June 20 meeting

Tacoma Quilt group met today for the last regular meeting for this current year. We held our elections for new officers and chairpersons were announced. We are a busy group and excited as we look ahead to a new year with many ideas taking shape.

Officers pictured below: L to R

Jona Hutchins - Vice President

 Sandra Carey - Secretary

 Barbara Duffy - President

 Donna Webber - Treasurer

Donna Webber. who owns Webber's Ice Cream in Farmingdale  brought samples of her ice cream with Andrea, Sue, and Pam finishing out the wonderful goodies with toppings and other  squares and cakes. We all were delighted. 

 Sue Dupont with these cute little containers. Looks like a workshop next season. 

Barb D with a commissioned quilt made with feed sacks. 

Sandy G 'Mr Lincoln's Spy' great coloring.

Margo's 'America the Beautiful ' Seven of us challenged one another to make and use only our stash. Size 72" x 92" - McCalls Magazine 2011 offered a 6-part series. 

Warm weather and guess we are all busy doing other things. So there was not much Show 'n Tell this time. Have a great summer....our next time to get together is July for our summer picnic. Until......

June 13 Meeting

Today our Tacoma Lakes Quilters met for our monthly meeting. Whoever heard of cancelling in June because of weather. Many of the gals live near the Kennebec River or on streams. Due to flooding and road closures it was impossible to get to meeting place.

Today we came excited and it was a fun day. We had our secret sister reveal and show 'n tell.

Barb, President won one of the raffles and had a bundle of material.

And then, her secret sister, Jona  gave her

this gorgeous hand knit sweater. She always gives her secret sister a sweater and of course many of us 'hope'. 

 Andrea won the second raffle. Beautiful flowers, finished 12" squares ++

Andrea secret sister gifts....cute pattern

Ann made this beautiful quilt named 'Winter White". A lady commissioned her to do this in memory of her husband using his cotton shirts and undershorts. She spent a lot of time in preparation. It is 113" square with wool batting.

 Ann made a smaller version using pink/yellow.

 Janet quilt is 'broken dishes' blocks. Blocks were donated and she made this baby quilt

 Pauline made this from 2 1/2" strips collected from 'strippers for a day' that each of us received earlier. 

Close-up

Pauline's BOM ...June in a series of 12.

 Andrea showed this quilt from a local school that was going to throw this out. The school could not display because of a fire hazard so it had been tucked away. 

It was done 1996 called "Kool Aid Quilt Book' The hand prints are some of the students including her daughter. She was so delighted with this treasure.

Lori was the one who rescued it plus another one that her daughters hand prints were on.

Both quilts had all the children that attended that school at the time.

It is tied and very well done. 

 Sandy G - named 'Reflections' Beautiful colors

 Margo's baby quilt called 'Log cabin zoo'

 Margo's BOM - May and June ...series of 12 from Country Junktion.

Suanne - The following textiles were shown that her daughter brought from India. Pictures do not do them justice. Beautiful work.

 This was the size of a bed quilt...beautiful intricate work.

 This is the back and it was plain material and lines are added.

 Wall Hanging with little mirrors.

Our last meeting for this season will be next week. We have a wonderful group of quilters who are at all levels and we are really challenged. We have strong friendships and really enjoy one another with lots of laughter. So until next week.....