15th of October Meeting Update

I am finally doing this update on Sunday night.  It's been a busy week and even though the rain kept me in for the last two days I've hardly had any time for quilting or blogging.  So this will be a fast recap with apologies to all those who brought their work to show and contributed in other ways.

Colleen spent some time going through her stash of quilts and chose some to get us started building up the TAQ donation stash for 2024-25.  We had five baby quilts left from our donations this year after filling the last of our orders with Project Linus and the Heron's Nest.

We are off to a good start with these beautiful quilts.  Colleen's multi-coloured scrappy Orange Peel quilt looks very cheerful.  Makes me want to make some more of those.

This Zipper quilt in greens and aquas is really lovely.  I recognize some Tula Pink fabrics there so maybe a co-ordinating fat quarter bundle or layer cake was used for this one.  

This started off as a table runner kit from The Cloth Shop but Colleen decided she wouldn't use a table runner in those colours so added some borders and circles and turned it into a sweet baby quilt.  The little squares in the border are perfect with the circles.

This is a top recently finished by Nancy.  It was designed for a jelly roll using lights and darks.  The fabrics are divided into lights and darks and strip sets are made with a light strip between two darks and a dark strip between two lights. Then a tube is formed by laying them out, right sides together and sewing together along the long sides.  You can get an idea in the photo below.  Then, using a right angled triangle you cut out your squares by alternating up and down across the strip.  You can get the idea here with this quilt tutorial from the Missouri Star Quilt Co.

Here are the leftovers of Nancy's strip sets.  She thought that she could have got an extra block out of each set if she had staggered the bottom two rows by indenting each strip just enough to accommodate the ruler.  A good tip!

Another stunning modern quilt from Nancy.  We loved the modern look of this quilt with it's simple design but the quilting in the background really made this one Wow!  Nancy's sister, Katie made the same quilt and when Nancy saw the quilting she did on it on her longarm she asked Katie to do hers as well.  With fingers crossed she mailed it off to Katie in Arizona and this is the result.  I guess you owe your sister a big favour now, Nancy.

Detail of Katie's amazing quilting.

After 12 years in the works, Leng has finally put the last stitch in her incredible appliqued quilt.  Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of her whole quilt but I will make sure one gets posted here soon.  It is a large quilt, about 93" square with thousands of leaves appliqued around the border and encircling the floral motifs.    

Each floral medallion is unique and Leng chose her own designs.   

Each medallion also has it's own quilting design.

The Gingko leaves were so delicate.  That little touch of red on one of the leaves and the shading make them look so real.

So much detail in every motif.

Really a museum worthy quilt.

Watch for this quilt to go on display at Fabricana in the coming months.

Other news:  we will be starting on two new heart quilts which are well on their way.  There is one where the blocks are all completed and ready to be laid out and the other we will be asking for volunteers to do some more heart stitching in order to get those blocks ready for laying out.  I hope to get the cutting for these two quilts done on Monday before our meeting this week.

Joyce is working on the arrangements for our get together with Michi and there are plans afoot for all the birthday celebrations that will be taking place in November and December.

We should also decide on a date for our little Alpine Village wall hanging workshop in November.  We will have all the supplies but will have a list if you want to use your own scraps.  Here is a photo of the project.  All fusible applique with a minimum of stitching and quilting.