We also have some great raffles planned! Join us. Guests are welcome.
Monday, February 17, 2020
February 18 Meeting Reminder
We are meeting on Tuesday, February 18 at 7 pm. Our guest speaker will be Deborah Fisher from Fish Museum and Circus. She will discuss her creative journey and do a trunk show of her quilts. She is also bringing notions for sale during the break (members will be first in line). Her items will be on display before the meeting.
We also have some great raffles planned! Join us. Guests are welcome.
We also have some great raffles planned! Join us. Guests are welcome.
Sunday, February 2, 2020
January 2020 Show & Tell
Photos from our January meeting Show & Tell are below. Unfortunately the recording on my phone did not happen so there is going to be limited commentary. These are in the order they were showed.
A bright and flowery jelly roll quilt.
Colorful flowers!
Like the mix of light blues and red!
A small table top quilt with squares.
Apologies for this being a bit blurry, but wanted to leave it in.
Super bright Kaffe Fassett fabrics!
Dramatic squares set on point!
Dramatic green quilt design!
Marie showed this contrasting, off-center log cabin quilt.
A soft cuddly quilt finish.
Suzy finished this quilt with gradated ombre colored fabrics.
Suzie also completed this impressive Patchwork City quilt, designed by Elizabeth Hartman.
Ophelia showed her rendition of Penguin Party by Elizabeth Hartman. The plaids are flannel!
Ophelia also showed us optically challenging quilt!
Ophelia also completed her Snowflake -- the pattern is by Nicole Dacsiewicz of Modern Handcraft. Front and back are shown.
Ophelia's colorful stars with scrappy centers, front and back.
Ophelia's last quilt was this large dramatic heart made out of wonky blocks.
Leslie has been very busy and showed us a number of finishes. This has the incredibly cute animal panel in the center.
As I recall these are the colors of a favored athletic team.
Pretty red and blues!
Nice movement of the steps through the block colors!
This is a very pretty exploration of squares and blues.
Robin presented this ultra-colorful and cheerful quilt!
A dramatic improv with the black background showing off the stars.
A novel setting of triangles, many with dots and stripes.
Donna showed this incredibly cute mini.
Front and back of this lovely finish with bright colors.
This finish has a lot of wonderful movement in it.
Patty showed her colorful paper-pieced Swell pattern (Alison Glass).
Trish showed her paper-pieced elephant. Pattern is by Violet Craft.
Monday, January 20, 2020
Sunday, January 19, 2020
January 21, 2020 Meeting Reminder
Yes, it is that time again!
Folks can gather at Liquid Therapy for pre-meeting cheer and snacks, starting at 5:30 pm and wrapping up when folks want to get to the meeting at the First Baptist Church which will begin at 7 pm.
As a reminder, Liquid Therapy is located at 14 Court Street, Nashua, across from the city's library.
Our agenda is going to include:
Folks can gather at Liquid Therapy for pre-meeting cheer and snacks, starting at 5:30 pm and wrapping up when folks want to get to the meeting at the First Baptist Church which will begin at 7 pm.
As a reminder, Liquid Therapy is located at 14 Court Street, Nashua, across from the city's library.
Our agenda is going to include:
- Business and upcoming activities from your new Board.
- Pouches exchanged via a Yankee Swap -- this was supposed to happen at the December meeting but the weather forced a cancellation.
- Some other fun and games.
- Show & Tell
Raffle items will include the below items!
Look forward to seeing everyone!
Saturday, January 4, 2020
November 2019 Show & Tell
November was a very jam-packed show and tell. Members have been busy with presents and charity quilts. Lots of exciting and interesting work!
Sarah showed a scrap challenge quilt, made with freehand clamshell quilting. Very pretty. Back of quilt follows.
Laurie made this a long time ago a sampler of various techniques and designers. Lots of fun. Backing below with yardsale fabric.
Leslie showed us several quilts. First one is wall hanging to go over husband's couch with sailing motif fabric.
Jungle Fever pattern by Karen Montgomery.
Leslie's second quilt will go on husband's couch, quilted by Ophelia with circles. Fabric is in Essex linen.
Robin showed the finish of the tie-dye diamonds quilt. Came out great.
Robin also made a small blue quilt for herself. Colors are gorgeous! Also a quilt as you go type of project.
Robin's third show is a baby quilt, which is cute!
Robin's last was keyed off of a square that she then puffed up the birds through the batting, and quilted.
Robin's last item is this holiday snowman table runner that was created with the help of her grandkids.
Pat finished grandson's baby quilt - a bit late as baby was born in April.
This is another baby quilt made for the older brother that just got given to him!
Gail showed off a pouch with Boro sashiko stitching, inspired by Making magazine. Fabric Moda wovens.
Gail also showed her improv quilt top inspired by Nicholas's Ball new book Inspiring Improv with 4 patch that is wonky and put in some Essex linen sparkle fabric.
René was very productive. Her first quilt using charm packs and some of her older fabric. Lovely!
René had a goal to do 12 charity quilts -- this has been around for a long time (2003). She used to do a lot of hand pieced, with set up for hand quilting. Civil war era type of fabric, and quilted herself.
René's third quilt charm pack on point for a grand kid and really likes the result.
René's quilt is a start at retreat and quilted by Ophelia.
René finished her Amy Garro Icy Waters paper-pieced quilt, that is the cover page of Amy's book Paper Pieced Modern. Used a multicolored binding colors. Several years ago the NHMQG had a workshop with her.
A member finished this quilt which the group adored although she was not as in love with it! Back below.
Suzie won this pattern at retreat and sewed it up! Beautiful colors with confetti fabric!
Suzie showed front and back of a mini-quilt with very cute fabric on both sides.
Suzie's next show is a really cute dinosaur quilt!
Suzie showed us this cheerful charm pack quilt.
Suzie showed her finish of the Science Fair pattern by Jaybird. Love the reds!
Ophelia confessed to her fabric addiction. She showed a quilt in a pattern called Flutter by Planted Seed Designs, which was pretty simple, but allowed her to do more complex quilting as shown on back using custom digital design.
Ophelia completed this dramatic extra large version of a traditional block.
Ophelia showed this sampler quilt in all red with the backing in similar fabrics.
Ophelia made this up with Tula Pink fabric, and backing is really fun with the bananas!
Patty made these beautiful blocks using ombre fabric. Ophelia quilted it for her.
Patty presented her Zen Chic paper-pieced Octo pattern with varying unique light value grey background. Very dramatic. Nice pieced backing as well.
Patty made this quilt with the Vintage Lace pattern by Brittany Lloyd for her mother. Very beautiful with flowery blue backing fabric. Six different blue solids are used in the quilt.
Carol showed us her table topper. Very pretty with bright colors and cute backing!
Karen showed us this finish of a fabulous Elizabeth Hartman pattern, Delightful Desert . A lot of work and beautiful!
Karen's next show is the quickest finish where she used an Accu-Quilt cutter to set up the pieces. Quilt is for her grandson. She used the Hunter Star pattern, with hunter green binding. Backing is from the one and only Marden's and has stars in it.
Ashley showed us a quilt made many moons ago, which will be on the wall above her sewing machine.
Ashley quilted this one herself, using Angela Walters guidance. Love the bright colors!
Trish and Pattie showed off the guild's pieced top for our submission to QuiltCon 2020. The quilt needed to be monochromatic blacks, white and greys, and also had to include words. Guild members made up the log-cabin type blocks from the design that Trish and Pattie developed and decided on the "Live Free or Die" theme.
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