JANUARY MEETING

Blackfoot Piecemaker meeting was held at the Lutheran Church in Blackfoot ID
on January 26, 2017
Candy High conducted the meeting

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Our Charity Day was held on January 12.  Connie Tabor made up kits to finish the charity quilts.  When these are done, we will have approximately 23 quilts to donate to charities.  Connie also had 2 quilts that were quilted ready to bind. Members readily agreed to help.

On Feb 23, we will have our annual Chinese Auction.  Bring your items to the Lutheran Church by
12:00 pm.  Tickets can be purchased at meeting.  We will also start our Crayon challenge at this meeting.
  






                                        Two of the quilts made on Charity quilt day in January.

Connie Tabor has been asked to chair the Raffle Quilt for 2017.  She chose a fun block for us and handed out packets containing background fabric and pattern.  We are to make a practice block (which we can donate to the club for later use) and then once we feel comfortable with the block, we can make it using the background fabric.  She asked us to use "muddy colors" such as civil war, Kansas Troubles, Kim Diehl, or Thimbleberry's fabric.  If you have questions contact the club officers or Connie.



                                                              Pattern for raffle quilt

                                              Picture of block we are making for raffle quilt.




  Class - February 9, 2017     Project Bag and candy bag class
                             



 March 9, 2017 class - to be taught by Terilee Jacobson 
Big Star block quilt
 made with 10" or 5" squares

                                                            Terilee's made with 5" squares


                                              made with 10" squares, makes a nice big king size quilt


                                   Lori Jarmin's made with 5" squares. (2 charm packs and plus 2 yds background)



Alice Elison demonstrated a flying geese ruler called by Lazy Girl Designs. She told how it helps to find the sizes of blocks you need to cut for easier making of flying geese. 



                                          Show and Tell


 Diantha Hatch showed two beautiful tables runners


Diantha's Twisting Thirties quilt - class taken at Blackfoot Quilt fest
taught by Francine Barrett




 Vee Gibson's own design - cute girly, girl quilt


 Strippy Owls by Vee Gibson


 Beautiful Batiks by Vee Gibson
All three of Vee's quilt tops are being donated to the Humanitarian Aid Center in Idaho Falls.





These three baby quilts were made by Audrey Eberhard 
and quilting, backing and batting donated 
 by Connie Tabor.


 Audrey and Connie donated all three to the Elizabeth Baskets!!!





 Connie Tabor painfully made this baby quilt for her great grandson.  
She is not a Patriots fan....!!!!
She purchased the Patriots fabric from B&R (here in Blackfoot) but they only had pieces left over from a project they were working on,
so she carefully pieced the blocks and you can't see where her seams are!




 Connie Tabor - strip quilt






 Sally Strawn - Hand Appliqued!!! PHD - so beautiful!





 Linda Michaelson - table topper


 Linda's electronic device holders







 Trudy Stubbs - Fish quilt (PHD)






 Julie Martin - Elizabeth basket quilts

 Julie's Granddaughters quilt






Mary McCullough - Two gorgeous wool projects






New member - Doris Ritchie - Disappearing hour glass block quilt





Rosy Neitzel's - fun scrappy quilt





 Serena Yancey - showed receiving blankets, and her rag quilt.
Which she donated to Elizabeth Baskets.





 Candy High demonstrated how to fold quilts correctly (on bias), 
 so it doesn't have a permanent crease

Next club meeting - February 23, 2017










CHRISTMAS PARTY

December 1, 2016
Blackfoot Piecemaker's met for our annual Christmas Party.


We will meet again in January for our Charity Day. Held on January14 at 9:00 am.
At the Lutheran church.
Bring fabric, machines, ideas for quilting a charity quilt.
Lunch will be provided.

Our January meeting will be held on the 28th at 1:00 pm.

Here is the recipe for Serena's Date Balls:
1 1/2 c. butter
1 1/2 c. sugar
2 c. dates, chopped
2 Tbsp. milk
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 tsp salt
4 c. rice crispy cereal
1 c. coconut
1 c. chopped walnuts
1 tsp vanilla
Melt butter, add sugar and stir until dissolved.  Add dates and cook until it leaves the sides of the pan when stirred. Remove from head and add eggs, milk, and salt.  Stir quickly so that egg doesn't cook.  Then return to stove and cook 2 minutes.  add the rest of ingredients. Mix well. Drop by spoonfuls and roll in more coconut (it takes a package of coconut). Makes approx. 75 balls.


Kathryn Evans conducted the meeting.

Great food. Wonderful company.
After the luncheon we held a raffle.  Joyce Brower, (not attending) had the tickets and prizes ready. Members earned the tickets by making quilt blocks, selling raffle tickets and helping with the construction of the charity/raffle quilt. The remaining blocks were used to make the beautiful raffle items.
Rita Harris (our Raffle/Charity quilt assistant) oversaw the drawing for the quilt, table runner, table topper, and potholder.  
Lorraine Troescher was the lucky winner of the beautiful quilt!

Susan Plant's ticket was picked for the table topper.

Peggy Wareing's lucky ticket was chosen for the table runner.

Other winners! Sally Strawn-embroidery CD. Nancy Furniss, Janey Cook, Valarie Lemas, and Lori Jarmin-potholders.







     
            


                                          After eating, we had fun exchanging fat quarters.
                                    Then Madge started out with the first item for Show &Tell.

Madge Lindsay's quilt was made with the 2015 block of the month patterns.

These are blocks she collected from the Idaho Falls quilt guild.

Connie Tabor - construction quilt for her grandson.  If you are facebook friends with Connie, you probably saw how excited he was when he received it!

Sally Strawn - cute pig pillow for her granddaughter

Doris Coffee - beautiful quilt she donated to the Haven in Idaho Falls (National Day of Service)

For her granddaughter

Made from a kit she had in her stash. She is giving it to her son.
How does Doris accomplish so much.... one more.  It's called Strip & Sparks. (It takes 70, 2 1/2" strips for a queen size quilt)


Christmas quilt - Lori Jarmin

Gloria Udy - Beautiful quilt from pattern called Wind Energy

Baby quilt Gloria made for her 2 1/2 year old grandson.

For a friend - cute panel!!!

Trudy Stubbs - Ghastliest (crazy name for a pattern)

Linda Michaelson - Which Came First? (Good question!!!)