February 7, 2009

Thanks to Rose for hosting our February meeting and providing the block of the month. Everyone loved the Chinese chicken salad she served for lunch and she'll be posting the recipe for all to enjoy.

Attending
Debi, Chris, Rose, Anna, Laurel, Linda, Tresa, Marla, Kristine, Cathie

Show and Tell

I would like to start posting pictures of show-and-tell projects each month. Everyone brings such beautiful things to share but by the time I get home I am afraid I have forgotten half of them. Since I am usually late to the meetings, is there another member who would like to volunteer to take pictures?

This month Tresa had a gorgeous cherry blossom wall hanging in oriental fabrics. I would love to have a class on this quilt!

Debi's January class shared their Star wall hangings - it was fun to see how different each turned out.

Rose shared the pillow she made at a recent class. She will be teaching it at our March meeting. If you would like to make one, supplies needed are 1¼ yards material or, if you want two different fabric colors, you will need ⅝ yard each. If the fabric you pick needs to be matched please get ¼ yard more of eachpillow formtwo “Buttons to Cover” available at JoAnn Fabrics
thread.

Rose also made beautiful apron. The pattern is by Indygo Junction and is called Bon Appetit. It is available at their web site http://www.indygojunctioninc.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=271

I know I've forgotten some of the show-and-tell projects and I apologize to anyone I left out. (We really need pictures!)

Block of the Month

Thanks to Rose for a very pretty block for February.

Susan will moving to Ohio for her new job (Congratulations and best of luck Susan!) so the March 7th meeting will be at Marilyn's house. Cathie will provide the block of the month pattern. If you are still looking for a block pattern for your month McCall's has quite a few free 12" block patterns http://mccallsquilting.com/qb/ also http://www.quilt.com/Blocks/AlphaBlockList.html

Charity Quilts

This year we will again be making quilts for the Burn Center. The pattern we will be using is Snuggle Up http://quiltmaker.com/patterns/snuggle/ At the March meeting we will schedule some dates to get together and work on these.

Teton Patchworks Retreat

We got our 4th half-week volunteer for the August retreat. The 4 attending half-weeks are Cathie, Kristine, Chris and Marla. The other 8 attending the full week are Debi, Anna, Laurel, Tresa, Linda, Karolyn, Barbara, and Marilyn.

Upcoming Events

HMQS 2009 Show
May 7-9, 2009
South Towne Exposition Center 9575 So. State Street, Sandy UT
DEADLINE FOR CLASS REGISTRATION IS APRIL 25TH
http://www.hmqs.org/

34th Annual Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show™
Saturday, July 11, 2009 9:30 am to 5:00 pm
Sisters, Oregon
http://www.sistersoutdoorquiltshow.org/


Utah Quilt Guild Festival 2009
Sept 22 - 26 2009
Layton - Davis Conference Center
http://www.utahquiltguild.org/annual.htm


Pacific International Quilt Festival XVIII
October 15 - 18, 2009
Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California
http://www.quiltfest.com/activities.asp?id=7

Debi's Class News

Ant-titude will be February 28th from 11:00-4:00, lunch will not be provided but Lance will run out and pick up sandwiches if anyone is interested.
I'm actually finishing this post after the class. Debi (on crutches with a broken toe) taught a terrific class as usual. Karolyn decided that needle-turned applique was never going to be on her list of fun things to do. Everyone has selected some really fun fabrics. It will be so much fun to see everyones finished quilt.

Bounty will be March 14th from 11:00-4:00. The class fee is due February 14th.

Wash Day has been rescheduled for May 9th from 11:00-4:00.

Nostalgia (the August class) has been cancelled.

See you at Marilyn's house on March 7th.