Little Women in August

August Little Women meeting---already! How did that happen?
How about some fun photos of our most recent projects?!

 

Linda (above) forgot to bring her darling Crabapple Hill redwork snowman pillow to our "Christmas in July" meeting. We're so glad you brought it this month, Linda, it was definitely worth the wait! My snowman-lover daughter-in-law needs this pillow!

 

Tammy (above) was out of town last month, so she brought her "One Patch Doll Quilt" to show us this month. She used bright summer-colored fabrics to piece this top. Very fun, don't you think!

Fannie (above and below) was looking for a simple quick project to make one day. She chose the "Pink Patches Doll Quilt" above. She made her "Amish style" with a mistake...can you spot it? Clue: it's in the upper left corner.

 

This is Fannie's "T is for Temperance" quilt (above). One of the bonuses of working through Kathleen Tracy's "Civil War Sewing Circle" is the little history tidbits she includes throughout the book. "The Women's Christian Temperance Union was founded in 1874. This group had a profound impact upon women's rights. The official colors of the Women's 'Christian Temperance Union were blue and white and there was an abundance of quilts made in these colors toward the end of the 19th century." I really like your light floral border, Fannie!

 

Joy gets 10,000 points for her miniature masterpiece in-process. She also belongs to the English Paper Piecing Group at JoJos and is participating in their current challenge. Joy has decided to down-size her project, using 1/4" hexagon papers. So cool, Joy! I am in awe in it's tiny-ness (is that a word?)!

Some of us are participating in our Sampler Quilt challenge. That's Vickie, below, who is only missing the last block "Spools." That pink shirt is Pam filling in the space! Nice job, Vickie! I do love a good sampler quilt. They're such fun to make, because you can use up a lot of scraps and it doesn't get boring because there is not a lot of repetition.

The sampler below is Pam's. I think we all have pretty much decided we want to add borders to our samplers. Good job, Pam, I like it!

 

And this cute little project is a tactile baby "comforter." It's only about 12 inches square, but the main fabric is Minkie...which is so incredibly soft. The little ribbons and rick-racks going around the outside edge are for the baby to touch and play with. Golly, how come I haven't made one for my little grandson Kian! I've got to get on the ball here! By the way, Tammy, I love the manicure and the red polish is fabulous!

 

I hope you enjoyed our show and tell. We are trying to decide what we want to do with our group next year, but that's a discussion for another day.

 

I hope you enjoy your day, and find some time to play with some fabric!

Keep stitchin,

Mary

July's Little Women Meeting

 

Lots of folks were out on vacation this month, but we had a few quilts for our show and tell feature at our July Little Women meeting. Linda has missed several meetings, so she brought some of her recent projects to get us all caught up with her progress. These quilts are from Kathy Tracy's Civil War Sewing Circle book. The quilt above is called "One-Patch Doll Quilt" and is super fast and easy--and fun!

 

That's the Civil War Stars Doll Quilt, above. Each little star is 4 inches square.

This is the "T is for Temperance" Quilt, above. I like the description Kathy gives in her book: "Although the Women's Christian Temperance Union was founded in 1874, reform movements supporting temperance gained ground in the years before the Civil War and had a profound impact upon women's rights. The official colors of the Women's Christian Temperance Union were blue and white and there was an abundance of quilts made in these colors toward the end of the nineteenth century."  I do love a blue and white quilt! That really is my favorite 2-color quilt combination.

 

 

Linda's Civil War Scraps Doll Quilt, above.

 

That's Celestia showing off her Turkey Tracks, above and "Civil War Scraps Doll Quilt" below. I like the border treatment, with borders on the top and bottom only--none on the sides.

And a cute 9-patch quilt above, I believe the little blocks finish at 1.5 inches each. The strips are cut at 1" and each little patch is only 1/2". Definitely in the realm of "miniature quilts." By the way Celestia makes killer brownies! Thanks for bringing them to our Saturday club meeting, Celestia. They are awesome!

 

I do have some more show and tell, but will save them for another post. I hope you all are staying cool, and till next time, keep stitching!

 

Mary

 

 

 

 

Scrap Therapy

Our Scrap Therapy group had our June meeting and we showed the results of our 2-color quilt challenge. We had 3 entries, Pam's brown and cream half log cabins, my blue and white shared 9-patch, and Anne's cream and ecru quilt. Anne was the winner! You'll notice, none of them are quilted yet. We're an easy group with very loose rules!

 

That is one huge quilt, Anne!

This quilt above is Judi's Mystery quilt. The border and the center square of the block is made with a gorgeous rose and green batik. I wish the colors showed up better!

And this wonderful quilt is Judi's Piece o' Cake project. It's called "Flowers in the Garden," or something like that! I took a few closeup pictures so you could appreciate the detail she is putting into this project. She used some wooden beads in the center of the ruched flowers, and appliqued a few bugs and bees on it also. She is also buying some appropriate buttons...she has a snail to add to it! Judi did this as a quilt as you go project. Great job, Judi. The detail and the hand quilting is wonderful!

The photo below, with the butterfly, displays the red background more accurately. Don't you love the polka dot binding--what a snazzy finishing touch, Judi!

Anne has been working on several different projects at the same time. She too is determined to finish up some of her scraps. Here's her red and white scrappy project. Is that the "Lady in the Lake" block?

Anne's working on 2 different blue scrappy quilt projects. I like them both!
Can't wait to see them getting larger!

We talked about ideas for our next 6 months. We enjoyed our mystery quilt and would like to do another one. We also want to do a row-by-row quilt, completing one row each month. We haven't picked out which one we want to do. That's where it will get interesting! We do all agree that we don't want one that depicts only one holiday. But other than that, we are beginning the search. Wish us luck as we try to get 6 to 8 women to agree on the same thing!

Till next time keep stitchin!

Mary