Syracuse Utah Quilt Guild Meeting 

August 11, 2026

Quilt Guild President, Amy, started off our meeting.

Announcements

A reminder was given to bring items by next month to donate to the Quilt Fest

basket that is to be auctioned. Pam suggested filling it with Retro Items.

Some hand embroidered dish towels were donated by Kathy.

Pam has batting at her home that the guild bought for comfort quilts.

She also has some backing fabrics.

There is money in the Guild that can be also used to buy backing.

Utah Quilt Guild Representative, Caroline, says she will quilt Comfort quilts 

if given the top, batting, and backing.

There is a sale on fabric for $6.99 a yard at Quilts Etc. in Sandy Thursday

and Friday, the 14th and 15th of August, from 10am to 5pm.

Over 1,000 bolts including brand name fabric.

Suggestions are needed for who to give our Comfort quilts to this year.

If you have suggestions please let Amy know.

We will vote at our next meeting next month.

Some of the suggestions so far are to donate to children's abuse centers,

to firefighters, or to homeless teens.

*Please pick up quilts from the Syracuse Museum ASAP.*

Next month the Syracuse Museum is furnishing lunch for our Guild

as a thank you for the quilt we made for the 250th Anniversary of our country.

Let Marie or Amy know if you will be coming.

Remember to wear your nametag. You may get a treat!

September's Block of the Month (BOM) color is Brown

Two BOM kits were passed out to a couple of volunteers who will sew

the blocks into a quilt top.

Sew the backing to make it at least 3" larger than the top.

Thanks to Kathy J. for bringing fabric that she was clearing out for us to take home.

There were lots of books and patterns too.

Quilt Fest Information

Quilting America:  Red, White, and Blue

Quilt Fest is October 6th - 10th at the Davis Conference Center in Layton

Registration is open now for classes so sign up now.

Members $40  Not a member $80

*Quilts for the quilt show need to be submitted by August 31st.

Debbie will pick them up at the Syracuse Community Center 

on that day between 12:30 and 1pm.*

Quilts may be entered to be judged or not.

Tickets for the quilt show only are $5 online or $10 at the door.

Sign up to rent a table in the Sewcial Room if you want to sew with friends.

You can sign up for 1 day or more.

Nominations are open for the Silver Thimble Award.

For more information go to utahquiltguild.org

Next year the Theme for Quilt Fest will be the Golden Anniversary of the 

Utah Quilt Guild.  Sign up to receive a gold fabric fat quarter to make a mini quilt.

We were encouraged to enter quilts for the State Fair that is 

September 10 to September 20, 2026.

Demonstration

Suzanne showed us how to use leftover fabric for backing a quilt to use up 

scraps and to save money.

She sews pieced strips top to bottom on smaller quilts and 

pieced strips left to right on larger quilts.

           

She also uses extra blocks on the back in additions to left over fabric

and then squares up the quilt.

Suzanne handed out information on "I Found A Heart"

(See foundaquiltedheart.com for guidelines and instructions)

Sew and Tell

Amy took this pretty quilt to a long arm quilter and the quilter had a dull needle 

that snagged the fabric.

  

Susan makes Charity quilts.  These are made from flannel.

 The one on the left goes to a man in a cancer unit.  

She made the second quilt with penguin fabric donated to her.  

Another cute quilt with trucks on it for donation by Susan.

Anita made this quilt for her brother who was in the Veterans Hospital.

He served in the navy.  Sadly he passed away 1 week later.

This cute baby quilt was made by Lori for her neighbor who is expecting a baby boy.

She uses the selvedge with it's designers' info and colors used on the label.

These canning jar quilts made by Jeanette contain food and bugs.

Jeanette's colorful summer quilt is from a collection of sample fabrics she purchased.

This pretty quilt is Karen's first quilt.  

She will be giving it to her sister who she just found five years ago.

Connie's star quilt was made using bright fabrics.  

She used the leftover triangles from the stars to make blocks for the border.

Ruth G. showed her amazing Sashiko Japanese embroidery work 

using special flat yarn-like threads.  It is going to be framed.

Her bright colorful quilt is called a color bar quilt.

Ruth also brought her quilt she designed using paper piecing and 1" strips.

Becky showed her beautiful Double Wedding Ring Quilt.  

She made hers using plastic templets.

Her grandmother made all of her grandchildren this quilt using cardboard templets.

Becky did a beautiful job quilting it.

Angy sewed this cute quilt with ice cream cones on it for her daughter's Birthday.

Her daughter loves pink and ice cream.  

Ruth S. made this fantastic patriotic quilt to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of our Country.

She included quotes from our Founding Fathers.

Janet started this sampler quilt in a class she took at Mormon Handicraft many years ago.  

She found 11 finished blocks recently and decided to add more and finish it.

Kathy J paper pieced the New York beauty quilt.

Her "Civil War Love Letter" King sized quilt took 1 1/2 years to complete and is hand quilted.

It has 121 squares from a book that has a pattern block for each soldier.

 She had an ancestor who died in the war.

See you in September,

Jeanette