February Meeting and New Name!

We met at Mozelle's house to cut fabric into 2.5 inch strips using the Accuquilt Fabric Cutter. We made almost 50 bundles of 6 strips each! We took bundles home to make into 8.5 inch blocks that will be used in making lap-sized quilts for wheelchair patients. Haven't decided where we will donate these--there are so many organizations that need these--Washington Regional will be setting up a hospice facility, the Veterans hospital, children's hospital, etc.

We changed our name! We are now the Sassy Quilters. Mozelle made it a point that you have to have quilted at least one quilt to call yourself a quilter, but thank goodness that we all qualified under that test! Of course Mozelle has outquilted everyone!

Looks like we are going forward with our sampler quilt. Estela will bring the patterns for everyone to the March meeting, so everyone will have a chance to go through their stash to see what fabrics they will want to use and what they'll need to get. We'll work on the first block in April. We've modified the pattern to include some blocks that will provide a teaching opportunity. For example, in place of one of the blocks from the pattern, we will use a block that has "Y" seams so that everyone can learn how to do this. We'll also make an applique block to each everyone about the different ways of doing applique--by hand or by machine.

Sassy Sewers--Who We Are, What We Do

We are a group of friends who gather monthly to quilt, to learn, to socialize, and to share tips and techniques for improving our quilting. We make quilts for ourselves and to donate to local charities such as the battered women's shelter. Sometimes we donate quilts to non-profit groups to use for their fundraising efforts.

In December 2010, we donated 14 quilts to Peace at Home, the NW Arkansas battered women's shelter. We made the quilts from fabric that had been given to the group. The fabric was cut and organized into color-coordinated "jelly rolls" containing approximately 40 strips. Each member of the group took one of the jelly rolls and made a quilt using a pattern of her choosing. In another post I hope to publish pictures of the donation quilts.

Sassy Sewers

This is the first post for a blog I have started for a group of quilters in NW Arkansas. In it I hope to post pictures of our meetings, pictures of quilts we make, and the dates/topics of future meetings. I hope that other members of the group will send in pictures and ideas to be included in this blog.

We met for the first time in 2011 on January 13. This was our organizational meeting for the year, and so far we plan to work on donation quilts in February and March. After that, we will work on quilt blocks for our own use.