June 2013 - We're Back

Welcome to the Sew Quilty blog! I thought it would be great to have a place where we could display the pictures of projects from our group's Show & Tell. Not everyone is able to make it to our meetings each month due to conflicts of schedule or like Sharon and some of our other regular members, they moved! Now those that can't attend our meetings can get inspired and keep up to date with what we are doing. Those that have moved or can't attend can send me pictures to post of what quilting or sewing projects they are working on. We'd love to hear from them.

June's gathering at Laurel's was fantastic! That is where we will be holding our meetings unless Laurel is out of town and then we will meet at my house (Sharon's old place). We had 8 members come to our first meeting since we took our long break. There were lots of great projects shared (even finished!) and ideas and inspiration gathered.

Melinda gave us a great demonstration on a super easy quilt block using 2 1/2" strips from jelly rolls.
1. Sew 5 of your 40" strips together. Make a bunch of sets of these.
2. Now you have a 10" x 40" rectangle of strips. Cut that into 4 - 10" x 10" blocks. Make a bunch of these.
3. Place two 10" squares right sides facing and the direction of the strips perpendicular to each other.
4. Sew around the perimeter of the squares.
5. Cut the sewn squares diagonally from corner to corner so that you now have 4 new quilt blocks.

You can play with the direction of the  new blocks or with what order you place the fabrics in the 5 strips. Here is a link to a tutorial I found online: http://www.107quilts.com/2011/09/sew-modern-bee-october-tutorial-string.html

Our next meeting is on July 23, 2013 at 7pm at Laurel's house. If you need an address or want to send me digital photos of your projects, then e-mail me (Caren) at CDMRHSF97@GMAIL.COM.

Here are some quilts from Show & Tell that night. The owners of these can send me an e-mail if they want and give me a description to put under the pictures. Sorry I did not get all of the projects from the night and I only had my phone camera so they aren't that great. Next meeting I'll bring my camera.