april 13 meeting

This month Piece Makers was hosted by Patricia who served herbal tea and gluten-free cookies.

Show N' Tell

The evening started with Shannon sharing all sorts of goodies that were no longer wanted at Bernina NW when the store moved. It was a wonderful assortment of unfinished projects, samples, notions and fabrics. Everything was scooped up, either by Piece Makers or for a QA giveaway table.

Shannon also showed us the start on her YF quilt.

Miriam has finished her YF quilt and now more accessories to go with it. Elena will have a matching pillow and book bag, and a shopping bag for her mother.

From her daughter, Miriam received narrow strips of fabric sewn together. These she made into shopping bags with some extra olive green fabric. Some lucky Piece Makers took home these arty bags.

Miriam’s green quilt is coming along. She’ll need 63 quilt blocks to finish it and so far she has 3!. 

Pris makes story quilts—ones that relate to the recipients and their experiences. This year she is making Anna’s quilt. Pris and Stan have watched Anna grow up at camp. The dynamic high school senior goes to Garfield and is a rabid Bulldog. She sings and likes pigs. So Pris is making an ambitious quilt of 48 blocks topped with hand-appliqued triangles. Right now Pris has 21 blocks completed. Go Pris!

Janet brought a remarkable vintage Cathedral Windows quilt made by Jenne Neptune’s mother. Shannon is the lucky recipient of the quilt while Patricia got a matching pillowcase. Then Janet showed us the YF quilt she finished stitching beautifully on her long arm.

Harriet brought a luscious quilt that she made for another niece who loves horses and playing soccer. It’s a stitch-as-you-go production that has diamond blocks and diagonal sashing with fancy stitching on the navy blue connectors.

Patricia has just finished up StashFest. It was a great success—raising just under $20,000 for La Conner Quilt and Textile Museum. She is working on a quilt commission entitled Family Guy and nicknamed by her: Three Generations of Clean Laundry. Patricia displayed her class sample, Wabi Sabi, that she uses for her Counterintuitive Piecing class. Then she proudly showed off her new Rowenta Steam System.

Flora told us about her week volunteering for the QA Quilt Show in March. She finished up an out-of-this-world quilt titled m111 with a labyrinth in the center and sparkly overlay fabrics. This is a beginning of a series she is developing of imaginary Messier Deep Sky Objects quilts.

Flora has started a new business that incorporates all of her talents. Not only long-arm quilting and vintage jewelry restoration, Flora will be helping people create organization and harmony in their homes and lives.