Hearstring Quilters Meeting September 2013

New Business
There is a new parking situation - Martha was just made aware, and she will find out further details, and will let us know, but the old tickets are no good anymore.

Website - Karoline has done extensive work on the website. More information will be coming as the group starts to use the functionality.

Show & Tell

Claudine Boyd - New member - new to quilting- started with squares in purples. Great first quilt. Be sure to keep it, Claudine!

Karoline told us her quilt project was unveiled in August – huge success!
 

Marcy showed 2 charity quilts from her work with a challenge group.

Liz took a Karen Stone workshop at Paducah - applique and piecing of clam shells - palette was amazing - a request for ogling by the room was granted graciously granted. She also showed us a "rapids from Montana" quilt remembrance.

Joyce participated in a Love Apples Guild challenge using an 8 1/2 x 11 Japanese themed fabric. Lovely! She also showed a jelly roll quilt in a lovely purple palette, which extended to the back of the quilt. A third quilt was a foundation stripped quilt - red/white/black pallet just pops!

Sandy showed us the quilted Owl Quilt for Elizabeth. It was fantastic! She treated each block as an individual quilt – she took the quilt to another guild as a show and tell, and asked if anyone could tell which one was made by a man, and they did choose Jim's block. Special touches like inking, eyes and binding yet to come! 377 threads were knotted and buried.

 Judy F.:  This past summer, she cleaned out scraps from 9 years of quilting. She began strip quilting in color blocks, saying: the playing, the discovery is fun! She is hooked on Pinterest -thanks to Suzan H. and has been doing improvisational blocks, uncovering the artist within.

Robin: bought a new machine -- a Brother Embroidery - right out of the box, she was able to work monograms onto napkins, and having a lot of fun. Robin also bought a new Oliso Iron with touch sensor capability that made her little dog nuts with sounds that it makes, but that stays hot. Robin wants to iron now!

Suzan -told of her amazement at the level of creativity around the world as shown on Pinterest. She is working on completing 20 - yr old UFO's, in which effort a lot of us identified. Her daughter is pregnant, due Dec. 1st. A baby boy quilt has been begun!

Soryl told of her 6-wk-old grandson; her daughter who is getting married in 5 weeks. Soryl made napkins, starting with a Marimeko store fabric, which became the back of the quilt, then made the front to incorporate the same color pallet; with leftover strips, she created matching pillows.

Libby made a quilt inspired by the tragic death of her stepson. The quilt is a reflecting pool with her son and his girlfriend on opposite sides of the pool. There are 1200 triangles! Hopefully, it will be hung at the Hill school where her son attended school - what a beautiful tribute!

Patti took a Sashiko set received at the holiday exchange (from Martha) and a book loaned by Joyce with ideas, and created a lovely project. Well done, Patti!

 Eleanor - produces quilting books and does trunk shows, etc; for a more traditional quilter; her "Quilt Blocks Go Wild" incorporates 9-patch designs, which she used to create project bags! Since she is downsizing, she brought copies of her books for everyone - nice gesture, thanks, Eleanor!

Ellen showed us charity quilts in combinations of red/black/ &white. She also had a bear
quilt in tow!

Vernyce is participating in an Oct. 19th "Make It With Wool" contest. She has Genie Pants lined with Rayon in gray, a rust-colored sweater top (garter-stitched piece), a double-faced wool melton (one fabric) which she plans to edge in a whip-stitched black yarn.

Bernaime showed a hand-quilted silk wall hanging in luscious colors and quilting.

Susan–Owl commission in ultra suede materials was beautifully framed. An Art Quilt Elements submission is inspired by a paper; 5" squares on top of squares; circles topped by organza; surface stitching in perle cotton bobbin thread; 35 squares make up the art quilt. AMAZING! Also, after hearing Mary Stoudt speak, she loved the idea of seven layers of fabric 12 x 12, where each participant had to have red in the middle as a unifying element; each person cut as much as they wanted or embellished as they wished as the piece was handed off to each participant.

Rose showed a quilt she recently completed; Rose, you are becoming prolific with your quilting efforts, YEA!

Joann–did a fused "thing" she thought of as a failure, but we thought it was cute; from fish to butterfly incredible quilting. She also took on a challenge using Ricki Tim's fabric, did a fish, and it was wonderful! (topic was "making friends")

Martha Klein - has packs of Forever Yours quilt cards to sell. Talk to her if interested.

Cindy - brought back yellow fabric from Botswana for those who had requested. Her daughter is getting married. Mazeltov, Cindy! Cindy also received an Atlanta Airport show invitation - Flight Patterns is the show theme;" Miles to Go" is her entry made in silk charmeuse. "Sporty Girls Rock" has also been completed. Linda Seward (in U.K.) is publishing a book next spring which features both Debbie and Cindy, describing their unique processes for creating quilts. Cindy also announced that Fiber Revolutions will have a show in Botswana in 2014.

Christina found out how to turn a plain pencil covered by "washi tape" into something wonderful; she purchased the tape at paper source but noted that Joann fabrics carries it too.
 

 Debbie Schwartzman showed us a quilt she had made, 7 years ago showing a caladium, which she used to wrap a smaller art quilt she had mounted under museum glass. Great juxtaposition, and a lovely sharing.

Margo has also been cleaning out strips. Her leftover quilt strips are now skirts for her 8-yr old granddaughter from Kaffe Fasset fabrics. Her granddaughter is getting all sorts of kudos on her fashionable attire.

Lauren - did complete glass vases for tables at her daughter's wedding in blues, yellows, & greens. She adapted a pattern to make it her own for her daughter's wedding quilt. She took a class in Peter's Valley in northern NJ–deconstructed screen printing. Textures were incorporated to form an amazing quilt.

Terry made a quilt for a friend from work who would always have funny cocktail napkins on stressful days to share with Terry to lighten up. Terry created the napkins in fabric for a lovely parting gift. Well done, Terry! She was also commissioned to make a quilt for a person incorporating clothing from the person's Mom. This was definitely a "gift of the heart", since the fabrics themselves were not necessarily meaningful, except to the daughter. The quilt was very gratefully received!

Karoline won the raffle!

Respectfully submitted,
Marcy George