YVQG BOM

The Yellowstone Valley Quilt Guild is doing a block of the month in 2016.  They gave us this block in January:

I have decided to do my quilt in red, off white, and blue.  Then, we are supposed to have a quilt put together of all of the blocks presented by the January meeting.  I think it will either be voted on or just a random drawing to receive a gift certificate prize.

I forgot to pick up the next block in February so I will have an extra block to do when I pick up the paperwork in March.

YVQG Block Exchange

Since I had done 12 blocks for other people, I was allowed to ask for blocks in January.  Since it started over for me, I started to make another round of 12 blocks for different people.  This is what I turned in at the February Yellowstone Valley Quilt Guild meeting:

A 16 patch of 2 1/2" squares:

Trees:

Well on my way to 12 now!

Dream Weaver - #43 February

I started teaching a Strip Club class at Trackside Quilting the second Saturday of each month.  We are using the patterns from Cozy Quilt Designs in California.
We selected Dream Weaver for the February Strip Club.  I finished it all the way to the binding.

This is only a throw size quilt.  But, smaller size quilts do take less time to complete than larger sizes.  I accidentally did LeMoyne Magic in January as a king size quilt.  For March, I am doing Hanging Baskets as a queen size quilt and it is taking some time.

Hearts

For Valentine's Day each year since Keegan was born, I have tried to make a heart for each of the boys for Valentine's Day.  Keegan noticed one year that I did not have a heart for me.  Now I make 4 hearts each year.

For Dale:

For Keegan since his favorite color is purple:

For Dillon since he looks great wearing green:

For me:

I did a crumb heart center and then cut a heart out of the main background fabric.  I quilted the background fabric and used the yellow to applique the background in place over the crumbs.  Next, I used the Sew Sassy 12 weight thread to write love in the center of the crumbs.  I see now that the love text does not show up well enough - I should have gone over the text a few times.

Circles - #42 January

I was asked to do a crumb demo at the Quilt By Association guild.  Then I was asked to do a similar presentation at the Town & Country guild in Joliet in October.  I made super big crumb coasters for the QBA demo and then just used them at Town & Country too.  When I did the QBA demo, I also talked about bias binding.  Since I had talked about that, I didn't have the huge coaster finished.  I finally finished the binding on two crumb circles in January.

Brown Bag - #41 December

I created Shadowbox by Mountainpeek Creations as my Quilt By Association brown bag exchange.  I gave the quilt to Kris M.

I pieced the back using up most of the rest of Kris' fabric.  I did have to add some of my fabric to make the back large enough.

This is how much fabric I had left:  Just a bit of binding pieces.

I used the alphabet in my Pfaff to embroider the label.  Quick and easy and still labeled.

As the drawing went, Kris M. received my name.  That is not guaranteed to happen but it is cool that it did happen this year.  She used my Judy Neimeyer Reclaimed West fabric to create a Barn Doors quilt.  I think she said the pattern was It Takes Two.

Fun brown bag exchange in 2015!