August 2015 Meeting

This month we met at a local church so that we could have room to sew together. We made bags using feed sacks. Next month we'll have photos of the finished ones, hopefully. :) A few people worked on house quilts based on a quilt shared by Nancy C.

Because it was a work day, we have very few pictures. Below is a bed that Rachel's husband made for their granddaughter's American girl type doll. They will also be making a full size rendition of this very bed. The pattern for the bed can be found at Anawhite.com. Rachel made all the bedding for the bed.

September's meeting will be at Caren's. See you there!

These are some of the feed sacks that were used to make the bags.

July 2015 Meeting

We only had a few people attending our July meeting...so many out of town, but it was a fun meeting. We shared some tips. Here they are:

1. Binding-when doing corners and you are turning, make sure you can see a little bit of the quilt edge above the binding fold and also, when hand stitching the bidning make sure as you come to the corner that the binding doesn't get too wide.

2.When making handles, use cotton webbing on top with the fabric and topstitch

3. On curves, use pinking shears instead of clipping curves

4.If your quilt turns out wavy, try blocking it.

5.Keep a tape measure in your purse and frosted rulers are a favorite

6.Favorite seam ripper is the one with a rubber end and favorite turning device is the turning bone.

Diane made this quilt with a scrappy back. It shrunk a whole 3 inches after she washed it.

Diane also made this quilt below. Above is the back and it's paper pieced.

Cindy made this carrying bag for her Featherweight machinge with a separate bag for the machine foot.

Cindy also made these shoe bags for travelling.

Nancy C. also made a carrying bag for her Featherweight and a drawstring bag for the foot.

This is a quilt Nancy made from a patter called Suburb by Cluck Cluck Sew. She made the quilt for the Syringa House Auction and it uses a layer cake.

Maurene made this quilt and the two pillows below.

This is the book Julia used for the quilt below. The pattern is called Primrose.

June 2015

Our meeting attendance this month was a little on the small side, so many people out of town, but thank you so much Julia for hosting and Rachel for taking the pics!! Here are the show and tell pics:

May 2015

Our May meeting was hosted by Nancy F. and we had a wonderful time and learned about a lot of new ideas and products. Be sure to follow the links that are provided so you can learn even more. Here's our show and tell, demos and pics of the great lunch Nancy provided!

Nancy C. made this pumpkin seed grey and yellow quilt  top using the Quilt Smart system. Take a look at the link for an explanation about how to make traditionally difficult patterns, easy.

She used the clear thread on top of the leaves and cut out the interfacing behind them.

This is an iPad holder Nancy C. made.

This turquoise bench pillow was made by Nancy C. also using leftover petals.

She covered buttons for the back.

Nancy C. also made this Potluck quilt using one layer cake and paper pieced the bird in it.

Lenette made this flannel blanket using the self edging method.

Lenette also made this Halloween table topper. 

Diane used this wash away tape to help secure her zippers in the zipper pouches she made below. She said this tape really helped. Here's a tutorial for making them.

Zipper pouches by Diane. 

Darla made this Bad Hair day quilt using what she got from Rachel's giveaway.

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Darla also made this School Days quilt. She made it from a kit she bought in Tucson. 

Nancy F. demonstrated this pattern to us. She also showed us how this pattern includes a QR scanner with each step of the directions so you can get a more thorough explanation on your phone while you're making this. She said it really helped.

Here is Nancy's finished Sew Impressed board and ruler carrier. Nancy gave each of us empty bolt boards so we could make these. Also we need to use 100% cotton batting or Insulbrite since it's a pressing board and it has to be able to resist the heat of the iron.

Maurene made this. It's the second one she's made using this pattern as she is giving it to twin baby girls. Two Peas in a Pod.

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Maurene showed her latest Pizza Box Exchange quilt which Rachel just finished quilting.

Rachel made this boxy bag with pockets using an Annie Unrein pattern.

Rachel was commissioned by a friend who wanted a quilt for her cabin.

This is a queen quilt by Bunny Hill using Thimble Blossom fabric. Rachel used over a hundred yo-yo's to make this. 

Nancy C. demonstrated the recycled market bags. We're going to make these as a group using either poultry bags like this one or recycled fabric of any sort. Start looking for poultry/birdseed/animal feed bags.

This bag she made using a lined skirt. She left the liner on it and used it as the liner of the bag.

Here's a bag she is making using an embroidered dishtowel.

This is a little demo of how the handles are made.

She also demonstrated how to made the box bottom of the bag.

Nancy used a tape that she could write on to add a name to this bag.

This is a product called Kraft Tex that Nancy F. showed us. It's a product that is paper, but it feels like leather, wears like leather and cuts and sews like fabric.

LUNCH