Happy Birthday Cheryl!

We had a smaller than usual group when we met this past week but we keep busy and watched some of the 2014 Olympics from Sochi at the same time. It was really fun!



 

Jane was working on a new project; it is the Day and Night quilt pattern from Eleanor Burns. Jane was enjoying the pattern and made a lot of progress through out the day. Very pretty!

 

 

Planning the layout

Starting to add the borders.

 

Judy had purchased some very colourful fabric in Kelowna last summer (on sale at Fabricland!) and she was working on making two beautiful aprons!

 

Very bright!



And she stitched the seams with a decorative floral stitch.

 

 

Cheryl worked on a wall hanging and found it very convenient to stand behind it!

 

 

BJ had a few words to say about her cuddle strip quilt - but I won't print them here. It was turning out very nice but the fluff-factor was high by the end of the day!

 

Faye #2 was making great progress on her "Gold's Got the Blues" quilt but unfortunately, I didn't get a photo - next time!

I completed a few more microwave bowl pot-holders in some funky fabrics, made 2 mug wraps and worked on a St. Patrick's Day 12 x 12 hanging that I will show next time.

 

At lunch we celebrated Cheryl's birthday with a heavenly chocolate and white cake with butter cream filling. It looks like a Tuxedo cake but it I think it was called a Tiger cake (I could be very wrong about this!).

 

We all enjoyed the cake and companionship of the day and, of course, watching the Olympics! We missed seeing Ruth, Carmen, Louise, Faye, Carole and Myrtle but we'll catch up with them soon.

Keep stitchin'!

Bev





Cold quilting day!

It was pretty chilly and windy when we met for our Thursday quilting day; I guess that's to be expected this time of year in this part of the world but we still like to complain. The wind was particularly nippy today!

Most of us continued to work on the same projects from our last quilting day. Carmen was making nice progress on her 'Tone it Down' quilt. She is so organized with all her little pieces cut so precisely and stored in her tote.

 

I wish I was half as organized as Carmen!

 

Judy was working on her 'Granny's Jam' lap quilt and BJ and Cheryl were helping with 'direction interpretation'; you know the saying, two heads are better than one, so three must be really good -

 

 

and four heads must be phenomenal!

 

 

The layout is looking lovely, Judy!

 

 

I was working on some more 'Disappearing Pinwheels' from the Missouri Star Quilt Company tutorial, a few more microwave bowls and binding.



Carole was making nice progress on a 'Lincoln Log' quilt and she was using some gorgeous fabric.

A few test blocks and smaller projects were on Jane's to-do list -

 

and Cheryl was continuing on 'Flight Plan' while -

 

 

Faye #2 was busy with 'Golds Got the Blues'-

 

and BJ sewed away on her 'Wee Chevron' quilt. (sorry no photo!)

We had three snow birds we were missing - Louise, Faye and Myrtle. I hope they were keeping warm and visiting lots of quilt stores!

Until next time, keep sewing and stay warm!

Bev

Back to Quilting!

 Our group met last Tuesday, January 14th and it was nice to get back together after a month off. I took a few photos of what everyone was working on:

BJ participated in a Mystery Quilt at Earthly Goods and made this beautiful quilt, 'Undercover in Houston VI' by Debbie Caffrey.

She said it was fun to do and we all think it's beautiful! I don't know how she is going to quilt it but we'll ask her to see it again when it is completed. Then she started to work on (another!) baby quilt: 'Wee Chevron' out of flannel.

 

Carmen was working on 'Tone it Down', the first American Patchwork and Quilting Quilt-a-long and it is looking gorgeous! It is featured in the February 2014 issue.

The February issue may still be on the newsstands or you can order a digital copy at American Patchwork and Quilting February 2014   You can also check out Lissa Alexander at Lissa Alexander as she was very involved in the planning of this quilt-a-long. Carmen said she is having fun with these blocks.


Cheryl was working on 'Flight Plan', a pattern from American Patchwork and Quilting, December 2013.

She is using batiks in her version and it is looking beautiful. It makes me want to pull out my batiks and get going!

Judy was working on 'Granny's Jam' lap quilt from '11 Laps from Fat Quarters' and I only managed to take a photo of her hand - sorry Judy!

Myrtle and Faye #2 were both working on 'Golds Got the Blues', kits that they purchased at the quilt show in Leduc. The pattern is from Pine Tree Country Quilts and the colours are beautiful!

I didn't get a photo of Carole or Jane as they both had machine troubles and took a trip to Edmonton to get their machines looked at - next time I'll catch up with them!

I was working on 'Microwave Bowl Pot Holders'; I found that tutorial on the blog, 'Seams Happy' and they are so cute!

You can find the tutorial at Seams Happy Microwave Bowl Pot Holder I think they are adorable! Louise made some over Christmas and used the pattern size of 10" squares and also made two larger ones using 11.5" squares and 13" squares.

I also showed the girls one of the latest tutorials from Missouri Star Quilt Company - the 'Disappearing Pinwheel'! I love it! So simple, so easy, and so beautiful!

You start with 10" squares, sew around all four sides, cut on both diagonals, press to the darker side, resew the sets of half-square triangles into a pinwheel, cut again in 9 equal pieces, turn, resew and viola! You have 2 different end versions (and probably more) as you can see in the last photo above. I think I'm going to have fun with this one! You can go the Missouri Star Quilt website Missouri Star Quilt Tutorials or search on YouTube.

We have two members 'down south', Louise and Faye #1; I'm sure they are having a great time being 'snow birds'. And we'll see Ruth on our next Thursday quilt day.

Take care!
Bev

 

 

 



Oops, first blog and the link to the tissue box cover didn't work - I'm so sorry! The correct link is: http://www.sew4home.com/projects/fabric-art-accents/michael-miller-fabrics-citron-gray-nursery-tissue-box-cover or follow this link: Tissue box cover.

Check it out, you'll love it!!

Bev

Welcome to our blog!


We are a group of quilters from the Sherwood Park, Alberta area who enjoy getting together to share our quilting abilities and experiences. We enjoy meeting at twice monthly to work on our individual projects and share in our progress.

We all enjoyed our annual Christmas pot-luck get together in December graciously hosted by Cheryl at her lovely home. As usual there was lots of food and fun; we played strip poker for fabric strips and had a gift exchange. Louise surprised us all with these beautiful Christmas tissue box covers! She made one for each of us while she was in Palm Springs and I love mine; I can certainly see an opportunity to make some of these with all kinds of seasonal fabric - Valentines, Halloween, Back-to-school - or your favorite everyday fabric to match the décor in your kitchen,  bedroom or bathroom.

I have some Lori Holt Bake Sale fabric that I bought at the Riley Blake Fabric Fest last September in Las Vegas and I think it would make an ideal cover for tissue box in my kitchen. Isn't this gorgeous fabric?

I found a few tutorials on line for the tissue box covers and I like this one at sew/4home.com; Extra Large Tissue Box Cover

In January, I made some Personal Pin Cushions using a tutorial I found at instructables.com Personal Pin Cushion Ring It was so fast, easy and fun to boot; I used some of the bits and pieces of 'sewing' fabric that I have had for years and some measuring tape ribbon that I purchased last fall in Bellingham, WA. I have a tendency to put store pins in my mouth when I remove them as I'm sewing (a very bad habit!) so I think I will be putting this mini pin cushion to good use.

 

 

Well, that's all for now, thanks for stopping by!

 

 

Bev