Off on a Tangent

 Christine has been away at her cottage for the last couple of weeks so she came over tonight to sew with me. We decided to make some Great Granny Square blocks. I decided to put red solid squares in the centre of my blocks. I got my first one done and put it on my design floor with my 3 completed Swoon blocks. Then, I started pulling fabrics for the 2nd one. Here is the second one:

After taking this picture, I put it beside the first one and ...OOPS!  They are fairly similar in colour scheme in the outer two rows of squares!  Yikes!  I guess I will have to make at least 20 blocks for this quilt so these two will not have to be near each other! I will have to pay more attention the next time I work on these blocks.

Christine made one block and then finished off some other blocks for a quilt she started before her holiday.

Like Swoon, these Great Granny Squares are addictive!

I have another Swoon block cut out and ready to sew. I will try to do that tomorrow night.

Here are some more quilts from the Fabric Party Show and Tell last Thursday.

Cathy made this beauty:

And Chris made this applique quilt:

It is very inspiring to have such talented quilty friends!

Until next time...

Elgin Piecemakers Meeting -part 2

Jacqui always has interesting projects to show us. She recently went on a quilt retreat at a cottage with some quilting friends and got lots accomplished.






































Heather made this quilt as a gift for someone who likes blue and white.

This quilt is hand-quilted.





The blocks in this quilt were made from leftovers from another quilt.

I would like to learn how to make one of these braid quilts.

Pat made this quilt for her son and his bride--the wedding is in a couple of weeks.

This quilter is a real artist--something I can only aspire to be...This wall hanging will look great at Hallowe'en!
M-L made this casserole cover as a wedding gift--It includes a table runner and another piece that wrap around the square casserole. The pattern is by Brenda Miller.

































My show and tell was my (incomplete) fall table runner. I hope to finish it this weekend and will blog about it at that time.

Guild Meeting at My House!

Tonight, the Elgin Piecemakers met at my house. Nancy of Life is a Stitch fame helped me to host the meeting. The EP's are a group of 18 women --we meet once a month in someone's home. This was my first time hosting a meeting at my house. We had not met since June so there was lots of news about what had been happening in everyone's lives over the summer.

Nancy was at a workshop a couple of weeks ago and got an idea for our guild meeting from someone she met there. We had a "Strip Club" --everyone was asked to bring at least one 2 1/2 inch strip of fabric (length was WOF) in Fall colours/prints. For each strip, you got a ticket. At the end of the meeting, we drew a ticket from the hat and Beth won all of the strips! I wonder what she will make with them?

We divided up into 5 teams to play "Sew You Want to Be a Quilter"-- a quilting trivia board game that I purchased at a quilt show in the Spring. The top two teams who visited the most quilt shops on the board won 3 pink fat quarters each, courtesy of Nancy. Some of the questions were easy, some were more challenging and some were downright obscure! Everyone enjoyed the game and we may play it again at a future meeting. The markers for the game are little spools of thread.
The best part of any guild meeting is show and tell and this month's show and tell was spectacular! Everyone had been busy over the summer finishing UFO's, creating beautiful gifts and charity quilts as well as quilts for ourselves.

Nancy's Sunbonnet Sue:
This was made from a Jelly Roll of Batiks:
Beth had three quilt tops to show:

This quilt will be raffled off as a fundraiser for the Eastern Star. Several members of the guild helped to piece the blocks of this quilt. It is wrapped in plastic so it can be shipped around to different Eastern Star groups to entice the members to buy raffle tickets.
I will post some more pictures tomorrow. We ended our meeting with dessert and tea. Nancy made pear and apple crisp and I supplied the tea, juice and frozen yoghurt-- A yummy end to a fun evening!