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
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
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