Six Week Until Our Quilt Show - EXPO 2015

This is the poster designed by our newest member Priscilla. She certainly did a terrific job.

Come to our Show and see all our quilts.

Our meeting last night concerned our show. Things are coming together, but still more work to do. 

We still had some Show and Tell.

 This is Allison whipping her charity quilt around. She didn't like machine quilting with thick polyester batting.

Another work of art from Allison and a great use of some of her button collection.

  A mystery quilt Linda did with the Beaconsfield Guild. It's going in their show, the same weekend as ours, but will be hanging vertically.

 The back of Linda's Mystery quilt shows her progresses from stitch in the ditch!

 Linda showed her now completely finished Jinny Beyer's quilt. It is going in our the show.

Roz made  two table runners using different rulers. She had  received the suggestion from some of us that she didn't need all the circles...... but she didn't listen and it looks great.

This gentle curve runner will grace Roz's own table.

Fruits and Veggies

       Last night there were six intrepid quilters who braved the snow and the wind to learn about Barbara's fruit and vegetable printing. She showed us how she prints but didn't do the actual printing there, as it is too messy! The fruit and vegetables should be firm  but not too hard to get good texture. She had prints with acrylic paints on different fabrics and paper. She usually tries a paper print first before using fabric. One thing Barbara showed was that much experimentation is needed to get your vision printed.

Carrots and Parsnips

Many pears with some over printed with bronze

These are designs carved in potatoes and printed on fabric

A group of geraniums printed on paper

Cauliflower

More cauliflower; red and green

Broccoli looks like cauliflower but with more texture on the top

Delicious Red Apples

Citrus; Lemons and Clementines

Over printing

Peppers, parsnips, cauliflower and mushrooms used for printing

Apple, pears, clementine and mushrooms

Listening intently to Barbara's explanations

Thank you Barbara for a very interesting demo. She handed out a tip sheet explaining what she did so we will wait to see who has extra fruit and veggies at home and fabric to print. 

Then there was some show and tell.

Mary T shows off her "Insect" batik quilt top

Mary S had some little boxes

Rita had another quilt top ready for a baby quilt.

Our show, Quilt Expo is in less than two months so there is lots of work to do!

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