Sew Day Recap November 2022

 

Jennifer McKitrick finished her Habitat for Humanity wall hangings from last time.

 

Marylin Rembolt working on Habitat for Humanity wall hangings as well.

 

Progress on the QuiltCon Community Outreach quilt

 

Tammy Hensley sizing up the blocks.

 

 

Laying the blocks out on the floor.

Elisa Salas estimates how wide the quilt will be.

 

Sheila Green working on a binding.

  

Beeutifullymodernquilt bee (Jennifer van Dyke, Kris Jarchow, Judy Crocket, Phyllis Higgley and Liz Thanel) work on word blocks for a comfort quilt.

 

 

Elisa Salas and Jeni Kuzak working on their projects.

 

Linda Gale working on a Christmas project.

 

Jennifer McKitrick finished her English paper-piecing pincushion in pretty pinks.

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Upcoming Events:

• Art Market: November 17 & 18 at IQM
• Christmas Party: December 3
  

Sew Day 11/12/22

 

Our last Sew Day of 2022.  

We will be putting together blocks for the QuiltCon Community Outreach quilt.  If you have any blocks, pieces, or parts, please turn them in!

Work on your holiday projects and gifts, or just hang out and sew.  

We hope to see you there!

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Upcoming Events:

• Art Market: November 17 & 18 at IQM
• Christmas Party: December 3
  

 

October 2022 Meeting Recap

Our meeting was packed with information and activities.  Here are some highlights.

 

Quilt Presentations

We donated 4 guild-made quilts to local charitable organizations.

Guilded lines was presented to Theresa Gerlach of Habitat for Humanity

Convergence was presented to Jenn Boettcher of Matt Talbot

 

Coral and Cream T.O.M. quilt was presented to Mandy Suing of Cedars

  Soar was presented to Angie Hilsabeck of Friendship Home

Election

The following officers were elected to the LMQG board for 2023

Co-President - Elisa Salas
Co-President - Nancy Goff
Vice President - Sheila Green
Treasurer - Sarah Maseth
Secretary - Tammy Hensley
Social Media - Jennifer McKitrick

 

Program: Online Quilt-a-longs with Jennifer McKitrick and Sarah Maseth 

Jennifer and Sarah told us how and why the get into online QAL's, and showed us the results.

 

Quilts that Jennifer made in online QAL's:

Cheater's Sampler Quilt

Free pattern: https://darlenemichaud.com/2020/01/cheaters-sampler-quilt-layout-and-size-info/
Video tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOyBpgg5noRW8-n2uSZ6oTUb_jCnvxBJy

 

2021 Mystery Quilt, Laundry Basket Quilts

Pattern: “Michigan” https://www.laundrybasketquilts.com/online-store/Michigan-p411411518
Video tutorials:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQxOCNIh58lmMMNXmdew8YRQ7A9wqtHhR

100 Block 100 Days

https://www.gnomeangel.com/  

Pattern: https://shopau.gnomeangel.com/products/pattern-kinship-100-block-fusion-sampler

Plaid-ish

https://www.kitchentablequilting.com/  

Free Pattern: https://shop.kitchentablequilting.com/products/plaid-ish-scrap-quilt-tutorial

 

String Bean

Free Pattern: https://patsloan.typepad.com/files/pat-sloan-march-string-bean-pattern-3.pdf

 

 

Sarah's QAL projects 

 

 

Plaid-ish

 

Kantha Sew-along

Alison Glass: www.alisonglass.com

 

                    The back!

 

Minecraft BOM

Blog: Seriously…I Think It Needs Stitches

Instagram: @rnkelli
Website: www.kellifanninquilts.com

 

                    The back!

 

Glowing

 

Infinite Hearts

Emily Dennis: www.quiltylove.com
instagram: @emily_dennis

For more information about QAL's, see our resources page.

 

W.O.M.B.A.T. Project Reveal

Martha Turner explained how she corrected her "design flaws".

  

Bonnie Kucera explained how she transformed her shaggy scrap project into Ruby Redlocks.

Deb Ebke showed her purple mini which she turned into the back of a collage.

Show & Tell

Part of Deb's old quilt was repurposed to make Santa's coat.

Bonnie proved herself to be the queen of up-cycling with her Mary Gold and Essmeralda.

We ran out of time!  Show and Tell to be continued at the Christmas Party!

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Upcoming Events:

• Sew Day: November 12, 10:30 – 3 at IQM
• Art Market: November 17 & 18 at IQM
• Christmas Party: December 3 at IQM, 1:30-3:30.  Potluck!
• Emily Taylor online collage workshop: February 11, 2023