March Guild

Finally, our quilt guild was able to meet this month.  January had too much snow.  February had too much ice. Yikes!!  (And we take off in December for Christmas.)

I was excited to see so many friends again after such a long break. However, I had a job so I missed out on the hour of visiting once I got there.

I’m heading up/organizing the raffle committee for this year’s project.   Not that I wanted to head it, but the 3 that were willing to work on it are all new (and shy) and none of them wanted to be the spokesperson.  Neither have any of them been members long enough to have participated in our last raffle quilt, 3 yrs ago.   So I’m their voice.  And their experience.

We met from 6:00 – 6:59:30 before the 7 p.m. meeting started.  I’m sorry we missed the 6:30 demos!  And we missed the name tag and show & tell drawings.  😦   (I’ll get over it.  Really.  Later.  hahaha!)

After setting a tentative schedule for how we need to work and batting around a brainstorm of ideas, we are working on one thought now.  The plan is to get a pattern set, then meet at a local quilt shop and buy the fabrics for the quilt.  We’ll then assemble kits for the members to pick up at the May meeting. I think this is too much to accomplish by the April meeting.  We’ll see how it all goes.

Today I loaded the CD for the pattern onto my EQ program and was thrilled to have that done easily.  We are considering 8″ blocks so I printed out the rotary cutting instructions to test them.  I made the block this afternoon.

Next up, I’ll have the others on the committee make one and see how it goes for them.  I’m loving where this is going! 🙂  I may have to buy more than the recommended 6 tickets this time!  😉

I picked up my Round Robin for the next month.  With all those canceled months, I’ve totally forgotten what I’ve done on the other quilts.  Then today someone that got the last quilt I worked on called asking about a fabric I had used.  Very funny ~ I’m not even sure WHAT I did back in January!  😉   This month I need to add something with triangles.  I’m thinking.

The program at guild was by a lady that owns a local quilt shop and her main focus is with Civil War Reproduction fabrics.  She has interesting CW groups at the shop and gave great history tidbits with the fabrics and quilts.

My photos aren’t great ….

This is a cot quilt she made as a replica of the cot quilts made for the soldier’s in the Civil War.  Long & narrow.  She used a 12″ block in the border and then the companion 6″ size times 4 blocks in the center of the quilt.

Refreshment time gave me a few minutes to catch up with a dear friend  🙂  and then back for the business meeting and show & tell.

I took my November LaPetité project that I quilted in January (domestic machine) and my 2nd quilt off my long arm, Scraps of Kansas, now with binding and washed & dried.

And I realized that I don’t even have quilts 1 & 3 — they are in Chicago!!  Ha on me!  Numbers 4, 5 & 6, are impatiently waiting for binding.  Do you like the hand-sewing part?  I’m OK with it… when I sit down.  Haven’t done that much lately.   (Quilt #7 comes off the frame tonight.  Civil War fabrics w/ plenty of pink… yummy!!  🙂  )