Guild Meeting

The Guild met for our regular monthly meeting Monday night at the Senior Adult Center on Jefferson St. in Benton.

 

Sondra presented a few new block patterns for the 5:30 workshop.  She then asked for those who are participating in this workshop to show the blocks they have made.  Here are just a few of the many lovely blocks:

After the workshop our guest speaker, Mary Schopp gave us an informative and humorous presentation on the behind the scenes workings of her shop, The Rabbit's Lair.  She also brought goodies from her store and set up a table where we enjoyed shopping.

 

At the end of the meeting we had our regular show-and-tell.  I did not get any photos of the many beautiful quilts but may be able to add some later from Tiffanee or you can go to her Facebook page.

~~~~Until next time~~~Gwen

 

First Wednesday

Jean invited us to her home for
First Wednesday  this week.



Her handiwork is displayed throughout her home.  Most of it is hand quilted.

She was particularly excited about showing us her sewing room.

One of the first quilts she made was a whole cloth quilt:

 

Close-up of the quilting in the center medallion:

 

 

Many brought things to work on.  Judy made this miniature with scraps from her Friendship Circle quilt  (see the last "Daytime Stitchers" post).

 

Helen worked on her applique.

 

JoAnn dropped in to show her latest quilt:

 

 



Of course there was food!  Lots of food.  Yummy food.  Jean requested that we all bring salads or desserts and there was quite a delicious array.

Desserts too!

Until next time~~~~Gwen

 

QA

 

The Quiltaholics Anonymous group met today at the Herzfeld Memorial Library in Benton.  It is always a treat to gather with other quilters so we make regular excuses to do that.  There weren't any difficult problems to solve today but as you will see, there is quite a lot of productivity going on! 

Sidney brought this quilt top to show us.  She made it with fabric Troyetta had donated.  She said it was very easy to make.

Cely brought her quilty dolls quilt and worked on the binding.

Windy had 2 spools of yarn to crochet a scarf.

Look how much she got done in an hour!!!

Ann acquired these blocks that had been hand painted.  She was adding some embroidery.

Here is another of Ann's blocks.  The painting isn't finished on this one.


Troyetta worked on some embroidery from the Aurifil blog.  You can still get all the patterns from past and present promotions on this website.


Okay.  This is the back of Pat's wool applique and stitchery.  She adheres a piece of very light weight Sulky  stabilizer to the back of her project.   It gives a cleaner appearance to the front because the traveling stitches don't show.

Now here is the front of the applique!


Another charity quilt completed.


Sidney worked on more hexigons.


Marguerite finished this redwork patriotic stitchery.

She started this Fall stitchery on Thursday of last week and already has this much done!


Fay worked on some little flowers for her applique quilt.  This little flower is not quite 2" across and has 5 petals and 2 centers. 


Pat worked on a block for the 5:30 workshop in the guild.


Sidney finished her Shoreline quilt and brought it to show off.  Those squares are all 1" completed!


Here is a close-up of one corner.


Fay brought this quilt to spray baste.  She is going to quilt it and donate it to the ALS Hopes and Dreams project.


Sidney is showing a charity quilt top made by Bobbi


Beth brought by a charity quilt she had finished quilting.

 

Jean dropped in to show off two more charity quilts that are finished and ready to be donated. 



 

 

Until next time~~~Gwen