Meeting Recap for April 9, 2024

It was only Marybeth and me today so we started with lunch at the White Spot and just spent an hour chatting and getting caught up before heading back to Marybeth's for a quick blog tutorial.

We still had time for some quilting talk.  Marybeth showed me her spray basted quilt and we talked about how she was going to quilt it.  She wasn't sure whether she should quilt in the ditch along each diagonal line and  the vertical and horizontal lines but, after some discussion we thought diagonal would be sufficient.  The problem was that the vertical and horizontal lines would be on top of the prints and she is quilting with white thread and it would show.

Marybeth had a different quilt on display in her entryway.  This was a quilt as you go and is reversible.

Front of quilt

Reverse of quilt

Maybeth bought the book at Quilters' Haven in 2003 and there are some really modern quilts in the book that pass the "modern" test today.  The author, Sharon Pederson is from Vancouver.  I think Marybeth's quilt would make a great group project and give us the opportunity to learn a new technique and provide us with some hand sewing for our get togethers.  I found this excellent video review of the book online if you want to have a look.

As if I hadn't already been impressed enough, Marybeth showed me her binder of quilts she has made.  For someone who is lucky to get a label on a quilt it was pretty humbling.  Marybeth said that Nancy Chan suggested this method of keeping a record of your quilts.  I guess it's never too late to start.  We can ask her to get it out again to see her lovely collection of quilts all beautifully photographed and logged.

Note the silk batting in this one.

It was a great get together and sadly I will miss all the fun next week so I hope someone will take some notes and photos and do a blog post.  If you're not quite ready for that, just send the info to me and I will do the post.

We're meeting next week at Marybeth's.