Community Service Day! Oct 26th!

We need you!  Our next sew day, Oct 26th is going to be the day we stuff those happy bags everyone's been making all year.  They need to be ready by November 1st.  Hilde will have the goodies to put into them and the happy bags.  If you are making any, please turn them in at the next meeting or bring them to the Community Service Day.  With all your help, the assembly line filling of these bags will go quickly.  If you haven't made any, please consider helping out by coming to fill bags on the 26th. 

Any Happy Bags turned in after the community service day will be for the 2014 bags for Loma Linda.

Please mark your calendars!  Oh, and we always have a salad potluck lunch.  The guild provides the greens and you can bring whatever you like to add. Starts at 9 AM til 4 PM or whenever we finish.  Hope to see you there at the Goeske Center!!

Adopt me!

Said the UFO to the quilter.

No, it's not a stash - it's a pile of UFOs  - really!

I've been languishing in the closet.
It's a dark and lonely place.

I don't know what happened.
She was moving right along,
sewing and quilting and humming
"It's going to be a quilt!" song.

But then there was a birthday
and a visitor came our way.
A family member needed tending,
and a garden held sway.
Then there was that quilt show
when she came home with all new stuff.

So no help for me at this house.
Can you help me out a bit?
I've come and hid on your chair tonight
in hopes you'll take me home.

Landscapes in October

Member's photo of a landscape quilt entered at Long Beach

Our October challenge of a landscape no smaller than 14"  by 20"  is due at the next meeting.  To continue the theme of landscape quilts, we invite you to bring any other landscape you have made in the past for the Show and Share portion of the meeting.  Landscapes for the challenge need to have been started when the challenge was made - July.

We look forward to your sharing your work at Show and Share or in the challenge.

Directions change for October BOM block

Hello, there were some corrections to the directions for making the pumpkin block that  are not in the printed handout for the block that was given out at the meeting.  Please refer to the online version for the correct directions.  If you know a member who is doing this block and has no Internet access, please bring this notice to their attention.  Thank you!

Another Book

Remember this book?  We gave it away last April and Ken was the lucky recipient. Well, Guess what? Now  a friend of mine gave me another copy of it. Instead of having another giveaway, I went ahead and used random.org to pick a second winner from the members who commented in April that they'd like to own a copy.  And the winner is Vangie!  I'll have it at the meeting (Sept 17th) for you, Vangie - congratulations.  We look forward to seeing a quilt from the book at a future Show and Tell.

A Pattern

Here's a charity quilt made with a simplified version of our July challenge:

It measures 32 1/2" square using 8 1/2" unfinished blocks.  You need only make 16 of them.  You might consider this pattern for a layette charity quilt with 24 blocks.  Since the latest measurements I've gotten are 32 x 46 1/2" (I'll triple check this) you will also need to make blocks that are 8 1/2" unfinished.  Sew them in any order you like in a grid of  4 x 6.  When the top is all assembled - cut off 3/4" off the top and bottom of the long sides.  Then cut off 1/4" off the right and left of the two short sides.  This will give you a quilt 32" x 46 1/2" .  Bind and quilt.  Yes, the outer blocks won't be the same size as the middle ones, but is so small a difference, it won't matter.  If this bothers you, make only 20 blocks in a 4 x 5 grid and add 3 1/2" strips to the top and bottom to get the 32 x 46 1/2" measurement.

 FYI:  the pieces for the block are one 6 1/2" by 8 1/2" rectangle with one strip (another color)  2 1/2" by 6 1/2" and one 2 1/2" square (third color).  Join the strip and the square together, then sew this new unit to the 8 1/2" side of one of the large rectangles you cut.

Our October Challenge is

a landscape quilt (no smaller than 14" by 20").  Here's one I took a photo of at the International Quilt Festival in Long Beach:

Notice it doesn't have borders.  Wish I'd had the time to write down particulars on it.  I hope to have time soon to work on one - Carol H.  inspired me to try after watching her mini demo when she showed us hers at Show and Tell.

From the WEB:

Shows you one element of making a landscape quilt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-pD1Olc8EA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8vhLSV8XvE

This one could be adapted to work a simple landscape picture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTsSR6efCks&list=FL8LNjyb_Ar_XUgUvr7pWaGw&index=1

And here’s  a blog post with good info:

http://seastrands.wordpress.com/2006/06/29/landscape-quilt-part-1/

Look forward to seeing your landscape quilt!

Still some Room!

You won't want to miss this coming workshop on the 21st!  There are so many beautiful and varied Dresden plate quilts out there, you'll be glad you learned how to do the stitch and flip method Analie has worked out for them. 

Click on photo to enlarge.

Please call Christie F to reserve one of the few remaining spaces in the workshop.  Cost is $30 and includes one of the three patterns shown above. Class runs 9 to 4 on Wednesday at the Goeske Center. You can find Christie's number in our directory.

Going Green

Photos courtesy of Deb Rowden's
Thrift Shop Quilts blog

As I've heard discussed amongst quilters - at shops, at shows, at guild meetings - the cost of fabric is skyrocketing.  What can we do?  Well one answer is to re-purpose fabric.  Here's how a couple of quilters are doing just that - they buy shirts at thrift stores and yard sales.  And I can't say I blame them.  I've found brand new shirts at yard sales in all colors and sizes.  Many are 100% cotton.  You can find plaids, solids, prints, shirting, madras - you name it.  Here's another from Deb:


And go here  and here to see the fabulous quilts from one of her readers. 

Now for a video from the Queen of Scraps - Bonnie Hunter!  She shows you how to get the most fabric from your thrift store finds.

Look forward to seeing your thrift store quilts.

Fabric Deal in San Jacinto

Good afternoon, my name is Frances Hays and I work for The Hidden Treasure Emporium, San Jacinto, CA.        

  http://www.thehiddentreasureemporium.com/

885 W 7th St.

San Jacinto

Phone: 951 487 2595

We buy many products, one of which is full or partial estates.   Recently we purchased from a retired lady her fabric for quilting.  We have many yards of material from 1 yard to about 2 1/2 yards.   We also have many small pieces that run about 45”X 18”, some more some less.  The yardage will be selling for $2.00 per yard, and the smaller pieces will be selling for .25 a piece.6

 

There are many pieces of blue, and an assortment of other colors.    When all the material is displayed it will take about 3 double clothing racks, sorted by color.

the smaller pieces will be sorted by color and displayed on a table. 

 

I expect this will be available by Saturday.   Our hours are:

Monday-Friday: 8am-7pm

Saturday & Sunday: 9am-5pm

Thank you for taking time to read this message.

Fran Hays

 

Carol H - check this out for us and leave a comment to tell us if it is worth going out there. TIA