December Holiday Meeting

   

Show and Tell at our Holiday Meeting

Norrene laughs as she shows her hydrangea piece.  We have fun laughing!

Molly O's grandson is going to adore this quilt of trucks and tractors!

Sheila has made a wintery table runner for her family in Alaska.

Sheila shared a quilt she made for her new grandson.

Nice use of birch tree fabric, and other plaid and camouflage fabric.

Blair worked with 1930s fabrics and made this soft, precious quilt.

Blair shared this quilt  she made. The special effects created with lighter fabrics in the center and darker florals around the outside makes this an interesting piece. 

Tina C. used one of each of our year's Blocks of the Month in this quilt.

Twelve months, twelve blocks.

A beautiful ending to a fun year of making monthly blocks.

Tina C.  had fun creating Christmas placemats to decorate for a family gathering at the beach.

 The blocks in this quilt were made by Ellen, who gave them to Tina. Tina then made them into a Quilt of Valor.

Blair shared this " Bats and Boos" quilt  which was a mystery quilt. It is so clever!

Barb told us her son likes M.C. Escher's art so she made him a quilt based on the artist's work of tessellations.  Didn't she do a spectacular job?

Here is the print Barb used as reference to create the quilt above for her son.

Tara always finishes so many pieces! Here is a tree quilt ready to use this holiday season!

Tara created these for a fundraiser.  These pieces will be beautiful in anyone's home!

Betsy A won our blocks of the month using the " Friend Ships" block. Here are the blocks put together in this fun and bright quilt.

It is fun to see the colors and fabrics members used for their blocks. 

Sky fabric, water fabric, and even night skies.

Here are February's Blocks of the Month won by Betsy A! 

She put them all together to create this quilt!

Pat H used this design for her backing

And here is the front of Pat H's modern quilt.

Up, up and away in my beautiful balloon....

these hot air balloons are by Molly O

Donna C's quilt of Vermont - here is the back...

                       Here is the front!

We smiled at this wonderful quilt....because...somehow...we know....

thanks Margaret for the smiles!

Jackie's leaves look beautiful in a nice variety of colors against a neutral background.

An Outreach fabric with tropical, vibrant colors will certainly make come one local happy.

Here is the backing used for the quilt above.

An Outreach Quilt made using Blooming Nine Patch pattern.  We met one Saturday for an Open Sew and this was an optional choice:  to work on this pattern.

A fun quilt with piano key borders and fireflies created by Outreach.

Blocks of the Month, won by Jackie B and combined to make this quilt for Outreach! 

So beautiful!

We got to play Quilt-O for fabric prizes!

Betsey W and I decided we make quilt patterns even in our appetizers! What do you think of the snowball blocks and the grape border and the striped binding?

At our holiday meeting, members set up placemats and centerpieces to create a festive party atmosphere.

Handmade items were donated for our Silent Auction. There were quilted items, homemade jams, scones, and so many wonderful things!

Bidding took place throughout the meeting. 

We had fun looking and chatting and deciding what we wanted to bid on.

 

A wonderful table topper 

and Santa plates 

graced this group's area.  

It was fun to see how everyone decorated their tables!

When we arrive to our meetings, we check in, hand in our Blocks of the Month if we made any. At this meeting we played Quilt-O so we picked up a card in exchange for some 5" squares.

Aren't our Blocks of the Month pretty? I love to see them laid out together.

Photo by Tina C.

 

December Open Sew and Outreach Sew

 On a rainy Saturday in December, a nice group of our members gathered to sew, chat, admire, share and laugh.  we truly enjoyed this wonderful day together.

Margaret got her cat quilt put together.  Each cat is made of a different cat themed fabric, and she used fish for the border.  So very clever!

What fun we had!!!

Alice happily inspects her strips while others enjoy chatting about sewing and chatting happily in general!

We brought scissors and blades for B'ladies to sharpen for us.

Here is Rita organizing her blocks into a design.  She used fabric from her stash!

Here is Mary getting lost in her quilting.

Betsy and Pat get into their sewing.

Mary Kay presses her tree runner.

A group helps to determine block placement....

we love to share our work and to share what we do, that is for sure.

This placemat made by President Pat will be given to meals on wheels for 

distribution at a special holiday meal.

This Singer 301 from 1956 is happily sewing a doggy quilt.

Barb listens to chatting as she works at the cutting table.

Nicole uses an antique Singer featherweight to create. Love her fold out bag of supplies!

Some members chose to hand applique as they chatted.

Suzie sews steadily in our room at the Westerly Senior Center.

 Tina and Sharon sew along by machine and by hand.  

We thank them for all our wonderful programs they put together for us!

Betsy and Pat keep on sewing.

Hmmmm....plan plan plan!!!!

And a good time was had by all!!!!

November Meeting

At our November meeting our "Bag People" shared the bags they made from the Charlie MacDonald workshop! 

And it was soooo much fun!!!

Our November Block of the Month was quite popular and so pretty!  Don't you love how they look when put all together?

Audrey shares a piece quilted by Jen.

Audrey has finally made a quilt for herself...after quilting for 38 years.  She loves coffee so coffee is on this side....but look at the other side....

Chocolate is on the other side~~~~~yummy!

Ellie has created three pieces of veggies for a January display at the Westerly Armory.  

The display will be about gardening.  Here is her leeks piece. 

And here is Ellie's corn growing...

These beets are just beautiful!   Ellie has a unique and beautiful style of working with fabric.

Maria shared her very festive pumpkin!

Tara put these blocks together with a flower in each center.

Tara's Pumpkins in a Row with prairie points!

Roberta finished an embroidery piece started in a workshop 

presented by Lynn Kane and added a flange binding.  

Her other piece is an art quilt from a Betsy Habich workshop 

where she learned to transition a photo into a quilted image.

Tina admits she is obsessed with 3 dimensional EPP (English Paper  Piecing).

Pat shares a Christmas hanging.

Cheryl has completed a quilt or a friend.                                Nicole made an apron from a scrappy collection of fabric.

These quilts are from our Outreach Group.  

Many members work on different parts of the quilting process.

Our speaker, Kathie Beltz gave an excellent presentation on colors and quilting.  

She is well known for her quilt, "Skyfall" where 

each star is made of complementary or analogous color combinations.

Kathie explains color lightness and darkness 

and how this can create various effects in a

 quilt.

These two quilts are the same pattern but are made using different color schemes.

Kathie's poppy is made of many different reds.

We enjoyed Kathie Beltz's talk on color in quilts.

Members have been making placemats for meals on wheels to be distributed during this holiday season.

Our BOM (Block of the Month) was a huge success!

Our upcoming December block was on display to inspire us.