Friday, January 16, 2015

January Meeting

We had a great night last night at our monthly meeting! There were many exciting new ideas discussed for the New Year, including possible trips to the Fabriquilt fabric manufacturing plant in Kansas City, and to the Lincoln, Nebraska Quilt Museum.

We also discussed our upcoming plans for our community quilts that the members have been working hard on at home and at Friday Night Sews. They have several pieced.

The President's Challenge for 2015 is entitled "Circles, Circles, and more Circles". One might deduce that your quilt must contain something generally round. As our gentle president stated, your quilt might contain, for example, circular blocks, a circle circumscribing a star, or the whole thing might be a circular quilt. It can be any size, using any technique. Anything round. Anything at all. Your finished product will be due at the November meeting. Good luck.

Concerning the blog: It has been generally agreed upon by the guild that everyone ought to have free access to post on this page, and on Facebook, should they so elect to do so. The log in information has been distributed among last night's attendees, and now I might further extend an invitation to everyone: Every member is most welcome to put anything quilt-related that they please on our online pages, and I believe that the regular administrators will welcome the assistance. We appreciate any contribution that you might like to make.

We had some fantastic show-and-tell items last evening.  Some were community service quilts, and others were personal, but all were very worthy of notice.

Community service quilts:






 A beautiful costumer quilt that Maxine shared:
 Charlotte's baby quilt:
 Another of Maxine's customer quilts (which is quite reversible):

 Another of Maxine's customer quilts:
 Carolyn's quilt for her grandson:
 Darlene's quilt:
 Charlotte's I Spy quilt (the photographer apologizes for her shaky hand):
 Charlotte's colorful lap quilt:

Our president also gave a wonderful presentation on how to employ the use of a product called Thangles. They aid quilters in making non-warped, even triangles, tiny and otherwise, in their quilts with ease.







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