Suburban Wildlife BOM Finished

Suburban Wildlife

Our Block of the Month

from Linda Frost

It was fun!

Spotlight on Kathy P.

Dinosaur Land by Kathy

Our newsletter editors have been introducing us to members each month with Meet the Members interview feature. You might want to see their quilts too. Kathy had at least two at the April quilt show

She also did a demo on 3-D stars for us there: "Fabric Folding-Origami Style"

Bullfrog Boogie

Here's a little of the interview from the May newsletter:

"I LOVE building the quilt top….the actual sewing of all the pieces to create the top. When you asked when did I learn to sew, I laughed. I remember reading Kelly Cline’s spotlight last month and thinking she and I grew up in the same household (even though I didn’t meet her until joining guild). My mom taught me how to sew. She was always making matching outfits…especially at Christmas…and usually in paisley!

 My mom enrolled me in a sewing and etiquette class back in the late 60’s. I remember making a tennis outfit in that class. From there, I was hooked! I loved to sew. I made a lot of my clothes growing up. After college, I got in to doing craft shows with my parents. I usually made fabric items while my mother had long quit sewing, leaving that part to me, and she turned to her love of painting. I tried my hand at quilting in 1985 by enrolling in a local quilting class." 

Quilt Show Accounting

The last newsletter had some quilt show numbers:

49 Members entered 126 quilts

454 Admissions = $2,268

Boutique sales = $1,220

Opportunity Quilt sales = $350

105 Mini-Quilts raised = $2,388

The Mini-Quilt funds were rather evenly divided between these 7 charities

CASA: Court Appointed Special Advocates

DCAP: Douglas County Aids Project

GaDuGi Shelter

Habitat for Humanity

Humane Society

Spencer Museum of Art 

Social Service League

with a little for the guild's fund.

Start thinking mini-quilts for next year.

We want at least 106.

Jan's Crazy Quilt for Show & Tell

Jan M brought this vivid crazy quilt to the April meeting. She recently bought it from the family of the maker who was a teenager when she stitched it in the 1930s.

It's cotton satteen and quilted with a big stitch in Nile green Perle cotton.

Suburban Wildlife

Margaret & Jill Ann

Blocks from Linda Frost's Suburban Wildlife BOM at the April meeting.

Sheryl

Betty with 2

And Marilyn had them all so far

Quilt Show Pictures

Sue Thomsen

Forest Galorest

Ruth Powers

What's Up at the 4-H Fair

Bullfrog Boogie

Kathy Pribbenow

Marie Meyen

The Universe in Black & Blue According to Hunter

Ysleta Meek

Rasberry Soda

Jan Masenthin

Drive Carefully

Marj Loyd, Evelyn Loyd, Carolyn Andres, Lisa Meyer

Evelyn's 90th Birthday Quilt

More Quilts from the Quilt Show

Wendy Turnbull

Red and Green Applique

Jean D. Bass

Petal Power

Amy Bradley, Kathie Baldwin, Mary Boucher

 My Alphabet Quilt

Sara Chappell

Jackson Loves Orange

Sandy Morgan Cockrum

Rock the Block 

Sue Thomsen

Sassy Stripes

Carol Gilham Jones & Bobbi Finley

Stars & Snipes

Janis Delavan

Color Play

Karen Hansen

City Surfaces