Showing posts with label Loyce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Loyce. 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

Pat and Loyce show off their latest projects


Loyce demonstrated our next class how to make coasters out of 6, 5 inch squares.

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.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Snappy Tote Class was a huge success!

Our group's roster has about 20 people on it and from week to week there are 10 to 15 regulars for our sit n sews and classes.  We have a great schedule that makes opportunities for our members to learn new things.

The class we taught yesterday was how to make the Snappy Tote.  It's called the Snappy Tote because it uses the metal from a carpenter's tape measure to create the "snap" for closure.  It's a very easy class in which you learn how to machine quilt a small project, as well as a few other techniques for basic bag making.

Our group is filled with over achievers and Betty was certainly the outstanding over achiever Tuesday.  I am always emphasizing to the group that a pattern is just a guideline and jumping off of it is highly encouraged for creative development.  Betty jumped off in leaps and bounds and came up with a purse with grosgrain and key chain hooks, as well as a matching Kleenex holder.  Cool!








All the ladies that started the project in class finished it.  
Here is a view of our new church, Northeast Christian Church, being built right beside us.