On The Trail Shop Hop

The Idaho/Wyoming/Utah shop hop is Thursday, April 24 - Saturday, May 10. You can purchase a passport for $1 at one of the 12 participating quilt shops. If you visit all 12 shops, you will be eligible for the Grand Prize (your choice of a Baby Lock Aria sewing machine worth $4,999 or a 3-day quilt retreat for 8 people at a choice of 2 locations) or 1st Prize (a $25 gift certificate from each shop and a bundle of 20 fat quarters from each shop).  If you visit 10 shops, you will be eligible for a $50 gift basket.

Read all about it at On The Trail.

April Meeting: Welcome to the Buggy Barn!

Quilt Guild is always fun when Crystal teaches! This month she taught us the basic technique of any Buggy Barn pattern. The chairs where we were to sit were divided into four sections: the horse pasture, the cow pasture, the pig pen, and the chicken coop. The quilters at the back working on charity quilts were mice. When you had a question, you had to make the sound of the animal section you were sitting in, and the "farmer" would answer the questions. 

Check out all these cute Buggy Barn patterns:

This one isn't a buggy barn pattern, but the technique is the same. . .

Verneal's Tips of the Month:

Do you need something to put over the tip of your scissors to protect the scissors and other things in your bag? Try a Gel Grip for larger scissors, or a piece of flexible hose (from the hardware store or even aquarium hose from the pet store).

After all that work piecing and quilting your master piece, you don't want it ruined when you wash it. Throw in a COLOR CATCHER (someone said the no-name brand is good, too) so the colors in the fabrics won't bleed.

Round Tuits and Show & Tell

Embroidery Class Update:

 Ora is doing a great job teaching needlework to this group of ladies.

Beginning Quilting Class Update:

Here the students are learning and practicing free motion quilting on a domestic machine for the very first time. They did great!

One student has her pieces cut and is organizing them so she can sew the pieces back together.

The teacher is demonstrating how she did fusible applique on the Galleria quilt top.

Reminder:

We are participating in the Utah Quilt Guild's 2014 charity project. Their goal is to have 1000 quilts made for Utah foster children who are waiting to be adopted. Typically these are older children, so twin size quilts have been requested. Bring your finished quilt top and prepared back to the meeting next month, and Ardith's brother will quilt it on his Quilting Master, a computer-guided quilting machine. Check out this amazing machine in the video below: