October 2016 Show and Tell
Betty Ann Tyree – Scraps Comfort quilt
Kristin Farwig, Loretta Twiford and Guild Members – Pinwheels Comfort quilt (pinwheels pieced by members, top and binding sewn by Kristin, quilting by Loretta)
Kathy Martin – Hot Tamale quilt (Round Robin)
Tam McBride – Red Sky at Night #2 quilt
Laurie Lyons – Baby Quilt with Cars and Trucks
Laurie Lyons – Baby Quilt with Animals
Carol Sheldon – Modern Art Quilt
Ruth Ann Assaid – Appalachian Mountain Memories
Susan Kraterfield – Blue Scraps Quilt back
Susan Kraterfield – Blue Scraps Quilt
September 2016 – Girl Scout Troop 1129 Charity Quilt Presentation
The troop decided to make a quilt as part of their Silver Award for Girl Scouts. They used a fabric kit donated by the Star Quilters Guild. They machine – pieced the top, laid it out and basted the layers with safety pins, had a Star Quilter’s guild member (and mother of one of the girls) machine quilt the top — then they hand-sewed the binding. They will donate the quilt back to the guild for it to be a part of the Star Quilter’s Guild charity quilt program.
Comfort Quilts: Beach Balls Kits
Ladies,
Thank you so much for helping with the charity kits that we call “Beach Balls” for short. Use the link to Pellon’s Divide & Conquer free tutorial for help piecing the kits, but……… We have added a little extra.
On the 4 1/2″ corner squares we have drawn two stitching lines. (This is where we get the triangles for the pinwheel quilts ) ******* you must place the shorter line towards the corner that will be trimmed off. Stitch on the drawn lines with 2.0mm or 2.5mm stitch length.
— Betty Ann
October 2016 Newsletter of the Star Quilters Guild
Quilting Theater :)
Quilts for Pulse Charity Drive
The Orlando, Florida Modern Quilt Guild solicited heart blocks and quilts to give to the victims and victim’s families of The Pulse nightclub shootings that occurred on 6/12/16. Dawn Schaben in our guild organized the effort for our guild to participate. Many members made blocks and 3 quilts were completed from these blocks. Dawn will be sending them to Orlando. Here are photos of the three quilts. For further information, please see: https://themodernquiltguild.wordpress.com/2016/06/14/quiltsforpulse-charity-drive-with-the-orlando-mqg/
Red Hearts quilt for victims of The Pulse nightclub shooting.
Multi-colored Hearts quilt for victims of The Pulse nightclub shooting.
Another multi-colored Hearts quilt for victims of The Pulse nightclub shooting.
Show and Tell – September 12, 2016
Donna Watts – Scrap block charity quilt
Donna Watts – flower motif on back of quilt
Enlarged photograph taken by Susan Kraterfield of a Dale Chihuly glass sculpture. A copy of this photo was cut up into 5 pieces as shown by the drawn lines. Five members of the Starry Eyed Quilters each made a quilt of their section.
The finished ‘fractured’ quilt, in sections. From left to right, the makers are Ann Weaver, Linda Badger, Sue Berry and Donna Kittleson. The bottom section was made by Kristin Farwig.
Ann Weaver describing our group creation.
Judy Coffman – Bookend Cats quilt.
Ginny Vaden – Peacock quilt.
Ginny Vaden -back of Peacock quilt.
Ginny Vaden – Fisherman’s quilt.
Ginny Vaden – back of Fisherman’s quilt.
Ginny Vaden – Bird Lover’s quilt.
Ginny Vaden – back of Bird Lover’s quilt.
Ginny Vaden – ‘Quillow’ quilt, folded.
Ann Ware – Farm Girl quilt.
Gisela O’Connor – Imperial Splendor quilt.
Ann Weaver – Lavender and grey modern quilt.
Kristin Farwig – crazy quilt top made with red crazy pieced blocks won at guild meeting and made by guild members. Thank you to everyone who made a block! I will be donating this quilt as a comfort quilt. It will be quilted by Ann Weaver.
Kristin Farwig – Pathways quilt. Original design using my hand dyed fabrics. I dyed a color wheel but grayed the colors by adding a little bit of black, thereby creating ‘shades’.
September 2016 Newsletter of the Star Quilters Guild
Pineapple Blocks for Raffle Quilt
The Raffle Quilt will be constructed from member contributed paper pieced Pineapple blocks to be raffled at the 2017 ‘Pieces of Our Lives’ Quilt Show. Each Pineapple block is composed of 4 blocks. Members that contribute blocks do not need to put together the entire Pineapple, just make the 4 (or more!) quarter blocks. Kits will be assembled and distributed which will contain the red fabrics and a blue fabric for the center; members should contribute light colored fabrics for the remainder of the blocks.
Kathy Wickam and Cathy Russell displaying the Pineapple blocks for the 2017 Quilt Show Raffle Quilt.
Kathy Wickham explaining how the Pineapple blocks will look.
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