October 22 Meeting Update

 Penny was probably the busiest person at our meeting yesterday with her hand sewing.  She was shortening the sleeves on one of Paul's hockey jerseys which she has probably finished by now.

Colleen just had a few finishing touches to do on this Halloween wall hanging for the twins who are coming for a visit over Halloween next week.  The front is done and it just needs a little sleeve or hanger on the back.

Colleen and I both had a guild class last weekend at Century House.  I didn't make it due to the flooding but Colleen did and produced this cute little work of "slow stitching".  It will be finished off with a little more embroidery and some raw edge, hand stitched binding.  The center piece was a log cabin made wonky by stitching it to the background with curved seams.  These little projects don't take much time or materials and really get your creative juices flowing.  If you're not in love with the finished project you haven't made much of an investment in it but you've probably learned something new and spent some relaxing time with a needle and thread.

I'll wait to receive photos of the work we did laying out another heart quilt but it is already pieced except for the borders so those pictures will follow.

Half an hour to chain piece the rows.  The weight is to keep the top from tugging under the presser foot as it grows in size and heaviness.

Here is the finished top without the borders.  Piecing the horizontal rows took more time--an hour and a half because this is where all the pressing and seam matching takes place.  But not bad to finish piecing this part of the top in just two hours.  The borders should take an hour to cut and piece.  We'll see...

Besides the above heart quilt, we all went home with some more backgrounds and heart units to stitch into finished blocks for another donation heart quilt.  That one will be on a variety of shades of lilac backgrounds with little floral prints for the hearts.  No rush to finish those, if you have taken some.

We finished the day by going down to Marybeth's quilting room to see her latest project which is a scrappy nine patch with sashings and cornerstones.  Lots of soft and pretty pastel colours going into this one.

Nancy is away this weekend at the FVQG retreat at Harrison Hotsprings.  We might get some photos for the blog if Nancy has an idle moment.  But I'm not sure if Nancy ever has an idle moment judging by her output.