Here's What You Missed!

If you missed our last meeting you missed a fun one!  Here is what you missed!  Crystal challenged us to make a new name tag for a chance to win a drawing.  She made one to show us two meetings ago...a few people rose to the challenge and made these beauties!

 Crystal is giving us one more meeting to get in on the drawing if you want to make a new name tag to show off.  We had a great show and tell and a fabulous PUP completion show and tell with pictures shared on the facebook page here.  If you have not been there, check it out.  We love to see what you are working on and ooh and aah over your quilts, sewing or other crafts! 
You may remember the cute birdie quilt with the free pattern online from a few posts ago.  Bev got right on it and made some blocks.  She is planning on putting it in the small quilt auction on October 3rd. I hope no one wants it but me since I have not started making any birds yet!  I hope you are making something for our annual fundraiser too.  Invite your friends to come October 3rd--Crystal says it is a great way to shop for Christmas!

 Speaking of getting right on it Leslie got right on Jackie Kunkel's "Scattered" which we just saw a meeting ago, and it looks great!

 Penny finished up her puppy from the Laura Heine class too. These wall hangings are works of art, I love each one more than the last!

Our programs gals helped us celebrate the August birthdays (mine is today and I took home that purple cupcake in the front!) and are keeping us informed on what they have coming up.  Coming soon we will be doing a block lotto type activity.  One month the pattern is given out, the following month we turn in however many blocks we want to make and get a raffle ticked for each one.  Someone is pulled from the tickets and goes home with a set of blocks.  Another pattern will be given and then we do it again the following month!

 Check it out! 

August 15- Helen Robinson for Sew Kind of Wonderful will be our guest. Simply Modern Quilting Magazine has one of their gorgeous designs on the cover of  their newest edition. But I'm sure you have seen those cute pumpkins and pineapples- they are everywhere! Don't fear the curve- come and be inspired!

September 5- Carrie Bloomston- This gifted artist designs patterns and fabric for Windham. Remember those cute paintbrushes with collaged words? Her newest line is called Dreamer. She has also written a book called The Little Spark about encouraging creativity. She  is a terrific, motivating speaker-don't miss it!

September 19th- QUILTO. Hosted by Kathy O'Brien.  Like BINGO, but more fun because you can win great quilting supplies. 

October 3-Small quilt auction

 Crystal presented Debbie (her sister and our past president) with this lovely Scrappy Hexies quilt which many members contributed blocks to.  Penny quilted it and it is a stunner!

 At our break it was much admired!

 My favorite block in the label on the back!  Debbie loves to quilt with brights and so did our members so that we could thank her for a great year as our president!

 We shared memories of our gone too soon member Gudrun at our meeting too.  She was always a friendly welcoming face and will be missed by us all.  She was also prolific in our charity quilt making and worked on charity quilts each month.  Penny has challenged us all to do just one small thing more for charity than we have in the past in Gudrun's honor.  I hope we all rise to that challenge.  I borrowed her picture from her facebook, I know I will never forget her smiling face or sweet personality. 

Then there were the pups....coming next post!

Helen Robinson--Sew Kind of Wonderful

Pictures borrowed from Sew Kind of Wonderful

Sew Kind of Wonderful says that "Helen began quilting in 1997 and fell in love with the entire process of design, fabric shopping, piecing and quilting" so three years ago she started working with her sister Jenny at Sew Kind of Wonderful.  The two of them create "fresh new contemporary quilts using the Quick Curve Ruler." They have over 40 patterns that use this ruler and two books that feature designs that use the ruler.

Check out the tutorial over on the blog to see how this ruler makes things easier for us quilters.  I love this Chic Country design!

She has a beautiful quilt on the Simply Moderne magazine cover too!

Come on out to our Tuesday meeting on August 15th to hear Helen Robinson talk about her work and see how the Sew Kind of Wonderful rulers work!  We hope to see you there!

Virtual Show and Tell

Berta had to get this quilt off to Tennessee for a baby shower so we are having a virtual Show and Tell for it!  What a beauty!

Feel free to send me your virtual show and tells and I will share them for others to see!

Block Lotto Birdies and BOM Ideas

I really fell in love with this sweet bird quilt made by one of our members!  She shared that the pattern is free from Block Lotto if you feel the need to make it too!

That reminds me Crystal mentioned we will be doing a Block of the Month again (every other month) where we get a pattern, make a block and then draw someone to take home all of the blocks.  If you have any ideas for blocks (this one would be great Crystal, hint hint!) share them with Crystal or Bev. 

Preview of Upcoming Meetings

Here are the upcoming meetings. You do not want to miss them!

August 1st- PUPS. hosted by Kathy Kreig. If the NT family gave you a PUP goal to finish during the 2016-2017 year, and you were diligent enough to finish it, bring it to the meeting. We want to celebrate your accomplishment with you!

   Also consider bringing 3 PUPS (Poor Unfinished Projects) to the meeting. You will be given a chance to show the 3 options to the group, and they will vote which PUP they want you to finish in 2017-2018.  This is lots of fun. So dig in those bins and  search the backs of those cupboards for things you just want to get done!

August 15- Helen Robinson for Sew Kind of Wonderful will be our guest. Simply Modern Quilting Magazine has one of their gorgeous designs on the cover of  their newest edition. But I'm sure you have seen those cute pumpkins and pineapples- they are everywhere! Don't fear the curve- come and be inspired!

September 5- Carrie Bloomston- This gifted artist designs patterns and fabric for Windham. Remember those cute paintbrushes with collaged words? Her newest line is called Dreamer. She has also written a book called The Little Spark about encouraging creativity. She  is a terrific, motivating speaker-don't miss it!

September 19th- QUILTO. Hosted by Kathy O'Brien.  Like BINGO, but more fun because you can win great quilting supplies. 

Invite a friend and see you Tuesday with your PUPs!   

Showing and Sharing and Name Tags--Make a New One!

 Some of our fabulous Show and Tell from the last meeting! 

JoAnn presented a beautiful quilt to Colleen called "Pam's Lights" to honor her late friend and use some of her friend Pam's stash up.  So sweet!

Our new president, Crystal shared her new name tag with us and challenged us to make a new name tag to bring and wear at our next meeting--the first meeting in August.  We will pull a name of participants and someone will win a fat quarter bundle!  We love it when our members wear name tags so we can learn everyone's names!

When I went to the Phoenix Modern Quilt Guild, I helped create a Pinterest board of name tag ideas which you can find here if you want to save time in the searching for ideas (if you are like me and do not come up with your own!).  There is a really nice tutorial over at Pile 'o Fabric for making a lanyard name tag which is the one I wound up making way back when, I love her southwestern design, but you could use any design and the tutorial for the lanyard part if you are interested in that.

If you have items to donate to Stash to Treasure for this Spring, Debbie will collect them anytime. 

Thank you Stephanie and Colleen for refreshments this meeting.  We do need more volunteers to sign up to bring refreshments, see Kathy and her book at the refreshment table to sign up anytime!

PUPS Challenge Coming Right Up!

Do you have a long list of PUPS (Poor Unfinished Projects for any of you newbies out there) that you have been neglecting.  Maybe, like some of us you joined the All People Quilt 2017 UFO Challenge and are ticking them off your list!  If not, here is a little challenge that will help you get one of those puppies off your list!

Our next meeting bring three of your PUPS in to share with the guild.  It does not matter if it is in the I only have the fabric and the pattern stage, the quilting stage or anywhere in between.  I can tell you that after you tell us about your three PUPs the guild will vote and decide which one they are challenging you to finish by next year!  And they are not going to pick the one you just need to add a label to!  This meeting is super fun as we get to know you, your projects and what you have been neglecting to sew lately (or maybe not so lately). 

Those who met the challenge from last year will be sharing their completed projects too (and ticking them off their lists!).