September 24th Meeting Update

This lovely vintage quilt has been in Marybeth's family for many years.  It is hand quilted and, I believe hand pieced.  This is such a pretty pattern with a classic design it fits right in with quilts we are making today.  I believe this was made by Marybeth's aunt.  Pls let me know if I didn't get that right.

Leng brought another of her Mom's decorative pieces.  The colours and texture were gorgeous as you can see in the close-up below.

Leng decided to duplicate her Mom's construction method and you can see the demo in the video that follows.  You will have to forgive my lack of talent in video production but you will see how they are made and the hours of work that go into each one.
Here is a video of Leng's process.

This is a great trick from Nancy.  Marybeth was doing a big clean out and showed us the HST's she was making from the tiny offcuts from some snowball blocks she had made previously.  Because they start off as corner trimmings it isn't necessary to be really precise about the seam allowance you leave so the triangle "scraps" vary somewhat in size.  When you make a lot of those blocks you end up with lots of ready cut HST's and, being quilters we want to use them in something.  Nancy's trick to turn these into consistently sized HST's is to cut a thin cardboard template of the size finished triangle you want, line it up with the corner as shown and stitch right next to the long edge of the cardboard.  Your seam allowances will vary but your HST's will all be the same size without needing to square them up.