February Meeting

The Sassies met on February 9 at Mozelle Wilson's home. We celebrated a birthday, had some show and tell, and learned various methods of sewing binding on to finish a quilt. Here's a picture of Dolly looking at the many fat quarters she received.



Estela turned in a little lap quilt to be quilted as a donation quilt. We will be making donation quilts again this year, but have not decided on who the recipient group will be. We know that we plan on making some bed-sized quilts to have on hand for whenever we hear that some family has lost their home to a fire or in a natural disaster.



Eva is showing us the pieced back of a quilt that she made.



This is the front of the quilt that Eva made. She used blocks that were hand-embroidered by Diane Purcell's mom. This would make a great quilt for a child who loves farm animals.



Debbie Vaughn almost always has a quilt to show, and this month was no exception. The pattern is called Mexican star, and is done in some lovely blue fabrics.


Essie is another one of our very productive quilters. She made this quilt using the pattern that Diane Purcell showed us last year. The block is first pieced, then cut, and you get two blocks at the same time. When the blocks are sewn together, they form a pinwheel pattern and a secondary pattern too.


The Sassies put together a lovely box of fat quarters for Estela to show their appreciation for her having been the group's leader last year. The box is beautiful, too. This box is a smaller version of the box that Mozelle used to hold the goodies that went into the "mystery box" that was raffled at the group's Christmas dinner. Estela was the winner of that box, too! And she loves all the goodies in it.


Here's a picture of a beautiful hand-made card crafted by Susan Moore and signed by all the Sassies. The card accompanied the thank you gift given to Estela.


Speaking of Susan, here's another of her gorgeous quilts. This one is done in browns, turquoise, and cream. The pinwheels in this quilt also form a secondary pattern. Beautiful!

Most of the meeting was taken up by the lesson given by Susan, Meg, and Eva on how to make sharp mitered corners on binding, and how to join binding ends when finishing a quilt. I didn't take any pictures of the lesson in progress, but it was a very useful exercise.

Sassies' November Meeting

The Sassies met on November 11 at Mozelle's house. And it was a full house! The pictures shown below are not in the order that the meeting went, but here goes. Susan showed us three Christmas cards that she made. They are so elegant!

This picture does not show the "sparkles" that Susan added to this lovely tree.

Cardinals are so cheery, especially in the dark of winter, when tree branches are bare and brown, and suddenly you see the flash of red as they dart about.

Meg showed us this little baby quilt that she made, using machine-embroidered blocks.

Eva and Estela are experiencing some health issues, and the Sassies surprised them with prayer shawls at this meeting. Estela was teary eyed when she read all the good wishes and prayers inscribed by each of the Sassies who helped make the shawls. Some time ago Eva designed a block that she hopes to get published in a magazine, and that block was used to make her prayer shawl. It's obvious the Sassies know Eva and Estela well, because the colors picked for each of their shawls reflect the recipient's taste so wel!

These are the prayer shawls, being held out for all to admire.

Susan has finished her sampler block, and decided to sash each block so as to set it apart and keep it from blending into neighboring blocks. The quilt top is gorgeous!

Below, Susan is holding up the back side of a quilt made my Essie. The quilt back shows a cowboy about to draw his six-shooters. Some lucky grandson is in for a warm winter!

This is the front of Essie's quilt.

Debbie made doll clothes for her granddaughter's baby doll. That will be a well-dressed dolly!

Debbie also made a backpack for her granddaughter.

Even after all the time spent in making doll clothes, Debbie had time to make this star quilt. The star is appliqued in the center. Love those colors!

Mozelle and Dolly are holding up two more lap quilts for our donation project.

Mozelle shows off her Tree of Life block that will go into her sampler quilt. Not all the quilters attempted this block--the half-square triangles are small, and require careful piecing in order to make up the right dimension. Beautiful!

Houston Quilt Show pictures

I went to the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas, last week. Here are pictures of some of the quilts displayed there. If you'd like to see the official Virtual Tour of the quilt show, go to the website www:quilts.com and click on the red shoe icon. The Virtual Tour has pictures of the prize winning quilts, as well as many of the entries I did not photograph. Enjoy!