March 9, 2017

Mother Nature is a fickle entity isn't she? Warm, cold, warm, cold, wind (lots of wind) warm, cold with snow thrown in. I'm ready for nice spring weather, who's with me?

Nice turnout for the last meeting.Our next get together is the March 25th workshop. Plan on working on quilts for Teen Challenge or your own project. Brown bag for lunch. Start at 9:00 a.m., come when you can and we will dismiss between 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

On a local note, the spring shop hop for the Shiloh area runs March 21-25. They have 7 shops participating this year. 

At our April 13th meeting Yvonne will be demonstrating a new ruler she discovered.  Also final details for our beginners sewing class in April will be made.

We've come up with a plan for our sewing class April 29th. We'll start off by going over the basics of a sewing machine, threading, winding the bobbin and cleaning. Next we'll have them practice sewing on scraps just to get used to how a sewing machine runs then we'll have them put their 9-patch block together. After that we will show them how to press their seams and square up fabric, cut squares and let them put these together also.  The class runs from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. We need to arrive by 8:30 a.m. to set up. Please bring your machines, tools, rotary cutters, rulers and mats. Brown bag lunch for guild members after the class ends to discuss how we think it went. There are 4 people signed up already and we have room for 6 more. We'll get an announcement in the local papers soon.

We have been invited to attend the Bellevue Quilt Guild's meeting on May 3rd. They are having a program on Quilts of Valor and the meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. We will meet at the church at 6:00 p.m. This sounds like an interesting program and will give us a chance to see how other quilt guilds do their meetings.

For our May 11th meeting, Karen Ruggles will be showing us how to construct an apron using 2 of the large tea towels. You will be getting an e-mail with a list of supplies needed. 

We've been talking about chartering a bus for the fall Amish Shop Hop which runs Nov. 1-4. We would advertise at the area quilt shops to see if we can get enough people signed up.

If you would like to do a demonstration for any of the meetings, please let me know.

We did have a couple show and tells.


This quilt was a shop hop quilt done by Marcella. The colors are just gorgeous.



These little storage pouches were done by Rachenea. The black and yellow are bumble bees. The larger one holds the smaller ones. The medium size is a pin cushion and the small one holds a thimble. The blue and pink mouse pair were her favorites.


She even stitched the strips on the fabric for the body of the bee. 

See you at the next workshop!

Chris