Almost Raggedy Hearts

The Raggedy Hearts Quilt is just sitting, waiting to have the binding stitched down AND to be 'washed' and dryed for it's finishing touch. It's looking pretty so far. Thanks to Maurene for sewing the blocks together and Carolanna for quilting it on her new machine!

Materials Girls meeting for this month is Wednesday, April 30th at 10:00 a.m. at Kathi Thompson's home. We are having a guest speaker, Karen MacCarter. Karen is a great quilt maker and appliquer. She titled herself, The Plaid Queen several years ago, even making a quilt portraying herself. Karen moved to Eagle a few years back, loves to quilt and belongs to quilt guilds in three different states. She will show us many quilts and tell us of her quilting journey. She will give us some tips. Come prepared with any questions you may have. Be sure to bring your completed items to share. Invite a friend to come hear Karen speak!

March Meeting 2008

We met today at Lorna Fisher's home. Present were: Lorna, Jeanene, Sandy, Kathi, Maurene, Jeanie, Jeri, Laurie, Rachel, Carolanna and Lori. It was our big work day and we were able to assemble 64 rag heart blocks for our breast cancer auction quilt. Everyone brought cut out hearts in reds and pinks and thanks to the great organizational skills of Rachel, everything went very smoothly as we spread out and worked in Lorna's large basement quilt room. We laid out some of the blocks to get a sneak preview and it's going to look darling.
Maurene took the blocks home to sew together and Lorna has volunteered to long arm quilt it. The dinner and auction are going to be held on May 7 and tickets are $25. We're hoping to fill a table of ten this year. Lorna treated us to a tasty lunch(pasta salad, taco soup) and Rachel made dessert(mint brownies). Most of us wanted the recipes so we'll get them posted later. Lorna also introduced us to a new drink-Chlorophyll. Yes, that's actually the name and it actually was green. She said it's good for us, so we'll just have to take her word for it. It was different than anything I've ever tried and it had a fun almost minty aftertaste to it. Thank you Lorna for helping us step out of our comfort zones of our usual water and lemonade.

Also our Show and Tell was motivating as usual. Rachel finished her top made with the same 3-D pinwheel pattern that Carolanna had us make for her friendship quilt and she had enough left over to make a large pillow. Carolanna wins the award for finishing her friendship quilt the fastest. We gave her the blocks just last month and today she showed us her finished quilt. Even the prairie points on the border are 3-D. We all signed the back of the quilt for her. She also finished another "5" quilt. Jeri also showed 2 pinwheel quilts that are going to grandbabies. How lucky they are! This new line of fabric by Sandy Gervais of Moda has motivated several of us to create fun quilts from it. Jeri also finished a Trip Around the World. I'm sorry I didn't take a picture of the back fabric, it actually contained all the colors of the front. Lori made the baby blanket that Diane demonstrated to us last year. She had enough left over to make a pillow case too. She also made a fun pillow from fabrics she bought in a "grab bag" at Quilt Crossing in Boise. Check out all the pictures in the previous post.

Jeanene gave us the pattern and swatches for her friendship quilt. She had extra patterns if you'd like to make some blocks for her. She also donated a "Love Quilt" for the domestic courts charity in California.

Sorry we missed a few of you today, but next month's meeting will be at Rachel's on April 30th where she will show us how to make Penny Rugs.

Show and Tell March 08 Mtg

Jeri's Trip Around the World

Carolanna's "5 Quilt"Jeri's Pinweels
Carolanna's Friendship QuiltRachel's Pinwheel Quilt and Pillow

Laurie's Pillow and Baby blanket
Laurie's Grab Bag pillow

Fundraiser Quilt Pattern Too...

Please make your hearts either red or pink. The backgrounds (which will be provided) are going to be cream :-)

Fundraiser quilt pattern

This is what the pattern looks like for our fundraiser quilt. Each member should bring 5 hearts of each of the three different sizes. The colors are reds, pinks and creams. If you can drag this pattern onto your desktop, you'll need to blow it up to the size of a sheet of paper in order to have the right dimensions.

Show and Tell Feb 2008

Here's a quilt Kathi made from the book Flowering Quilts by Kim Schaefer. It was on the front cover and thought it was so cute that she just had to make it. The buttons add so much charm and it was fun using up lots of scraps.

The group of quilts below are "Love Quilts" that we collect and donate each month to the Family/Domestic courts in Orange County California. The quilts are given to children (ages 0-18) who have become custody of the state. Sherry's Young Women group made
3 of them this month.
Thank you Young Women
of the Eagle 2nd Ward.

Show and Tell 2004 or so

These are some pictures I had from a meeting a few years ago, so I thought I'd go ahead and post them so we can have a little history. More info about each item will be added later.

February Meeting

On Wed., February 27, 2008, Material Girls Quilt Group met at Jeanene Flake's home. Those in attendance were: Jeanie Farnworth, Maurene Lamm, Laurie Blackner, Diane Beagley, Sandy Cantrell, Monica Campbell, Jodie Hugentobler, Rachel Lamm, Carolanna Mellen, Jeri Moore, Renee Rees, Diane Spackman, Sherry Stafford, Kathi Thompson, Mary Lloyd, Jan Leifson and Lori Schroath. A bag or two were shown, as were some beautiful small quilts, a crazy quilt, and ideas for quilts.
Monica showed a completed quilt top of blocks we all made and turned in at the January meeting. This quilt is done in browns, greens, golds, blues, reds and creams. When it is completed it will be presented to the Brandon and Tamara Walker family. Lorna volunteered to quilt it on her home quilting machine.
We turned in our friendship blocks of pinwheels to Carolanna Mellen. It will make up to be a cute quilt of bright three dimensional pinwheels.
We are planning to make a Ragged Hearts quilt to give to a cancer research group for auction to raise money.
Several are making a Snowman Wall Quilt. We all brought 150 3" squares of 2 different flannels to exchange for the patchwork portion of the snowman quilt. We laid the squares on the kitchen table, walked around the table and picked up the squares until we all held a big handful. The patterns for the snowmen heads and noses were available to trace.

Jeanene served yummy lemon bars and ultimate brownies. Thank You Jeanene.

Our next meeting will be held on Wed., March 19th at Lorna Fisher's home.

Friendship Squares~Pinwheels

Three dimensional pinwheels are our most recent friendship block. Three sets are pictured, we each created one set for Carolanna. She gave us the blue with print, from there we added brights for the four patch and folded triangles. The extra matching prairie points will be used in the edging of the quilt. These worked up real cute. Watch for the completed quilt...

Friendship Quilt

We love making "Friendship Quilts" and this is an example of Diane B.'s quilt called The Watermelon Quilt. At our monthly meetings, each of us takes a turn coming up with one quilt square pattern and a color palette of her choice and brings copies of her pattern with color swatches attached. Then each Material Girl makes 1-2 squares and brings the completed squares to the next meeting. The lucky recipient then sews all the squares together and has a fun Friendship Quilt made up of squares from all her Material Girl friends.

Aunt Addie's Attic

Jeri made this quilt called Aunt Addie's Attic and used all 1950's reproduction fabrics.

'Fall-ish' Quilt

Welcome to "blogging"! Thanks to Kathi for getting us set up to 'share'. This quilt was put together like a puzzle. The "Visions" line of fabric was used. Kit from Stitch-N-Snip in Crouch, Idaho. Thank you. Come visit here ~D Spack~

Breast Cancer Auction quilt

We all made this quilt to be auctioned at the Komen Breast Cancer auction held in Boise, Idaho in May 2007. Rachel designed it for us. Next month we will begin making the quilt for this year's auction.

Here is Maureen showing us her beautiful quilt. We decided to do one block a month and now several of us have this beautiful quilt in our homes. 2004

Couch Quilt

This is called a Couch quilt. Kathi made it in a class she took with Jodie at Country Quilter in Boise. You can make it in one day and it's fun to use up large pieces of fabric from your stash.

A block of the month Kathi made. Maureen made this quilt first and we all loved it so much that quite a few of us also decided to make it. 2005

Rachel with a cute quilt made for her cabin. 2004

Jeri shows us her version of a red and white fence rail-2004

Rachel's show and tell from a MG mtg in 2004.