Brenda Daniels, our co-president is back from her mission.

Debbie Schoolcraft reported that the State Guild in Utah—which we are a part of, is offering scholarships to children who are learning how to quilt—so, if we are helping children learn to quilt, we can apply for the scholarship on their behalf. We must first join the quilt guild
for Utah.

Debbie is selling fat quarters at $3 each. The money goes to support the scholarships and help pass along a love for quilting.

Quilt fest will be held in October again next year. We need to turn in quilts by the end of August. The challenge is to get into our stashes and make a quilt with 1000 different fabrics. Debbie says a potato chip quilt is a great pattern for this, but she also likes using a log cabin pattern.

Volunteers from the nominating committee will be making phone calls to see who wants to fill each position for next year.

Sharon Harris Broke her hand. A dog knocked her over. She also had eye surgery.

The luncheon committee for November is:

Audrey Jaussi Tammy Benson

Athena Boel Sharon Harris

Sherry Schwartz Sherri Wangsgard

Show and tell:

Brenda Daniels made a quilt with a different block made each month, plus a quilt with 6,000 pieces so far.

Sharon Harris explained a table runner for next month—she will teach a quilt square, and we can make as many squares as we want to. They can be made into hot pads or runners for gifts.

Mary Ellen told us about making hearts to place randomly around. They have been left all over the world. She is sharing the patten.

Her niece had twins at 28 weeks. They were very tiny. Their names are Jackson and Owen. One boy has had two surgeries so far, and he’s about ready to go home. She made them each a quilt using flannel patchwork on one side with Minky on the back.

Shara made squares of all different blocks and put them together with several different colors

Nila showed us a quilt we tied last month and a very cute dog quilt.

Debbie made quilts for her grandchildren. One quilt was pink, one was a cheerleader quilt, another was for sports, and one for outer space.

Rosie got quilt blocks from her mother when she passed away and made quilts and throw pillows out of them.

Nita Workman made a 9-patch quilt with flowers.

Debbie Schoolcraft made an applique and block quilt.

Tina Bullcreek pieced a native American quilt for her son. 

Cindy Gevas made a housewarming quilt for her new neighbor. She is making 18 squares with appliqued gnomes to exchange with 17 other people. She also made small Halloween pillows and embroidered dish towels.

Machine Embroidery Class—

taught by Rosalie Silvester

Supplies:

Stiff linen fabric

An embroidery hoop—used backward

Paper for stabilizing

#10 needle

Machine embroidery thread—multiple colors

A pattern you wish to embroider—iron on is easiest but a pattern can be traced on

She puts the pattern onto the fabric and places the design into an embroidery hoop—upside down, with the paper to stabilize the fabric. 

Rosie uses colored embroidery thread for the top, with a white bobbin. The white bobbin thread does not show through. Then she lowers the feed dogs on her machine and uses a zig zag stitch. With the feed dogs lowered and the tension loosened, she can move the fabric around to fill in the design. 

She makes beautiful embroidery just like free motion quilting only following the pattern on the fabric and filling in the pictures with zig zag. Rosie changes the top thread every time she wants to add another color. This is like a Paint By Number painting.

Hand Embroidery Class— 

taught by Mary Ellen Knudsen and Hailee Hanks

An assortment of hand embroidery thread

Hand embroidery needles

Cloth

Designs

Embroidery hoop

Hailee handed out cards with all the basic hand embroidery stitches. She showed us her shoes, which she had hand embroidered.

She likes to order kits from a company named Clever Poppy. She also showed us stickers with designs on them for beginners, which you stick it on your fabric and then embroider the design right through the sticker and remove the sticker afterward.

Some patterns use three strands of thread, while others will require all six threads to make the design thicker.