december 10 meeting

We gathered at Shannon’s Christmas-decorated home for our December meeting.

Show & Tell
Our first topic of conversation was Maurine. She’s still in rehab and expecting to be there until the middle of January. Each day she works hard to get stronger and is exhausted from her efforts.

Shannon told us about an altar table shawl she made for Bethany Church. It was grey cotton with camelias painted on one side and a bright green pattern with butterflies on the other. Shannon finished the shawl with shallow scalloped edges. It was presented for Bethany’s 10th anniversary.

Although she hasn’t started on it yet, Shannon showed us her collection of dot fabric for her YF quilt.

David and Christopher joined us for a few minutes. We chatted and shared our tiered plates of holiday cookies.

Miriam has been busy with Christmas kitchen doilies. She’s also started her YF scrap quilt. She got the dotted purpley background fabric from In The Beginning. Her selection of scraps include everything!—Christmas, golf balls, plaids—the beginning of a true Miriam signature piece.

Miriam helped an English policewoman get the quilting bug. Already her friend has made a nine-patch by hand! What an inspiration.

Diane has been MIA so we’re thrilled to see her back. Her wonderful piece was a cross-stitch pillow for her sister. All around the chicken are half-stitches which are twice as fast as a full stitch (easy math!). Throughout the meeting, Diane was hand stitching on another project. Always busy hands!

With the kids gone, Diane is getting ready to paint inside her home. Go Girl.

Janet and Kelly made a baby quilt together! Kelly helped pick out the fabric and pattern, and cut out the pieces. Janet stitched the quilt together—a gift for a work associate of Kelly’s.

Janet took 20 of her necklaces to a craft sale at work and sold 16! That was affirming. She is also making a fun “quote” quilt for a baby at her work.

Patricia showed us two projects that she’s finishing up for display in Fabric Crush to promote her Japanese fabric Trunk Show in early February. She also talked about an ambitious fundraising project she’s going to produce in 2011 for the La Conner Quilt Museum.

The evening ended with a look at Barry Kahn’s art in Shannon’s home and in a retrospective book. Barry, David’s dad, died when he was 42. He was a prolific artist who made very intense pieces. Our discussion brought him back to life for a few minutes.