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Saturday, February 25, 2017

March 2017 Newsletter

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Friday, February 17, 2017

February 2017 Show & Tell

 Jim Melton -- baby quilt

 Nancy Barkume -- Blue Skies Shining on Me!
a variation on Jen Kingwell's Gypsy Wife pattern

 Kay Brill's quilt which will be displayed at 
June QU Show at Dulles Expo Center in her memory


 Mary Downey -- Ibo, too

 Three versions of the Bowtie quilt

 Joan Peake -- Liberty of London Hexagons.

 Carolyn Paden -- Firemen's quilt panel

 Carolyn Paden -- Blue Flowers

 Carolyn Paden -- Houndstooth
inspired by designer Tula Pink

 Lynn Miller -- Brighter Times
"The pattern for this quilt was included in a magazine from the freebie table."

Lynn Miller -- Star Light
"Made from a kit purchased in 2003, intended for a fund raiser for a teen trip
 to Israel for the Beth El Hebrew Congregation teens in 2018."

 Lynn Miller -- quilt top done by a friend and finished by Lynn

 Libby Dudley -- table topper
two sided project from scraps, an original design

 Libby Dudley -- Kitchen Home Theme table topper

 Libby Dudley -- Cowboy/Sunflower table topper
"Scrappy cowboy topper done with scraps from bandana quilt made at 
Fall Quilt Camp.  Completed with sunflower panel found in stash."

 Libby Dudley -- Purse made by Georgia Bonesteel, master quilter
"Received this fall as a gift from relatives who live near her hometown
and found it at a silent auction!   Georgia began her quilting career making
and selling these purses in New Orleans markets."

 Libby Dudley 
"Souvenir project from a Maui quilt shop.  Done with black thread, 
which is not traditional!  Was fun to do."

 Jim Melton -- Dresden plate panel

Jim Melton -- photos of an uncle
the beginnings of a genealogy quilt