Getting Items Finished

 December is the month for getting things finished and giving them to those we care about. 

Gisele is really enjoying using the longarm and has completed a couple of full size quilts. She is pleased with how it is going and feels ready to do some quilting for others. Here is a queen size “tube” quilt that she started at our workshop led by Andrea.

Joyce has been very busy making things for Christmas. She has been knitting gifts, making fleece hats and slippers, and has made a jewelry case. 

Marilyn reports she has not done much sewing this fall. She finished a jelly roll quilt started a number of years ago at a retreat. This has gone to Baltimore to her daughter for Christmas.

And here is a quilt for Marilyn’s new granddog, Frankie.

Marilyn made her mailed gift to her grandson (who she has not gotten to visit in over a year) more fun by having the parcel wrapped with a chain and lock. There were 8 clues to be solved to find the key, which was to be frozen in an ice cube. Lots of fun!

Ruth has made a Christmas themed quilt for each of her daughters. Christina received ‘Vintage Christmas’, a pattern she spied on Pinterest and liked.

Alicia and Andrea received ‘Those Trees’, one as shown and one done in shades of cream and beige.

Linda has been very busy. She quilted this quilt for her daughter-in-law.

This quilt means that all of Linda's grandsons will now have a cozy, flannel quilt.

Other items made for the season include two knitted afghans, a table runner and several cushions.

Kathy H completed a wall hanging to put in her family Yankee Swap.

Row by Row Creations

 

Row by row designs were shared at guild meetings. Members were encouraged to create what pleased them – colour choices, design choices. Here is what has been shared to date.

Joyce’s row by row is very festive.

 Susan A has gone both Christmas-y and spooky. They are machine quilted. Love the pumpkins.

 

Debbi D is hand quilting her row by row.

Ruth has explored white. And is in the process of adding embroidery. After quilting, the plan is to sew on little beads to add a little sparkle.

Kathy H went with a black background and quilted with a walking foot. There have been a few button embellishments added.

 

Covid Catch-up

 

Gisele has been very busy. She has purchased a longarm and is hoping to start quilting for others in the new year. Come back again to see what she has quilted for herself.

In the meantime, Gisele has made The Big Easy bag from the pattern she got at retreat.

  And a Christmas centrepiece that comes apart to be placemats.

  

Melanie embellished and quilted a panel adding a festive candy cane rod and a Christmas tree that moves. Her grandsons will have fun counting down to Christmas.

 

 Susan F has also been thinking of gifts. She made a birthday gift for a sewing friend – a design board, a fabric scraps bucket, a pin holder for her machine, and a pin jar for broken bent pins (with a tiny hole drilled in the lid).  

 

 And a Christmas table runner with matching coasters.

 

Christa has kept busy during Covid. She completed a table runner started at a workshop.

Her sister in Germany is getting this table runner made from scraps.

Christa has donated this hand quilted, queen size quilt to CARMA (a cat rescue organization in Fredericton). It will be raffled in the spring. The pattern is Saratoga, from Fons n Porter "Easy Quilts", fall 2019. It received the seal of approval from Christa’s cat.

She finished and hand quilted her “Desert Sky”. It is on its way to Ontario.

A friend of Christa’s has received her hand quilted “Tranquil Paths”.

Debbi D has also been busy: wallhangings, lap quilts and face masks.    

 

Kathy H completed a wall hanging, a quilt done as a quilt-as-you-go, and a trunk pad.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March meeting links

For our meeting on March 9th, we used the following references. The theme is "SEW Scrappy".

Foundation piecing for strings.


Clever method for doing large areas of small squares.

Pat Sloan's scrap busting method for cutting and storing scraps.

Lori Holt's shortcut for making 4 patches.

Easy & Scrappy log cabin blocks.

Mini charm quilt

A good source for scrappy projects of all kinds - not just quilts - is Sew Can She. We really liked the mini quilt block magnets, for the smallest pieces.

February meeting links

Here's links to the topics of discussion for the February meeting.

Finding time to sew

A happy and sweet mini heart quilt

I heart you free pattern mini quilt

Churn dash table runner

Easy to sew Valentine's day crafts 

Two methods for easy and accurate 9 patch blocks.

It's been snowing all day so no news on if the meeting is cancelled or not.

January meeting

Our meeting was about the three R's - reducing, reusing and recycling.

Show and Tell