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December 2021 Show & Tell

 

JoAn Stout

Christmas Quilt -- her original design

T Carter -- Home on Our Pond

T Carter -- Maine Moose in Water

T Carter -- Maine Moose on Land

T Carter -- Bassinger Mansion

Mansion in her hometown

T Carter -- back of same quilt showing history of mansion

Rickie Frost -- Mike's quilt, an original design

"Really challenging quilt, working with just a few t-shirts"

Kathy Z 

Kathy Z

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November 2021 Show & Tell

 

Tina Wujick -- Botanical prints on silk

Carol Conahan -- Banner for door  

"I needed to use up some of my 100's of buttons."

Sharon McAuliffe

"This is Barbara Z's top that I quilted"

Ginny Mayes

Ginny Mayes -- Apple quilt

Mary Stauss -- Turkey wall  hanging

Susan Crowe -- Green quilt for her son

Veronica Abrams 

This and the next two are Christmas panels to cut apart and assemble into quilts

Veronica Abrams -- Peacock quilt

Peacock in center is a panel surrounded by piecing.

Veronica Abrams -- machine embroidered finger puppets

JoAn Stout -- Chandelier quilt

JoAn Stout -- Forest Animals

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October 2021 Show & Tell

 Thanks once again to Ginny Mayes for taking these pictures!

Veronica Abrams showed this beautiful peacock quilt.

Veronica also had a number of embroidered  Christmas ornaments to show.

Kathy Z had a number of quilts to show. The first two are strippie quilts for charity.

This is another of Kathy Z's quilts.

This one is also Kathy Z's.

This is the front and back of Kathy Z's wine themed quilt.

The next three quilts were done by Mary Downey.

This one was sewed from flannel scraps from the baby quilts that Mary Baldwin makes and donates. 

This yellow and grey quilt was made from baby crib bumper pads. 

This unquilted top is also made from a baby crib bumper featuring animals.

Ginny Mayes showed three quilts.

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This is a Drunken Nine-Patch that Ginny  showed and donated today.

Someone in MVQU had sewn this quilt into a top

 — the fabrics all are music notes — and Ginny finished it

Ginny made this second strippie. Both went to Mary Mazzuchi for charity.

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September 2021 Show & Tell

 Pictures from the Ice Cream Social with many thanks to Ginny Mayes for taking the pictures.

Barbara Zygiel -- Many Tiny Houses

                                                         Dawn  Delongh

Dawn  Delongh

Dianne Tippins -- charity quilt

Ginny Mayes 'This has scraps from Susan Crowe that I cut the wrong length for another quilt and had to find a way to use." 

Ginny Mayes "This is my version of Bright Birches using teeny tiny scraps from Susan and Libby."

 

Ginny Mayes -- strippie charity quilt

Helen Shaver

Helen Shaver

Helen Shaver

Helen Shaver -- Snowflake quilt

Helen Shaver -- back of snowflake quilt

Joan Oelschlager -- Fence Rail variation

Kathleen Sander

Kathy Zahaczewsky -- charity quilt

Kathy Zahaczewsky -- charity quilt

Mary Mazzuchi "Ricki made this quilt and I quilted it and am putting on the binding."

Mary Mazzuchi -- charity quilt

Rickie Frost -- charity quilt

Susan Crowe -- charity quilt

Tina Wujick

Tina Wujick

Tina Wujick

Tina Wujick

Tina Wujick

Tina Wujick -- charity quilt

Tina Wujick -- charity quilt

Veronica shared these photos of girls in Africa who received the bags containing the shields, pads and ZipLoc bags in a drawstring bag. Several members of MVQU sewed bags, pads and shields.

Days for Girls Recipients showing their kits

Show & Tell from Business Meeting   Thanks once again to Ginny Mayes for the great pictures.

Barbara Zygiel -- tiny dresses

Carol Allen showed a quilt, some placemats and a pillow that she made from her friend’s late husband's Japanese robes.

Ginny Mayes -- "This was made from leftovers from Strippie kits." 

Ginny Mayes -- "This is a vintage quilt top Lynn Miller donated. I quilted it in a Baptist Fan  pattern, using fabric for backing and binding that Mary Mazzuchi provided."

Ginny Mayes -- "My mom's eldest sister turns 90 this week.  Her next eldest sister turned 88 a few weeks ago.  It is the kind of family where everyone gets teased.  Birthday cards are viciously funny.  My mom thought it would be funny if I made fidget quilts for the two sisters.  Both of them still live in their own homes and cook and clean for large multi-generational families.  The one who turned 90 no longer drives, but that is more related to her polio injuries than to her age.  Although all of us Sigler women joke about losing our memories and minds, no one actually has dementia.

At first the sisters laughed about their fidget quilts, especially when my mom explained what they were and that they usually went to nursing home patients.  It was a great joke, as it was meant to be.  But my mom said that throughout the day, she would catch one of the sisters examining her quilt to see all of the moving parts and different activities, and she would see the sisters playing with their quilts or smoothing them down with their hands.  So even if they are not in need of fidget quilts for dementia reasons, they may actually be getting some use out of them!  One sister said that she was going to leave hers on display on her sofa."

JoAn Stout’s quilt made during our Covid lockdown period uses lots of beautiful embroidery.

Mary Mazzuchi finished up the little Sunbonnet Sues that had been left on the free table

In memory of Pat Alfredson 

This quilt belongs to Dianne Tippins.  Pat Alfredson did the applique work on it.

In memory of Pat Alfredson

This quilt belongs to Ro Coller.  Pat Alfredson did the applique work.

Ro Coller

Ro Coller -- This quilt was originally a set of Nine Patches in shirting fabrics. 

Ro Coller -- Pattern is Jagged Exes in batiks that were a jelly roll that Roberta had gifted her. 

Ro Coller  -- This is the back of the quilt above.

 Ro Coller -- This quilt is another Jagged Exes. 

Ro Coller -- This is Ro’s challenge quilt using the antique Dresden Plates that Rickie had provided to MVQU members. 

                             Ro Coller --This is the back of the Dresden Plate quilt. 

Ro Coller showed a zippered bag with many compartments. She made the black and grey version of the blue and green bag that someone else had made. She copied the bag without a pattern.

Tina Wujick --This circular quilt uses more than 100 tiny templates. It is A Twist in Time, a kit from Australia that she got through Angela Walters’s website.  

Veronica Abrams used a fabric kit called Summer Breeze that she found in a shop in Pennsylvania