My Strip Challenge entry

is here because I had to give it to the professor last Saturday.  I won't win, but I wanted you to see that I did one.  I designed it with EQ and used the Jacob's Ladder block and a Roman stripe block to fill it in.  He was delighted with it.  In fact I heard him say:  "Wait til my wife sees this!"   He was the only one who knew that the center of the quilt says Yahweh in Hebrew.  This quilt is entitled "God Calls and His People Hear in the Books of Old". 

May 17th

is our next quilt guild meeting.  It is sure to be fun with our Strip Quilt Challenge voting and Quilt Haven's trunk show and sale.  Be sure to bring quarters for the voting and money for the sale.  Look forward to seeing you there!

And speaking of quilt meetings, last quilt meeting was a lot of fun, too.  I enjoyed the demos:  Joan's shadow quilting, Brenda's machine embellishing, Julia's review of the blog and Chris's double sided binding.

Here you see the table runner Chris was using as her sample. Red binding on front and green binding on back.  Isn''t that cool?!  If you missed/lost the handout go to 2bindsheet for a copy.

May Newsletter posted.

Just click on the tab marked Newsletter and then The Common Thread and you'll find it.  If you want to print it , click on file under GoogleDocs in upper left of page, not the file in your tool bar of browser window.

A Couple of Reminders

We will not be having a Show N Share at the May Guild Meeting as we have two events scheduled for the evening:
1.  Strip Quilt Challenge voting - be sure to bring your quarters to vote.

2.  Quilter's Haven will be visiting us - be sure and bring your check book!

It promises to be a fun meeting, May 17th.

PS:  Have you signed up for the bus trip to Long Beach?  See Christie Fowler.

Hours
July 28: 5-9 p.m. (Preview Night)
July 29 & 30: 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
July 31: 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Ticket prices:
$10 daily adult/$8 senior & student/Children 10 and under free with paying adult
$10 Preview Night (includes one free additional day)
$25 Full Show Pass (includes Preview Night)
Advance online printable tickets will be available here beginning in April 2011.

International Quilt Festival/Long Beach
July 29-31, 2011
Long Beach, California
Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center

Monthly Calendar

for May is up.

Ladies, we need BOM Queens - contact Angie if you are interested - she'll help you out - it's easy!  Here is the BOM block for May as showcased by Rebecca Slaughter in March's show n share. 

Work around for blogger Comment problems

Blogger is having difficulties with the comments section.  Until it is fixed, please go to our contact/forms page and send us an email (ie:  if you want to be in the drawing for the four fat quarters and can't leave a comment, use contact us).  Ditto if you want to offer some comment, suggestion on a post, or something else.

Hopefully, this will be fixed shortly.

2ND Mystery Clue Posted

Here's the second mystery clue.  Click here to get it.  Next clue in May and then we'll see them in June at the potluck.  Thank you for participating and helping with the Soldiers'  Angels project.

And here is one you can read about at http://www.antiquequiltdating.com/Patriotic_Quilts_Through_Time.html


Enjoy!

Versatile foot demystified

This is worth a look-see.  Lots of uses for a machine foot I hardly use.  I'll be using it more.

Go to:
http://badskirt.blogspot.com/2010/07/edgestitch-foot-demystified.html

and most machines have this foot:

Happy quilting and sewing.  I can see using it for stitch in the ditch in my next quilt.  And thanks Nikki Roberts for bringing this to our attention.

4 Fat Quarters- You could win!

Hi!  Welcome to our free blog website. And to mark our new venture, there is a giveaway of 4 fat quarters to add to your stash. What do you have to do to win? Just leave a comment on this post and you'll be entered to win. Winner will be chosen and announced at the May meeting. Feel free to use anonymous to leave your comment, but be sure to add your name so that if you win I"ll know whose comment it was.

Happily in stitches,
your webmistress

Here are some members raptly watching last month's show n share - it is always filled with such wonderful eye candy.  Next one April 19th.  Don't miss it!

It's here!

Our April Newsletter is now posted.  Please click on the Newsletter tab to access it.

Are you working on your UFOs?  I'm trying!