We had our meeting tonight at Miriam’s house. Her home is filled with quilts and photos of many family members.
Show and Tell
Janet was planning to join us but she became ill during dinner. Staying home seemed like the best option for the night.
First we all shared our blocks for the special quilt we are making for Cory. Patricia will be preparing the sashing, Harriet will freemotion stitch the squares, and it will be assembled as a quilt-as-you-go project.
Shannon just finished working at a four-day Bernina embroidery show (that Ingrid attended). As the president of her PTSA, she is a very busy gal. Plus she has been working at Fabric Crush.
Flora has been in Pink Land. She showed us three pink quilt tops that are delightful. One is for a late cousin's daughter, one is for a YFer and one is for the Treehouse warehouse. Treehouse supplies clothing and necessities for foster kids. Flora is committed to making quilts for this cause and welcomes any juvenile fabric that you may have. Flora is also finishing up a stole project.
Flora’s friend Diane joined us tonight to show the finished Volkswagen quilt. This is the one that Flora made with Diane's granddaughter. The quilt is filled with memories and healing qualities—fabric from a favorite shirt of a recently lost grandpa and buttons from the collection of a recently lost grandmother.
Diane R, with a sprained her ankle, cross stitched placemats with a strawberry design while we met. She showed us a remarkable quilt made with an eight-person round robin group over a two-year period. Diane had photos of all the quilts made by the group and hers was definitely the winner.
Susan brought a wonderful baby quilt, in progress, that was her first foray into machine quilting. It will probably be finished by the weekend which is even more remarkable as she is in the middle of a major home renovation.
Miriam showed off her Quilting Girl socks before producing her finished YF quilt. She also brought out a whole cloth quilt that contains the WSU school motif—which might be useful for a YFer who is going on to Pullman.
Patricia brought tales of an anime quilt she made for a patient at Children’s Hospital and news of Maurine in southern California. Visit okanarts.blogspot.com to see the anime quilt and Maurine’s most recent quilt project. She also delivered a plaid YF quilt and a high-contrast log cabin House of Healing quilt from Maurine.
Harriet wowed us with another knock-your-socks-off YF quilt. Titled Fish Ladder, it’s a quilt-as-you-go production with wonderful freemotion stitching. On the back of the richly colored quilt is a square patterned fabric that Harriet bought from Sarah at her Fabric Crush store.
Ingrid took a Bernina class with Diane R and showed us her sampler. She also progressed on her Girl Scouts quilt top. Her first quilt, with orange-ish fabric, has been machine quilted by Diane and is ready to be bound by Janet.
