February 2020 General Meeting

Updates

• Sew Day set for 3/14/2020 at the Congressional Church
  • please bring extension cords and/or power strips to help with power
• QuiltCon update – shared most up to date photo from Mo
• Lynne volunteered to do Marche BOTEOM due in May
• Mickey told us about the oldest and biggest quilt festival, the International Quilt Festival happening in Houston this year from October 29th to November 1st: http://www.quilts.com/quilt-festival-houston.html
• Members shared their completed Timna Tarr workshop quilts:

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  A few of our @timnatarr maps workshop attendees finished their maps! Every map is unique both in location and the technique they chose to use for their top. Great finishes!

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Member Spotlight: Terry Pohle

Terry Pohle kicked off our first member spotlight.T erry took us on a journey from some of her first quilts in traditional piecing through her newer modern quilts. She talked about her favorite thing to do while quilting: make it bigger! She showed some enormous quilts! Terry shared over 23 quilt tops and tons of blocks yet to go into a quilt top. At the end she shared her sketchbook, which she uses to doodle possible quilt designs. We were all impressed with the breadth of work from Terry and loved learning more about her quilting life.

A member asked Terry “When is the last time you bought fabric?” Terry’s answer was, of course, “Yesterday!” For images of some of Terry’s quilts, see our Instagram post:

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Today we started doing Member Highlights and our first was @tsmithp. Terry took us on a journey from some of her first quilts in traditional piecing through her newer modern quilts (pictures go in reverse timeline). In slide 7 you can see her talking about her favorite thing to do while quilting: make it bigger! She showed some enormous quilts! She shared over 23 quilt tops and tons of blocks. At the end she shared her sketchbook, which she uses to doodle possible quilt designs. We were all impressed with the breadth of work from Terry and loved learning more about her quilting life.

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BOTEOM

We voted from three color palettes and “Fabulous Colors 2” won the group vote for May 2020 BOTEOM. Kona Gold (golden brown) Kona Ochre (golden yellow/mustard), Kona Caribbean (turquoise blue), and Kona Terracotta (rust/burnt orange) with Kona Eggshell as background fabric:

Dear SBABBY,

Isabelle shared her great pattern testing of Cotton and Bourbon’s Indigo Radial pattern. https://www.instagram.com/p/B8T4_OKHlTr/

Sew and Tell

• Desiree shared her Alison Glass quilt for her daughter: https://www.instagram.com/p/B8LO86FnHMx/
• Laura shared her PVQA entry: https://www.instagram.com/p/B8LPHdJHX0S/
• Pam called her own quilt “dull” and promised us her next will be “gaudy” with lots of brights. We still thought it was typical Pam – amazing: https://www.instagram.com/p/B8LPQK6nf4Z/
• Jeannie showed the first BOTEOM finish of 2020! She said that this is one of the few quilts that she has made that she decided to keep. https://www.instagram.com/p/B8LPeCJH11G/
• Elizabeth shared an incredible fabric bowl featuring the colored houses in Capitola. https://www.instagram.com/p/B8LP3IAHDkY/
• Anna shared her bright and beautiful hexi-poppies! https://www.instagram.com/p/B8LQMteH6n3/
• Eileen shared a baby quilt top that will be finished and given away soon. She also shared a block from a sampler she has been working on. https://www.instagram.com/p/B8LQbWAnyDL/
• Regina shared a mini quilt, where she described her process of “quilting” as “stabbing” her beautiful quilt top. She so minimally wanted to alter it that she finished the whole quilt with just 8 lines of quilting and pondered “how do you bring yourself to finish your quilts? Can you stop at just the top because that’s the part you enjoy?” Yes. Yes, you can. Regina is also learning how to free motion quilt by making some little birdies. https://www.instagram.com/p/B8LQx9InUzy/
• Leslie shared her MQG block finish with great contrasting blues. https://www.instagram.com/p/B8LRRX7Hr81/
• Susan finished a weaving mini from a workshop by our own Isabella. https://www.instagram.com/p/B8LRcpvnOFI/