December 2009 Sew and Tell

Barbara LOVES flannel!

Debbie made a scouting quilt for one of her Eagle Scouts.

Linda's phone book page quilt.

Margaret made all kinds of sweet doll clothes and doll blankets for her lucky grandbaby's Christmas presents.

Beth's mystery quilt from our fall retreat at Cat's cabin.

Rachel made a lap quilt for her sister in law.

Rachel also made a sassy little apron for another sister in law!

One of Amy's fun fun quilts



Amy's


Super cute SWANKY quilt by Amy

Amy's design

Timpi's field row for her Heber Valley Row Quilt

Natalia's super cute birds

Some of Shantelle's gorgeous hand quilting pieces.


Vicki made this darling nurse quilt for a good nurse-friend back East.

Sherron's

I remember the fabric being by someone very cool, but I can't remember!

Tamara has been busy making cute bags and darling headbands.

She also started her ROW QUILT! Here is the mountain row . . .

and her applique row.

Tricia's 2 daughters made these 2 quilts and won MAJOR ribbons at the Utah State Fair!

Sherron's 'I spy' quilt she made for one of her kids.

December Friendship Blocks

Friendship Blocks this month will be made for Deonn and Rachel.

Deonn's is a nine patch in a square. This is a block pattern her great grandmother made long ago. We get to make the inner portion of the this block and Deonn will add the 4 lighter corners. Please make sure your block measures 9" unfinished. The nine patch should be made with a dark tone on tone red and a nice tone on tone eggshell or cream. The 4 red corners should be a lighter red and may have a cream or off-white print.

Rachel's block is a yellow star with blue background, any star you would like to make. Use tone on tone fabrics. Please make sure this block measures 12 1/2" unfinished.

2009 Christmas Social

Our December guild meeting this year was a Christmas Dessert Social. The desserts were fantastic and so very festive. Thank you ladies for bringing such great treats to share and for such a great evening. Have a fabulous Christmas Season!

Bethany and Bonnie

Jenny and Christy


Sherron and Cat


Patti and Fran



Liz and Susan



Sally and Beth

Michele, Tricia, Debbie, Jenny, Barbara, and Margaret

Sherron and Rachel

Tamara and Timpi

Kandy, Deonn, and Fran

Shantelle and Joan

Amy and Natalia

November's Queen Bee

Fran is November's Queen Bee

Fran is a newer guild member and we love her! Welcome Fran and thanks for sharing yourself with us!

The best thing Fran said was something like this "I never thought I would be working on more than one project at a time!"
We all know how quickly that changes!

You do wonderful work Fran!

Read your newsletter to learn about Fran.

Summer Dreams in Autumn

Our guild held a sewing retreat at Cat's cabin up near Strawberry Reservoir in October. Many ladies were able to attend and it was truly a super time. Cat also prepared a mystery quilt and many quilters participated. Thanks to Cat for hosting such a great time at her cabin and for Sherron and her board for making it such a memorable and delicious time! Of course, thanks to the guild members that attended and spent the day with your machine, fabric, and friends.

At our November Sew and Tell we were able to see some of the completed mystery quilts. Cat named the pattern she designed for the mystery quilt Summer Dreams. Here are the different and beautiful versions of Summer Dreams by our guild members that attended.

Kazuko's

Michele's

Timpi's

Liz's

Bethany's

Shantelle's

Cat's

Sherron's

Natalia's

Beth's

Beautiful work ladies!

November's Friendship Blocks

We are working on Susan's block this month,

and also Timpi's block.

worms width and raggedy reverse

Bethany taught us about a fun technique called Raggedy Reverse Applique. She learned it from Kim Deneault about 2 years ago. It is a super fun technique and Kim says 'If you can draw it, you can make it.' She has patterns for sale on her website, http://www.raggedyreverseapplique.com/, but its much more fun to make up your own custom patterns - including your children's artwork.




Bethany made everyone a little project to work on as she taught us her lesson. First you draw or trace your pattern onto tissue paper or some material like that - thin and see through but strong. Layering your fabrics comes next. Bethany made us 4 layer projects - one on top, 2 layers for the applique, and one for the back of the project. She said 3 layers work great also. Then you sew (shorten your stitch length a little) around your drawn pattern.

Tear away the tissue paper from the areas you want to see first, then cut away that fabric layer with your scissors, being careful not to cut through too many layers or through your stitches. She told us to cut the shape out, leaving a worms width (1/4 inch) of fabric.

Here is the 'worms width.' A nice way for kids to visualize 1/4 inch!

Here the first sections of fabric have been snipped away, leaving a worms width of fabric from the stitching.

Now the next sections are cut way, revealing the third layer of fabric.

Then you fray the 'worms width' of fabric you left behind!

Bethany outlined these simple steps:

1.Trace the design

2. Layer your fabric pieces

3. Sew the design onto the fabric

4. Snip away layers of fabric

5. Fray the edges of the fabric

Thanks so much to Bethany for making our November quilt guild meeting so fun. What a great technique for a fast, darling quilt.

More Heber Valley Row Quilts!

Our November guild meeting was wonderful and it yielded MORE Heber Valley Row Quilts!

This is Kandy's sunflower applique row. She made her petals with prairie points - so darling!

And now Kandy's mountains.

These 2 pictures are of Margaret's finished quilt top! Good Job Margaret - it is so darling. Margaret is especially fond of her her little Scottie dog, just like her own real one.

These two pictures are of Susan's FINISHED quilt. WOW! The first one finished, besides the original. Good Job Susan, it looks fabulous! Her applique flowers are being visited by many little bees, it was darling.

Super fun sites

Hey ladies,
Check out these LOCAL ladies' websites, they are amazing!

Jill Finley's Jillily Studio
http://www.jillilystudio.com/

and Cori Blunt's Chitter Chat Designs
http://www.chitterchatterdesigns.com/

Dear Jane

At the Utah Quiltfest quilt show this year, there was a Dear Jane Quilt category. They were so beautiful and stunning, and displayed all together! So much work and time goes into these quilts. Thanks for sharing these wonders with everyone!




For information regarding Dear Jane quilts visit these sites:

www.thebluecatcreations.com/dearjanehistory.php

www.dearjane.com

www.quiltville.com/dearjane.shtml

October's Friendship Block Exchange

If you are participating in the Friendship Block Exchange you need to complete Natalia's and Tamara's blocks. Here is Tamara's cute friendship star. Natalia's blocks are all different, HAPPY, 6 1/2 inch blocks.

Quiltfest 2009 Quilt Show

There were 74 quilts in the quilt show this year at Quiltfest. Here are a handful of them.

Snowflake by Margaret Gray - Traditional Pieced

Pieces and More Pieces by Donna Moyer - Traditional Pieced

A Carpenter' Star for Evan by Deonn, Chelsea, Nicole, and Lauren Stott - Group



Obama Hope Quilt by Corinna Weir - Non-traditional

Traveler's Oasis by Jody Jorgensen - Traditional Pieced

Aurora a la Jinny by Marsha Chappell - Traditional Pieced

Tuscan Sun by Clair Mitchell and Jacquelyn Thompson - Group

Scraps of Shannon's Quilt by Kathy Souba - Hand Applique

Birds and Roses by Pat Peters - Hand Applique

Make Believe World by Ann Seely - Non-traditional

Tropical Glow by Joyce Stewart - Machine Applique

Vintage Valentine by Claire Mitchell - Hand Applique

Recreating Memories by Marilyn Toone - Hand Applique

Flowers and Vines by Ella Simons - Hand Applique

Alabama Dream by Juanita Smith - Non-traditional

Love at Home by Marie Eldredge - Mixed Technique

Northeastern Wind by Rachel Crane - Traditional Pieced

Christmas Pickle by Jacquelyn Thompson - Traditional Pieced

Blockheads Round Robin by Barbara Odland and friends - Group

Rip it... Tear it... Shred it... The cat by Ruth Gordy - Mixed Technique

Spirits Having a Human Experience by Denise Austin - Special Effects

The Check is in the Mail!

Good news! Our Gift (donation) for the Sewing machine has finally reached the magic total of $270.00. The Ladies of the HVQG reached the goal, before the end of the year! Yeah, hip, hip, hooray!!!

This sewing machine will lift a woman out of poverty. It will go to a poverty-stricken woman or girl in a country like Zambia, Ghana, or Ecuador, the sewing machine our guild has provided can be a doorway to a better life. This gift will show a single mother, orphaned teen, or HIV-positive widow how she can make a decent living as a seamstress to support herself and her family.

This gift is provided through World Vision, they will provide a teacher to show the woman that has been selected how to us the machine and how to operate her business. If anyone is interested in other gift donations they can go to World Vision and select the gift catalog to see the other options.

This baby is headed to Quiltfest!

Every year the Utah Quilt Guild sells pink fat quarters for $5.00 and if you buy one you are asked to make a block with the fabric. The blocks are gathered, packaged together, pieced together, and a quilt is made to be auctioned off at Quiltfest. The proceeds from the event go to the Susan G Comen Cancer Foundation.



Last year we decided as a guild to make our own little quilt for Quiltfest using the $5 fat quarters. We made flip flops and it turned out so cute! This flip flop quilt is headed to Quiltfest to be auctioned off this week. Please see http://www.utahquiltguild.org/ to see specific info about Quiltfest in Layton, Sept 22-26 2009.

Thanks to all the ladies that made flip flop blocks last year to be put into this darling quilt. Thanks to KayeDawn, our guild president last year, coordinator of the project, and piecer, Sherron for the darling borders, Natalia for the beautiful machine quilting, and Kathleen for the binding.

September Friendship Block Exchange

The two blocks that we need to complete in September for the Friendship Block Exchange are Beth's SAND CASTLES and Liz's paper pieced block.

September Show and Tell

September's Sew and Tell was so fun! Everyone has been so busy making gorgeous and fun quilts. Thanks for sharing with everyone!

Barbara's hot dog and hamburger quilt. She said she puts it on her bed when her husband is being a 'weeny!'


Barbara's super cute fruit quilt

Deonn and her girls made this quilt for her husband, so handsomely darling!

Beth's amazing Block of the Month quilt from American Quilting in Orem

Timpi's center medallion block of a new project

Timpi's Hidden Petal's mystery quilt from the retreat this year

Rachel's block of the month quilt

quilted by Deonn - so cute!

www.quiltscapesquilting.com

Rachel's silly lizard and 4 patch bags

Christy's aunt made this darling quilt and Christy is binding it for her

One of Natalia's block of the month quilts

I think she said she combined her blocks and also her mom's blocks to make this quilt top

Natalia's Hidden Petals mystery quilt from the 2009 retreat

Kazuko made this darling quilt for a baby boy

Super cute quilt by Carol

Barbara made this quilt for this year's Quiltfest. It is an ugly fabric quilt or something silly like that. People get to vote on all the ugly fabric quilts at Quiltfest held in Layton at the end of this month. Check out the Quiltfest info at www.utahquiltguild.org

This was made by Carol and it is something like a pioneer quilt. They made it in the Midway Quilt Guild and Paulette designed it. Let me know if I am WRONG!

Another darling quilt by Carol

Carol has spent the summer with us and she will be leaving again in October. Thanks for sharing with us Carol! See you again next summer!

Sherron's, she used her 10 year guild anniversary President's block to make this one!

Another DARLING quilt made by Sherron

QI Inspirations is looking for sellers for their online store!

QI Inspirations is opening an online store and welcomes sellers like you! They will do all the web work, notify you when your products sell, then automatically deposit the money into your account. All you have to do is submit a description of your product, along with pictures, and then mail it off when it sells!

please note that products will be juried prior to be accepted and QI Inspirations asks for 20% of the sale price

Product Examples:

quilts, patterns, wall hangings, pin cushions, aprons, bags, clothing, home deco, pillow cases, car seat covers, etc

If you are interested you need to contact Angie Watson at sales@qiinspirations.com

Shantelle's Bargello Lesson

Thanks to Shantelle for a great lesson/demo on the bargello technique of piecing quilts. She had step by step instructions and projects in the works for us to see. She put so much time into our guild meeting and we are grateful.


Shantelle passed out a paper with a few of her favorite websites that deal with bargello quilts and here they are:

www.hgtv.com/crafting/bargello-quilt/index.html
this one is of Billie Lauder and her instructions

www.quilthowto.com
free quilting instructions, search for How To Make Bargello Quilt - Beginner Quilting Tips

www.quiltville.com/scrapbargello.shtml
free pattern for a scrappy bargello


Thanks Shantelle for a great and inspiring lesson. Now ladies, on to our WATER row!

The Friendship Block Exchange for 2009 is now underway! This year we are doing it a little bit differently - we are all one big happy group! If you are participating this time around, you will be making 2 blocks each month and then you will receive 14 blocks in return from your friendly guild members.

This is one of the blocks for the month of August. Please contact Sherron or Shantelle directly with questions concerning the blocks you are making them this month.

Also, remember to prepare your block instructions and give it to Cat to distribute. It would be great if you could make up a block of your own pattern to show us at guild meeting and to be posted here when it is your turn.

Round Robins Revealed!

July ended our Round Robin Exchange for the year. Most were finished by our July meeting, but a few more showed up at our August meeting. Here they all are (hopefully they are all here, if not, comment and let me know).

This one belongs to Sherron

This is Kathleen's

This one belongs to Tamara - already quilted!!!

These two pictures show Timpi's. One is fuzzy and one cuts the quilt in half - sorry!

This is Beth's

This one is Sally's

This one is Kandy's

This is Stella's

This one is Heather's

This one belongs to Natalia

Would love to know who did all the rounds! Comment and fess up if you would please!

Cathy's Fat Quarter Tuesday Quilt

Second Tuesday of the month is FAT QUARTER TUESDAY at Season's of Home in Midway. When you buy 5 fat quarters, you get 3 FREE!


Cathy had a great example at our August guild meeting of a quilt you can make using 8 fat quarters - a Fat Quarter Tuesday Quilt!

You need 6 fat quarters for the center and 2 fat quarters for the binding. Cathy did hers on the bias. She said if you put 4 inch borders on it you need to buy 2 and 1/4 yards for the borders and backing, plus an extra 1/4 yard of contrasting fabric to add to the backing because the width of the fabric comes up a little short. She likes contrasting fabric on the back because she adds that 1/4 yard down the center for a little more pizazz! You can do whatever you want, if you want it to be the same continuous color, buy 2 1/2 yards for the border and backing.

Thanks Cathy for a super idea!

Kaye Evan's BEE UNIQUE Trunk Show

Kaye Evans was our wonderful guild meeting guest in July. She shared with us how to be unique and make a quilts our very own with our own personality being reflected. She had an amazing trunk show and we were very pleasured to have her with us for the evening.

If you remember anything in particular about some of these quilts, please be sure to comment so the rest of us can remember her tricks and tips and how inspired she made us feel.

Selvage quilt

Tree block exchange quilt

She precut leaves and packaged them together in different colors and asked her group members to make her a tree block using those leaves. WOW!

House block exchange
The trees were embellished with buttons for leaves!

Olympic quilt block exchange

Fractured Cat quilt

She made full size patterns for her friends, slashed them into a few pieces, gave them all a photo of the purple cat picture along with their section of the pattern, and asked them to make their slashed section of the quilt. She then put it all together!

Also a fractured quilt

Wasatch County Fair Home Arts Winners!

The Heber Valley Quilters were wonderful at the fair this year! Good Job Ladies!

Michele's Sweepstakes

Christy's Sweepstakes

Liz's Sweepstakes

Tricia's daughter's Sweepstakes - we will claim her!

Natalia's Judge's Choice

July's Queen Bee

Kazuko was the Queen Bee for July. It was great to get to know more about her and it was WONDERFUL to see some of the beautiful things she has made. Many of the quilts and dresses and other AMAZING items she has given away, but we did get to see a few pictures of her fabulous work. Thanks Kazuko for sharing with us and letting us get to know you better.

Hidden Petals Mystery Quilts

Here are some of the mystery quilts from our June retreat. There are a few more out there ladies, let's get sewing!

Sherron's

Beth's

Kandy's


Shantelle's

Cat's

Rachel's

Natalia's

Timpi's

Small Town Quilt Show at the Zermatt

This is the 'opportunity quilt' that was made by Yvonne, Deonn, and Tricia for the quilt show. The lucky winner will be announced on July 7th. It is so cute, good job ladies!

There were SO MANY supportive husbands at this quilt show! Thanks fellas! I heard one man say to his sweet quilting wife, "Look at that bargello quilt over there hon, isn't that patriotic!" I nearly fell over a quilt stand, I was in shock and awe at that wonderful man!

Here are just a few pictures of a few of the quilts, I hear around 120, that were entered.

Made by Karen Jackson

Quilted by Shauna Wilde

Made by Barbara Murdock

Quilted by Deonn Stott

Made and quilted by Cindy

Made and quilted by Natalia Bonner

Made by Kathleen Whiting and Natalia Bonner

Best of Show

Good Job Ladies!!

Check out Natalia's quilting!

Made and quilted by Patsy Shelton

1st place

Made by Michele Murdock

Quilted by Deonn Stott

2nd place

Made by Brenda Wilcox

Quilted by Deonn Stott

Honorable Mention

Made and quilted by KayeDawn Epps

Honorable Mention

Patsy, Natalia, Brenda, and Michele

Wow - so many ladies from our guild, good job ladies! Keep up the great work!

Quiltin' in the Woods Retreat 2009

Here are a few pictures from our Quiltin' in the Woods Retreat. What a super time it was!



Thanks to Shantelle for putting together a wonderful weekend for us!

And thanks to Beth. She put these wonderful bags together for us. She went to ALOT of work to makes these for us - thanks Beth, and thanks to everyone that contributed to all the goodies in the bags. They were GREAT!

Working on the Mystery Quilt Cat had for us. Stay tuned for pictures of final projects of the fun fun mystery quilt in July's Show and Tell post.

Cathy

Shantelle

Wendy

Sherron

Cat's Corner

Maurice and Kandy

May's Sew and Tell

Beth's sampler

Linda's
This is going to be a class at Seasons's of Home in July.

See their website on the right for more info.



Someone's cute round robin, Sally's last border



Timpi's Enrichment table runner




Liz's darling applique quilt we worked on in 2008 - finished!

Stella's

This was one of the mystery quilts at the Seasons of Home/Zermatt retreat

Wendy's

This was the other mystery quilt at the Seasons of Home/Zermatt retreat

This is Linda's mystery quilt from the Seasons of Home/Zermatt retreat

Bonnie's - hand quilted!!

part of Margaret's Heber Valley row quilt

the cobblestones row, farm row, and fields row

part of Nita's Heber Valley row quilt

the farm row and the field row

Happy Anniversary!

Our May meeting celebrated the Heber Valley Quilt Guild's 10th anniversary! Hooray! Sherron arranged a special treat for us. All of the past presidents were invited to our meeting and were asked to bring their president's quilts. A president's quilt is one made up of the blocks guild members make for them at the end of their presidential year to say 'thanks.' Here are the president's quilts that made it to our May meeting.

Shantelle's

"My presidents block is called Maple Star and is from one of the books in the Around the Block series. It is one of my most favorite blocks. This became my presidents block after Cat called my husband Ray and asked him what my favorite block was. He then got me talking about quilting one night and asked to see my box of quilt blocks. As we went through the box together, I talked about each of the blocks/projects. I didn't know he was on a covert mission, I just thought he was taking an interest in my quilting. Sometime when I wasn't around, Ray fished my Maple Star block out of the box and took it over to Cat. Cat then measured the block and came up with the pattern that was distributed to everyone. I feel bad about all the time and work she went through to write a pattern when it was in a book she has on her shelf. I was surprised with blocks at our Saturday quilt class--Squished Pineapple with Deena Jennings. Before she moved Kari Giacoalone surprised me with the framed block she made for me. The quilt is backed with a Monet water lilies print. Monet is my favorite impressionist. The backing fabric reminds me of my trip to Paris and the hour I spent enjoying Monet's water lily paintings in a museum.

I love to read the messages from my friends written on each block. This is by far, my favorite quilt as it reminds me of great friends and fun memories. Thank you everyone who made the blocks for my quilt!"

Shantelle

Deonn's

"Shantelle had called my daughter Lauren to ask what my favorite color/block was. She told her that it was the "Barnyard" block in the chicken quilt that we had done as a guild exchange the year before, in maroon and tan. I do love that block, because you can nestle every single seam and get perfect points. The ladies made the blocks and signed their names, and I put it together with sashing and posts, creating a secondary pattern which I absolutely love too! I quilted it with Hobbs 80/20 and a layer of wool batting and it's one of my favorite yummy, snuggly quilts! Love the quilt and everyone who put a stitch in it."

Deonn

KayeDawn's

"The name of my quilt is "A Few of My Favorite Things". It is a journal of my year as president. I have the dolls made by our guild members that are my favorite, the topics that we had each of the months that are my favorite, the wonderful instructors that shared their time and talents with us that are my favorite, the new challenges that were started that are my favorite and mostly all of the memories that I will have when I see the quilt that will always be my favorite."

KayeDawn

Cat's

"The block that was chosen for my president block is the simple star or sawtooth star. This is one of my favorite blocks because it was the very first block I pieced when I started quilting. I especially enjoy when the center block is also a star block instead of one piece of fabric. There were many that "braved" making that double star block. I can't recall the name off the top of my head (I think it is called hands all around) but truthfully as with most blocks it has several different names.

I love vintage looking fabrics -shirting backgrounds and civil war era as well as plaids, checks and stripes. I requested that that participates use plaids, checks and stripes. I also really enjoy working with small to miniature blocks so my blocks were 6" finished. Given that the size of block that I prefer and requested won't equate to even a lap quilt without a high quantity of numbers I chose to look through my library and computer programs to get some inspiration for a design. I came across a few that just felt right. And waa laa my President quilt!

I did have to do some un-picking of seams in order to use the blocks in the sashing. I also asked some members that had not been part of HVQ to make a block to include. It was more important to include dear friends in the creation then to stick with only those that were part of the guild during the time I was president. As the designer - I took the liberty of doing that!"

Cat

Sherron, our current president, made all the past presidents a quilt block. Thanks Sherron for a super Anniversary evening and for doing so much for our guild.

Baskets of Friendship Design Challenge

This year our Design Challenge theme was BASKETS OF FRIENDSHIP. At our first meeting, anyone that wanted to participate was given a list of guidelines for this year's challenge. We were asked to make a 9 1/2 inch square basket block. Any pattern, any color, anything you liked. We were supposed to bring back our basket block along with 2 sewing notions to trade at the next meeting.
At the next meeting, everyone received a basket with one of the already sewn basket blocks and a few fun sewing surprise notions. We were asked to use the block we received as inspiration for our challenge quilt. We were given a few more guidelines and a couple of months to complete our BASKETS OF FRIENDSHIP Challenge quilts. Here are the results at the May guild meeting.

Shantelle's

Bethany's

Bonnie's


Cathy's




Liz's

Suzanne's

Heather's

She had something funny to say about hers - "What freakin' happened?" She was a little distraught about recieving a 9 1/2 inch block and then making 3 more of her own to match but having them turn out 8 inches and 10 inches square!

note from the author - I did see the finished project and it was AMAZING, but she gave it away!

Beth's

Sally's

Timpi's

Joan's

Kandy's

Barbara's

Nita's

Deonn's

Wendy's

Stella's

Sherron's

Rachel's

Everyone that participated in this year's challenge recieved a great participation prize - a large quilt bag. Thanks Shantelle for another great design challenge!

A couple more local HMQS entries

This darling bicycle was made by Kathleen, Natalia, and Whitnee for the Home Machine Quilting Show PUMP UP THE COLOR Challenge. So darling! It was raffled off for over $100 and the $$$ went to dig a wall in Kenya. Good Job ladies!

Deonn's super darling wallhanging won 3rd place in the wallhanging division. Good Job Deonn!

Local lady Home Machine Quilting Show entries

Brain dead, that is the new word. I deleted a bunch of pictures that I was going to post along with this one of some more quilts that were entered in The Home Machine Quilting Show by ladies from our guild. So sorry, I will see if I can get them from someone else. Enjoy these for now, but know there are more.

Kami's wedding quilt which is quite Asian-looking with bamboo and koi. It was quilted by Deonn.

Deonn's 12 Gifts of Birth quilt

Kathleen's Strut Your Stuff quilt, quilted by Natalia



Rachel, Deonn, and Debbie participated together in the Pump Up the Color Home Machine Quilting Show's Design Challenge. They won 2nd place! Hooray! Deonn also participated with the Utah Longarm Guild and they placed 3rd. Natalia, Kathleen, and Cindy also participated and that is one of the pictures I deleted, along with Ann's wool applique quilted jacket and Deonn's 3rd place wallhanging. I will get those pics ASAP.

Congrats ladies!

Home Machine Quilting Show 2009

Who went to the Home Machine Quilting Show this last weekend? Hooray for you! Here are a few quilts that tickled my fancy. There were hundreds I could have taken pictures of though! Stay tuned for the next post - it will be quilts and pieces that our own guild members had in the show! Enjoy!

April Sew and Tell

April's Sew and Tell

Sherron's gorgeous basket and applique quilt. This picture is only the bottom half of the quilt.


This is the back of one of Sherron's quilts that she quilted on Angie Watson's machine (her link is to the right - QIInspirations)


Sherron's

Suzanne finished up a quilt she started awhile back, thank goodness for the Finishing Bee!

Hurray for Fran! This is Fran's first real quilting project. She took a class from Deonn and look at what she made!

Julie's cute bag

Beth is finishing her 2003 Whimsy Cottage block of the month

Michele's

Ann has been busy making bags for all her daughter in laws and daughters.

Patty shared her amazing knit wool diaper pants, it truly was amazing.

Debbie made this cute baby quilt for Rachel, and Deonn quilted it. It turned out so cute!

Tricia has been busy finishing the quilt tops she has made for her kids.

Bethany made the cutest Nancy Halvorsen Christmas Countdown mini quilts. So darling!

Beth's Round Robin completed from a previous year. So beautiful!

Sally worked on this Round Robin for them month of March.

Another one of Shantelle's Finishing Bee quilts - good job Shantelle!

Queen Bee Christy

Joan chose Christy to be spotlighted as the Queen Bee for April. Christy is an amazing quilter and a wonderful lady that we are so lucky to have as a member of our guild. She brought a few of her quilting projects to share with us and it was great to see the quilts she has made and what she is working on currently.

This was Christy's first quilt. It was a block of the month from Whimsy Cottage and she hand quilted it.

This was her next project and when I first got to know Christy, she was making this stack and whack quilt. Christy pointed out that quilts tell their own story and one of those stories is how you remember what was going on in your life when you were making a certain quilt. I remember visiting Christy when she was making this one, and the one above and below. How time flies!

Christy made this cute snail's trail pattern quilt for her latest baby boy, just born in December.

Super cute American Quilting block of the month quilt.



Christy told us that she is becoming interested in 2 colored quilts, and this is her first one in progress.

BEAUTIFUL!

Thanks for sharing with us Christy!

Linda's BEE DIFFERENT lesson

Linda taught at our April guild meeting and she gave us some super ideas on how to be different by using our scraps for quilts and other fun projects like bags, pillows, and sewing kits.

Linda especially likes making bags because you can try out new block patterns and you only have to make one or two blocks. If you like that block, great, then you can decide if you want to make a full sized quilt using that pattern. If you don't like that block, then make it into a bag and call it good. You can try out different colors and the placement of color in various blocks and do the same thing - make a bag. Linda also practices her free motion quilting on bags. It is a small project that you can experiment using various quilting motives.

Linda brought many many scrappy quilts that she has made over the years to share with us and to show us what really works and what doesn't work.


Linda told us the best way to start using your scraps for projects is to organize them. Organize by size. The best way to go about this is when you are finished with a sewing project, don't just wad those extra fabric pieces (SCRAPS) up and put them away. Cut them right away into usable pieces. Maybe you want to start with 6 inch squares and 3 by 6 inch rectangles. Cut the leftover fabric from your previous project into these usable sized pieces, label them, and store them all together. Keep doing this with leftover fabric from projects and soon you will have a pile of 6 inch squares of all kinds of fabric to make something great with.
Linda suggested using the AccuCut at Seasons of Home. You can take fabric into the store and get it cut into 5" charm squares, 2 1/2" jelly roll strips, or 10" layer cakes. This way you can get USABLE pieces out of your scraps.



One tip Linda gave was to control your color scheme. The quilt above has a controlled color scheme even though it uses many different colored scraps of fabric.


Linda taught us that one important aspect of having a scrappy quilt turn out nicely is paying attention to color value. What is dark and what is light? You need to figure it out before you begin putting your quilt together. What may seem like a light fabric, may really be quite dark compared to the rest of the light fabrics or the dark fabrics being used. She also said that you shouldn't work with less than 7 fabrics. If you do, you run into trouble when they all get put together because it isn't scrappy enough.

Linda shared some fun websites with us.

http://www.scrapquilt..com/ She said the gallery is great.

http://www.quilterscache.com/ Many block patterns that work great with scraps.

http://www.worldwidequiltingpage.com/ Print out grids if you want to figure out color placement.

Thanks Linda for teaching us how to Bee Different with our scraps and all the great tips you shared with us. The trunk show was amazing too!

Oh, and just for fun, all husbands have favorite quilts, and this is Linda's husband's favorite scrappy quilt - the bulls eye pattern.

Cute Retreat Sweatshirts

So here they are! These top pictures are of Shantelle's Quilted Sweatshirt. This is the one Shantelle is going to teach us - super darling! Shantelle handed out a supply list at our April guild meeting. Please look it over and see what you need to have ready for our June Retreat. If you did not receive a supply list or a retreat survey, please email Shantelle and let her know. princessquiltsalot@msn.com.

These pictures are of Beth's Quilted Jacket. The items needed for her cute project is also on the supply list/retreat survey Shantelle handed out. Please look it over and remember the sweatshirt for this project needs to be 2 sizes larger than what you want the finished project to turn out to be.

What a treat to have such fun projects to learn at our June Retreat. Thanks Shantelle and Beth for sharing your expertise with us!

More Mountains and a Few Farms

The third installment of our Heber Valley Row Quilt is the farm row. Here are some great farms and a few more mountains that ladies had to show at our April guild meeting.

Margaret's super cute farm

part of Rachel's farm


Sally's mountains

Beth's mountains

Julie's cute tractor

Julie's mountains

KayeDawn's wonderful farm

Nita's John Deere farm

There are a few more pictures of mountain rows and a few applique rows in the March archives. The 4th pattern installment we received at our April meeting is the field row and also the cobblestone row. How exciting it is to see everyone's progress and how different the quilt rows turn out!

March Queen Bee

What a treat to have Joan be our Queen Bee of the month!

Joan became a member of the Heber Valley Quilt Guild 8 years ago and what a wonderful, fun feeling she has brought to the guild. Thanks Joan for your happiness and willingness to help us all have a great time at our guild meetings.

You can read the newsletter to get to know Joan a little better.

Thanks for the great trunk show Joan!

March Sew and Tell

We all love sew and tell!

Honoring the Aprons - super cute apron by Cathy


Beth's fun table runner for an Enrichment project



This is Beth's friendship block quilt from last year! It turned out so cute! Thanks ladies for participating in our fun Round Robins and Friendship Block Exchanges - look at what it produces!




Rachel's Block of the Month quilt top finished, another Enrichment project.

Paulette's chickens.

This is also Paulette's. She mentioned that this will be the free pattern using jelly rolls available at Seasons of Home during the last week of March. See their website (link to the right) for details.

This is Cat's row quilt from 2004. This was her Finishing Bee project - it is bound and finished now! Good Job Cat!

Shantelle's daughter made this fun jelly roll quilt.

This is also Shantelle's - it is a block of the month quilt from Mormon Handicraft a few years ago.

Debbie brought this pretty Irish Chain quilt for sew and tell that she used to sleep under as a girl when she stayed at her aunt's house. It was made by her great grandma and her grandma. What a treat!

This is Nita's 2008 Design Challenge quilt and it is finished! Good Job Nita!

Vicky is making a super cute nurse quilt for one of her nurse friends back east.

This is Jenny's Finishing Bee project for the month - a darling Buggy Barn Friendship quilt. Super cute!

Beautiful Mountains

We had a few mountains from our 2009 Heber Valley Row Quilt show up at our March meeting's sew and tell. Here are some of them. There were also a few ladies that brought their mountains in February that I didn't get a picture of yet. We received the pattern for the Farm Row at our March meeting. April's Sew and tell will be full of farms hopefully! Remember to make a copy or two of your paper pieced patterns before you begin!

Nita's mountains


Michele's mountains

Margaret's mountains AND applique row!

Rachel's mountains on the carpet