One day after Valentine’s a group of seven quilters met at Patricia’s home. It was a fun evening of sharing and caring.
Show and Tell
To start, Patricia gave us an update on Maurine. She’s at home, getting around gently with a walker and cane, and still healing. There’s still distance to go to be 100%. All the same, Maurine ordered up air tickets to get to the grand opening of Quilt National in May to celebrate her daughter’s acceptance in the international show.
Patricia had no quilts to show as she just dropped her recent creations off at a photo studio to get documented. (See those photos above.) She did show us her recent acquisition—a full set of DMC machine embroidery thread for free-motion quilting.
Pris has returned! She showed us a wonderful quilted pillow that she made for fun with hand stitched piecing and quilting. The back is a pretty fabric filled with little birds—all of God’s children.
Miriam reported that she has almost finished her YF quilt! She brought a fun fabric composition of the Colorado state flag with a rick rack detail.
Ingrid has been busy learning about her Bernina—a commitment that included going to the Bernina Conference for four and a half days. She showed us photos of finished projects so we could see the quilt she whipped up for a teacher in June, a quilt she made in five days for a new couple, and her Girl Scout cookie quilt.
Janet wowed us with the beginning of her YF quilt—made with some of the shirts she collected last year for her YF quilt. The bold design is from a Kaffe Fassett book.
Harriet, with her new swish haircut, has been thinking about the Stiers quilt. She brought a remarkable collection of African fabrics in yellows, warm tones and blacks, and sold us on the idea of a dramatic quilt for classy Brenda and her farm-boy husband. She and Flora are going to sew together the top to get that project started.
Flora amazed even herself with a nightgown she made with a worn-out nightgown as the pattern. Then she pulled out four fun baby tops out her bag made with fabrics that were sitting around her studio. And gave us an update on her needlepoint project.
The evening ended with some chocolate nibbling and the adoption of giveaway fabrics sent over by Diane. One of the tops found in the pile will be finished up by Flora for a YF quilt.
