New London Quilt Guild

2013 Spring Sew-In and Workshop

Our Spring Sew-In and Workshop started of well and ended well. We had a few guest who came to learn with us and in the end of it all everyone had a wonderful time! We even learned that Sponge Bob Square Pants speaks with an Irish accent in Ireland too!

Our classes for the day started with Chris Porter. Chris had demonstrated the Missouri Star Quilt Company's Amazing Jelly Roll Quilt pattern by 3 Dudes. Chris even went on to demonstrate how to make a disappearing nine patch as well.

If you are interested in learning the patterns that Chris demonstrated for her classes you can click on the links below.

Missouri Star Quilt Company - The Amazing Jelly Roll Quilt pattern by 3 Dudes

Missouri Star Quilt Company - Disappearing Nine Patch

Our second class of the day was taught by Doris. Doris had demonstrated a disappearing four patch.

Here is Doris starting off by cutting the all ready sewn four patches.

To make the four patches shift into disappearing four patches.

Here is the final block for the disappearing four patch.

And this is the disappearing four patch quilt Doris had made.

If you are interested in the pattern please click on the link below to see the pattern Doris had used in her demonstration.

Moda Bake Shop's Landlocked Sea Lover's Quilt Pattern

Doris even demonstrated how to make a Cathedral Windows block all done by hand stitching.

This photo is showing the stitches that are tacking down the middle corners of the window.

Doris is showing us that your stitches have to be just at the fold of the fabric to make the seams come together.

Inserting the stained glass if you will and stitching it in place.

As you can see the cathedral window block is great for using up scrap fabrics. Doris has been making these through out the last year. She had said that she had found the starter windows in a yard sale.

As mentioned earlier we had a few guest that came to learn with us. One of our guest Bonnie from Brighton, had made each member a card made by placing fabric on the front of the card. We all happen to think that was one of the sweetest jesters of the day. Thank you so much Bonnie for sharing!

Our last class demonstration was taught by Lynette. Lynette had shown the all the members and our guest how to paper piece.

Lynette is cutting away the excess fabric so that it will not show behind the new layered piece but making user that there is a quarter inch seam for the next piece for when the paper will be removed.

Stitching on the next piece.

Lynette's final product! What a lovely tree Lynette!

In between classes and once class demonstrations were finished our members focused on getting our next service project going. We managed to get one block complete along with almost completing a second block.

Which we will start up again at the next meeting. We wanted to take a moment and thank everyone involved at our Sew-In and Workshop. Without your efforts our day would have not as successful. Again thank you so, sew much!

Happy Quilting Everyone!

The New London Quilt Guild

2013 April 10th Meeting

Our April 10th meeting we covered the final plans for the April 20th Sew-In and Workshop that will take place that the New London United Methodist Church basement. As a reminder we hosted our first Sew-In and Workshop the same time last year and here a couple of photo of Sue and Yvonne teaching their classes.

This year's Sew-In and Workshop will have fewer lessons and more time behind the sewing machine. As a guild, everyone decided that there were too many lessons at last years Sew-In and not enough time behind a sewing machine to call it a "Sew-In". This year however, in between the five lessons guild members will be working on a community service project. It is asked of guild members who are attending this event to arrive at the church by 8:30 am to help set up. Since we will be ordering our lunch out from Pizza Explosion. Please bring money for lunch, $7.00 per person attending will do. The last item of business for the Sew-In and Workshop is for the members who have volunteered to teach please do contact Yvonne for a schedule time. A few of you who volunteered to teach were not at the meeting to vouch for your own time slot.

Our last order of business was brought up by Chris Porter who asked if any of the members would be interested in a wool felting class. Chris had mention to ask Holly Shelly to teach the class as well and all members agree.

On to Show and Tell!!!!

Our first show and tell for the night was brought in by Lynnette. Lynnette had made this log cabin quilt for her granddaughter. This quilt in person is very stunning!

Next Yvonne had made this reversible purse. The bottom of the purse is reversible, and those Scotty dogs in the print are so cute!

Our last member to show and tell was Chris P. Chris had attended the Sewing and Quilting Expo in Cleveland where she bought this Primitive Gatherings wall hanging that is changeable for four seasons. That bunny is so adorable!!!

Here is what the rest of the panels of the wall hanging looks like if you are interested in buying the pattern.

Lastly, Chris had a leaf table runner where she quilted the runner first than appliqued the leaves onto the runner.

Well that is all for this meeting! Hope to see you at our Sew-In and Workshop on Saturday, April 20th at 9:00 am

Happy Quilting Everyone!

The New London Quilt Guild

2013 - March 28th Meeting

The March 28th meeting was a relaxed and kick back kind of a meeting. There was very little business to discuss and the ladies had most of the strips cut and ready to go for the next Eastman's quilt. With that said and done the main event for the night was our member showing off their quilts and telling the stories behind them.

Doris was the first member up to share her quilt top. This quilt is a disappearing four patch. If you are interested in learning how to make it Doris will be teaching this pattern at the April 20th Sew-In/ Work Shop

Doris also had this cute puppy quilt that just needed the binding to be finished off before calling it completely done.

Gloria started her quilt sharing for the night with a Red Work snowman quilt.

Sport Shoes is Gloria's work in progress quilt (WIP). This quilt is all applique, and Gloria is making it for her children. When its completed, the shoes will be all signed by all the athletes that participated in each sporting event with her kids. Go Wildcats!

Gloria's last share is called French Rows.

Marcia's quilt share came from the I-X Centers Sewing and Quilting Expo. Marcia bought this little wall hanging as a kit and it is called Let it Snow!

Yvonne also had a couple of quilts to show off. Both are the 1600 Strip quilt or as they are better known as the Jelly Roll Race Quilts.

Yvonne's Jelly Roll Race quilt w/ a border

Thank you ladies for bringing in all you lovely work to share!

Lastly before we end this post, we just wanted to let you know that you can now follow us on Bloglovin. The reason for this new follow application is because as of July; Google will be retiring Google Reader, and as much as we are in tears of saying good bye to Google Reader, we still want you to be able to follow us and all the things that we are up to. Thank you everyone for your support!

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Well that is all for this meeting!

Until next time...Happy Quilting!

The New London Quilt Guild

2013 - March 13th Meeting

Was very proficient and to the point. The meeting started with a silent roll call and then the minutes of the last meeting were read.

An upcoming event in town this month is the New London Cabin Fever Cure - "for women only" on March 20th. Chris Porter will be speaking and demonstrating. Chris has also asked Carol Schaffer and Kim Parsons could attend this event with her to help promote the quilt guild.

The April Sew-In/ workshop was discussed and the set date will be April 20th. Class and demonstrations ideas were passed around. So far we have:

Chris Porter - jelly roll block from the Missouri Star Quilt Co.
Doris - Nine Patch Shift
Jean - 10 minute runner
Open to teach and demonstrate if anyone is willing to do so, cathedral windows. Some of the ladies really would love to learn how to do this if anyone has the know how to do so.

We are open to more ideas and if anyone from the guild is willing to teach and demonstrate please contact Yvonne or say something at the next meeting.

Food was also discussed and the idea was tossed around that ordering in would be better than having a potluck. Once approved each member attending the Sew-In/Workshop will be asked to chip in to help pay for the tab. If food will be ordered in it will more likely be ordered from Pizza Explosion here in town.

Also Marlene is making up a flyer for the sew-in to hand out to visitors with tips and hints on it. It is kindly asked of all members to submit in their favorite tips and hints to Marlene by April 15th whether by email or in person.

The 1 Million Pillowcase Challenge total was 74 pillowcase.
47 pillowcases were done by the New London Guild , which also includes the 11 pillowcases that were made with the Girl Scouts. The extra 27 pillowcases were done and donated by Mrs. Jones who is Jennifer Overstreet's mother. $20.00 postage was given to Jennifer to mail off the pillowcases to Pillows of Hope in Cincinnati. Jennifer, please have the receipt to the next meeting of the postage spent.

Lastly we had a visitor attend out meeting and her name is Cindy. Cindy has been a long time quilter and she brought in her t-shirt quilt to share with the guild. We are all glad that Cindy came and we hope to see her again and by the way we all loved your quilt Cindy!

Chis Porter had a few finished quilts to share too.

Chris has recently bought her own quilting machine and she brought in her quilts to show her progress.

Beautiful work Chris!

Our next member to share is Marcia and Marcia is remaking over her son's room. Marcia has made curtains, and a few other items to go along with the rugged outdoors theme. Marcia also made this wall hanging that is also part of the theme to go in her son's room. This wall hanging is a stunner in person. Marcia stitched around all the animals to make them pop out more and the yellow enhances the over all theme of the quilt.

Our last member to show off her works is Jennifer. Jennifer had made this apron so that no more of her clothes will get ruined while she washes her dishes.

And Jennifer had this mini done too. Its the Circle of Geese pattern.

That is all for our show and tell and for the meeting minutes. Our next meeting will be March 28th, where we will be cutting strips to make the next quilt for Eastman's Funeral Home. Please bring rotary cutters, cutting mats, iron and ironing boards. Also if you have an fabrics on hand in the Americana colors please bring them in.

Until next time, Happy Quilting!

The New London Quilt Guild

2013- February 28th Meeting

The February 28th meeting was the second business meeting of the year and it was a productive one at that. One of the first topics of the night was making another quilt as a service project. This time around it will be for a service man or woman who has put in their time in serving our country. We are also thinking about using the same quilt pattern to make another quilt for Eastman's Funeral home. Pictured below is the quilt we will be putting together. The pattern is called: The Log Cabin Hidden Stars by Pam and Nicky Lintott.

The Log Cabin Hidden Star pattern by Pam and Nicky Lintott can be found at these online retailers: Fabric Shack and The Fat Quarter Shop if you are interested in purchasing the pattern for yourself.

For this service project we are in need of fabrics for this quilt. It is urged that all members please be so kind in bringing in fabrics that are shown in the photo above. Also all the fabrics that are brought in please be sure that they can be cut into 2 1/2 inch strips. We are going with an Americana theme this time around.

The 1 Million Pillowcase Challenge that was done with the Girl Scouts has been finally put to rest, and the ladies agreed to work with the girls again if the opportunity arises again. The only thing left to do is to finish off the few remaining pillow cases, make them accountable over at American Patchworking Magazine and then ship them off to Pillows of Hope in Cincinnati.

Our April workshop/sew-in is rapidly approaching and we discussed most of the details as far as time and food arrangements, which will be pot luck by the way. At the next meeting we need to finalize who will be teaching and to sum up all the last minute details to have the day rolling smoothly.

Chris Porter will be demonstrating a few quilty things at the Cabin Fever Cure "For Women Only" sponsored jointly by the New London Cemetery Board and the New London Park Board on March 20th at the Hileman Building, which is located at the New London Recreation Park. Every woman is welcome and if you want to know more information please go to Village of New London while the information is still available or contact Chris. FYI: there will be a $15.00 charge at the door.

Also Chris Porter handed out the rules and envelops for those participating in the paint chip challenge. One of the rules in this challenge is that member were not allowed to open their envelopes until they got home. This was to make sure that when September rolls around that all members will be delighted in the surprise to see what other members were challenged with. If you are still interested in participating in the challenge and you were not at the meeting please contact Chris for your paint chip envelope.

There are some up coming events that are outside of the guild if anyone is interested to attend. Please click on the links below to read more information about them.

Country Fabrics Anniversary Shop Hop

The Quilting Board - Quilting Cuisine Shop Hop

Sewing and Quilting Expo in Cleveland

Now time for Show and Tell:

Chris Kaufman brought in her latest finish.