Tooele County Quilters: March Meeting in Review

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Please pay your $15 dues as soon as possible.
Quilters who have been quilting for less than three years may want to apply for the Quilt Fest Scholarship. Utah Quilt Fest will be in Layton in September.
The Home Machine Quilting Show will be May 8-10 at the South Towne Expo Center in Sandy and registration is now open.
Would you like a copy of the 2012-2013 published blog book? If so, please sign up at next month's meeting and pay $31 when you sign up. The books will be ordered for everyone who has paid after next month's meeting.
The Utah Quilt Guild has set a goal of 1,000 quilts and pillowcases to be made by quilters around the state. The quilts are for children ages 7-17 that are placed in foster care or are up for adoption. Because the quilts will be given to older children, they should be lap size (45x60) or twin size (72x90). They can be tied or quilted, but should be of good quality. Ardith mentioned that if you get a twin size top and back to her within the next couple of months, her brother will quilt it for you on his Quilt Master. The quilt will then be returned to you for binding.

BLOCK EXCHANGE:

Our 2014 Block Exchange will be the International Sun Bonnet Sue. Please sign up for one of 49 countries, and then make 12 of that same block. DO NOT cut down your block to a certain size. Keep one block for yourself, and turn in the other 11 blocks at our October meeting. You will then receive back 11 other blocks from other quilters and the countries they chose from which you can make a quilt. Quilt shop quality fabric is required on these blocks. Here are just a few samples. The book can also be purchased on Amazon.

TIP OF THE MONTH:

A variety of ways to see "value" (shades of light and dark) in your quilt arrangements include:

"red" glasses,
a door peep,
take a picture and print or copy it in black and white,
use a filter on your smart-phone when taking a picture, or
compare your fabrics to a the colors on a color wheel.

ROUND TUITS:

Katie reminded us to get organized and stick to it. She gave us each a button magnet. Those who picked the black buttons will need to bring a finished project to show next month. Brigid, Sam, and Terry all finished projects this month.

SHOW AND TELL:

Marta is showing a beautiful tool that is available for purchase. It has a seam ripper on one end and a stiletto on the other end. You can purchase it for $25 ($5 of that will be donated back to our Quilt Guild). Here's a close up of the product:

Gail's grandson made his first quilt. He gave it to his mom for Christmas. He also chose one of the black round tuit buttons, so we hope to see him at Quilt Guild next month to show us another master piece!

Crystal is getting ready for her baby due in July. She made her own diaper bag (it's an Amy Butler pattern) and a cute baby quilt. Another guild member made the other quilt for her out of one layer of interlock knit and ribbed knit for the binding (since she's having her baby in July, it doesn't need to be too many layers of fabric.)

Sarah went chevron crazy. She also made a beautiful quilt using Jenny's Quick Curve ruler from Sew Kind of Wonderful. Be sure to visit Jenny's site to see her amazing machine quilting!

Other guild members that participated in Show and Tell included Rosie, Sam, Heather, Michelle, Lois, Teresa, and Kaye.

MONTHLY PRESENTATION:

This month we learned the difference between quality fabric and discount fabric. Here is Marta showing a beautiful quilt that has been completely hand-quilted. The outside border fabrics (pink and black) were purchased in an Amish fabric shop. The borders have not faded over time. The other fabric that looks maroon-ish was once black and has now faded. It was purchased at a discount fabric store.