Quilt Celebration - April 25, 2017

Jessie brought this baby quilt made for her cousin's new baby.

She designed the alpaca appliqué center.

So cool, Jessie!

March 15th Quilt Celebrations!

Marylu brought a couple of Linus quilts tonight.  Both are great.

 I love the color!

This one has Bessie Pease Gutmann images on it!

So cute!

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Jessie brought a show-and-tell that she got at Visiting Nurses last weekend.  She's hoping that Shirley Taylor can help date it, but thinks that some of the fabrics are mid-1800's.

Great Find!!

Happy Quilting!

February 23rd Quilt Celebrations!

Last night was amazing!  We had 15 quilts to celebrate.  As I recall, in 2014 it was the same idea.  Lots of quilts finished in time for the show.  It starts DAY AFTER TOMORROW!!!

So, here we go.

Our group Raffle Quilt!

Thank you, Susie and Geralyn for bringing it in on time!

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Ruth shared these 3, 2 of which are "Chicken" quilts!  So much fun.

There's a feed sack on the back of the first one.

The third is a friendship quilt made over a 3-year period.

Wonderful, Ruth!

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Pat shared this beauty which is the first she's made from a kit.

Such a happy quilt!  Beautiful work, Pat!

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Valerie, who is arriving today, will have this one in the show,

"Valleys and Peaks"

And the quilting on it is superb!

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This is Diana's 4-patch exchange quilt.  Isn't it fun?!

Awesome, Diana!!

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This is my Rose Medallion.

I designed, pieced, appliquéd, and did some hand quilting.

Barb knocked it out of the park on the machine quilting!!

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Shirley Eacker brought her beautiful quilt

which she and June pieced and Rachelle quilted.

Beautiful, Shirley!!

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Shirley Taylor brought 2 - a Washington Star Christmas Quilt

and a friendship Halloween Quilt.

Beautiful, as always, Shirley!

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Annie brought her Patriotic and her Medallion to celebrate.

Both are awesome!

So, so beautiful!

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Marylu finished her 9-patch exchange quilt from a ways back.

I love it!

It's lovely, Marylu!

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Jessie finished her gift for a dear friend.

She designed it, did her first broderie perse,

and had fun with some awesome quilting ideas.

It's beautiful, Honey!

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So, On. To. The. Show!!!

Happy Quilting!!

Quilt Celebrations - December 15th

Jessie celebrated her "Disappearing Pinwheel".  It was a collaborative effort between her, Maggie and me in the making of the top, and Barb quilted it.

Beautiful, Jessie!

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Ruth brought these to celebrate.  They are Linus quilts.

Great, Ruth!

Happy Quilting!

February 3rd Quilt Celebrations!

Lots of fun on the 3rd!

Susy brought some of her Kim Diehl "Simple Whatnots"
samples that she's doing for Bobbi for the shop.

Aren't they just darling?

Wonderful work, Susy!

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Jessie brought a baby quilt that has been in the works for a long time.

The focus fabric is from a flannel shirt/jacket

that we've had in our family since the 90's.

Cute quilt, Jessie!

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Carolann brought her hexie/circle quilt to celebrate.
The applique border is wonderful and I love
what she did with the overall colors and sashing.

Beautiful, Carolann!

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Joann brought a lovely reverse applique candle quilt top
to get opinions on how to quilt it.

Isn't it amazing?

Beautiful, Joann!

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Connie brought her disappearing hourglass quilt
in blue and white, and some red, too!

Beautiful, Connie!

Happy Quilting!

January 27th Quilt Celebrations

We had some fun quilts on the 27th!

Theresa brought a couple of Linus finishes.

She did a simple stripe pattern and embellished it with cool quilting.

Great idea, Theresa!

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Jessie brought a baby quilt she has made for her cousin's first child.
The owl is a special touch.

Lovely, Jessie!

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Jeanine brought her Christmas quilt top to show.

It is absolutely fabulous!

Beautiful, Jeanine!

Happy Quilting!

November 18th Baby and Quilt Celebrations!

Wow!  What an evening!

First we celebrated the arrival of Jericho Konrad Peterson, who was born on September 23 to Kersten and David Peterson. The group of us contributed blocks for a string quilt in '30's reproduction fabrics.  We presented it to Kersten last night, and got to meet Jericho, too!  Thanks for bringing him, Kersten and David!

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Marylu brought a quilt for which she bought the top.  She has wanted a Snail's Trail quilt and thought this was a good way to get one!

Isn't the back amazing, too?

Beautiful, Marylu!

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Joyce has been really busy!  Not only has she worked on the three quilts for her sons-in-law, she has made this amazing airplane quilt for one grandson and is doing a second one for another grandson!

Isn't it wonderful?

What a fun one, Joyce!

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Then Breigh, Joan's granddaughter, shared her very first four-patch!

Great job, Breigh!

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Theresa brought her 50th birthday quilt to show.  Isn't is just amazing?  She told us about the challenges of getting multiple-sized blocks to work in one quilt top.  She has done a fabulous job!

What a treasure, Theresa!

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Barb brought two really fun ones.  First, her pumpkin quilt.  The colors are so good.

Isn't it wonderful?

And she brought her "tiny" nine-patch.  Each tiny square is 1/2", and each block is 1 1/2".  Such splendid detail.

Beautiful, Barb!

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Then Jessie shared two of her recently finished quilts.  The first is the fourth and last quilt made for Edna Fund's grandchildren.  Made with a combination of batiks and quilter's cottons, she found it challenging using different weight cloth.  I think the result is rather nice though!  The dolphin is wonderful and the quilting Barb did is splendid again!

The second is a baby quilt for her cousin's 2nd baby, and sports a lamb in the middle.

Lovely job on both, Jessie!

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Happy Quilting!!