On October 3 the Crocus Quilters met and there were 34 attending (including some guests,) plus 6 members on Zoom.
Program Presenter
We were so pleased to have Christa Marcotte of Second Story Quilting as our guest presenter and she showed some of her extremely creative quilting. Her stories and explanations of the pieces were really interesting. Christa enjoys doing Challenges and over the years a number of her pieces have been chosen to travel. Some of her quilting is shown below.
Christa is showing an appliqued “Cat” wall hanging with lots of pieces and very striking eyes!
Christa has participated in a number of “Cherrywood Challenges” over the years and each of these Challenges has a different theme and a bundle of their fabrics that must be used in the quilted item. Christa’s creativity shines through in her Van Gogh night scene shown below and her quilting looks like brush strokes!
Other “Cherrywood” Challenge pieces that have been chosen are “Prince – Purple Rain”, “Bob Ross”, “Princess Diana”, and below, “Graffiti”. Her latest success is “Monarch” which will debut in Houston this fall. What an amazing quilter!
Show and Tell
Once again we had a wonderful variety of quilting shown by our members.
Ruth B. showed a cute “Halloween” wall hanging that she pieced and quilted. The pattern is a Sew-a-long that was taught by Pat Sloan on her You Tube channel. There was a block per week.
Ruth also showed another wall hanging, “The Nativity” from Mount Redoubt Designs that Ruth pieced, did the raw edge applique, and then quilted. This was her first try at free motion quilting. Ruth plans to add some embellishments such as beads and sparkles. Ruth used the suggested colours and she made this for someone who contacted the Moose Jaw Guild.
Continuing with the Christmas theme, Leanne A. showed a cute lap/double size quilt that was a UFO. She had this panel and she wanted to finish it for Christmas. She found a picture of the “U-Turn” Borders and she then gave it a try. The backing is flannel. The quilting is circles and stripes using her Westalee rulers, and she did free motion stars.
Trudi G. has been busy getting ready for Regina’s Winter Green where she will be selling items. We were happy to have a preview of some of her work. She quilted the set of placemats using the sawtooth star pattern. She loves the golds and greys together and the fabric features owls and a woods motif. She also showed some bags that she designed herself. The fabric is her ice dying and the bags could be cases for ipads or laptops.
Trudi also showed a table runner with a sawtooth star design. She is drawn to aqua and turquoise these days and she also likes the more non-traditional Christmas fabrics and colours. This piece is also for her Winter Green sale.
Shelley H. made this cute “Welcome” wall hanging below for friends who were celebrating their 25th Anniversary. It is for their home at the lake, and the lake theme is shown in the dragonfly border and the appliqued pictures. Shelley added some cute embellishments.
Eva Z. continues to keep busy quilting! She will give a quilt to each of her four daughters. The first quilt she showed is a scrappy star design. She used scrap fabrics from her closet. Eva does her own quilting. Congratulations to Eva for winning this month’s UFO draw!
Eva showed two hand embroidered Christmas quilts that she has finished, one with nine blocks and one with ten embroidered blocks. The blocks are such cute Christmas and farm scenes. She added the red borders and sashing to make the two beautiful wall hangings.
Eva’s fourth quilt is a scrappy Christmas one made with octagons of striped triangles to give a very attractive design with the background yellow stars.
Diana S. showed a lovely “Starry Log Cabin” lap quilt that she made for her granddaughter who loves horses. The “Jordan’s Fabric” is so appropriate for the horse theme. The backing is brown minky. Diana’s friend, Jane, did the long arm quilting.
The Guild is gearing up for a busy October with some Sewing Days, a weekend Retreat at Circle Square Ranch and a “Circles and Curves” Class. We look forward to seeing lots of Show and Tell in the future!
The next Guild meeting will be November 7! Happy Quilting!
Weyburn Crocus Quilt Guild 