September Sew-In

September 12, 2019

Syracuse Quilters September 2019

Several members of the guild met at the Syracuse Community Center at 10:00 a.m. on September 10 to sew on the project of their choice. Then at 1:00 we held a fun regular meeting.

Announcements:

Quilt Fest runs next week (September 17-24) and still lots of opportunities for volunteers
Garden of Quilts - Quilt Show at Thanksgiving Point next week with national teachers
Our guild will be having elections in November so please consider serving next year

Sew and Tell

Drawing names for door prizes

Our Zinger Quilt top finished thanks to Margo. Quilt will
go to the Holiday Quilts for quilting and auction.

What a fun quilt Margo, using Kaffe Fasset fabrics

And a cute dresser scarf with the scraps

Linda's lovely Hexi project in process, started out to be a queen size,
moved on to lap quilt and decided a nice table topper. We all
understand that outcome with hand work

Mary Beth's cute Easter table runner finished up

Crystal told us the story of this lovely quilt several generations
and years in completing.

Kathy showed us this sweet shop hop quilt started when she
lived in Washington and finally finished. Very cute.

Teri's pretty blue churn dash

And another pretty finish from Teri; a "cozy" quilt for
her husband

Jennifer's cute Caterpillar quilt celebrating 50 years for
this "very fun children's book"

A manly quilt for a prospective Grandson-in-law from Anita

Susan's pretty quilt is a panel. Finished up so pretty

Susan's pretty July quilt that she might get quilted for next July

Jeanette's mini-shamrock topper from blocks made
by guild members during a block challenge

Jeanette's been canning vegetables and fruit, so cute

Different types of Quilt Backing

Suzanne discussed different ways of backing your quilts. With this first one she showed, it had a plain white backing fabric which shows off your quilting.