Thursday, February 2, 2017

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
 

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