Keen Bunch of Quilters

Hi Everyone:

Last night a keen bunch of quilters weathered the 'storm' and made it to the meeting. Allison and Barbara have been working hard putting together a pile of fabrics and a pattern for our next raffle quilt. We have almost 2 1/2 years to work on this - good thing too as we need over 200 squares!!! Allison had prepared the backing fabric and everyone was busy cutting fabric into strips. Now the work at home starts!

There was a small Show and Tell, but mostly everyone had brought only working supplies.

I finally finished

the scrappy, strippy quilt
for one of the moms at Elizabeth House.
That's 3 that members have finished now
and are ready to be delivered.
They were great fun to put
together and so easy!!

I also managed to finish
the work I started in the Fall at Bethany

Garner's "Creative Design
in Patchwork" workshop. I think,
maybe, possibly, I got my big toe
poking out of the 'box'!! It was
lots of fun and more work than I
thought. It's kinda hard not
cutting straight, not matching
seams and corners!

And here's Allison, who NEVER has problems getting out of the box! You can't see it, but her beautiful Sashiko has buttons and is beaded. Beautiful!!!

And, Mary, with her gorgeousl quilting!!

So I guess that about covers last night's meeting. For me it's the first time back since before Christmas and it was wonderful to see everyone!!!! It's great fun when we're all working on a common project!!! Don't forget the meeting is next week, Feb. 7th. See you then!!

Sandra