Who Made That Quilt - #37 August

Early in the year, the Education committee leader, LuDon D., at the Town & Country Quilt Guild gave everyone that was interested a pattern.  We were to have our quilt completed for the July picnic meeting.  At the July meeting, everyone that created a quilt for the game stood in a circle.  Everyone else tried to figure out which quilt we created.  As the quilt creators, we were supposed to try to make a quilt that was different from our regular style.  I tried but I couldn't do it.  I thought this would be a great opportunity to use scraps so my quilt was scrappy.  And I have been wanting to do a red, white, & blue quilt so that is what I did.  The guild members guessed on the first try that I had created this quilt.

There were 14 quilts.  Even though I do not know how many people are in the Town & Country Quilt Guild, I thought it was a great, high percentage of participation.

Snowman

Karla Z. is in my Row by Row Exchange group through the Town & Country Quilt Guild.  She requested a row with a snowman.

I have been wanting to try some free form curved piecing but I hadn't given myself a project or the time to do it yet.  I thought the snow would be perfect for some free form curves.   I checked out how to do it on the internet and then tried it with the snow.  There are two different seams, or snow hills, in this row.  But I am really happy with free form curves.

Close up of the snowman:

And embroidered text:

We will receive our rows back at the October meeting.  Then, we are supposed to put all of the rows created for us, and our row, together into a quilt to be shown to the guild members at the December Christmas meeting.

President's Block

The President's block for Theresa K. as a thank you for being President of the Quilt By Association guild for 2015.  Also, hopefully Theresa will serve as President of the guild next year too.

The chicken and flower were to be made out of homespun fabric.  I have been using all of my homespun fabric in pieced backings.  I had to dig pretty deep to find some homespun fabric that was large enough to cut my applique pieces.  And I did not have one piece that was large enough as the background for my chicken so I even had to piece my background piece.  I guess that is a good thing - using up stash.

YVQG Block Exchange

As of turning in blocks in August, I have completed 13 blocks for this round of the Yellowstone Valley Quilt Guild block exchange.  I should be asked to present a block soon.  If the leader of block exchange does not mention it to me in the month of September, I will go ask her when I get to have a turn to present.  I do not know why I am so excited to present though because I have no idea what I will request.

Carmella M.

Audrey C.

Gretchen K.

Lyn B.

Kathy W.

Vickie C.

Cindy C.

Keegan's Name - #36 June

I was responsible for the presentation at the May Longarm meeting at Trackside Quilting in Laurel.  While I was at HMQS in Salt Lake in May 2014, the teachers were talking about using the cursive letters of the alphabet in quilting.  What they were really talking about was using the cursive letters in sashings and small borders.  But I thought I would try to use the lower case letters as background filler.

Some of the letters do work as background fill easily.  Others are a bit more challenging.  The u's together could look like a caterpillar.  I turned the quilts into the Quilt By Association guild to use as community quilts.

Using my demo as a jumping off point, I created a quilt with all of Keegan's birth information.  I went over his name and the other text that I wanted to see prominently a number of times.  Then I used all of the letters of the alphabet run together as the background fill.

This was a fun little project.  I did chalk a ruler line before I started writing the words that are most visible so they would be a little bit straight unto themselves.  I did not do any chalking or marking for the background fill - I just quilted a letter anywhere around the prominent text.

The top is one large piece of denim; the backing is one large piece of knit.  I did do the flange binding to finish the quilt off.

Boys' Quilts

The boys created quilts in June.  They showed their quilts at the August meeting of the Yellowstone Valley Quilt Guild.  They are also going to show their quilts during the Homegrown Showcase at the Rocky Mountain Sewing Festival in Billings.

Keegan sewed small squares together until he felt like stopping.  Then he it was a house.  We appliqued it onto a background and "House" it is.

Dillon saw that Keegan was using the quilting machine so he wanted to use the quilting machine too.  He quilted on a piece of fabric and named his piece "Maze".

When these items were created, Keegan is 5; Dillon is 3.

Pastor's Block

Karol H. decided to create a quilt for the pastor at the church that the Town & Country Quilt Guild meets.  Each member was asked to help make a block for the quilt.

Karol provided the light off white small 2 1/2 inch x 2 1/2 inch squares.

Karol plans to have the quilt completed to present at the Christmas meeting in Joliet.

Dog Beds

More dog beds created in June.

People are really great about giving me their sewing and quilting scraps that they used to just throw in the garbage.  I have quite a collections of scraps waiting to be made into dog beds.  It is wonderful!