Lucky March Meeting

March Quilters are Lucky

What a great meeting with new prospective members, gorgeous quilts, some really ugly material and lots of beautiful fabric to share.

Suzanne opened the meeting welcoming two  visitors that we hope will join us in our fun quilting adventures.  She also notes that our area rep, Marilyn, had a death in the family and wouldn't be with us today.  We send our condolences to Marilyn.  

News to Note

This coming Saturday, March 16, there will be an activity for National Quilt Day to be held in Sandy.  More information can be found on our facebook page Syracuse Utah Quilters or the utahquiltguild.org  There is also information about the Blackfoot Idaho Quilt Show on March 30 in Blackfoot, Idaho.  Entry is $3.00.  Suzanne sent around a interest sheet for anyone interested in carpooling up together.  If anyone is interested that didn't sign up, contact Suzanne.

BUM - Butt Ugly Material  (can I say that here)

Orange and gold metallic ugliness

Suzanne introduced a challenge to take a fat quarter of some "really ugly material" and make something out of it for our June meeting.  You must use a major part of the fat quarter on the front of a project.  It can be a quilt, a bag, or any other project  No prom dresses though; we couldn't do that to anyone.  Since it is an orange and gold fabric, it might work out for a "Sew Bewitching" mini for Quilt Fest.  We shared a few giggles and ooh, I'm not sure I can handle that, remarks.  Can't wait to see what everyone comes up with.  

Zinger Blocks

Three more great "Zinger Blocks" to add to our future quilt.  12 inch blocks made with a zinger orange, with black and white.  Thanks to Nancy, Anita and Connie.

Sew and Tell

Anita found these lovely panel prints to create a wedding quilt for a granddaughter

Such a pretty row by row for a first quilt Barbara, great job

Jeanette's in the Irish spirit with this pretty green table runner

Another beauty from Jeanette's collection

Jeanette shared this lovely blue sampler 

Connie made this gorgeous quilt for a grandson, lucky guy!

A pillowcase to go with the quilt Connie made, so very nice

Kathy's adorable quilt with kitties, black right side up,,,

...and with white kitties up

Jennifer's beautiful long arm quilting skills on display

Teri's warm and cuddly flannel quilt made from leftover
pajama fabric from her grandkids

pretty backing

Nancy made a lovely block for the military quilt, naturally
she chose an Air Force fabric.  Thank you Nancy for your service.

New member Crystal shared this beautiful quilt made by her
mother-in-law  (responsible for all the lovely fabric)

Becky''s sweet row by row made up of 3 and 4 inch blocks
(lots of them)

Becky's baby quilt

Susan finished this pretty top (hearts or flowers your choice)

Such a pretty red quilt and love the panel blocks mixed with
pieced blocks. 

Susan has been very busy finishing up some tops.  This one is a beautifully
pieced pattern (not a pineapple if that's your guess).

Gorgeous Susan

More blocks for a military quilt, beautiful Margo

Margo shared this beautiful quilt from her collection.  Is that an Irish
(Celtic) Cross?

New member  Marlena brought out some of her sweet green
creations to honor her Irisih heritage

Beautiful Marlena

Longarm Tips

Jennifer, one of our members and professional longarmer shared some great tips for working with a longarmer on quilting your quilts.  She went over pricing and suggestions for preparing your quilts to be quilted so you will have a beautiful quilt.

A few highlights of her suggestions

• Make sure top is pressed with seams flat and threads trimmed
• Square up your quilt and backing so you don't have wavy borders or uneven with tucks and pleats
• Make your backing at least 8 inches larger than your quilt to allow for smooth edge to edge quilting and loading to the frame.
• Talk to your quilter and make sure all your needs are addressed before she starts your quilt. 

Free for All

We received donations (I mean boxes and boxes) of fabric for our guild to go through thanks to Crystal's cleaning out of her Mother-in-Laws homeand another friend of Suzanne's who lost her mother.  We give thanks to these lovely quilters and sewists and may they know in heaven that their stash is being taken care of and loved.