April 2023

 APRIL 2023

Our meeting - Guest Speaker - Show and Tell 

Our April guest speaker was Veronica Mays.  She is a textile artist from Rhode Island who works with fabrics in somewhat unique and fun ways.  

She shared many of her art pieces and quilted jackets.  

To see more of her work, click this link to her website:   conakysquilts

Here Veronica helps Tina model one of her jackets with a quilted hat.  

We loved seeing Tina model!

Veronica Mays shared many of her art pieces.

Fiber was added to this piece.

Veronica shared this piece with images of women 

she would like to see as president of the United States.

Her work expresses ideas about her family, culture, and beliefs.

We enjoyed chatting with Veronica and exploring her pieces of art.

OUR MEETING

We always have fun at our meeting catching up with our friends.

Challenge Blocks

Viewing the challenge of using a block or shape in different sizes, or scale.

Clever use of fabric to combine 3 sizes of a shape.

Our ways and means committee announces the winners of donated items.

SHOW AND TELL

Molly and Jackie share  table runner each made in our recent workshop by Barbara Chojnacki. The workshop was focused on using similar blocks to create new patterns.

Tina used thread sketching to express the wings of her dragonfly.

Catherine shares her quilts of many pieces and colors.

Bev created this quilt or her daughter, who chose the pattern.

Bev also made this quilt using a jelly roll.

Margaret thanked everyone for bringing her their bright and bold fabrics that she combined in this scrappy quilt.

Carol made this tote, called a Frankenbag, made from blocks or pieces from other projects.

Carol made this quilt for Project Linus.

Table runners by Tara!

Peeps also by Tara

Barb Vedder made this quilt for her daughter's wedding.  

She used big stitch hand quilting with machine quilting.

Barbara made this star quit with tans and blues.

Outreach Quilts 

these quilts were made to be donated to community organizations, 

for example Habitat for Humanity, Project Linus, 

Fresh Start, and other local charities.