February 2024 Guild meeting

 We had a lovely trunk show at our February meeting with Natalie Duncan showing us her beautiful works.

I did not take photos - as I was late and simply forgot - it was fun to see all of her works in progress and finished pieces....of course - like everyone she also has quilts that need to be bound!  (Unlike some of us she likes this process too! LOL) 

I did however manage to get lots of photos of show and tell!  Look at this sweet Red cardinal that she made from a pattern received at a prior months meeting!  the pattern instructions weren't the greatest but we think the result is sweet!

Heather has a new bag for us this month! a Crocheted bag! isnt that fun! She always comes up with some nice bags!

Carlinda was able to get lots of blocks done at retreat 45?!  They are such a pretty color purple.  

To take her mind off of the tedious blocks - she wanted something mindless to work on  - I cannot imagine it would be mindless - it turned out sweet! It's one of those 'quilt as you go' bags that she is making for a friend who likes fishing - the light blue fabric has fishes - and Christa helped with some other color selections! No handles but she'll get there!

Mrs. D also went to retreat and made this mug rug - a sunbonnet Sue pattern - such nice work E does!

She also made this gorgeous quilt - the blocks were given to her a number of years ago - they were embroidered by her mother.  At retreat - she squared them up, added sashing and borders - the hand work is beautiful as is the color of the sashing and borders too!

This was made by Melanie to commemorate her trip with her daughter and husband to Ireland.    Each building represents a building that they saw on their travels.  She told us a great story about one of the buildings - with the moral of the storey being sometimes  you need to look down to find what you are looking for! (the building had the building number near the ground - not in the 'expected' location.   In the second picture you can see Melanie pointing out the number.  Her daughter knew just which building was which when she saw it.  What an awesome memory item!!

a gorgeous quilt made by Debbie H  - isn't it beautiful!  she quilted it as well and the second photo shows the back! Beautiful!

This quilt was pieced by a friend of Debbi's its a one block wonder/whack n stack - Debbi didnt care for the border so she removed it and put on three instead! it turned out nice!

Debbi started this log cabin type quilt at retreat - the blocks finished at 5 1/2" square if I recall correctly - she got a great deal of them done (the black and 'white') and its coming together.  it will be spectacular when its done!

What a unique memory quilt Joan made -  take a look at the details! there are cheer tees as well as baby clothes- what a gorgeous memory quilt.

this is the back!

beautiful name tag! she's going to color it in! 

Jodi finished this one up at retreat!   It's one of the murder mystery quilts that she participated in a few years back!

Ruth made this for Pam - what a great friend!

I hope I have the story right - Pam gave her daughter a calendar of cross stitch patterns one year - so after that her daughter started sending her back the finished cross stitch.  Pam mounted them on this board - they are really nice - upclose! they are Mary Engelbreit patters as is the background fabric on the board.  

this quilt was part of the round robin challenge that we had a few years back.  it started with a block and then each person added their own flair. It was done out to the black border which was one wide black border.  Toni took it and felt that the corner embroidery was not getting the attention it deserved so she took that off and replaced it with three smaller borders with the green in the middle.  Loving the work that Joanne C had done on the inside border she repeated it on the next border then added a couple more pieced borders - what a stunner this top will be!

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This was a comfort quilt that Carlinda made and that Toni bound - it turned out so nice - such a pretty color pallette!

Toni also finished this up while at retreat - it  was a block of the month that she and Heather had participated in.  Heather has a couple blocks done ;) lets just say not the full quilt.

Toni wanted this to be large enough for her bed - so added some borders, she also changed a few blocks -one of the snowmen and the reindeer!

Toni is making these pin holders for her upcoming trip to Scotland!  She found some perfect 'canadiana' fabric and some inexpensive notions - the girls can use these to gather signatures or collect pins which is quite popular in Scotland!

Ill wrap this up with a photo of Heathers bag again - we wanted to ensure that we had plenty of photos to share her creation!

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Our next meeting will be March 11 2024 at the Keswick Ridge Community Centre!