April 14, 2015

April Windstorms and Snow can't stop the Syracuse Quilters from Meeting

On a day that saw the weather go from 70 degrees to 34 degrees and wind gusts hitting 80 mph in Utah, the Syracuse Quilt Guild held a great meeting with lots of wonderful ideas, guests and new members.  

Maggie's guest, Julie Tidwell, talked to us about the "Days for Girls http://wwwwdaysforgirls.org organization that makes feminine hygiene kits for girls in third world countries. These kits make a huge difference in the girls lives and their ability to stay in school.   Our group agreed this would be a good project and Jeanette will work on setting something up.  Please look at the link above for more information on this worthwhile cause.

Julie Tidwell talks about "Days for Girls"

April Birthdays

Each month the birthday girls are asked to share a quilt and a story about their quilting journey.  This month's birthday girls were Becky, Mardell and Carol with some beautiful and fun quilts.

Becky's Glorious Hummers,
quilted on her home machine

Beckys spring placemat and napkin ring

Mardell's sweet tulip table runner

And hot pads to match

Very pretty Carol

Carol made this pretty red quilt for a friend but her
husband wanted to keep it

She made a smaller version for her husband

Pinwheel Quilt

Remember the adorable little 3-D pinwheel blocks we made a while back.  We held a drawing and Nancy was the lucky winner of the quilt.

Utah Quilt Guild updates  

Sandra, our State Representative, (and newest member of SQG) brought us up to date on the latest happenings at the state level.  She gave us an update on the success of National Quilt Day and asked us to give her some feedback on location and activities for nest year.  Our own group was very successful with our fundraising at this year's NQD.  We sold all of the microwave hotpad bowls and many of the other items we offered for sale along with our baskets and mini quilts.

Sandra told us about the scholarship available for "New Quilters" for this year's Quilt Fest.  More information is available on the Utah State Quilt Guild blog.  She also gave additional information on the Fat Quarter Challenge.  .The quilts must be no larger than 40x40 and use the green fabric, and include an embellished leaf The quilts will be auctioned with the proceeds going to Intermountain Health Heart Research.

Quilt Labels

Suzanne shared some interesting historical information about quilts during the civil war.  It seems that women often made their husbands and sons quilts to use as bedrolls and included a label on the quilt which was sometimes used to identify the remains of the fallen soldiers. So quilters - Label those quilts.

Block of the Month

Nancy demonstrated the block for this month.  The pattern will be sent out by email.

Tips and Hints

Jeanette shared some wonderful tips and hints with the guild this month  along with some great ideas from the guild members..

• Use pool noodles to wrap your quilt tops on to keep them from creasing
• A mug tree holds scissors
• Pony tail fuzzy wraps to keep your bobbins neat
• Eye glass cases to hold your small rotary cutters or other supplies 
• Ice cube trays to hold bobbins
• Small plastic boxes hold sewing supplies
• Don't put your quilts in black plastic bags or they may wind up at the D.I.
• Use clear plastic heavy duty storage bags to store supplies or projects

Show and Tell

This months show and tell included lots of pretty spring colors

Pam's gorgeous quilt

 Some more cute spring mini's from Pam

Pretty colors Chris

Belinda's pretty "girly: baby quilt

Nancy bought this lovely table runner at NQD from our own Marsha,

San dra's beautiful quilt she's donating to the Lions' Club

Sandra's amazing Farmer's Wife quilt, gorgeous

Kim's sweet and very useful bucket

Marianne shows us her cute mini

Mariannes beautiful hand quilted in blues

Jeanette's newest grandchild gets this pretty quilt

Another NQD find

Easter Bunnies so cute Jeanette

Shelley has been busy for those grandbabies on the way

Next Month

We're so excited that next month we are having a trunk show by Karlee Porter, the Graffiti Quilter who just launched a new website at Karlee Porter.  Check it out and be sure you don't want to miss next month's meeting on May 12 at 1:00 at the Syracuse Community Center.