We had a great meeting, with one exception. One member couldn't find her way into the building! The door on the right sticks, so you sometimes have to use both thumbs to press down on the latch. But the other option is to go to the double doors on the left (glass). They are also locked, but the doors INSIDE the glass doors are wide open and with the lights on, you can see us all working like crazy. Apparently, she never noticed the glass doors and missed the meeting altogether.
Darn!! I even had an early Christmas present for her.
Well, we did get quite a bit one. This log cabin from Janet G, got to the stage of having the ties put on (we trim them last thing), the batting trimmed and Kathy was willing to take it home to add the binding and finish it. Thanks, Kath.
This one has been a thorn in the side in many ways. But I think God has a plan for it, that we don't see. The story of this one is complicated. First, it was donated, so we have no idea who made it. Second, it was Wonky- seam wise, so I agreed to take it home, (ripped most of the seams apart), re-stitched them back, trim the sides and add a border. It didn't cure the wonkiness, just hid some of it.
We finally got it tied, even though it fought us, tooth and nail!! Before the day was done, it was trimmed from it's batting and it already has the binding made (variegated yellows, oranges, reds)/ We had named it Rainbow Sherbet, but after giving us a hard time today, we gave it an alias "Frustration is Fine".
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| Rainbow Sherbet aka "Frustration is Fine" |
These blocks were brought in by Janet and Delaney (our design artist) played with them for a while. The two different choices were difficult until she took a photo of it and turned it into black and white. Then we knew immediately which blocks to change and we'll go with the design on the right.
This is another quilt top done by Janet, "Blue Moon" (although because Election day is on Tues of next week, someone called it the "Blue Wave"). Kathy machine sewed 1/4" around the 'moons and when it came back to the meeting, we took out the basting stitched and pins, trimmed the batting only, then rolled the backing to become the binding. Finished and was able to be Blessed at Sunday's service.
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| "Blue Moon" aka "Blue Wave" |
Last but not least, THIS is the jar quilt. It was a homework project many, many years ago, but because it had no pattern, (except in my head), we had to let it 'develop. After making MANY individual jars, we had to whittle it down to what could fit on our 'pantry shelves'. Then we had to plan the empty spaces between the jars. We even planned for eventually putting in a cricket and a moth and a spider web and a ruffle on the top of the cupboard. We had put it away every year (our minds had to culminate/ruminate on the next steps,..... )…. So this fall we decided to do SOMETHING on it every month until it's done.
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| Jar Quilt |
