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January 2022
Nancy Watts
My daughter loves sea turtles so when I found this fabric in a small shop on the Washington coast I had to buy it. The border is sea glass which is also a favorite of hers. I decided to make a table runner. Its length is the width of the fabric. The quilting is done by off-setting wavy lines to look like water.
Linda Howarth
This is Chowdah, my nieces cat. Chowdah doesn’t have long in this world and I thought Alyson might like a remembrance of her. I used this photo to guide me on making the wall hanging that is about 18” x 18” (about). I used my light table, pens, straight sewing, free motion sewing, and my stash. It was fun to do.
LInda Howarth
This is my dog Tula. My 15 year old Granddaughter couldn’t give me any ideas for xmas gifts but she did say that she really liked the Ann Shaw Rooster I made for her Dad’s family and that she would like something like it. So I got home and decided that she might enjoy a wall hanging of Tula. Again, light table, pens, straight sewing, free motion sewing, and my stash. She loved it.
Linda Howarth
This is the result of a conversation I had with a cousin in England. She mentioned the BlueBell Woods there. I had to look them up online and fell in love with them. Here is my version of a blue bell wood based on a few photos and paintings that I found. My light table, pens, sewing, fabric paints all came in handy to make this. It measures about 29” x 48”.
Dawn White
Linda Gillins
Ella is my granddaughter’s friend and they have been dancing together for several years. Ella has been having a difficult time with her treatments for WBC. She and my granddaughter are 12. I would have loved to have made the quilt with my granddaughter but it wasn’t possible. I made the quilt with 2 charm packs and a couple of yards of background. My granddaughter delivered it to Ella.
Linda Gillins
Room 2 Challenge
Judy Liebo
Betsy Sayre is one of our guild members who just makes the world better. She loves cutting out fabric designs that look incredibly complicated. Recently, she challenged a group of us to take her cutouts and make a quilt. We could cut them, paint them…just do anything we wanted. The designs she gave me immediately reminded me of an African landscape. I added a parade of native animals. Thanks, Betsy. It was a fun challenge.
Ruthann Marquis
The idea for my 2021 quilt for the 20 x 20 challenge came to me very slowly and organically. I took Jennifer Sampou’s words to heart: Make the fabric do the work for you! I purchased a yard of Hoffman Waves and was delighted with the spread of patterns that made up the ombre. I left it intact to showcase its beauty. A special thank you goes out to Betsy Sayre for sharing her beautiful red cutwork that made a perfect capsule for this quilt titled Free At Last!
MPS Small Group
“Tea and Stitches”
Group Project
Jean Moore-Vollmer
This quilt, ‘My Little Hood’ was made by my small quilt group and me. It measures 68” square. I free motion quilted each square individually. Every house square has a keepsake button for a doorknob and has embroidered green grass outside the house. It was a tremendous amount of fun to make and quilt!
Linda Gillins
Nancy Watts
Our small sew group decided to do a challenge in 2021. Our theme was “A Village of Quilters”. We were each given two fabrics to be included in a 12”x 12” block that each of us designed. Then we made a house block and a geometric block for each member and joined the blocks as we desired. I even found some house fabric for the backing.
What a talented group of Quilters. They are all wonderful!
Wow, what a great show! I was honored to be part of it — and delighted to be one of four lucky recipients of a set of “winter blues” fat quarters in the drawing. So sorry I was unable to attend in person but that just makes me more grateful to have the opportunity to see the show after the fact. As always, I am amazed at the talent and creativity in our guild.