We love fabric, color, design and especially anything to do with quilting. We get together as friends once a month to share, teach, chat and motivate. We're always looking for ways to share the warmth and love from our handmade quilts with our loved ones and those in need.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
July Meeting
July 30, 2008
14 ladies attending
Rachel presented her Friendship Block, which will be made of Civil War Replica fabrics.
Small pink squares of fabric were collected to piece two little girls quilts. We will eventually tie them and present them to a local family who was involved in a devastating accident this Spring.
Happy Hooker Rugs were the theme for our meeting. We met at Diane Spackman's home this month. She showed the method of making rag (strip) rugs using the Locker Hook tool and canvas. This tool resembles a crochet hook with a large needle eye at the opposite end. Strips of fabric are cut 1.25 inches wide, attached together with a cool little loop through knot and then looped through the canvas and secured with cotton string. Everyone went home with the tool and a small piece of canvas to perhaps make a hot pot table pad. Hopefully some will be complete next meeting and brought to be shown!!!
As usual share and show was enjoyable. Kristina told us how she transferred a quote to fabric using her computer and printer. It was a great quote. Lenette showed her very cute baby boy boat quilt. It has prairie points in the border which are "two toned." The waves of water are depicted with blue rick rack! The pink Bulls Eye quilt you can see in the slide show was made by Diane S. Lori S. showed two very cute strip 'quilt as you go' baby quilts. Lori was able to attend the big quilt extravaganza in Long Beach Ca. last week. Rachel told of her adventures visiting quilting stores in neighboring states this summer and showed a neat star quilt hanger. Carolanna showed the cute brown and pink big and little quilts you see in the slide show. She has her own quilting machine at her house! Yeah! Jeanie and Maurene have completed the same applique block of the month quilts.
So pretty. Maurene and her grandkids have been sewing theVintage Baby Squares quilt.
Diane B. showed us her great patriotic table runner! Monica brought something none of us have ever seen! A completed quilt (which is darling) attached to an iron plate display rack. The rack is turned upside down! there are ties holding the quilt. See the slide show! :) Jan Liefson showed some real cute counted cross stitch squares that are to be completed. She petitioned the group for ideas! I'm sure she'll bring them back next month all completed!:) Kathi showed a neat church bag she made of placemats. Hope you enjoy our slide shows!!!
We enjoyed sharing ideas and patterns.
Refreshments were: Southwestern Salad with Cilantro Lime Vingerette, flavored water and minty cupcakes! Lenette and Lori S. were the winners of the doors prizes!
Next month we meet at Maurene's.
14 ladies attending
Rachel presented her Friendship Block, which will be made of Civil War Replica fabrics.
Small pink squares of fabric were collected to piece two little girls quilts. We will eventually tie them and present them to a local family who was involved in a devastating accident this Spring.
Happy Hooker Rugs were the theme for our meeting. We met at Diane Spackman's home this month. She showed the method of making rag (strip) rugs using the Locker Hook tool and canvas. This tool resembles a crochet hook with a large needle eye at the opposite end. Strips of fabric are cut 1.25 inches wide, attached together with a cool little loop through knot and then looped through the canvas and secured with cotton string. Everyone went home with the tool and a small piece of canvas to perhaps make a hot pot table pad. Hopefully some will be complete next meeting and brought to be shown!!!
As usual share and show was enjoyable. Kristina told us how she transferred a quote to fabric using her computer and printer. It was a great quote. Lenette showed her very cute baby boy boat quilt. It has prairie points in the border which are "two toned." The waves of water are depicted with blue rick rack! The pink Bulls Eye quilt you can see in the slide show was made by Diane S. Lori S. showed two very cute strip 'quilt as you go' baby quilts. Lori was able to attend the big quilt extravaganza in Long Beach Ca. last week. Rachel told of her adventures visiting quilting stores in neighboring states this summer and showed a neat star quilt hanger. Carolanna showed the cute brown and pink big and little quilts you see in the slide show. She has her own quilting machine at her house! Yeah! Jeanie and Maurene have completed the same applique block of the month quilts.
So pretty. Maurene and her grandkids have been sewing theVintage Baby Squares quilt.
Diane B. showed us her great patriotic table runner! Monica brought something none of us have ever seen! A completed quilt (which is darling) attached to an iron plate display rack. The rack is turned upside down! there are ties holding the quilt. See the slide show! :) Jan Liefson showed some real cute counted cross stitch squares that are to be completed. She petitioned the group for ideas! I'm sure she'll bring them back next month all completed!:) Kathi showed a neat church bag she made of placemats. Hope you enjoy our slide shows!!!
We enjoyed sharing ideas and patterns.
Refreshments were: Southwestern Salad with Cilantro Lime Vingerette, flavored water and minty cupcakes! Lenette and Lori S. were the winners of the doors prizes!
Next month we meet at Maurene's.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
June Mtg II
Here's the second half of our pictures from the June meeting. Thank you Diane for sharing your camera with us.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
June 2008-Summer Salad,Coconut Brunch Bread
Summer Salad
1 head romaine
1 head red leaf
1 carton sliced mushrooms
3/4 cup montery jack cheese
toss together
Top with sliced strawberries and blueberries
dressing:
1 cup salad oil
1/2 red wine vinegar
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp paprika
1/4 tsp white pepper
4 cloves garlic -pressed
Place all ingredients in blender
* make dressing the day before
Coconut Brunch Bread
4 eggs
2 c sugar
1 c oil
2 tsp coconut flavoring
3 c flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 c buttermilk
1 c flaked coconut
1 c nuts - I used pecans
Beat the eggs, add sugar, oil and coconut flavoring beat until fluffy
Mix together flour salt, soda and baking powder,
Add dry ingredients alternating with buttermilk
Fold in coconut and nuts.
Spoon into 3 medium size bread pans that have been sprayed
Bake for 40-50 minutes at 325
Pour hot sauce over warm loaves and let stand for 4 hours before
removing from pans
Sauce
1 c sugar
1/2 cup water
2 T butter
Boil together for 5 mins
remove from heat
Add 1 tsp coconut flavoring
1 head romaine
1 head red leaf
1 carton sliced mushrooms
3/4 cup montery jack cheese
toss together
Top with sliced strawberries and blueberries
dressing:
1 cup salad oil
1/2 red wine vinegar
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp paprika
1/4 tsp white pepper
4 cloves garlic -pressed
Place all ingredients in blender
* make dressing the day before
Coconut Brunch Bread
4 eggs
2 c sugar
1 c oil
2 tsp coconut flavoring
3 c flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 c buttermilk
1 c flaked coconut
1 c nuts - I used pecans
Beat the eggs, add sugar, oil and coconut flavoring beat until fluffy
Mix together flour salt, soda and baking powder,
Add dry ingredients alternating with buttermilk
Fold in coconut and nuts.
Spoon into 3 medium size bread pans that have been sprayed
Bake for 40-50 minutes at 325
Pour hot sauce over warm loaves and let stand for 4 hours before
removing from pans
Sauce
1 c sugar
1/2 cup water
2 T butter
Boil together for 5 mins
remove from heat
Add 1 tsp coconut flavoring
June Mtg
This slide show has the first half of our show and tell. More pics will be coming later.
We met at Diane B.'s and had a great turn out. A special welcome to Karen, Kim, Heather and Kristina who are new to the group. Karen has been quilting for many years and shared quite a few of her fun quilts with us. She had some fun ideas and projects for our future meetings too. Heather and Kristina are beginners and we hope we motivated them and didn't overwhelm them with our usual quilt enthusiasm. We have all levels of quilters in our group which is what makes it fun.
Friendship blocks were given to Mary this month. Each of us made a 12" block of our own design using colors from a swatch of fabric Mary gave to us last month. From the looks of what she received, it's going to be a beautiful keepsake quilt.
Jeanene shared with us her happy/sad news. Her house finally sold after 18 months and she will be moving to Utah next month. We are really going to miss her. Her quilts are always works of art and done to perfection. She says she's going to start Material Girls II in Utah. We love you Jeanene and wish you much happiness in your new home. We'll drop in on your MGII meetings when we're in Utah for visits, so let us know when and where.
Our project at Diane's was making an American flag out of torn fabric strips. Watch for pictures of our flags to be posted soon. As usual, Diane treated us all to a scrumptious lunch. Diane's recipes will be also posted soon as she was flooded with requests. Her recipes alone could make a best selling book, but Rachel has an idea for our group to make some money with our recipes and quilts. The money we make will fund our dream quilting getaway which is a Material Girls cruise-either to the Caribbean or the Mediterranean. We're not picky!
Next month we meet at Diane S.'s home on July 30th.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Plane friendship block
Maurine asked me a little while ago to post a picture of myPlane block but I kept forgetting. Finally I remembered so here it is. I'm not really sure what we are going to do at our meeting next week so I was thinking about working on some paper piecing since some of you have been a little nervous about the block. What do you think?
LS
LS
Monday, May 5, 2008
April Mtg with Karen MacCarter
As you can see from the slide show below, we had a great meeting this month. What's better than having an entire show and tell meeting! Karen MacCarter, a quilter since the 70's, brought several of her beautiful quilts and shared many of her experiences with us. Each quilt was truly a work of art as well as a work of love. Karen gave our group some fun ideas for future meetings by showing us quilts that had been made as friendship quilts by fellow quilters in some of the quilt groups she belongs to. By the sounds of the ooohs and aaaahs, I know we'll be discussing what quilts we want to make as a group at our next meeting. Her themed friendship quilts, i.e.fall colors, Christmas fabrics were especially full of sentiment.
Monica also brought the completed Walker quilt that many of us in the group help make. A little over a year ago, the Walker family tragically lost their 3 oldest children in a car accident as they were driving on their way to school. Two other children were in the car with them and also died. The entire Boise area was in mourning for these 2 families and it was a very difficult time. What made it even more tragic for the Walkers was the fact that they had lost their little 2 year only a couple years before in an accident. Many of us in our group have been friends with and known the Walkers for many years. Nearing the year anniversary of their children's deaths, Monica helped us start planning a love quilt for their family. In the slide show below you can see a picture of the quilt with a few of us who had worked on it. We will be delivering it later this month. Our prayers, tears and love will always be with their sweet family.
Our auction quilt was also completed and shown this month-it's the pink and red heart quilt. This is the quilt that we are donating to the Komen Breast Cancer Auction. Our quilts last year brought in good money for the foundation and we are hoping the same for this year. A few of us will be attending the dinner and auction on May 7th.
Lori had the friendship block. We'll all be paper piecing an airplane block that she designed. She showed us what the completed quilt will look like and we know her little Corey will love it.
All in all, we had a fun meeting, learned a lot, shared much, laughed, chatted and ate. By the way, I'll be sending the recipe for the Gooey Butter Bars to everyone via email.
Next meeting is at Lori Schroath's on May 28th and Mary has the friendship block. See you there!
Monica also brought the completed Walker quilt that many of us in the group help make. A little over a year ago, the Walker family tragically lost their 3 oldest children in a car accident as they were driving on their way to school. Two other children were in the car with them and also died. The entire Boise area was in mourning for these 2 families and it was a very difficult time. What made it even more tragic for the Walkers was the fact that they had lost their little 2 year only a couple years before in an accident. Many of us in our group have been friends with and known the Walkers for many years. Nearing the year anniversary of their children's deaths, Monica helped us start planning a love quilt for their family. In the slide show below you can see a picture of the quilt with a few of us who had worked on it. We will be delivering it later this month. Our prayers, tears and love will always be with their sweet family.
Our auction quilt was also completed and shown this month-it's the pink and red heart quilt. This is the quilt that we are donating to the Komen Breast Cancer Auction. Our quilts last year brought in good money for the foundation and we are hoping the same for this year. A few of us will be attending the dinner and auction on May 7th.
Lori had the friendship block. We'll all be paper piecing an airplane block that she designed. She showed us what the completed quilt will look like and we know her little Corey will love it.
All in all, we had a fun meeting, learned a lot, shared much, laughed, chatted and ate. By the way, I'll be sending the recipe for the Gooey Butter Bars to everyone via email.
Next meeting is at Lori Schroath's on May 28th and Mary has the friendship block. See you there!
Sunday, May 4, 2008
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