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!

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!

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.

The Retreat was a HUGE Success!

There is nothing like a retreat for getting to know people.  When all of members are together and we are sharing and laughing, that is a recipe for a good time.  Add onto that, good food and learning and it's a recipe for a successful retreat. 

Carol taught some of us how to make a beautiful tote bag.  Cece organized us so much that we actually ate healthy!  A huge salad was had by all and it was delicious.  Thank you to the party dream team that we are fortunate to have in our club.

The cares of life go away for a couple of days at a retreat.  If you have a chance to share time with your quilting friends, I hope you can.  Quilter's are solitary workers most of the time.  Making a quilt is a long process and being able to share some laughter and encouragement while you make one is a gift. 

No Quilting on May 22nd at the church-We are on Retreat!! Woohoo!

At our last meeting we wrapped up all the details of our annual quilt retreat which is once again being held at Pieceful Haven in Lagrange, Kentucky.  Carol will be showing how to make a purse and we can all visit and eat to our heart's content.  

These are just some of the many talented ladies and their completed works from our guild.  

Whittles and Donita's Country Diner-A fabulous Day Trip for Quilters!

Our intrepid group set out on our annual adventure to Smith's Grove, Kentucky to our new favorite fabric shop, Whittles.  It has a lot of fabric, priced less that most quilt shops.  Of course, it is only worth the drive if you have several ladies to share the gasoline bill!.  We had an abundance of ladies interested in this trip.  Thanks to our lovely Sheelah for organizing and keeping our travel plans up to date with traffic patterns on I65.

Most everyone got fabric to make our Mystery quilt and a few other projects.

After doing a little damage to the bank accounts, we next went to eat at Donita's Country Diner.

Our Schedule for 2012

At our second meeting for the new year, we had a very productive day and planned a wonderful quilting calendar.  On the column to the right, please click on the schedule for 2012 at the top.  There you will find highlighted dates of our travels and classes.  There are no dues to attend.

We are a fun and friendly group of quilters that meet on Tuesday and Friday at Northeast Christian Church, in Louisville, Ky.  We have everything you need to make a quilt, including sewing machines, irons, rulers and cutting mats.

Please bring your own projects to work on.  From time to time we go on field trips, or learn new things, but, if not highlighted on our schedule, we have Sit N Sew meetings from 10 to 1:00 in room 201 on Tuesday and 202 on Friday.

What are you waiting for?  Come join the fun and create a legacy.

The Christmas Party was a whole lot of fun!!

We had a jam packed day of fun at our annual Christmas party.  First we exchanged our 6 inch squares of fabric for our friendship quilt.  Our members traded fabric and the quilt we make will hopefully be shown at our annual Christmas in July party.

We have outgrown our room and have started a second group on Friday from 10:00 to ??  The ladies from our second group turned out to be the lucky ones and won all the door prizes.

Our Show and Tell was fabulous, with the newly formed, Sit, Stitch and Sew group in attendance.  Some of us had our french braid quilts from the retreat.  We also collected underwear and wash cloths for Sister Visitor.  We also had a lot of fun exchanging squares for a quilt we will make and show at the Christmas in July party.