august 14 meeting

Harriet and Robert’s home, an Eden-like setting in Brier, was the location for this month’s meeting. Harriet prepped a summer meal that included salads, deviled eggs and a rustic pizza. Spouses, sisters and guests joined Piece Makers.

SHOW ’N TELL

Janet made a super soft nap quilt with a Minke back. It’s one of three she’s making with the same top fabric in different color ways:

Janet’s sisters, Marylee and Elsie, joined us for the evening:

Ed Noble also came to the dinner meeting:

Flora has been working on upholstering two wingback chairs with these gorgeous fabrics:

Sue Haas and her husband Jerry travelled all the way from the south end of Seattle for the meeting:

Harriet finished her Japanese yukata cotton quilt!

Here’s a quilt top Harriet made with Kaffe stripes received from Maurine:

Harriet’s inspired to use this global panel in an upccoming quilt:

Patricia just got back from The Festival of Quilts in the UK. Right now she's working on quilts for a book on improv quilt design.

The next meeting will be at Flora’s home where she has 18 boxes of giveaway fabrics.

 

may 14 meeting

The steadfast members of Plymouth Piece Makers met at Flora’s home to stitch labels onto YF quilts.

Patricia shows a quilt that Diane made:

Everyone is stitching on labels made by Harriet:

Pris is still working on her wonderful quilt with many curves:

Harriet shows off her handsome YF quilt:

 Maurine made the quilt top and Flora finished the quilt:

Miriam finished her "green" quilt:

 Shannon makes big polka dots with polka dotted fabrics on her YF quilt!

Janet resolved her chevron quilt:

Here's a quilt Janet finished for Jeanne, the queen of micro squares:

april 14 meeting

A small group of Plymouth quilters gathered at Patricia’s for the April meeting. Miriam arrived first with a crocheted Easter chick that pooped jelly beans for our hostess. Homemade GF brownies and tea topped off the evening together

SHOW 'N TELL

Shannon is back at work at the Bernina store near Northgate, now owned by Needle & I. Good news, Peter is getting better!

Check out this wonderful, scrappy, huge, colorful quilt that Miriam is putting together!

Dear Harriet joined us with no quilts but instead news of curtains being made at home with buffalo checked fabric. Always a designer!

Janet made this to-die-for quilt for her older sister. Sis picked out the bird fabric and Janet developed the design and finished it with applique leaves all over.

Patricia showed her finished Saint Jane quilt (no pic yet) and in-progress Aki quilt top. She let us know that Okan Arts Shop will be moving in with The Quilting Loft this summer so customers can find her fabrics while she hangs out at her cabin.

march 14 meeting

Flora was our lovely hostess for the April. Five of us gathered for a lovely evening.

Show N' Tell

Wow. Flora sold a quilt at The Center for Wooden Boats gala, Steer by the Stars, that wasn't even finished. For $500!

Here are more quilts that Flora had finished:

Flora's project from this year's Salish Weaving retreat is a gorgeous pillow with a fringe:

Look at this stunning broken rail quilt Janet made with burgundy highlights. It’s a head start for a YF senior next year:

For this year’s YF senior, Ben Martin, Janet is incorporating a baby quilt that Diane Roubal made for the student as a baby in 1996. The back and front of the small quilt are shown below. That will be an interesting design challenge!

 Miriam worked with the circles that Janet gave her last month and finished up a small quilt:                                                                  

And the Easter apron for her baking daughter:

And more of her wonderful scappy squares:

Harriet was a busy quilter. This one will be given to House of Healing:

This incredible production incorporated curved quilting and yukata cottons for a very lucky great nephew:

And more:

Pris sewed more blocks for her quilt for Sarah Blasevic, her YF senior:

Patricia let us know that all her new quilts were at the photographer’s. She’s working hard getting ready for StashFest and just took on the role of president for CQA.