Show & Tell
The meeting started with Patricia showing two quilts tops sent by Maurine that were made by her friend Marty. They are wonderful batik compositions—one will be finished by Flora for a girl YF quilt. The other will get paired with a back and be finished for a boy YF quilt.
Patricia showed a sample yukata quilt that she is uber-stitching by hand. She also talked about a master quilt she is planning to make in the coming year.
Flora shared a sixties-colored quilt that she finished for Plymouth House of Healing. She also raved about her previous weekend weaving workshop. Hosted at her home, a group of native weavers learned from the renowned Salish weaver Susan Pavel. The Friday and Saturday event completely energized and inspired Flora.
Pris showed us her progress on the bird/fish quilt she is making for a 13-year old niece. As she described the quilt, it is filled with unplanned perfection and imperfection.
Pris is cogitating about making a quilt for Emily's (nee Hanson) husband who just got out of Iraq. A series of N-Sid-Sen t-shirts have been collected. Emily and her husband met at N-Sid-Sen at camp and got married there last summer. Plymouth people don't know many people in the military and we should honor them.
Miriam turned 87 on 11/11/11! The birthday girl brought a Christmas teddy-bear that she made with poinsettia and holly fabric. (We can use the bear as a giveaway at church or for an auction.) She's finished her YF quilt already—it's a perfectly wonderful jean quilt that was widely admired by all. Both Patricia and Shannon asked to be on Miriam's blue jean quilt receiver list. Miriam also brought us all gifts—gourmet soaps by Sierra Nevada Soap Company.
Shannon brought two huge piles of giveaway fabric leftover from a friend's garage sale. She has not been feeling well recently.
Harriet and Rob are just back from a trip to Europe where they visited a niece in Rome and took a cruise to the eastern Mediterranean. In her Big Bag, she packed:
a quilt with big circles for her great niece
a checkered quilt for Plymouth House of Healing
a YF quilt for Kristin, Brigitta's daughter who graduates in December
a quilt for a great nephew who is an outdoorsman
