Today we met at 1:00 p.m. at the Lutheran Church for our monthly meeting.
Julia remined us that our Round Robin Challenge is due at the May meeting.
She introduced our new challenge: finish a UFO project. She suggested if
we have any friendship blocks that need to be put together that we use that as
our UFO. Madge Lindsay will be teaching a Buggy Barn class on April 14, 2011.
Linda Watson handed out her fabric for her friendship block. Stacey McClellan
presented an opportunity for all of us to participate in making one star block by
next meeting and then they will all be mailed to: United Notions/Moda Fabrics,
Att: Just One Star Project, 13800 Hutton, Dallas, TX 75234. These blocks will
be sewn together and presented to injured men and women serving in Iraq and
Afghanistan. So please help us out so that our club can be of help to this great
project. To see more detail and a pattern for the star block go to
moda fabrics.com or http://www.unitednotions.com/un_main.nsf/free_patterns
If you have any problems getting this pattern, let Serena know and she will
e-mail it to you. We enjoyed getting to know Madge Lindsay. She was born
and raised in Aberdeen, Idaho to the Westover family. She had 8 siblings. In
high school she enjoyed sports, music and band. She was also a cheerleader.
She started quilting as a teenager, and it was all done by hand.
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| This quilt she made for her mother. She got it back when her mother passed away. |
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This quilt was made by Madge and was her 1st class taught by Joyce Stewart. She finished it in 2002. |
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| Madge participates in two quilt clubs and trys to participate in all the projects for each club. This was a mystery quilt as well as the green one below. |
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| This quilt is on her bed. She hand quilted and needle turned appliqued this beautiful bed spread. |
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| This quilt was made for her African room. |
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| This wall hanging was made from some fabric her son brought back from Africa. |
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| This was another bright African quilt. |
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| Madges's husband works out to the site and the Japanese people that came to visit always brought him gifts. So she decided she needed a Japanese room also to display these gifts and of course a japanese quilt had to be made. |
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| This is the Buggy Barn quilt that Madge will be teaching in April. She handed out the instructions for what we need to have ready for the class. Be sure and add the numbers on your pattern. There is an error in the book and the numbers were not put on the pieced pattern. You need to make four copies of the star and buggy barn pattern. You will need 13 dark fabrics and 13 light fabrics for the star and 16 dark fabrics and 16 light fabrics ofr the buggy barn. Stack your fabric right side up. Be sure to bring a new blade for your cutter. See you there! |
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| This was an Americana Buggy Barn quilt Madge made for her Americana room. |
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This is Madge's bragging rights quilt she entered in the Logan quilt show and received 1st place. This wall hanging was Madge's own design that she put together from some friendship blocks she received in 1998. |
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This was a cat Buggy Barn quilt from the 2nd Buggy Barn class she took. Madge is a very talented quilter and has mastered machine quilting on her reuglar maching. Thanks for sharing just a few of your beautiful quilts with us. After Madge's presentation, we broke up into five groups and "Spring Clean-up" on some different techniqes.
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| Connie Tabor taught a short presentation on Bindings. |
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| Lori Jarmin taught how to straighten your fabric. Julia Wareing taught how to press assisted by Stacey McClellan.  |
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| Audrey Eberhard taught us how to find an accurate 1/4 " seam on our machines. Mary Woods taught us how to pop our seams at an intersection with 4-6 pieces meeting in the center. This procedure helps to eliminate the bulk at the point and help it to lay very flat.  |
Show And Tell
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| Julia Wareing shares a March table runner and minature quilt she made. |
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| Connie Tabor shared with us a quilt she started several years ago. She thinks that it is "Deana's Wish" pattern. What a beautiful quilt. |
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| Connie Tabor made this adorable "Toy Story" quilt for her 11 year old austistic grandson who lives in Rigby, Idaho. He loves the Jesse doll, so she left it in big pieces so he could enjoy seeing Jesse. She machined quilted it herself. |
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| This quilt is made from the book, "Amazing Nickel Quilts". Connie is amazing, she just took this class last month and already has a completed quilt. Great job. |
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| Lori Jarmin made this quilt for her son, Garrett, who got married on March 19, 2011. It is done in browns, tans, and reds. It was a beautiful quilt. She will be doing a book report on this and other 2 1/2 " strip quilts. She is taking after Elaine McNair and included the pillow shams to go with the quilt. |
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| Tiffany Lamb finished this beautiful green UFO project. |
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| Audrey Eberhard made this colorful baby quilt for her 1st grandbaby. She said this one is generic and when she finds out what they are having she will make one for a boy or girl. Connie machined quilted it for her. |
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| J'neane Smith took a class and made this beautiful block. It is hand pieced. Nice work. |
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| Barbara Tatum made this colorful log cabin quilt. |
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| Margaret Peterson joined the club just a short time ago. This is her first quilt, which she made with layered cakes. She used the method of binding that Madge Lindsay taught a few months ago. She caught the disease! Way to go. |
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| Jolene Secrist made this adorable quilt for her granddaughter, number 7. This was quilted by Terrilee Jacobsen. |
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| Donna Munk made this beautiful scrappy "Log Cabin in the Pines". |
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| Linda Watson made this beautiful quilt. Sorry Linda, I cut you off. |
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| This quilt was made by the Idaho Falls quilt club and will be raffled off at the May quilt show. Linda Williams and Tiffany Lamb helped piece it. This quilt will be a great addition to the winners collection. |
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| Doris Coffey had fun making the Cathedral Window pattern that Peggy Bendush taught last month. She also completed this gorgeous wall haning. |
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| Dee Bowman took a class from Kaff Fasset called "Hot Diamonds" He taught her how to tumble colors together. |
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| Linda Townsend paper pieced this intricate block. |
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| Sally Strawn completed this embroidered/quilted wallhanging. |
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| Pat Goode completed this Kim Diehl project. |
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| Garnalee Harrington took a class at the Shelley quilt show in January and learned how to make aprons from two fat quarters. |
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| Garnalee Harrington made some adorable baby quilts for the Elizabeth basket. Thanks! |
Elaine McNair also shared some pictures of quilts she
saw at the Tri-City quilt show she attended. She
said it was a wonderful quilt show.
saw at the Tri-City quilt show she attended. She
said it was a wonderful quilt show.
