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!