Elly made "The Lady" at our charity workshop x two.
TACOMA LAKES QUILTERS
Monday, March 25, 2024
Show and Tell
Saturday, March 9, 2024
March Meeting
Donna put her leftover blocks and fabrics to good use on the back of "Garden Delight".
Diane made her variation on "Jewel Box" quilt from a pattern in a Quilters Newsletter Magazine from March 1999. Pattern by Kathy Munkelwitz. Another winner from Diane!
Carol showed us this quilt made with vintage embroidered blocks.
Sharon stitched this lively quilt top using a pattern from Villa Rosa Designs. The pattern is "The Lady" by Pat Fryer. Tacoma's Anne W. led a workshop using this pattern for our charity quilts.
Elly likes a challenge and her star ornament certainly fits the bill! The pattern is called Moravian Star. Elly got the directions from a video offered at https://dizzyquilter.com/2017/02/05/moravian-star-alison-glass-version/. If you like a challenge, too, why not give it a try!
Kim wowed us with this beautiful quilt featuring Michal Miller fabrics. She began the quilt at a Maine Quilts workshop in 2019. The pattern is called "Keyboard Kaleidoscope" by Marilyn Foreman. Gorgeous!
Friday, February 23, 2024
Workshop for Charity
Wednesday's meeting on Feb 21 was a workshop day, so there was no business meeting, only the mini raffle and a little Show and Tell.
We all loved Ann's pieced bunny that she made for the Area 4 meeting in April. She used a pattern from Thomas Quilting called 'Little Bunny Cottontail'. Love the little eye!
And Leanne, who loves her paper piecing, made a gorgeous green and gold quilt using blocks from Carol Doak's online block of the month and blocks from Carol Doak's book, Sixty Fabulous Paper Pieced Stars.
Wednesday's workshop was scheduled as a charity sew day. Ann conducted the workshop using a pattern from Villa Rosa Designs called 'The Lady', a jelly roll friendly pattern. It's a fast pattern to put together.Ann used batiks in oranges and golds for hers.
Several members worked on projects of their own. Meliss made her Lady quilt at home and brought it in to show us. She followed the basic pattern but made it her own by varying the widths of her strips and assembling vertical rows with no match points. Hers is all made from scraps in a controlled color scheme.
Two other tops were completed during the workshop. I'm sorry that I forgot who the first person was, but this is SandiH's. She still has to add top and bottom border sections. Beautiful!I'm looking forward to seeing how these quilts look in all the different color combinations I saw during the workshop.
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
We're not just here for the snacks, you know
Kathy made a quilt out of vintage fans. What a great design!
Kathy made another quilt using vintage blocks, this time the blocks were from "someone's Aunt". Well, Auntie would be happy to see this pretty little quilt, don't you think?