Saturday, January 24, 2009

january 09 meeting









show and tell

Flora says that she got slowed down during the holidays due to a houseguest, but her huge bags of projects belied that comment. She brought a pristine table runner, a button robe she made for the Burke Museum, a quilt top made with little houses for YF (when finished), a quilt top made with lots of novelty fabrics for a young friend, and a plush quilt for a nephew with an ocean/sky motif and bold black stripes that she just finished on her longarm. Phewww.

Pat showed us a quilt top made with green squares that she made for her group’s Adopt-An-Apartment. Then she got out her crazy quilt samples—a vest, Christmas stockings, and a tea cozy. Her level of stitching and ribbon embroidery is remarkable and crazy.

Shannon joined us—which was lovely! She's been busy making cards and knitting. She gets her sewing fix making samples at work—the Bernina NW store.

Patricia displayed the fabrics she bought in Tokyo over the holidays and a baby boy quilt with primary colors and an asymmetric pattern.

Diana joined us for the first time. Never having attended a Piecemakers meeting before, she assumed it was a sewing session. With a bag full of memory clothes from her family, Pat gave Diana a demo for making a crazy quilt square on the set-up sewing machine.

Miriam is another busy bee. She showed us a yellow and red quilt she made for YF. Then she produced a table cloth, napkins and a gorgeous matching quilt that she made for another Adopt-An-Apartment. (As Miriam didn't have an apartment in mind, Diana was given the set as her Boy Scout troop is working to furnish an apartment with the $200 it raised.) Finally Miriam had a bag of plump ruby grapefruits to distribute to us. Yum.