Tacoma, February 1, 2017

As it turns out, February 1 was our first meeting of the new year. Our meetings in January were both cancelled because of snow events; and in fact we had more snow on Wednesday but decided to hold the meeting anyway. Attendance was off a little, but we still got quite a bit done and good refreshments to boot. Along with our regularly scheduled activities, like Mini Raffle and drawings for Fat Quarter Club, we discussed the Area 4 meeting in the spring, an upcoming bus trip, and a Red and White Group Challenge for MaineQuilts in July.

Brenda collected several more quilts for the NICU unit, an ongoing giving project for our group; and we discussed the possibility of purchasing labels for those quilts. In mid-February, Brenda will make another trip down to Portland to deliver a new batch of quilts.

Our next meeting will be a Stack and Whack workshop for our members, featuring a local instructor, Barbara Accord.

Following Show and Tell, Brenda did a demonstration on Brenda Henning's method for constructing half square triangle units.

Highlights from this week's Show and Tell:

AnneT was up first, with her own design of sea creatures.

 

AnneT - Simple Elegant Tee by CNT Pattern Co.

 

AnneT -- 3 scarves she made

 



AnneT -- placemats and matching napkins

 



AnneT - small quilt for her grandchild. I believe she said the space at the bottom would be used to record the particulars of the birth.

 

AnneT- another small baby quilt

 

 

AnneT's easy jacket she designed

 

DonnaM -- Kaffe Fassett strippy

 

DonnaM -- "A Little Something Jacket", CNT Pattern Co

Donna made two of these in cotton batiks and one in rayon batik.

 

CarolT -- no information available

 

SandyK's handbag

 

 

Bea's pillow -- love that pop of pink

 

Bea's Red Sox/ Patriots quilt

 

 

SueK -- Out of the Blue, Sandra Davidson, quilt as you go

 

JudyR -- changing pads for her new grandbaby

 

BettyL -- red and white from Missouri Star Quilt Co

 

SueR -- Bricks by Tracy Kincheloe, for her grandbaby

 

LoriH -- quickie scrap quilt

 

Kathy -- Chinese Coins, charity quilt

 

Kathy -- Bricks, charity quilt

 

Kathy -- string pieced chevrons, charity quilt

 

Koleen -- Primitive Gathering by Lisa Bongean

Koleen -- Talkin' Turkey by Bonnie Hunter

 

Koleen -- Talkin' Turkey backing

 

Koleen -- Sleep Under the Stars, from a magazine

Koleen -- Homestead by Edyta Sitar