Showing posts with label Ginger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ginger. Show all posts

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Christmas in July! Quilts! Food! and Bingo!!

Our Christmas in July party was a lot of fun.  Cece and Carol did another spectacular job, as they have done over many years.  This year's Show and tell became a good lesson for learning about fabric selection and borders.  The variety of looks on our mystery quilts and the friendship square exchange quilts was amazing and beautiful. 



Benita's mystery quilt!
Shelia VanVactor's quilt!
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Northeast Quilting Friends and Santa!

Loyce's Scrappy mystery quilt!

Loyce's Friendship square quilt!

Pat's mystery quilt

Pat's Friendship square quilt!

Ruth's mystery quilt!

Ruth's friendship square quilt!

Barbara's Diamond in the Rough!

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Quilter's Bingo! 
Deloris' Friendship square quilt!
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Mary's mystery quilt!

Mary rocked the friendship square!!


Dot's happy mystery quilt!

Dot's friendship square quilt!

Shirley's fall colored mystery quilt!

Shirley's friendship square quilt!

Judy's mystery quilt!

Judy's Friendship square quilt!



 Dorothy's First Quilt1!


Carol's mystery quilt!

Carol's friendship square quilt!

Julie's mystery quilt!

THANK YOU CAROL AND CECE!!
This show and tell was a nice way to see fabric choices and colors and how they float in a quilt.  It's also a good analysis of the use of borders.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Productivity is Us!


Our last few classes that were taught have yielded many future gifts for families.  The Snappy Tote, taught by Julie, was a huge success and Pat and Martha brought more in to show.

The group is at it's best when people are inspired by other's work.  I was inspired by Loyce's gift to her friend that had a water theme, so I made this Tennessee Waltz quilt for my friend that bought a lake house.

Loyce was inspired by Shirley who recently turned out a few cheater quilts.  A cheater quilt is a printed fabric that looks like a pieced quilt and she made this autumn themed quilt.

Ruth and Natasha made this quilt for a woman that had a request for our group.  Her mother had made clothes and things for them when they were young and wanted them put together for her mom for Christmas.

Besides the friendships and support you get in a guild, the inspiration goes a long way to continuing your interest in quilting.  Always be on the look out for it, either as a challenge to your skill or as a way of getting ideas to finish things.





 Ginger is working on a lovely applique piece.


This is our focus in our guild, finish what you've started!

Monday, November 8, 2010

Off to Lexington to see a couple of quilt shops and brunch




Our intrepid group was off on another trip to Lexington and a couple of quilt shops.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Table Topper Class-lots of fun









So what does a successful class make? Is it a finished product? Probably 60 percent of the total is the finished product, whether it's at home later, or in the class. Or like our many over achievers in the room WE FINISH THE PROJECT BEFORE THE CLASS STARTS!. That's exactly what happened this time.

Loyce, one of our newer members gave such good information, before the actual class, that many had finished their table topper before the class began.

All our classes are choose to make a quilt or not. There is no arm twisting in the group. But, this was certainly a popular class and most all participated.

Besides the class, Pat and Ginger showed a fabric dying class they participated in over the weekend. They made beautiful tie dyed and suede like hand dyed fabric.