June and July meetings

The June and July meetings gave rise to the delivery of more Hearts Tombola items. The T-shirt quilts were both layered and the bindings were being applied. At July's meeting one of these was finished and given to Liz for delivery next week. See the gallery for pictures.

We had another update on progress with the Paula Doyle workshop. There are some lovely pieces of work being produced.

Large Giant Dahlia

Small Giant Dahlia

July saw demonstrations on two applique techniques, using Sunbonnet Sue and Overall Bill, and a variety of methods available for marking quilting designs. We hope to use the applique blocks to make another Project Linus quilt.

Notes on Marking quilt designs

Notes on Applique

Applique patterns - Sunbonnet Sue and Overall Sam 

Thursday 3rd April 2014

This month we planned to assemble the T-shirt blocks that had been quilted and keep working on some more.

Quilting the block

Joining the wadding

Two blocks joined

One row complete - three blocks joined

Another row completed

Sewing the rows together

Some members decided to carry on working on the Heart Tombola projects

Others decided to spend some time catching up on personal projects.

We also had some more donations for the Hearts Tombola

Fabric bowl and needle cases

Hearts Tombola 6th March 2014

As Region 2 of the Quilters Guild, to which we are affiliated, is hosting the Tombola for the Festival of Quilts this year, we thought it would be nice to devote the March meeting to making some heart related items. Some patterns are available with this link Hearts Tombola projects.

More patterns can be found at http://loveheartstombola.wix.com/loveheartstombola. This is the blog showing items that have been donated for the tombola, with links to some patterns.

Please feel free to bring along any other designs and ideas you think might be useful.