Blackfoot Piecemakers Quilt Club

August 27, 2026

Blackfoot Piecemaker’s Quilt Club

Held at: Blackfoot Christian Fellowship

Blackfoot, Idaho

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

President, Serena Yancey, opened the meeting by greeting members.

Portneuf Valley Quilt Guild is hosting a Quiltfest, October 2-3, 2026 at the MEC Center in Pocatello. There will be vendors, quilt raffle, block challenge, demos and a quilt show.

Garden of Quilts will be held at Thanksgiving Point, Utah, September 18-19, 2026. Cost is $35

A BIG thank you to all who lent a helping hand to finish the many charity quilts. They were received with much appreciation.

Eastern Idaho State Fair Quilt Raffle. Return your raffle tickets and plan to volunteer at the fair. All proceed from the raffle go towards local charities and materials for charity quilts.

Elizabeth Baskets: Needed donations at this time are boys blankets and diapers..

Raffle Blocks: Kathy Dietrich showed the raffle block for the September challenge, Bright Star. New colors were introduced and changed to gold fall colors with a white on white background.

The winner of the Ladder Block August raffle draw for Garnalee Harrington

EDUCATION: Linda Dance presented a paper origami rendition of how to fold a quilt on the bias and demonstrated how to wind your binding into a figure 8 skein for easy application to a quilt.

QUILT BY NUMBER Challenge: These ladies took on the challenge Sandy Spaulding, Linda Dance, Serena Yancy, Joyce Lewis, Ruth Blackadar, and Andrea Wodek

BRING AND BRAG:

Sue Doran: Beautiful quilts for her daughters and daughter-in-law

Garnalee Harrington presented Christmas Stocking and soft cloth reading books

Debbie Scheirer presented a thrift store find

Serena Yancey: Christmas Churn Dash

Terilee Jacobson: Travel bag, Lollipops & Licorice quilt and bonus quilt from the scraps and a fun apron

Sandy Spalding: Safari Lonestar and bright colored bargello

JaNae Smith: Hexie Log Cabin Mash Up

Jolene Secrist: Paperpiece Stars

Joyce Lewis: Nursery Animal panels and blocks

Barbara Peterson: Lollipops & Licorice made with homespun fabrics

WHAT A DIFFERENCE a change of fabric can make using the same quilt pattern. Both quilts presented by members is the quilt pattern, Lollipops & Licorice by Jen Kingwell

Trudy Stubbs: Ladder Block quilt, scrappy batik quilt, fall pheasant panel, apron and bags

Janine Shigihara: Patriotic block of the month

Linda Dance: Stardust quilt

Lori Jarmin: Peter Rabbit, a denim quilt with the pockets in tact, and a Lella Boutique Concord

Linda Michaelson: Bag made of 6 fat quarters and a panel bag

Elaine Stevenson: presented the Double Star raffle blocks from the July challenge

Nancy Diaz: Beautiful quilts using the Tucker Rulers to create and a panel one-block wonder for an amazing Halloween quilt with characters for the backing

Rosy Neitzel: a fun large bag for transporting her sewing machine

SEE YOU NEXT MONTH: September 24, 2026 at 1:00 pm

July 23, 2026

Blackfoot Piecemaker's Quilt Club
Held at: Blackfoot Christian Fellowship
Blackfoot, Idaho

President, Serena Yancey, opened the meeting by greeting members. The Charity Quilts were on display and will be delivered in August.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Quilt Show to be held at Jefferson County Fairgrounds
August 21 & 22, 2026

Eastern Idaho State Fair:  Alice Elison gave us the inspiration to enter our quilts at the
Dates for entry: Friday, Aug 28, 11-8pm and Saturday, Aug 29, 11-5pm
Pickup: Sunday, Sept 13, 10-4pm



QUILT RAFFLE PACKET:  Pickup your raffle ticket packet to sell tickets to win the beautiful quilt made by members of the guild.  The proceeds from the raffle go towards local charities and materials for charity quilts.
Elizabeth Baskets: Needed donations at this time are Diapers (size 1 & 2); mother gifts
Raffle Blocks:  Kathy Dietrich showed the Ladder Block from scraps.  Be careful not to add a dark or black color in the inner ladder strips as it will take away the effect of the black side of the ladder.  Instructions are in your red member folder. You could be the August winner.
The winner of the Double Star July raffle block draw for a new creation was Elaine Stevenson.

BRING and BRAG: Many beautiful creations from the talented guild members. Many quilts were machine and hand quilted, appliqued wool thread keepers, fun quilted jackets and purses. Each project came with a memory story of the creation. Well done ladies.

Terilee Jacobson