Perfect day for a picnic!

 The weather decided to take a bit of a break from baking the humans just in time for the July meeting at Dewitt Recreation Area!!

The business meeting was brief, so it was on to show and tell!

Blogger is dumb and won't let me put these next to each other.  Alex made this Lazy Girl "Lexi" bag as a gift for her doctor.

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his is by Kevin Hammon, of course.  It's for a friend's birthday- lucky friend!

Liz Scott said she's ready for fall now that she has this table runner finished.  

Shirley Lapp bought this quilt from a "buy nothing" group- someone was just getting rid of a hand quilted quilt. So Shirley cleaned it up a bit and will donate it.

Marilee Fergusen (sorry if this is spelled wrong!) made this cute little bag.

Marilee also made this scrappy quilt to be a gift, I think.  

Kathy Belluscio finished her QCNYS mystery quilt, which will be donated to a church camp for kids.

Kathy loves a mystery!  This one was a Charlotte Hawkes mystery called "Spaghetti"

Elaine Moody used a jelly roll she's not sure why it was in her stash and a new book from the guild's library to make this quilt, which she donated to our Community Service collection.  

Remember, if you can't make it to the meeting, you can send in a picture of your projects to be shared here!

We all enjoyed more food than we could possibly eat, then game master Liz entertained us with some word puzzles (that word search was a killer!), and her tiny Bingo game!  (Thanks, Liz!)

In August we'll enjoy a visit with Tara Toms of the Town and Country quilt shop.

Quilting in a heat wave?

 Actually it was the day before the heat wave started, thank goodness!  It's definitely bring your hand fan to the meetings weather!!

Maybe because it's too hot for quilting, there weren't as many items to show this month. So we got to really appreciate the ones we did see.  ( I think people feel rushed when there's along line)

Isn't Donna Tomski adorable showing off her placemat from the "walking foot Quilting" class- part of the beginner series?!

Kevin Hamon shared the sample for September's painting class.  This time it's an American Goldfinch (in summer garb)

Eula Serrino made this from a kit.  It used one of those quilted book panels as the block centers.  I didn't catch whose baby is the lucky recipient. 

Mary Ellen Ames found yet another unlabeled quilt in her collection.  It might have been made at classes in a now (sadly) defunct quilt shop.

Since Barb Miller brought up the fact that several of our members had shown quilts at the Old Forge quilt show- and won awards, Mary Ellen brough in her award winner.  This was a block of the month from Material Rewards.  The stunning quilting was done by Norma Chapin.  

Dodie Morrison pieced this for community service using the "three yard quilts" book and a fabric kit. 

Sue Chiddy made a set of fishy placemats for her grandsons.  So cute!

Did you know if you can't attend a meeting, or have given your recent finish away before a meeting, you can send Martha a picture to share with everyone?  Well now you do!!

Martha made this quilt as part of a "stay at home row robin" with her online quilt guild.  When she laid out the rows, she decided it had to be for a little girl.  So this was a gift for a co-worker's new daughter.  

Our speaker this month brought a sort of stroll down memory lane for many of us by talking about learning to sew in the 60s and 70s, followed by an interesting presentation about the history of sewing.  

Apologies that I didn't photograph some of the "historical artifacts" she brought- darning egg, 50cent patterns, etc.  

Our next meeting is our annual picnic at Dewitt park in Batavia.  See the newsletter for details!

A Visit from an "old" friend

 At the May guild meeting, we had a visit from a woman who many of us know well, who helped us become the quilters we are, or just enabled our fabric obsession: Barb Miller, the former owner of Mt Pleasant Quilting Company.  It's good that she spoke at the end of the day, since no one would want to follow her with their show and tell!  Which is NOT to say the member show ad tell wasn't full of beautiful quilts- see for yourself!!

Mary Ellen Ames was hoping someone would be able to help her remember when she made this "Indian Summer" pattern by Judy Neimeyer.  She recently discovered the quilt has no label and wants to add one now.  ( a lesson for all of us??)

Chris Kuehl has been cleaning up a bit and uneartehd some UFOs, which she stopped cleaning to finish!  The bunny , Peter, she thinks must be 25 years old!  

And Chris thought the lighthouse class with Molly Waddell was at least 10 years ago.  

Marsha Regan also had a "UFP' (unfinished project) that she recently finished, with the help of her mom's longarm machine.  

Diane Szczupakowski ( Marsha's mom) bought the kit for this in Alaska.  It features native flowers.

             Pat Gardner has been making 3 yard quilts for the St Mary's group.  (above and below) 

Barb Sage brought this work in progress to share since it will be gifted soon.  Her nephew played Lacrosse on a team called the Hawks.  Guess what number he was.  

Connie Grimsley finished her Tufted titmouse from last year's class with Kevin Hammon- following his example of placing the bird in a churn dash block.  

Connie took this wool appliqué project with her on many trips but rarely touched it.  The instructions had gotten faded or lost, so she had to do a search to see what it was supposed to look like!  And now it's finished!!

Elaine Moodie and her sisters had their annual retreat.  One of the sisters brought the little motifs, so Elaine put hers on a t-shirt.  

Oops- back above, front below.  Elaine picked up the 5" squares at retreat in February and made them into this sweet quilt for community service. 

Elaine took the tumblers kit from Community service in February and finished it. 

Elaine picked up the pattern for this, titled Hobby Time, and chose which blocks fit her. It's wool appliqué, but she did it by machine.  

Terry McGuire made this sampler in a serger class.  

Terry said this Bonnie Hunter mystery was a sort of forgotten project that she finished for the Tupper Lake quilt show this summer.  She will have a couple of pieces on display.

Mary Beth Letson  finished this grinch advent calendar.  

Carolyn Stegman made this minkee quilt for her husband's Physical Therapist.  The binding was a challenge, but otherwise working with minkee wasn't too bad.

Carolyn only had to add binding to this prequilted panel to finish it for a gift.  

Ann Renica has been making tops for community service again! (above and below)  Cathy Schmeider did the quilting.

Agnes LaPorte made this signature quilt  a year after the wedding for a  bride who was very specific about color choices.  

Jean Butzer shared this quilt in progress from Cheryl Doody.  It has some hand quilting on it, which Cheryl had hoped to finish herself.  Cheryl's daughter was hoping it could be finished and used to benefit the guild or other entity.  (I don't know if anyone had suggestions, so contact Jean if you have any ideas!)

Barb Miller gave a talk and trunk show featuring her Bargello and One Block Wonder quilts, sharing techniques and some of the processes as she went! I'm sure Stephanie didn't plan on being in the pictures, but I couldn't leave half of her in the pictures.  Many thanks to her for holding the quilts- which makes it hard to see them well, I know! (the other lady - Jan??- was Barb's helper.  Thanks to her as well!)

                                                    A "simple" bargello quilt, made in blocks.

A not so simple bargello!

                                          Probably not simple at all, but worth the effort!

                                                             A basic One Block Wonder

                                                             A OBW with cubes added

                                         The next few are OBW made with panels- just amazing!

                          Barb paper pieced this lion.  Next up a tiger with twice as many pieces.  

                               Barb's " famous" quilt- traveled with Judy Neimeyer to Australia!

PS- I wandered the archives in search of Mary Ellen's quilt.  It wasn't there.