May Meeting

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The May meeting was held on May 8th at Marcia's house.  Present were Meg, Marcia, Estela, Susan, Cyndi, Sylvia, Debbie, and Sheila.  Cyndi and Sheila hosted, and brought yummy chicken salad sandwiches on croissants, and a very rich chocolate fudge cake. Thanks, ladies!

After visiting awhile, we had show-and-tell.

Marcia showed her finally-finished Thursday project, a Bow-Tie Quilt.

 

Susan made this lovely quilt in a pink-and-gray theme for a very lucky baby!

Then it was Estela's turn, and she brought several things she had made while she was in Texas.
She began with her Faith, Hope, and Love quilts, hand done with wool and wool felt.  They are lovely!

This bright quilt has inset circles.  We thought it looked like a representation of planets.

This gorgeous quilt is paper-pieced.  What a great wall-hanging for spring!

She made this quilt as a practice piece of curved piecing and free-motion embroidery.

This masterpiece has fusible applique and free-motion embroidery with thread-painting as well.

Then Cyndi showed off a photo of her new baby-- a treadle that she has wanted for quite awhile and finally found.  It is a Singer Sphinx in a parlor cabinet that is truly beautiful.

Sheila showed a sample of what would have been tonight's project, a really cute apron made from recycled jeans. Cyndi made one, also. Due to a few broken needles, they changed their minds about using it as our project.

Then we played a game of  "Guess that Quilting Acronym."  Most of them eluded us, but there were lots of laughs when Sheila revealed their true meanings! Then to start the project, the ones who got the most correct answers got to pick first from a batch of jelly rolls, and after everyone had one, Sheila explained that our project was to each make a small Jelly Roll Race Quilt from our chosen jelly roll.  She showed a similar quilt, called a Jelly Roll Race 2; and we were off to the races!

Although there are no photos of the finished quilt tops, they all turned out to be interesting in their own ways.  I'm sure we will see most of them enlarged, quilted, and bound before long, although some may becomes WISPs (works in slow progress.)

Meg reported that Glynis took several of our donation quilts to Vilonia to help the tornado victims.

The Thursday group has decided to postpone our road trip to Branson for a few weeks, due to scheduling conflicts.

The next meeting will be June 12th.

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