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

Woven Block tutorial for comfort quilts

As Paula mentioned, she is gathering woven blocks for our current cause.

The link to the tutorial is HERE.

Just follow the woven block steps. The snowball one at the bottom we are not using.

Charity works

One of the things our guild does is make items for various charities around the greater Fredericton area.

Joanne and Paula recently delivered laptop quilts for wheelchairs to Stan Kassidy hospital that were made by the members of Keswick Ridge Quilters. They were MUCH appreciated.

January Meeting links

For tonight's meeting, we will be talking about the following.

Make your own reusable produce bags.

Cutlery keeper, Fabric utensil holder

Wine Bottle gift wrap from an old shirt

Video: sew a cutlery pouch from a napkin