December meeting 2011

This post comes very late in the month. Sorry for the late post. We had our Christmas party on December 5th. Lots of great food was shared. We played a fun ripping game, of course, there were some people claiming that people were cheating by pulling the sewn fabric and ripping (with their hands...) Of course it worked, but wasnt quite part of the rules of the game. It ended with Peggy and Clare competing to be the fastest ripper... Pretty much ended in a tie. Good to say we are both experienced rippers! There was also some great show and tell. see the pictures below to view the show and tell. January meeting is our White Elephant silent Auction. Bring your unfinished projects or unwanted sewing items to share. We usually have 4-5 tables to choose from. Books, old patterns, old fabric... it all goes. Proceeds go towards our Library or Hospice quilts. I don't know which one, either way it is a good project. See you at the January meeting.

Sue Patten, Machine Quilter

I have been working with a new book this past year... Machine quilting by Sue Patten I just found a You-tube video of her work... Yes, it is on a long arm, but I like her techniques... They can be done on the regular sewing machine too... Check it out. It is called: Interview with Sue Patten if the link doesn't work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7kAdmYygQ&feature=youtu.be

November 2011 meeting

The November meeting was sparcely attended. (I was out of town, also) Liz took pictures of the lesson and the show and tell. She told me some of the things going on... but I don't think I could repeat them all in this message...
Dawn did the lesson for us. They were coloring on fabric and setting them onto the fabric... Looks like there was some awesome artists in the group!
December brings our Christmas Party. We got fabric to particpate in the block exchange. There were two choices to use as background for your choice of a christmas block. You have to make a minimum of two blocks... one wrapped and to exchange, the rest go into a drawing ... the more you make, the more chances you have to win... Should be fun!

Hope you enjoy the slide show of the November meeting!

Sewing Day - Half Yard Challenge

We had Great fun at our Guild sewing Day, Saturday Oct 29, 2011.
Cherrie showed us a video from Fon's and Porter on doing a "Half Yard C'hallenge"
The tools we needed were the easy angle and the companion angle, 5 coordinating half yard cuts of fabric, other basic rotary cutting equipment and a design wall. (of course your sewing machine).

We didn't have a huge crowd at City Hall, but we had a nice crowd.  Plus lots of good snacks.  I will post pictures below.  Luella, Jackie, Sandy and Lorraine worked on other projects.  BettyJane  was going to do the project... but I didn't get any picks before she left...:(    Cherrie's sample was blue and brown, Liz did a halloween one, (I don't think I got the picture of that!  bummer)  Teri did a scooby doo fabric, Peggy purples.. Clare lime green, Judy - blues and browns; Diana - kind of harvest colors... ; Cherrie also did one in brights.  Megan (Cherrie's daughter) sewed a fun quilt together... her blocks were done... I hope I got that picture...  Anyway... We sewed until 7 and cleaned up and were out of there by 7:30..pm  It was a great day, If your weren't there... you missed the fun.  It was a fun project to work on and see how everyone came up with new ideas. 

show and tell : Oct 2011

Oct meeting (2011)

The process to show pictures from show and tell is no longer available. I am trying something different... Picassa is a program with Google same as we blog with. I have uploaded the pictures to this site, and I believe it will give a link to that site and you can look at the pictures I have uploaded. It looks like it has a lot of storage, so I think this will work... I will also still try to get all the pictures to our shutterfly account... That way if anyone wanted to print pictures they could do it that way. I am learning something new by doing it this way... we may not have slide shows set up in the same way, but the process should be similar... Be patient with me... I will keep working on it.
Guild was great again, Virginia demonstrated how to make a bag for sewing, kindles, or children's electronic games. She also shared how to make a purse out of men's ties. She showed her purse this summer and so many were impressed. Nice she could demonstrate both projects.
Our numbers were low, but we had some great show and tell. Check this out on Picassa... Link should be with this message.
Oct 29th we have a Half-Yard Challenge starting at 9am at city hall. You need 5 different half yard fabrics to do the project. You can also come and just sew on your own project. The project uses an Easy Angle and a Companion Angle to complete the project. Cherrie will be leading the project with a video demonstration. So, come on time and join the party!
Novemember starts our next year of UFO projects... The rules are similar EXCEPT you can include projects/kits that you have not started yet, but purchased. Just have to submitt a list and pay for the items you think you plan to finish in the next year. The UFO's made our quilt show very large this year... Should make next years' show great too! See you on the 29th!
Clare

We are having our Quilt show this weekend during the town's annual Harvest Festival.  Sept 9-10, 2011
We have lots of quilts shown this year.  I am breaking it down into 3 slide shows...  Hope you enjoy the show.

August 2011 meeting

We met on August 1st for our guild meeting... Our lesson was an opportunity to make decorations for our upcoming Quilt show. The quilt show is September 9th and 10th. We should have a great show after finishing the UFO Challenge... Some people finished a huge number of Unfinished Objects... I personally finished 3 large quilts, 4 medium quilts and several table runners... Now it looks like we will start again... I only took 1/3 of my quilts list off my UFO list, and have added several more... It is just ongoing...

I challenged a few people to do a "Fairy Quilt Godmother" quilt from Paperpanache.com In the slide show you should see 3 of the completed quilts... A Fun humorous challenge for those who like to paper piece... I hope to have at least 6 finished quilts at the quilt show...

Hope you enjoyed our show and tell this month... Next month will be our quilt show... in several side shows... Should be a great one... "A Galaxy of Quilts"

Our July meeting was a Silent Auction raising money for our hospice quilt supplies. We had a huge amount of items for sale. Kathy R got a lot of her block of her month blocks back... just a few ppl had show and tell... but great meeting... And Yes, Peggy got someone to volunteer to be VP. Thanks Diana Helm... Sewing day is July 16th at City Hall. We would love to have a overnighter this fall.... we need ideas... anyone got a great project? August 1st is our next meeting... Then the Quilt show Sept 9-10th... See you there!

June Meeting 2011

The June meeting was sparsely attended… but never stops the Common Thread quilters from having an awesome meeting… Kathy Repnow gave the lesson on Threads… Kathy will be a rep for Superior threads in our area. She did a lot a research for the lesson and gave handouts on what needles to use for the type of threads… She also has said if you think you would like to try out a color of thread to call her and she will order it to match your projects… She did an awesome job!!!

Check out the show and tell. Thanks to Peggy for taking the pictures from the meeting… looks like great show and tell. Don’t forget to work on the challenge for the quilt show… Plaids and/or stripes… any size, anything.
July meeting will be a White Elephant Sale: Bring any sewing/quilting items that you don’t want to use anymore. The monies raised for the white elephant sale will be used for the CTQG hospice program.
Next open sewing for the guild will be Saturday, July 16th.
See you all in July!

Reminder:

http://commonthreadsquiltguild.shutterfly.com/

I just want to remind everyone... all the pictures on the slide show are at the above web site also... You can view them there also.

May Guild Meeting 2011

Our May meeting brought us nice weather (after a weekend of blizzard). Spring has finally showed up. Some of us thought it would never get here. It was more evident with the faces at the meeting that we could get out more...
Mary Ellen shared a lesson of freezer paper method of paper piecing. No more struggling to get the paper off after the paper piecing is done... Hopefully several of us will be willing to try it out...

I will upload pictures of the show and tell; we have a great group of quilters... I hope you enjoy the slide show... Comment on your favorites... it would be fun to get some more dialog going on this blog... I won't be writing comments on the pictures... as it has been a week since our meeting. I may make some mistakes...
Have a great May... get some sewing done! UFO's are due in June!!!
Clare

April meeting 2011

Our April lesson was on Machine Quilting Basics. Clare presented the lesson. With many samples of quilting designs from previous classes and quilts made. We had a good discussion about some basic quilting techniques. What is really nice is how our guild shares information. As the situations present themselves.... everyone chips in with valuable information. Exactly what we like about guild. Everyone sharing information and making the lesson, the meeting the show and tell so valuable.

Again, we had some awesome show and tell. Having our UFO challenge sure makes for great show and tell. Imagine what that Fall quilt show will look like! A Galaxy of Quilts... sounds great!

Hope you enjoy the slide show!

March 2010

Hello all,
Plan to sit and watch the slide show for a while. We had some awesome show and tell last night. Cheryl Klee took the prize for the most show and tell. She told us she has to stay home when it snows, and then she quilts. We must have had a lot of snow this winter, she had probably 10 quilt tops done! She was not the only one finishing projects: Peggy had several, as did Liz and Diana. You go girls!

Doris shared a lesson on "Snap Happy bags". These were made with cut parts of a metal tape measure. Great lesson. Thanks Doris!

We have a committee for the quilt show in September. We should have an awesome show with all the UFO projects being finished. Teri will head up the committee. She thought we could encorporate the UFO theme into the show. Should be interesting.

Hope to see you all in April.
Clare

February Meeting 2011

Our February meeting came with bitter cold weather... AGAIN! between 10 and 20 below temperatures caused just a few members to venture out for the meeting. This seems to be the norm these past few months. We still had a great meeting. Not many decisions were made at the meeting... we need volunteers, especially to head our Harvest Fest Quilt show coming up in September.

Show and tell was great following a weekend quilting retreat attended by many at the Riverdale Lodge. Reports of 25 attendees reveals it was a popular weekend, despite the ugly weather we had over the weekend.

Several people showed finished UFO projects and even things from the What was I thinking pile... Hope you enjoy the slide show!

Happy New Year 2011

We just had our January meeting. I didn't get anything set up from the December meeting... But we had a great Christmas party. Weather has been the issue this winter. The night of our Christmas party there was blowing snow and not many we in attendance at our Christmas party. What a change from most years. Usually we are a packed house for the party. We still had plenty of goodies to share. Very little show and tell.
January has come and again few were in attendance tonight. We had about 24 people at our meeting. But show and tell was better. Judy and Doris shared quilts they had made in previous years with Christmas blocks won from the block exchange. Interesting/nice that they both chose to share them this month.
We talked about a retreat at the Riverdale lodge the first weeken in Feb. Hopefully an email will go out to members with this information, since it wasn't in the newsletter.
Applique blocks were given out to willing members for the 2011 raffle quilt. The quilt will be made from 30's fabrics. If you are willing to do a block, contact Peggy Cahoon. We will have a raffle quilt work day, January 22. We would like many members to help with putting this togther. We can continue to sew for the rest of the day at city hall.