The Syracuse Quilt Guild started off the year with a great meeting. Jeannette, our new President brought some new ideas and enthusiasm to the job and is looking forward to a great year with the Guild.
She shared lots of information and some fun fun ideas for the coming year.
She introduced Sandra John, our new Area Rep for the Utah State Quilt Guild. Thanks to Pam White for doing a great job this past year. We hope to see you again.
Sandra had a lot of information to share in State Guild. One of the charity quilt drives selected by the new state President, Cindy Hutchinson, is to make quilts for Women's Shelters. She will get more information on sizes as she gets it. Right now she said she knows they can use crib size quilts and probably twin size quilts. Also, instead of the "Booby Blocks", this year there will be a Heart Research Challenge using a pretty green challenge fabric, available for $4.
National Quilt Day - March 20, 21-2015
Jeannette had a lot of information and asked for help in getting ready for the NQD. It will be held March 20-21, 2015, at Fairfield Village (formerly Legacy Village) on Fairfield Rd. in Layton. We will be putting together a basket made up of sewing supplies and other fun things. We also talked about some ideas for selling items at our booth. We will be providing four volunteers for Friday from 1-4 p.m. and two on Saturday to cover the auction. We will also need help in our booth and doing a demo block (3-D pinwheel block).
Diane Jaeger gave the guild three bolts of fabric to use and the group decided to use the fabric to make an Exploding Block quilt to donate to the Women's Shelter program. Everyone was encouraged to take fat quarters and make the quilts. Jeannette demonstrated how to make and Exploding Block from a Jenny Doan Missouri Star Quilt tutorial at
Exploding Block Tutorial.
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| Chris picks out her door prize as well |
Mardell checks out a fat quarter lollypop door prize
Show and Tell
This month's theme was Winter Blue or Snow so most of the quilts shared were around these wintery themes.
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| Suzanne's cute Snow Men |
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| Mardell's pretty blue batik made from a Jelly Roll |
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| Yvonne's cute snowmen in their caps |
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Maggie shared this prety pinwheel Chemo Quilt she made for
her friend in Puerto Rico. Very sweet! |
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| Barbara showed her adorabe snowman quilt |
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| Snowmen done in Wool, so pretty |
Susan shared several of her winter quilts. So much talent!
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Susan said she loved it when she found out you could put
quilts on tables and made this sweet snowman topper with each
snowman done in Punch Embroidery. |
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| Beautiful Christmas quilt Susan |
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| Carol's darling table topper |
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| Love Chris's quilt |
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| Jeannette's pretty blue piece |
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| More fun snowmen. Loved the Cardinals on the backing. |
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Jeannette's hiding behind this pretty blue tree she made
in a sewing day with her sister. |
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| Snowmen everywhere but where is Jeannette. |
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| This quilt had a lovely story made in 2000 featuring the twin towers. |
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Becky shared this little organizer made from an embroidery
hoop and some fabric scraps. |
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| Becky's spinning winter pinwheels |
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Becky's crib quilt made from our demo block we did last year.
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Great meeting and looking forward to seeing everyone next month when our theme will be Valentines with Red, Pink and White.
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