September Meeting

The Sassies met at Mozelle's house on September 13, which incidentally was the four-month anniversary of my kidney transplant. I'm doing really well, and I feel great. I am very blessed to have received this gift of renewed life.

We had 12 members present, and here are their pictures (except mine; I forgot to have someone snap me).  As you can see, everyone was hard at work. Mary Ann was our hostess for the evening, and she is shown standing in front of the blocks that were pieced for that night's project. The block consisted of a square with small triangles sewn to opposite corners. When the blocks are arranged in the proper orientation, you get the effect of a star.

Here is Diane Baker. You can't read the sign on the bulletin board behind her, but it's a picture of fabric and scissors and it reads "Fabric Slut"

Diane Purcell and Susan

 Essie taking a break.

 Debbie, Mozelle and Meg cutting squares and arranging the blocks.

 Joyce busy sewing.

 Marcia was doing hand work.

 Mary Ann supervising the night's project.

 Sylvia, Debbie and part of Mozelle, as welll as the back of Susan's and Diane P's heads.

Mary Ann provided the snacks as well as the project, and the coconut bread was to die for, as were the lemon-flavored cupcakes. Thank you, Mary Ann!

We had only one birthday, and that was new/returning member Sharon. Unfortunately, she was not able to make it. Sharon, don't be too shy to ask for your birthday fat quarters when you come to the next meeting.

SHOW AND TELL

I am amazed at the productivity and creativity that shows up, month after month.

Diane Baker first showed us a framed piece of art that her granddaughter Kindsay drew when she was 8 years old.

Diane then translated that drawing into fabric, and made a quilt of it. The picture does not do it justice, but she included all the details, including the jewelry on the little girls, the lady bugs flying above the tree, and a bird flying in the distance. Notice the wonderfully expressive face of the sun! The chains of the swings are actual chains with tiny links!



Essie made a delightful little baby quilt, which she finished with prairie points. They add a lot of color and texture, and I'm sury the lucky baby will enjoy playing with the prairie points.



This is another of Essie's quilt. She's so productive with her time and energy! This one forms multiple secondary patterns, depending on which colors you focus on. I love the bright colors! Pink and black are so "in" just now.

And this is the back of the pink and black quilt. Essie pieced the back together, thereby making good use of pieces that were otherwise too small for backing.



Meg had lots of show and tell because she decided a couple of weeks ago to complete some of her UFO's. When you finish a UFO, do you call it a FO?

This newly finished quilt is one that Meg calls her "ugly fabric" quilt. None of us thought the fabrics were ugly! It was agreed, however, that it is more of a man's quilt. I believe this is one of several she is planning on giving away to nieces and nephews at her upcoming family reunion.

 This one, another possible reunion giveaway, is from a pattern called "Sliced Twice, Isn't It Nice." The reds and greens would sort of make it look like a Christmas theme, but the blue fabrics add some punch and take it out of the seasonal category.

This, of course, is a drunkard's path quilt. Kind of a funny quilt for a teetotaler to make, don't you think? And how would a recipient feel about getting one? "Are you trying to tell me something?"

And another drunkard's path, this one with a white background.

After she made the large white drunkard's path, Meg had enough blocks to make this small quilt. I told her that little quilt would be suitable as a gift for a little drunkard--hint hint! But she didn't agree!

Here Meg is shown holding up the table runner made from some fabric that Estela found at a garage sale. It was a striped fabric and Susan had found a pattern for cutting striped fabric in such a way that you get the effect of parallel lines that meet at a point. Susan has made several of these runners and showed us how they are cut, but of course none of us remembered how to do it, so we asked Susan to cut as many as she could from the garage sale fabric and she was gracious enough to do it. I want to say that we got maybe six or seven runners out of it, plus some small hexagonal place mats, also shown below.

Marcia, not to be outdone by sister Meg, had two beautiful quilts to show.  This one is a courthouse steps quilt, which she made from a bag of strips that she bought at our recent auction. Way to go, Marcia; that's really recyling/reusing/repurposing.

I believe this is a donation quilt that Marcia made. The tartan plaids add a lot of pizzazz to this little quilt.

In July, a group of us got together at Meg's house on a Saturday morning to do some fabric dying. Sylvia used her hand-dyed fabrics to make this stunning stained glass quilt. The colors are strikingly rich. The mottling of the dyes makes it look just like stained glass that has light shining from behind it, doesn't it?

Joyce made this bright quilt with all the hot new colors--black, pink, and lime green. I love the piano key border. It takes some pretty precise piecing to make one of those borders and have it lie straight. Joyce quilted this herself.

Good show, ladies! Looking forward to next month's show and tell!