February 9, 2016

Sweet Times at Syracuse Quilt Guild

No candy or roses but lots of fun and focus on hearts and paper piecing at the February meeting of the SQG.  We started the meeting with loads of information from Sandra, our area Rep for the Utah Quilt Guild.  Some of the great activities the state guild is sponsoring this year include participation in HMQS as "sack sitters" and the Ruby Jubilee including red and white quilts from all over the state.  The new President, Kathy Porter announced that charity quilts this year will go to Hospice organizations so quilts from lap to twin size can be donated through Sandra; they are also collecting fleece blankets for homeless organizations.  She also said that they are soliciting quilts for the family of Fallen Officers, Doug Barney as well as for Officer John Richey.  These will be presented on May 5.  There are so many more opportunities for participation in great activities with information at the http://utahquiltguild.org

February Birthdays

Happy birthday this month to Marsha and Suzanne.  Yvonne is doing such a great job of putting together the birthday gifts and added a surprise this month and when you pick out your birthday treat you have to answer a question.

Marsha's question was what time of day do you like to quilt and she answered "any time."

Marsha selects her "cupcake"

 Suzanne's question was what was the best advice you ever got on quilting.  She said to "enjoy the process."  Love that advice.

Block of the Month

Shelley and Marianne are going to present a pattern for a block of the month each month and everyone who completes a block and brings it back next month will be put in for a drawing to win all the blocks that month.  In January we did an Oriental Lantern block and Barbara won the blocks.

Shelley showed the block for this month, a cute little heart

Ruby Jubilee Quilt

Jeanette explained our guild's plan for making a quilt to celebrate 40 years of the Utah Quilt Guild. We will be making a quilt with Irish Chain Blocks alternating with a sampler block with quilter's choice of a 12 inch block.  She will send more information to the group.  The fabrics are a beautiful collection of red and white prints.

Jeanette demonstrates the Irish Chain Block

Paper Piecing and Sew and Tell

Jeanette gave an excellent lesson on paper piecing and we had some excellent examples of paper piecing used in quilts.

Belinda's paper pieced quilt

Kim's paper pieced projects she's working on

More Sew and Tell

Marsha's adorable little quilt

Kim's pretty Valentine quilt made using doilies crocheted by
her Grandmother, so sweet

Cute applique hexagons

A Quilt Flasher in our midst

A little better view of the table topper Belinda made
from the 32" block from our 2014 BOM

Maggie's sweet little Row by Row

Becky's Valentine table topper featuring curved seams.

Sitting Pretty

Becky made this applique quilt for an organization called Canine Companions for Independence for a fundraiser to be held in April.  So much fun with all her puppies.

Jeanette completed another quilt using leftovers from last year's Festival of Trees Quilt

What a great meeting, next month we will take a look at English Paper Piecing hexagons so if you have any samples be sure to bring them