August meeting

 We started with Show & Tell, and there was a lot to show!

Jean's table runner with crazy patches.

Ruth made this quilt from a Roxanne pattern using a light background and the same fabric a friend used with her dark background.  Ruth says the quilts are very different.

Hope found this quilt at a garage sale for $20. It was so yellow that she put it in her bathtub for 2 days with Oxyclean and color catchers.  Now it's whiter than this photo makes it appear.

Leslie made this collage quilt using her cat as inspiration.

Jean wowed us all with the number of quilts she's finished this past month.

One for donation.

 Above is the front of one we've seen before quilting.  And to the right is the back side of the same quilt.  Nice use of orphan blocks.

I remember being impressed with these blocks earlier this year and now they are quilted.

 Here's another finished quilt.

This one was from our recent red, white and blue challenge.

 And yet another!

For the rest of the evening we ate ice cream and played bingo.  

The table holds the prizes.

NEXT WEEK!

From Leslie: 

First--the meeting will be in our usual location, the blue building, as the Phinney Community Center is postponing the floor refinishing to next year.

We will be playing bingo--and having ice cream. For prizes, we are each bringing one--something we made, or was made by someone else or a sewing notion(s).

Next month is still an open month--nothing planned. If no ideas come up at the meeting--then we'll just gather and have a sew in.

October is the Aufful--and I believe we are still looking for someone to chair this.

November - holiday gift project ideas--a chair is needed for this.

December - holiday party--and a chair is still needed for this as well.

Challenge Project - The first place option is to pay $5 for a yard of solid fabric. So, I will gather funds this month and next--and have project bags with the fabric and a quilt square pattern ready for November (I don't want to hand them out on Aufful month--too much other fabric flying about). Connecting Threads raised their prices--but often have solids, or near solids on sale for less than $5 a yard, so I suspect I can get enough different colors that way.

Second in line was using a yard of fabric from your stash to make an item--which we would then exchange. Maybe we could do this one next year.