September Show and Tell

Our September meeting had a lot of great show and tell (as usual)! Many were items that people had made for our big sale at Midlothian Day on Saturday. There's still time to submit items! Remember, we're raising funds so we can buy our own projection equipment. It's for a good cause! I apologize for not getting a picture of each type of item that people had (some had more than one thing). You all move so fast!

First we have Theresa and some of her ornaments.

 

 Alma made wrist cuffs with clips to hold keys, wallets, etc. 

  

 And I had to put in this photo because I love it! Even though you can't tell what she's holding....

 

Jackie made tissue holders...

Betty, prolific as usual, made lots of thing including bags...

 

...and mug rugs for Santa.

 

 Cheryl made fabric bowls... 

... and an ornament

I can't remember if Laura's bag was for sale or for herself so I'm using it to transition to the other show and tell. ;-)

 

 

 Check out Cindy's eyeglasses quilt. The watch faces have the dates of her grandchildren's birthdays!

We got a sneak peek of the raffle quilt for the 2014 Richmond Quilt Guild show made by the Friendship Circle group of the Richmond Quilt Guild. The kit was provided by Laura Blanchard of Plum Tree Quilts and it was pieced by the members of the guild. Quilting was done by Virginia Longarm. You'll get to purchase tickets for this beauty at the show which is September 20 and 21, 2014.

 

 And finally, we have Candy's improv quilt which took us into her Modern lecture for the month. 

I'm looking forward to Friday's meeting, which features Trish showing us how she made the tree pins that she gave out last year at our holiday meeting. Go Trish! What fun!

June meeting

Our June meeting was so fun and informative! Kristal Evens of dawnstitches came and gave a presentation about her trip to Bali. She showed lots of beautiful photos and brought different tools for us to check out. I think we all appreciated knowing about all of the labor involved in making batiks!

Now on to show and tell! First up is Alma with her adorable quilt

This is the back -- it's hard to see in this photo, but her grandson's picture is in the train engine!

 

And a matching pillowcase....

 

And two more quilts! She has been busy!

 

 Betty showed her wonderful flag quilt (just in time for the 4th of July)!

A nightgown, which I was disappointed she wouldn't just model for us, but you can't win them all...

 

And a fresh, modern pinwheel quilt

Here's the back of the pinwheel quilt. I love interesting quilt backings!

And look at all the applique on this tree skirt!

 

Last but certainly  not least is her submission from the Snip and Rip challenge. This adorable hippo!

Here is Cheryl's Mommy Poppins bag, a pattern by SewFearless.com. She was inspired by a post on the Badass Quilters Society blog.

Jackie is hiding behind this adorable quilt.

 

Okay, here she is, showing her completed Snip and Rip project!

 

Kelly made this cute sailboat quilt...

 

And a bag!

 

Check out Margaret's work! She has been busy....

 

This is made of leftovers from the Michael Miller Cotton Cotoure challenge. Don't you love the tiny gray square?

 

 

And this is a fantastic quilt in blues...

Phyllis made a quilt from the "Words" challenge. Everyone ended up with a long strip, but she made hers in to a quilt (her favorite colors, too).

Sue made this colorful crazy quilt...

 

... and another crazy quilt block in black and white. This one is embellished with machine stitches.

Susan is peeking over this strippy quilt.

 

Check out Theresa's lion!

... and bags!

 

Tracy showed her handiwork from her Michael Miller challenge...

 

 

I have a confession. I am not 100% sure who made this quilt because she is behind it! But I think it's Tracy again. I'm sorry if I'm wrong!

 Here is Trish's Snip and Rip.... nearly finished!

 

 

--- check out her big stitch hand quilting!

 

Finally, we have Truda's row quilt she completed as part of an online sew-along.

Wonderful show and tell, everyone!

Snip and Rip!

Our May meeting was fun as usual! First the show and tell...

 

 

This quilt by Jackie had lots of Marcia Derse fabrics!

 

 

Cheryl showed a commission quilt she's been working on for St. Catherine's.

Laura made this lovely sunflower wall hanging.

Betty, as usual, was prolific! this cool bag...

...and awesome marshmallow wall hanging...

...And a big quilt!

From big to tiny -- Truda always has work in her hands.

Mary showed this piece with real shells on it...

Susan made this quilt top during our sew-in!

Candy showed this log cabin before her talk on color value.

Here are Jackie and Margaret showing examples from Candy's talk. Candy put these together with one block being from another value. Can you find the block in each sample?

Then the main event, which I have been referring to as Snip and Rip! It was fantastic and everyone who came participated! What happened was, everyone brought one yard of Kona cotton. Then there were a series of instructions to snip and rip the fabric and we all ended up with a different array of colors. Participants are to make something with them and bring it back in June or July. No pressure, just fun! Here are our colors!

Here are just some of the color arrays....