using the pattern that Windy gave us

in a previous tutorial.

 

 

Kathrine got her rail fence quilt finished and was working on the binding.

 

Jean is getting ready for Quilt Mania and has started a new applique project.  She shared her technique for applique which involves turning and basting each piece before appliqueing it on the fabric.  Sh-h-h....don't tell JoAnn she is not doing needle turn!!!  (I think this method looks easiest!) 

 

Can you see how the fabric is clipped and turned and basted?

 

As you can see we were all quite busy and look very productive.  Why don't you join us next time? 

Until next time~~~~Gwen

 

 

 

 

 

Guild Meeting

Kim Puska from New Beginnings was our guest speaker at the guild meeting tonight.  We have donated several quilts to this organization and Kim told us what an impact these quilts have had on the clients who have received them.   

After Kim's presentation, we had show and tell.
Fay showed a quilt she has finished.  On the front she used blocks made from Maggie Ball's class

On the back she used blocks made from a class she took years ago where different log cabin techniques were explored.

Shirley made another bull's eye quilt.

Celey quilted several charity quilts:

 

 

Sharon shows her quilt:

Gayle made a quilt for a grandchild:

Beth shared a quilt that was pieced by her grandson:

Pat started this quilt some time ago:

Pat showed a purse she made.  She will be teaching a Saturday workshop on how to make this bag:

Until next time~~~Gwen

1st Wednessday

Phyllis graciously hosted First Wednesday at her home today.   It is always a treat to gather with quilty friends and even better when there is food involved!  I forgot my camera today (see earlier blog posts regarding camera issues!) so Shirley agreed to be our guest photographer/blogger.  Take it away, Shirley:

Marge looks like she is having a great time.

 

Jean is working on her latest project.

Marilyn working on her project.  We all had fun sharing all of our projects.

 

Miss Beulah enjoying the conversation.

 

Henrietta and Jo are obviously having a great time.

 

Windy and Gwen enjoying 1st Wednesday today. And the smiles are before we had lunch! 

 

 Phyllis getting things ready for us to dig in.  

Another group enjoying the good food at First Wednesday.

 

For those of you that have never been to First Wednesday, you are missing out on a great time of friendship and lots of wonderful food.

Thank you, Shirley for your photos and captions and thank you, Phyllis for opening your home to us again.  Until next time~~~Gwen