August Sew and Tell

Here are a few of the highlights from our August Sew and Tell.

Deonn's Instant Blocks quilt - she is teaching this one at Quilt Fest at the end of the month!

Deonn's - this is the mystery quilt from our retreat in 2007

Deonn's daughter made this quilt for a 4H Contest and won!

Debbie made this quilt for a niece's wedding. After Deonn quilted it in straight channels, the wedding guests signed the quilt in those channels.

Can't remember who's quilt this is, but they have cute shoes on!

I think it is Connie's

Connie's quilt she started in Sisters, Oregon and now finished!

Carol's Buggy Barn Witches

Tamara's cute cute ETUIS - good job Tamara!

Kim Shannon's mother came to our guild meeting with LOADS of charity quilts for the Quilts4Cancer quilt drive. Thanks so much for your charity quilts! Love the horse quilt!

August Queen Bee

This is not a great picture, so sorry, but this is Liz, our Queen Bee for August. She brought a few things to guild meeting to show us that she has made. She said since she is so new to quilting, although she has been sewing since she was a young girl, she didn't have to many quilts to share with us. She did bring this beautiful afghan that she made to show us. Thanks Liz! It was great to learn more about you in the newsletter last month and to have you share a few things with us!

Quilts in the Garden Quilt Show

Hopefully most of you local quilters were able to attend the QUILTS IN THE GARDEN QUILT SHOW at Thanksgiving Point this last week. What a treat! Quilts were arranged in groups throughout the gardens and it was so very exciting to round a bend while walking on the garden paths and see another breathtaking group of quilts! Thanks to Barbara for making this quilt show happen, all the ladies that were able to help her, and of course the ladies that bought tickets and took advantage of such a great opportunity. This is a great fund raiser for the Utah Quilt Guild that will hopefully continue in the upcoming years.

The first grouping of quilts that you came to as you walked along the path was a beautiful arrangement all made by Jodi Warner. Some guild members may remember Jodi as she was a guest instructor/speaker at one of our guild meetings in 2007. She shared her tips and tricks with us and also her amazing appliqued panel quilt shown below at that meeting.

Isn't it amazing!! It was wonderful to see so many of her quilts in one place at Thanksgiving Point.

The next quilt grouping was a great quilt assortment all made by fun fun ladies from Moab. Here is Barbara and some of the great quilters from Moab.



One of the favorite quilts from the Moab ladies was this quilt made by Tommye and the cute Spring wall hanging, also made by Tommye.



Another quilt area was along a nice pretty corridor of trees and shrubs. There were so many quilts from our guild members and it was great to see them in such a pretty setting.

Rachel's

Connie's

Connie (volunteering) with Whitney's quilt (Natalia has this pattern for sale on her website-link to the right)

Kathleen's

Michele's

Another fun quilting arrangement was mostly full of Deonn and girls, and Kim's quilts. Here is Deonn and Chelsea helping out with the quilt show.

Kim's

Deonn's

Deonn's is on the right

There were two Moab quilting group arrangements and one of the arrangements had a lot of what they called BQ quilts. If you google "BQ quilts" you will find so many results for these fun quilts. They are made up of 18" blocks with 12" off set centers of focus fabric. The BQ is for Big Quilts - you can make a quilt pretty quickly with this pattern. The following 3 quilts are BQ quilts made by ladies from Moab.

And here and the happy ladies from Moab! Deonn, if you remember their names, will you please comment who they are so I can add them in.

A surprise in the Secret Garden was Kim Diehl. She set up a bunch of her quilts from some of her books and it was a great secret!

Her quilts have amazing applique and great color. It was such a treat to see her work and chat with her for awhile.

This one is also Kim's

Barbara and Tricia, taking a break in the shade of the Secret Garden. They were so busy running all day getting things ready and taking care of their volunteers. Thanks so much to Tricia and Barbara for doing such a great job with the quilt show.

Wasatch County Fair

Our wonderful guild members made quite a showing at our county fair earlier this month. There were so many quilts and a few other home art projects that were submitted by the talented ladies in our guild. The room was full of blue ribbons and a few purple ones - good job ladies!

This is Sue, one of the newest members to our guild, and her beautiful quilt and her sweepstakes ribbon.

Here is Michele and her 'finished just in time' cute cute quilt and her sweepstakes ribbon.

This is our guild president, KayeDawn's, Lullaby quilt that won a pretty sweepstakes ribbon also. This quilt was the inspiration and direction for our guild meetings this year - mostly focusing on different types of applique.

Another new member, but one that we know is Kami. Here is her amazing wedding quilt and her judge's choice ribbon.

Congratulations to these ladies and to everyone that entered their beautiful work in the fair this year. Your entries are what keep us going! Thanks for the inspiration and all your hard work!

August's Cool Tool

Shantelle shared a great and very cool tool with us at our August guild meeting. She brought Quilt Sew Easy Discs. These handy little gadgets are used when you machine quilt. Shantelle uses them and one disc goes in each hand and you use them to guide your quilt fabric as you sew. The discs are made of a nice material that grips your fabric and moves it smoothly where you want it to go.


If you don't like wearing sweaty gloves or fingertips, give these discs a try. They shouldn't make your hands and arms ache, and gives you great control. Thanks Shantelle!

Round Robin Group #2

There were 6 ladies that participated in a second group of Round Robin making. The last borders were added and finished for our August meeting. Here is the quilt show!

This one is Rachel's

This one is Sherron's

This one is Crusan's, well, technically her husband's she says

This one is Wendy H's

Poor Wendy J, she finished one and her's didn't get finished! Darn that Rachel! She better get busy! Wendy - it is on its way, promise!

Where is Stella's round robin? Some investigation must be done!

If anyone wants to comment and tell us all which borders you did that would be great!

I had Stella email me a picture of hers - Thanks Stella - it turned out so cute!