NEXT MEETING: MONDAY, MAY 18TH, 6:30pm

MEDINA LIBRARY

PROGRAM: STRIP QUILTING BY TAMMY

APRIL MEETING NOTES

VISITORS:

Mimi Emory was visiting Lou and joined us.

Charla Sasser, a Medina resident visited.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The box top was passed for backing and batting for the donation quilts. Joyce has completed the nine patch with a black and red border that really pulls it together.  

 Tammy has found someone with a long arm machine who will let her quilt the donation quilts herself.

Maggie made a pioneer outfit for her granddaughter to wear at her school’s Pioneer Days in Lampassas. She promised to e-mail a picture of the outfit to Edie to be included in the newsletter.

There was a discussion of TIPS FOR QUILTERS:

For no stretch triangles (especially large ones) put a piece of typing paper under the triangle when sewing. Tear the paper off when finished and there should be no stretch.

Trim the “dog ear” corners off the triangles after they are sewn together to avoid bulk in your seams and make the quilting easier.

Use Wonder Under (fusible web) for applique projects that will not be worn.

BLOCK OF THE MONTH:

Blocks 5&6 were passed out.

For Block 5 the pinwheel is made with the blue fabric.

For Block 6, the dotted fabric is the focus fabric.

 Tammy demonstrated construction of the blocks using her “portable” design board.

 And ambitious Julie has increased the size of her blocks to make the Pioneer Sampler Quilt in twin size.

And Ann has pieced a block!!!!!!!

SHOW AND TELL

 Linda brought a beautiful and original quilt made with photos and clothing of both her parents. This is one of a series she has made for herself and each of her siblings. Each quilt is individual and very special for the family member and a wonderful way to bring back good memories. All are hand quilted.

Tammy brought two darling Easter wall hangings, in aqua and pink. Her daughter drew the bunny applique.

 Margaret brought a pretty wall hanging she has pieced from last year’s mystery quilt pattern.

PROGRAM: Julie, Edie and Tammy demonstrated three different ways of joining the quilt as you go blocks. Excellent and usable information for hand quilters and machine quilters.

Thanks to all you expert and fun loving quilters for a great evening and see you next month.

Edie and Margaret.

NEXT MEETING: MONDAY APRIL 20TH

MEDINA LIBRARY

6:30 PM

PROGRAM: QUILT AS YOU GO with Julie, Tammy and Edie

MARCH MEETING NOTES

Lu had several announcements of coming events.

It is Relay for Life time again. Contact Lu for more info including luminarias.

Early notice. The annual Appreciation Luncheon will be December 5th at the Rec Center at Mansfield Park. Bluebonnets are hostesses this year. Mark your calendars.

Annual Picnic will be May 15th with details to follow at next meeting.

Tammy discussed the plight of Bandera Girl Scouts. They have 12 troops and no longer receive funding from any Bandera County entity. The Girl Scout program would benefit from anyone who might help with a fundraiser like the quilt project for the Medina troop.

Edie talked about her trip to the Dallas Quilt Show held in Market Hall in Dallas. She was able to meet the quilt artists, including John Flynn. According to Edie, this was a smaller, more reasonably priced quilt show that offered lots of opportunity to interact with quilters and vendors.

There was no formal program for this was one of our “Linda Barton” nights to bring your own project. There was lots of wonderful SHOW n TELL.

Maggie brought two from her “Confusion Series”. I’m sorry I didn’t write down the particulars but know Maggie will explain if you want more info.

 Julie brought a delightful scrappy Strawberry Lemonade Picnic Quilt that she made without a pattern. She also brought a pink and brown flannel rag quilt, precious.

Edie brought her beautiful beaded brown and green wall hangings. The wall hangings are done with decorative stitching and beads. This is a set of six mini quilts.

Tammy brought two very charming quilts, one layer cake quilt in beautiful orange with circular quilting. The second quilt project was beautifully quilted with the stippling pattern.

 Theresa brought back her “Cabin in the Woods” quilt so we could see how her hand quilting highlights the design.

VISITORS:

Gail’s daughter, Beth,  and grandaughter Morgan came with Gail.

Linda brought her grandaughter Harvest.

We were so happy to have these lovely ladies join our group.

DONATION QUILT

The Library donation quilt is complete except for the border. Joyce  graciously offered to add the border.

BLOCK OF THE MONTH

Blocks 3 & 4 of the Pioneer Sampler quilt were handed out. All unfinished blocks should measure 9 1/2 inch square (9 inch finished block when put together). Tammy demonstrated the steps for piecing the blocks.

FAT QUARTER EXCHANGE continues. Bring a fat quarter to trade if you wish. Fat quarters not traded will go into our community stash to be used for future donation quilts.

Hope to see you all on the 20th for more quilting and fellowship.   Margaret & Edie

NEXT MEETING: MONDAY, MARCH 16TH, 6;30 PM

at MEDINA LIBRARY

PROGRAM: LINDA BARTON EVENING bring your project to work on, get help from others if needed, or just come and visit with fellow quilters.

FEBRUARY MEETING NOTES

(Margaret helped with notes so Edie could take pictures and together hope this will be an improved newsletter.)

Welcome to new members, Kathleen and L0Reta.

Visitors were Jeannie and baby Rose who are moving back to Texas.

SHOW AND TELL

Lou brought her Swedish Embroidery table runner—beautiful

 TIP: Insul-Bright is a product to line bags, etc. to keep hot things hot (like irons when transporting to meetings) and cool things cool.

CHARITY QUILTS 

The Scrappy (9 patch) Quilt is finished a needs to be quilted. This quilt will be donated to the Medina Library and can be used as a fundraiser by them.

 The Sail Boat Quilt needs a little more work and quilting. It will be donated to the Medina Volunteer Fire Department.

Donations were collected from members to pay for quilting these projects .

Thank you notes were received from the Medina Girl Scouts for the proceeds from the quilt top donated to them, and from the Medina Boy Scouts for the quilt donated to them as a fundraiser.

There was also a thank you note from Abby Mae for items collected to be forwarded to flood victims.

 ANNOUNCEMENTS: A sewing group will meet at Lou’s on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month from 10am to 4pm. Come and stay as long as you like, bring something to sew.

REMINDERS: 

Fat Quarter Trade at each meeting. Bring a fat quarter to trade or to go into the group stash for future donation quilts.

Please bring any extra greeting cards, get well, etc. and stamps to go into the group card stash so there will be a supply to send to members for special occasions. A get well card went out to Linda B in February.

Happy February Birthday to Eleanor and Delores!

Baby Quilt BOM Project. Those participating will receive 2 blocks for the first 3 months and then one block per month for 6 months. Cost is $2 per block or $24 for all blocks for a baby quilt top. See Tammy for blocks and payment. She brought the first two blocks to the meeting along with instructions for a simplified way to put them together.

      Tammy even gave some pointers on putting blocks together.

  Elinor says WOW—I got it!

PROGRAM: Maggie gave a great program on embellishing quilts. She brought several examples of her beautiful creations made out of scraps and odds and ends along with detailed information on putting all the pieces together. Resources Maggie recommends include The Quilter’s Directory of Embellishments by Sally Holman and Art Quilt Workbook by Jane Davila and Elen Waterson.

Maggie suggested a topstitch 90/14 needle for metallic thread. When you thread your machine do not put the thread through the last guide just above the needle. That will reduce the tension and reduce the risk of breaking the thread.

Thanks Maggie, great program.

See you in March

Margaret and Edie

NEXT MEETING: MONDAY FEBRUARY 16TH

MEDINA LIBRARY

6:30PM

PROGRAM: EMBELLISHMENTS FOR QUILTED PROJECTS

Maggie and Tammy will provide ideas and demonstrations. They suggested you bring one of your projects that you want to try to embellish.

JANUARY MEETING NOTES

We had a very busy night with lots of ideas and suggestions for this year starting with a change in leadership. Lu and Tammy agreed to co-chair with emphasis on continuing  active participation of all members. That has been the most important part of our group since the very beginning.

We decided on a change in the fat quarter exchange this year.  Instead of a drawing, everyone is encouraged to bring a fat quarter for exchange or to place in a box for another charity quilt at some point in the future.

Tammy will bring her girls small sewing machines to each meeting so if you are having a problem with a project the group can help and you can put it together right there.  Or you can bring your own machine if you prefer.

The group agreed to a proposal that we make the “Pioneer Sampler” 2009 BOMquilts baby sampler that Tammy designed. This would be instead of the block of the month project that Edie has hosted for the past several years.  Tammy will provide instructions and fabric using bright, gender neutral Moda basics fabric and cut up all the pieces needed for each person to make a 9″ finished block. We will do 2 blocks (simple to make) in Feb, Mar, and April; then one block per month for the next six months. The fee will be $2 per block or $24 per person for the whole quilt top and Tammy will include fabric for the border and binding as part of the fee. It is a great opportunity to learn new blocks and have a finished baby quilt size top at the end of the year. Tammy needs to know as soon as possible how many people want to participate so a special announcement was sent out to all members on the e-mail list.

Refreshments for the  meetings will continue to be provided by members except for a few changes for months that were shy of member birthdays. Maggie will bring food in March instead of Augus and Ann will host September instead of July. On Linda Barton Nights (the group agreed these are too much fun to leave out), we are all invited to bring munchies.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE 2009

February: Embellishments for quilted projects–Maggie & Tammy

March: Linda Barton Night (open program–bring your project and work on it at the meeting–great opportunity to get help and/or suggestions from members)

April: Quilt as you go–Julie, Edie & Tammy

May: Strip quilting–Tammy

June: Linda Barton Night

July: Restoring old quilts & protecting quilts from dammage–everyone with infor & anyone can bring quilts to get repair or restoration assistance.

August: Hanky quilts–hopefully, Evalyn will share her techniques with the group.

September: Linda Barton Night

October: Harder blocks–Tammy

November: Paper piecing, a more in-depth, hands on tutorial by Julie

December: Christmas Party

As you can tell, it was a very busy meeting, but we still had time for some SHOW AND TELL—— and refreshments.

Tammy brought a Western Table Runner. How to information on quiltbug.com .

Lu brought blocks from a Friendship Quilt pieced in 1932. She discussed with the group different ways of putting the blocks together to make a really special quilt.

Margaret had made a wonderful photo wall hanging with her grandchildren and her horses.

and Ann brought her Christmas stockings to show that even though they were not quilted—-they were finished!

And that—at last—is all I know for now. Hope to see you all on the 16th.

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL YOU QUILTERS !

JANUARY MEETING: MONDAY, JANUARY 19TH

6:30 PM AT THE MEDINA LIBRARY MEETING ROOM

This is our planning meeting for the coming year so put on your thinking caps and bring ideas—especially things you want to learn and things you know how to do and want to share with the group.

The Fat Quarter Exchange for January is now traditionally (at least for the past two years so I guess that is a tradition) your “ugly” fat quarter. The one you don’t know how it came to be in your stash and have no idea how to use— ’cause your orphan can be someone’s treasure.

DECEMBER 2008 MEETING NOTES

We finished out 2008 with a fun Christmas Party.  Tammy brought several projects from her web site.

 This one would be a super easy starter quilt.

Or how about a block of the month as a great way to learn new blocks. Or maybe you would be interested in a table runner….

We had an update on two of the Pizza Box Quilts we have been working on. They are almost ready for completion and donation as fundraiser for community organizations. The first quilt supported the Boy Scout Troop sponsored by the Medina Methodist Church. The second quilt top will provide a donation to the newly formed Girl Scout Troop.

        and more to come soon!

Then we had good food, exchanged gifts and played games for prizes from Tammy’s friend Linda at www.AbbiMays.com.

 Looking forward to seeing all of you on the 19th to start another wonderful year.

Edie

Your roving photographers noted the apparel in the following photo at a recent meeting. Tammy and I wondered if any of you can identify the wearer—other than the wearer herself.

HAPPY QUILTING

NEXT MEETING: CHRISTMAS PARTY

MONDAY, DECEMBER 15TH AT THE MEDINA LIBRARY

6:30 PM

Bring a Pot Luck Dish and a wrapped gift not over $15 for a gift exchange.

Fat Quarter Exchange for December is METALIC

OCTOBER MEETING NOTES

We met at the Medina Methodist Church and had a very interesting program on Identity Theft by Jana Osborn. She gave us lots of information on practical things we can do to protect ourselves from identity theft.

The SHOW AND TELL time was filled with many members projects.

 Evelyn brought her Swedish Weaving throw and two beautiful handkerchief blocks that made us want to search for all the vintage handkerchiefs we could find.

Lots of work has been done on the Pizza Box Charity Quilts by many members of the group. Lu brought the completed quilt that was donated to the Methodist Church to raffle for the Boy Scout Troup that they sponsor. It will be on display at the November Award Luncheon.

The sail boat quilt only needs one more round to be large enough to complete and was “adopted” by another member of the group to have that addition added.

Joyce had completed enough of the 9 square blocks and that box was passed on to be sewn together. and the floral quilt top was adopted by Edie with donation to be determined based on the results of the raffle of the first completed quilt. And Tammy brought one of her unique designed quilts.

We had lots of discussion for the November luncheon with a change in location to the Medina Methodist Church.    

NOVEMBER AWARDS LUNCHEON

Hosted by the Medina Quilt Group

Lots more pictures

Preparation

 Just a little of the great food…..

And a great “crew” put together a very special occasion enjoyed by all.

And the climax was the presentation of the Memory Quilt to Kay with thanks from all of us for all her hard work.

See you at the Christmas Party!

Edie

It seems I waited too long to try to put the pictures for the September meeting with the text for the newsletter. The two pretty frayed flannel quilts were designed and created by Tammy. I’m very sorry I put the wrong information in the newsletter.

And the basket of quilt items is for quilters in IOWA not Ohio. Well, at least I knew they weren’t in New Orleans.  Hope all of you will forgive the location error and bring an item to put in the basket.

See you Monday.

Edie