june 13 meeting

Harriet and Rob’s log house glowed with warmth for the June meeting. Harriet provided the entire meal, serving chicken, a green salad with fresh peaches, a grain salad, and homemade breads. For dessert, guests enjoyed mango sorbet and cookies. Everything was yummy.

Show N’ Tell

Flora created a Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star quilt for a friend. She is also designing quilts and showed one that she plans to make for her guest room.

Shannon was playing with her Twister template again and created another design with her template.

Pris didn’t have any quilt projects to show so she modeled some of the fabric that Shannon brought to share.

Harriet had way too much fun at Island Quilter on Vashon Island, buying Kaffe Fassett fabric and some animal prints. She’s sure to produce some lovely quilts with it all.

Miriam finished up a cozy top that Shannon passed to her at our last meeting. Miriam seems to be the finisher lately. Her daughter made a quilt top for a wedding gift  but the wedding never did took place—so she passed the top to Miriam to finish.

Janet brought a quilt that she stitched on her long-arm for a client and one she stitched for Jeanne—the twelfth quilt she has quilted for Jeanne so far this year. Practice, practice, practice.

may 13 meeting

 The Piece Makers met at Flora’s home: Pris, Janet, Shannon, Miriam, Flora and Harriet.

It was a cool evening at Flora’s warm home with the fireplace, hot chocolate, and cookies and pie to set the mood.  Most of the meeting was spent accomplishing the mission of sewing labels on the finished YF’ers quilts. The quilts will be presented to the 10 seniors during the 11AM Plymouth service on June 2nd.  

Miriam presented a snuggly baby blanket, gown, and cap ensemble she made for Plymouth’s baby supply collection.

Janet displayed a small and incredibly intricately beaded and knitted necklace in the shape of a purse.

Harriet brought a pieced floral top that Janet graciously offered to help her quilt on her “Gammy”, her new long-arm quilting machine.

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.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

march 13 meeting

It was great to see Janet so well and to enjoy her hospitality. Six busy gals gathered to talk about one of their favorite activities—making quilts!

Show N Tell

Patricia started by catching us up with her life in Victoria—living in a hotel room with all her quilting gear and slowing down to spend quality time with her parents who require minimal help right now. She showed us a simple baby quilt made with yukata cottons that she whipped up for her great niece Flora who was recently born in New Zealand. The scallop detail was an easy feat by making it with a freezer paper pattern.

Harriet arrived without any quilts, which is not typical for her. Don't worry, she has started on a new quilt after shipping off four quilts to Colorado. The new project is a horse quilt for a teenaged great neice, in blue and orange with lightweight denim thrown in. She also shared a wacky photo of a wall quilt made of homemade stuffed animals in the Wall Street Journal.

Shannon had fun with an embroidery machine at work and created an amazing little bunny that then became a pocket on an irresistible tote with pink pompoms. She also whipped up a baby quilt named Ninjas Go To The Cherry Festival.

Miriam just finished an incredible quilt for Elena Carter using her old hula skirt material. The luscious production is fluffy and delightful with a laundry/tote bag, pillow cases and pillows. Go Miriam!

Pris' quilt Bit and Pieces has stalled due to a technical challenge with the final fit of the front and back. She is started fresh on her YF quilt for Anna Duncan. A trip to Quilt Loft in Ballard yielded greens and purples which she'll use with fun contributions from her stash. The pattern Golden Waves looks tricky but knowing Pris, she'll figure it out.

After lots of cogitation, Janet is getting ready to stitch on her longarm the YF quilt she's making with Maurine and Patricia. She showed us a global fabric she is planning to use in a whole cloth quilt and some dramatic snow dyed cotton she bought at the QA show as well as a beaded bag kit that looks complicated.