Mary Kozub updated us with the results of the challenge voting.
Awards given for 2017: (clicking the name of the quilt will take you to the picture.)
Viewer’s Choice: #2 High Tech Tuck Bars by Susan Rathbun
First Place: #2 High Tech Tucks by Susan Rathbun
Second Place: #12 Glowing From Inside by Mary Ellen Ames
Third Place: # 15 Bar Harbor, Maine by Chris Kuehl
Creativity/original: #4 Name the Bar by Martha Lorshbaugh
Best Use of Color: #6 Barky Birches by Joan Gaylord
Design: # 22 Alien Plant Life by Martha Lorshbaugh
Applique: #9 Dirty Martini by Mary Lowe
Piecing: #13 Star Bars by Donna Sofokles
Embellishment: #19 Race Point: Provincetown, MA by Cynda
Watroba
Machine Quilting: #20 Parallel Bars by Elaine Ross
Recognition of First Quilt: Over the Rainbow by Lausei Taua
Here are a few of the comments left in the guest book:
“Lovely display. Theme very well carried out.”
“Nice work.”
“What amazing creativity with “BARS”
“So cool. Great ideas, textures, brilliant colors”
“Lovely!”
“Simple subject produced imaginative and well made pieces of
not so simple designs. Keep up the good work!!!”
During Show and Tell, Elaine Ross, Mary Ellen Ames and Terry McGuire shared a nice memory of Charlotte Dauer, who we lost last month. Many of the members of the guild have this bag, which Charlotte taught as a workshop. If you didn't see it, there was a nice tribute to her in the March newsletter.
Many of the projects shared at show and tell were started at retreat
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| Shirley Lapp finished her zig zag quilt- to be a gift to her daughter |
Donna Sofokles brought her great granddaughter, Amyli, to help with showing her work.
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| Made with blocs given to Donna |
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| For a new great grandchild-to-be |
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| Amyli made an elf hat for the new baby |
Susie Spicer didn't have fabric when she went to a workshop to learn "triangulations", so she dug through a box of scraps and found an old appliqué panel. It made a very cute pillow! She even used the instructions!
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| A Susan Rooney panel Suzie couldn't resist |
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| Suzie calls this Random Chaos |
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| Mary Kozub did some wet felting, then stitched on it |
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| Susan Rathbun dyed the background fabric on this wall quilt. |
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| Susan's completed retreat project, using Gloria Loughman's book |
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| Terry McGuire's Bonnie Hunter mystery |
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| Nancy Ellers made this for her grandson |
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| Nancy finished the flag quilt she shared last month |
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| Nancy pieced this at retreat |
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| Amyli needed a closer look at Nancy's charity quilt tops ( a future quilter??) |
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| Nancy used orphan blocks in a jelly roll race quilt |
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| Nancy made tiny doilies to use under the thread spool on her sewing machine |
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| Martha Lorshbaugh made this on retreat |
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| Martha added the center flower to the wreath she made on retreat |
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| Martha is knitting little birdies to give as gifts |
Our program this month featured owners and service techs, Don and Marie, from Marie's Sewing Center. They explained care and cleaning of sewing machines, as well as some very entertaining cautionary tales! The biggest things were clean your machine often, get it serviced once a year, and never take it apart yourself!
Next meeting is a week early due to the Easter holiday. See you on April 8
