Club members have been very busy with many different projects as we all cope with social distancing and miss our friends in the quilting world. This is an chance to show everybody what we've accomplished recently.
Rickie Frost says,
" I’ve been helping Veronica with her Girls Days project. I made 42 pad
holders using all the PUL fabric she had given me and guess what?????
She had more PUL fabric, so I made 30 more. That is why there are two
photos,"
First 42
Next 30
Rickie says "
My husband and I designed our back garden
about 25 years ago and it was in need of a facelift, so with having this
extra time on our hands we decided it would be a good time to refurbish
the pond and waterfall, re do the flower beds and the stone work and do
some needed repairs. I must admit the the whole thing looks magnificent
and it then inspired me to recover the patio furniture. I am now ready
to entertain as soon as the weather cools down a bit.
"I ordered new fabric and with Ro’s encouragement I covered the vintage
glider. The bottom cushion was a bear to handle, but I think it looks
splendid!"
The other side of the back yard with the refurbished chaise and more flower beds.
The chairs and loveseat to finish out the porch furniture. Glad this project is over!
Martha Dyckes has two quilts to share
25 in x 30 in. Made from small squares of the complex Ikat woven cloth from Indonesia
17 in x 16 in. This quilt wall hanging was inspired by the bamboo forest on Maui.
Joan Oelschlager has 2 quilts to share
" Blue and gold is 45 x 62 called Motion Commotion. It is a kit by Tonga Treats. This is the first kit I have ever done."
" This one is called Elephants on Safari. It is 31 x 42. The pattern is
from Critter Pattern Works. I had the pattern for a long time."
Helen Shaver has 2 quilts to share.
Hunter’s Star. 100” x 120”
"I have wanted to make a Hunter’s Star for years! With a little extra time on my hands, I finally have! My bed is high with a thick mattress, so I really had to make allowances for that!"
Unity Quilt (queen) by Bonnie Hunter
Quarantine Quilt Along started March 23 -May 15
"I call this my Homework Quilt. Each week on her blog (Quiltville’s
Quips & Snips), Bonnie Hunter gave us instructions for the week’s
assignment. Just like in school, Sunday night I was often doing my homework!"
Libby Dudley has 3 quilts to share
"The first one is a small square with poppies and is done entirely of scraps
and orphan half-square triangles. Seen in person, the piece really pops!"
"The second one, lap size, is entirely scrappy – made up of chintz bits from
many grab bags and free table finds. It reminds me of some of my grandmother’s
quilts.
It has poly batting, so is a lighter weight. I’m enjoying using it in all
the air conditioning. You’d think scrappy quilts like this would be fast,
but sewing all those bits together took a surprising amount of time. "
The third one, about 45 x 30, includes scraps left from the QU Show
jelly roll race a couple of years ago. The border/binding is a great
“painter’s drop cloth” pattern I’ve wanted to use for a long time. I think it
helps pull it all together. "
Ruth Roush has a quilt to share
"Here is a
small quilt I began in Heather Kojan's half square triangle workshop in
Oct 2019. I used southwest theme fabrics I bought in AZ and NM. Wearing
double masks, T Carter and I spent a couple hours together binding it
with her preferred method using some Elmer's school glue. I hung it in
my bedroom. "
Cynthia Johnson has a quilt to share.
"This is a photo of a wallhanging I made. The wallhanging is three
blocks from Sue Spargo’s quilt, “Fresh Cut”. I appliqued using wool,
cotton, ribbon and rickrack, and used many different embroidery stitches
to embellish the designs. The “Fresh Cut” quilt has eleven blocks, but
after three block completed I wanted to go on to other projects."
Ginny Mayes has a number of projects to share.
Shields for Days for Girls project
"Here are my husband and daughter decked out for the Nats game last night."
"This lab tech in Indiana is wearing a mask I made her. From another source, she has a scrub caps that matches!!"
"I had been making quilts with scraps leftover from all the
mask-making and needed just a few pieces of floral to finish one of
them off. Looking for those few pieces, I found some old-fashioned rose
fabrics that I bought as a set of quarter-yard pieces a long time ago
from Keepsake Quilting, back when I bought fabrics on sale without any
idea what I would do with them. And for perhaps more than a decade (and a
half, maybe?), these florals just hung out in a bin until I found them
and decided to use them.
The quilt ended up super-feminine with very girlie quilting, and will go to Project Linus shortly."
"
This is one of the quilts made from scraps from
mask-making. It is hard to see, but one of the fabrics that looks green
in the photos is actually a batik in sickly green with purple swirls. It
is not a pretty fabric, on its own, but it pulls the various green and
purple fabrics together.
I love the totally
girlie swirly quilting pattern — called Espresso, I believe. I think for
a minimalist design like Rainbow Rails (a variation of Rail Fence), it
needs some fancy quilting."
"This is one of six Chandelier Beads quilts that I made, mostly out of
the scraps from mask making, but also using small pieces of fabrics that
had been given to me by Roberta Hartley, Libby Dudley and Susan Crowe.
One version of the pattern is called Chandelier and is in Vanessa
Goertzen’s book, Charm School. This quilt, along with the others, will
go to Project Linus."
Another Chandelier Beads
"I think these are the last ones from this pattern...for
the moment! I used a lot of oddball batiks and small bright pieces that
Roberta and Libby had gifted me. I am always fooled by how little of
each bright bead fabric is required for these quilts."
"This is a puppy panel that Ro Coller gave me. The background is all
the same color but the shadow makes half of it look different. It will
be given to MVQU for charity."
Kathy Zahaczewsky has seven projects to share.
"Needless to say, I have kept busy - working on
UFO’s. Unfortunately, I now have a backlog of UFO tops that need to all
be HAND Quilted! If this keeps up, I may still get them done....😄
Here are some of the projects I have gotten done......
"OK, this one is not done (yet!)......but when I found this in my stash,
it went up on my design wall and has been my inspiration through all the
masks and projects I’ve worked on....."
" finally finished my Nephew’s Wedding Quilt (90 x90). Very Pink!"
" Also finished my Niece’s Wedding Quilt (75x 80). Needless to say - both are late, but Finished!"
"little block I love - made a cute table quilt. (14x14)"
"my Civil War Ladies also got finished. Hand quilted (20x20)"
" Finished 2 more of my wool table toppers.....half done on another and only 8 more to go! ........."
" And my 8 Kid’s Charity Quilts are Finished !!"
Sharon McAuliffe has a quilt to share.
"After seeing the old movie Jeremiah
Johnson with all it's snowy forests I saw this fabric the next day and
had to make something with it. I finished this quilt on time to give it
to my husband for Father's day this year."
Tina Wujick has 10 projects to share.
"This is a pattern called Hope by Erla Gunrun.
60”x80”
It was quilted by me, using free motion and rulers."
Kantha cloth pillow top inspired by Nancy Barkume’s zoom class.
20”x20”
" This is the first quilt I made with appliqué (the vine, leaves and flowers). 40”x40”
"This is a tea bag quilt with tea bags embellished with hand painted papers,
Free motion quilting, hand embroidery and hand dyed base fabrics.
Based on a class from Libby Williamson."
20”x20”
Free motion quilting practice on a kit from Angela Walters.
45”x60”
Charity quilt
Free motion quilting project from Lori Kennedy’s class.
20”x20”
Charity quilt.
"The pieced quilt was done and based to batting and backing and provided to MVQU.
I just did the quilting."
45”x45”
Half square triangle quilt using ombré fabrics. Original design.
40”x40”
Carol Allen has 2 projects to share
"
This quilt is a disappearing four patch design that I call "Pretty in
Pink". It was made for friends of my son and daughter-in-law. The
mother was so
excited that she was having a girl that ever since she found out the
sex, everything has been pink. The baby was born two months ago."
"The quilt was made for my new great-nephew who was born about six weeks
ago. His father has been a car/truck lover since his early years so I'm not sure who will be using it more."
