June Meeting

The Sassies met on June 9 at Mozelle's house. Everyone was there except for Estela, who was out of town on business (drat that work schedule!).

Looks like the Sassies have been really busy. Debbie made this intricate looking quilt called "Calico Crossing." It looks like the blocks intersect each other, sort of like chain-link fence. Very nice colors!

This is Susan's idea of a "scrappy" quilt. Looks really well coordinated to me, not at all scrappy. But she said that she used up a bunch of her blue, yellow and tan scraps--some of the pieces were just a few inches long! Terrific piecing, and great sense of color placement!

Susan made a red-white-black version of a quilt pattern that's been popular with the Thursday lunch bunch. The original pattern called black, white and brights forming the criss-cross pattern, but Susan used only red for the criss-cross. Look at this same quilt made by Mozelle (below).

This is Mozelle's black-white-bright crisscross quilt. I love the bright lines that go diagonally across this quilt. And notice that she made a piano-key border--you have to do very accurate piecing to get a border like that to lie flat!

Diane Baker made a beautiful baby quilt--lots of bright colors and a playful center panel. I didn't hear, but is this for a grandbaby?

Diane B's grandmother made this quilt and gave it to Diane's mother. Diane's mother has given it to Diane to quilt. It's such a nice feeling to hold something that goes back into family history. I know Diane's quilting will be lovingly done.

I told you the Sassies have been busy! Below Diane B. is pictured with a sampler quilt that she has finished. The blocks were made some time ago and Diane decided it was time to put them together. Samplers are a great way to experiment with a lot of different blocks.

Diane Purcell has finished piecing a scrappy little four-patch! Great way to use scraps, and the colors always seem to work together really well, even when you don't think they will.

Here's Mary Ann with her "north woods wildlife" quilt. That's my name for it; not sure what she calls it. The fantastic thing about this quilt is that there is NO paper piecing here. She's pieced those intricate-looking animals and houses the old-fashioned way--CAREFULLY!!!

The donation quilts are rolling in! The following 7 pictures show these lap-sized quilts in various patterns. Some are in the "framed 4-patch" pattern, but others used different patterns that could be made from the 2.5 inch strips that we cut up earlier this year.