March Show and Tell

 The following items were shared at our March meeting.

Marguarite made this lighthouse quilt using embroidery and applique.

Marguarite also made this "quilt as you go" bird and flower quilt.  She used an embroidery machine to make the blocks. 

Mary made an Honor Flight quilt.

Jane made a number of items for the Habitat for Humanity Auction this fall.

She made two cross-body bags sized for phones and passports.

Jane made leather folders for passports and credit cards.

Jane also made this baby quilt.

Linda made a rope basket to be used for "passing the hat" at a political meeting.

She also made these eye glass cases.

Linda made more robe baskets.

She made this eye glass zipper bag.

Linda made these strip-pieced potholders.

February Show and Tell

 We missed our January meeting because of the weather.

Following are projects members have been working 

on this year.

Sue made a Washi paper bouquet.

Mary made a 3-D poinsettia wall hanging.

Nancy made a Coptic binding book.  She used paste paper, she created, on the cover.

Nancy also made bound book with a paste paper cover.

Dave made 6 quilts which he is donating to Sleep in Heavenly Peace.  He used curved piecing on the bright block of this quilt.

In this quilt, he used a duck and dog theme.

Dave made this quilt using the disappearing pinwheel block.

Machine embroidered blocks were used in this quilt.

Dave made this scrappy quilt using disappearing pinwheels.

Dave used a computer program to design this sun and tree quilt.

Margaruite made 4 quilts for Sleep in Heavenly Peace.  She used rail fence blocks and embroidered blocks in this quilt.

She strip-pieced this quilt and then added the butterflies to make it more interesting.

Margarite used Australian fabrics in this scrappy quilt. 

A friend gave Margaruite the top for this quilt.  She practiced different quilting motifs when making it. (The colors were much darker, the camera lightened them)

Margaruite made this states wall quilt using machine embroidery and applique.

Margaruite made this Upper Peninsula row by row quilt.

  

This is Jane's bright grasshopper wall hanging.

Jane also made this black and white grasshopper wall quilt.

Jane made this patriotic strip quilt for the veterans at the

 VA Hospital.

December Show and Tell

 Only a few members attended the meeting because of 

slippery roads.

Nancy shared some paper pieces she had been working on.

Jane shared some old patterns she found in a box of fabric.

November Show and Tell

 Last month the group discussed woven quilt projects, so this month some members shared woven projects made in the past.

Sue shared her woven sunflower planter and a reversible woven table runner.

Sue also shared some fall maple leaf placemats she made.

Linda shared a morel mushroom watercolor painting she completed.

Nancy is making a collection of paste paper birds.  She also makes the paper.

Kathy completed her English Paper Pieced quilt top.  She used 3,583 hexagons!

Mary made two button snowmen. The first was a kit.  

Mary designed the second snowman with a batik background.

Mary also made a Pikachu wall quilt for her nephew's baby shower.

He designs computer games.

Dave made this quilt for Sleep in Heavenly Peace.  It's his original design around a printed panel. 

Dave also designed this quilt around a deer panel.  It is also going to Sleep in Heavenly Peace.

Margaurite machine embroidered the blocks for this quilt for 

 Sleep in Heavenly Peace.

Margurite and Dave designed and created this quilt for the North and South Carolina shop hop.  The quilt appeared on the cover of the shop hop magazine.

This is the quilt they designed for the Michigan Shop Hop.  It was featured in the Michigan shop hop magazine.

Jane shared three woven projects.

The first was part of an ugly fabric challenge.

The second was a woven chess board.

The third was a woven Triune Mandala.

Nancy shared washi paper, patterns and an almost finished washi paper flower.  Members were able to pick paper and patterns if they wished to make their own project.