Sassy Quilter's April Meeting

The Sassy Quilters met at Meg's house in April. It was a stormy night, but the faithful turned out. Present were Meg, Mozelle, Susan, Eva, Sheila, Diane B., Diane P., Cindy, Dolly, and Estela. The business portion of the meeting was fairly brief in case we lost power or had to leave early because of bad weather.

We worked on different ways of making half-square triangles (there will be a separate blog post on that topic). Although most Sassies had made the first block (Grandmother's Fan) of the sampler quilt, some of the ladies worked on their block during the meeting.

We were treated to a bevy of beautiful quilts during show and tell. It looks like a lot of you, especially Meg, have been very busy quilting. We did show and tell sort of a like "bed turning." The quilts had all been stacked on the bed, and when the top quilt had been admired and "oohed" and "ahhed" over, it was pulled off to reveal the next beauty. These are the quilts we saw.

This was Meg's quilt; she cut long strips of fabric and pieced them randomly. Note that each vertical column has one single four patch randomly placed. Can you find the four patch in each strip?





This is a scrap quilt made solely from half square triangles. Meg quilted this for someone.

Meg made this framed four patch, using the same four patch in the center of each of the brightly covered blocks. It's very colorful!

This was made by one of Meg's "students" in another of her sewing groups. I believe this is a beginning quilter who made this. "Card trick" is not the easiest quilt for a beginner, but she did a beautiful job, especially in selecting her colors.

This quilt and the one below it use the same pattern, but in this quilt, the diagonals are sewn from black and white fabric, and the larger blocks are made using bright colors. At first glance, it's hard to see that it's the same quilt as the one below, which uses the opposite color scheme.

This quilt uses the same pattern as the one above, but in this one, the diagonals are made using bright colors, and the larger blocks use black and white fabrics. They are both stunning!

Another one of Meg's; this is a sort of windmill pattern. It's a four patch, and each piece is identical to the others. The twirling effect comesfrom the way the pieces are rotated.

Another one of Meg's quilts. This pattern is called Square in a Square 2; it looks complicated but is actually easy to piece.

Meg calls this quilt "Monkey Business." Doesn't it remind you of the kid's game that uses plastic monkeys that you try to string together by the hand? Meg says that all the pieces in this quilt are identical (2 different colored strips joined at a 45-degree angle, forming a rectangle). It looks a litle like another pattern called Snail's trail. This one is made in batiks.

Eva designed this block by playing around with 2-1/2 inch strips of coordinating colors. She and Susan are now working on a written description of how to make this block, with an eye toward publishing this in a quilt magazine. Way to go, Eva and Susan!

And this is Mozelle's beautiful cream and navy quilt. She's been making these blocks for the better part of the year, and now it's pieced! It's curved piecing and she did a fantastic job--notice how nice and flat it lies! Meg won't have any trouble quilting this one.

Hope to see you all at next month's meeting! We will be working on the second block if you haven't finished it by then; otherwise we will be starting on the applique motifs. Please bring your fabric to the meeting so that you can work on your block.