June Banquet and Summer Class

Don't forget! This months meeting (our last for the season - where did the time go!) will be on Tuesday, June 14th - usual place. We will be having a Tea Party and Pot Luck Dinner. Contact Karen Gruber (karengruber@charter.net) for more information.

If you are interested, our friends in The Piecemakers Quilt Guild are hosting Amy Bradley in August. Here are the details:

Monday, August 15, 2011 Amy Bradley

11 am to 4 pm Class using any Amy Bradley applique pattern of your choice Fee; $20 for Piecemakers Quilt Guild members, $25 for non-members
6 pm Lecture/Trunk Show Admission: $5


Tuesday, August 16, 2011 Amy Bradley
10 am Lecture/Trunk Show Admission: $5
12 noon to 5 pm Class using any Amy Bradley applique pattern of your choice Fee; $20 for Piecemakers Quilt Guild members, $25 for non-members
Lecture/Trunk Show and classes will be held at Quilted Cottage, 166 N. Center Rd. Saginaw, MI 48638
For more info contact:
Chris Pahssen-Noble, Senior VP and Program Chair, Piecemakers Quilt Guild of Saginaw
cpahssen@aol.com

Linda's Paper Piecing Class

 On Tuesday, October 5th, a paper piecing class was taught by Linda McGibbon, a master in this art.  Here is the beautiful wall hanging that she taught us how to piece.  She does all her own designs on EQ6 now EQ7.  Linda was very clear in her instructions and took some of the worry out of paper piecing.  Each one in class was doing really good work and the resulting pieces will be beautiful. 

Some of us missed out on the class or part of the class.  I was so sure it was on Wednesday and didn't go (there is a story about my day that I will not bore you with) but Earlene called me and wondered where I was.  I did come out by about 1:00 but was rather rattled - more so than usual!!  Another one that was called was our prez pictured above, Nancy.  She had forgotten until she was called.  Another girl was thinking the class was the same day that I thought it was and the fourth was ill and we hope and pray she is fine. 

Earlene with her pretty start on the wall hanging. 

   

Deb, it's going to be just gorgeous!

A big smile from one of our new members, Melissa - my dear, I hope I got that right! 

Here's the nice lady that sends out our newsletters!  One of the wedges of her piece is in the foreground and another gorgeous wall hanging.

A pretty smile from Jean as she works on her piece.  That one is a beauty, also.

Marlene's choice of fabrics is so pretty.  They all are going to be wonderful.

Love Nancy's colors.  Fun class and fun ladies attending.

Johanna - look at that smile.  Her wall hanging is going to be lovely.

Guess who - don't have much to show for my day afternoon there but I enjoyed every minute and will be working on mine soon.  I have done some paper piecing, but not the smaller pieces.  Thanks to Linda, I am not leery of them anymore.

If you would like to save any of these pictures to your computer just click to enlarge then save as to whatever file you want them in.  There are some good pictures of you girls there.

Cogs and Gears Class

Friday found a group of Q2 guild members enjoying a class taught by Carolyn Freeman at the church that hosts our Sit and Sew group one Tuesday a month. What a fun class, Carolyn, and what pretty cogs and gears were put together.Lots and lots of tracing and cutting. Old paper doll addicts like me were enjoying cutting the pieces albeit they were intricate and a little hard to get started. I am not going to try and put the names of the makers to the different blocks but will say that all of them are just beautiful. Great choices were made in colors by our ladies.



Some beautiful bright colors.


Don't we have guild members with a remarkable ability to pick and choose color and fabric?

Gorgeous choice!

Another gem.

This one will be a stunner, also.


Carolyn overseeing some of her students who are all concentrating on their job at hand - cutting.

You have to look up once in a while!
Still more of our cutups!

I notice that several of the girls turn sideways on their chairs to do their cutting.
All caught up in the job at hand.
A good day - and I think the results that will come out of this class will be outstanding. Thanks for a fun class, Carolyn. (Click to enlarge)

Seminole Piecing Class

What a fun class - look at the different colorways of the bands we put together. So pretty in

any group of colors or type of fabric. I think everyone had a really good time Monday under the watchful eye of

Carrie Mayday, our genial instructor for the day in doing this time honored method that not many of us have ever done except for maybe doing simple things like checkerboard type blocks.

Tam Premo sent along these pictures and a few more and I took some, also, and they are all in a slide show on the right sideboard under the meeting show. Don't forget that you can just click on the slide show and it will take you to Flickr where you can get a closeup look at all of our pictures. Look around on Flickr - there is a lot to see.

Thank you, Carrie, for a great class and a good time. (Click to enlarge)