Feb. 18 Meeting Report

 There were eight of us at Joyce's on Tuesday:  Colleen, Sue, Sharon, Nancy, Betty, Adrienne, Joyce and me.  Colleen brought her We Are Canadian wall hanging along so everyone could see the detail.  She brought the pattern as well and explained how she did the quilting and applique and Betty took the pattern home with her to give it a try.  There is a lot of work in this but Colleen said that she enjoyed every minute working on it, especially choosing the fabrics for the animals.

Betty brought along a zipper pouch she had made from some beautiful silk and wool upholstery fabric in shades of beige and light brown.  An owl was appliqued to the front and Betty made three dimensional feathers and also went on a search for the perfect buttons for its eyes.  Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of either Betty's or close ups of Colleen's banner so if anyone in the group can supply some I will post them here. 

Sharon's birthday is on the 21st of February so we celebrated the occasion with a cake.

Nancy had some tickets for the FVQG raffle quilt.  They are having a show in May at the New West Curling Rink.  Details are on the Upcoming Events page.  She will have more tickets at a future meeting if you would like to purchase one.

We also talked about making some plans for future donation quilts.  We should definitely make a couple of I Spy quilts.  Joyce wants her I Spy fabrics to get used up, ha ha.  We can try.  

I suggested we make this quilt which many of us will be familiar with as we made one for the Burnaby Children's Fund in the past.

I think it's a good option because it is very easy to piece and assemble.  You just cut out the brick shapes and sew a strip on the long sides and lay them out in an alternate horizontal and vertical pattern.  No pattern needed but there is one here.

There are so many options for I Spy quilts so have a look on Pinterest or Facebook and send me your favourites and I'll post them on the blog so we can decide.  Here are a couple I found on Pinterest:

We planned on devoting our next meeting to a cutting workshop so we need to decide on one or two (or more) I Spy quilts before then and come prepared to cut them out at that get together.

I still have two boxes of Michi's fabrics.  I will bring some to our next meeting so that we can come up with some ideas for those too.