Layton Quilt Guild

March 19, 2015  Guild meeting minutes

President Cindy Gerber-Chavez welcomed all to the meeting.  

Cindy told us that Kim Diehl had to cancel the classes she was going to teach our guild in the fall. Kim sent an email to Lorri Bashien apologizing and saying she has health issues that make it hard for her to travel to teach anymore. Lorri sent her back an email to say we are sorry she’s not coming but we understand. We all decided that next month members will come with ideas for new teachers and techniques we’d like to learn. Then we can discuss what to do with the money for a teacher.  There is a list of local teachers on the UQG website if we want to look for ideas. Cindy Hutchison explained that the teachers were chosen from many who filled out an application and were rated by people that had taken classes from them.

Our Treasurer Lorri Bashien gave us a report that we have $667.62 in checking.

Cindy Hutchison told us that the Springville Quilt Show is looking for entries. She passed around bookmarks/discount tickets for the Dixie Guild quilt show.  She reminded us to renew our UQG memberships and we would be entered into a drawing.

Cindy Gerber-Chavez asked for a few more people to volunteer for National Quilt Day Mar 20+21. She also reminded us to all come and support the other guilds as well as our own and to come and see all the beautiful quilts. She collected the quilts for display and the items to be sold at our guild table.

Nickey Greene told us to think of an idea for our next challenge “I heard it on vinyl.” We will start them in April and they will be due in October.

Denise Thalman said she will bring the patterns for the Easter row quilt next month. The list of participants will be in the newsletter.

 Joan Jensen took the fabric from those who had brought theirs and reminded everyone to bring their fabric next month. She will then give us each ours back from the exchange for both months. We all decided to continue doing the Kim Diehl fabrics because we may still do a class on one of her projects taught by one of us.

Ruth Davis told us about the plan for the star block swap. She passed out patterns for different ideas. These need to be 9 inch (finished size) blocks. White background only and bright colors for the star. We can make any block we want. We each need to make 12 blocks – 11 for the exchange and one to donate for a quilt for the senior center where we have our meetings. These are due at the April meeting.

Patsy Shelton said that HMQS needs more quilts for the show. We can enter them online at HMQS.org. The deadline is April 11^th. Patsy said she can take our quilts with her when she goes at the beginning of the week. We don’t have to deliver them earlier.

Nickey Greene has the OTT light for March.

UFO #7 is due next meeting.

Next meeting will be Thursday April 16^th at 1:00 pm. 

The sew-in for both April and May will be to make Happy Chemo quilts for Emily Bailey’s charity.  It will start at 10:00 am. Emily said we can just come and sew or cut or iron because she will have all the supplies there for us.








What did you bring for show and tell? Everyone had beautiful creations we can all enjoy so pleased don't hesitate to bring what you have created. I was out of town attending a sewing conference with my daughter. Here is my  show and tell hope you enjoy what I have created with more to come as this is the year I am going to try and finish a few things before buying new fabric and a new project. I hope I can stick to this goal. Sit back and enjoy these few projects.

Any one up for applique? Which is your favorite form of applique work, this sample is raw edge, what about needle turn, a decorative stitch the possibility are endless let your imagination create. 

Everyone's needs a mini ironing board that fits by there sewing machine.  When you are working on that special project and your crunched for time. The fun pockets in front help finding your sewing tools that much easier. 

A fun gift to give filled with something special in this quilt as you go project. What other fun projects can you think of where this type of pattern would be fun. The possibilities are endless. What a fun way to use up your scraps. 

Every child/person needs a fun robe. These were made using a every day towel. Make two and share the  extra to add a bit of something special to your fun surprise. Wouldn't these make fun swim suit covers. 

Hipster bag from Riley Blake back

What girls wouldn't love to have one of these made in her favorite colors to hold her special items close to her. 

I love how the zipper became part of the embellishments on the bag. 

Front of  Hipster bag

Come back soon where fun new items will be shared and creations to inspire you.

February quilt meeting

February 19, 2015  Guild meeting minutes

President Cindy Gerber-Chavez was unable to attend the meeting this month, so President- Elect Vivian Blotter welcomed all to the meeting.  

Our Utah Quilt Guild Rep Sandra John told us the green fabric for the new fundraiser at Quilt Fest will be available next meeting. We will be able to purchase the fabric for $4 and we use it to make a small quilt (40x40 or less.) They will also need to have a leaf embellished somewhere on the quilt. These will be auctioned off at Quilt Fest. The proceeds will go to aid in heart disease research. She told us that the UQG is asking each individual guild to make a red and white quilt to display at Quilt Fest in 2017.

Cindy Hutchison gave us more details about her charity for the year. She is collecting quilts to be donated to various women’s shelters throughout the state. There are quite a few shelters and they need lots of quilts. They need twin size (72x90) and crib size (45x60). We can donate ones we’ve made ourselves and she is holding a couple of sew-ins at K&H Quilt Shoppe in Kaysville. The dates are April 15^th and 22^nd. She passed around sign-ups to see who was interested. We can bring our own fabric or she will have plenty there. 10 inch squares of print fabrics and 5 ½ inch squares of solid fabrics.

The polka dot challenge items were displayed and everyone voted for their favorites. They were all awesome and the winner was Nickey Greene. She received a $10 gift card.

Denise Thalman collected the money to buy the patterns for the Easter row quilt.

We discussed the upcoming National Quilt Day. Vivian Blotter passed around sign-ups for: the mini quilt sale/auction, the quilt show entries, the make and take table (small needle cases), greeters, and our own guild table. Most of the slots were filled but a few were still open. We are asked to donate 3/8 to ½ inch buttons and felt for the needle cases.     

Joan Jensen passed around a sign up for the fabric exchange. We will be exchanging fat eighths of Kim Diehl fabric from March through August.

Jean Powell told us about the Round Robin she wants to do. She gave us some ideas about what we could do and she sent around a sign up to see who was interested and what option was preferred. The sign up will be passed around next month also.

Vivian Blotter has the OTT light for March.

UFO #2 is due next meeting.

Next meeting will be Thursday March 19^th at 1:00 pm. 

The sew-in will be to make Happy Chemo quilts for Emily’s charity.  It will start at 10:00 am. Vivian told us if we had 1 ½ yard pieces of fabric we didn't want we could give them to her to make more quilts for Emily.

Time of the best part of the meeting our show and tell: 

Our meeting started out with our State rep giving us information about the up coming events in the state guild. 

There was a lot of information to be shared, with questions to be answered. 

Vivvian shared with us what we will be doing for the annual quilt day for are make and take. We thank her for sharing her talents with us. 

We were inspired today as Jean explained to us how a round robin works and some of her amazing quilt from participating in this challenge. 

We were inspired by the polka dot challenge and the ladies shown as they shared with us what they had created for the challenge. Something for everyone 

Beautiful quilts shared with us from those that participated in the Polk dot challenge Which one is your favorite? I like them all. Job well done ladies!

You saw part of the polka dot challenge and here is the other 1/2 don't we have some amazingly talented ladies in our guild. 

Michelle shared with us a lovely new purse she made. 

Denise lent a helping hand with my granddaughter, while I took the pictures. She did a fantastic job as it was the babies nap time. A huge Thank you goes to Denise for being there when I needed it. 

Emily has once again shared with us her awesome talents in created something from her scraps. 

Cindy shared with us her creation using her tea cups what a wonderful I idea. I especially like the way she used up the back. 

Joan shared with us her amazing creation what a fun work of art. 

 

Our Hearts are alive as we look at this fun Valentines quilt 

Sue was ready for Valentines day, doing a little something to decorate her whole house. 

Watch as Sue goes from bit to tiny :-) She is amazing at what she can create 

Each of her creations are a work of art! Thank you for sharing, 

The winner of the polka dot challenge! Wouldn't this look wonderful on the wall of a child toy room or bed room. I know just where I would put it. 

Thanks from a wonderful idea to stack and wak this beautiful quilt what a wonderful idea. 

 

Sue is making baby quilt to help her daughter in the 419th as new mothers are given some wonderful items in a gift bag just for them. 

That is what you do with your Hexagon's, some day I will pull mine out and get them assembled in to something. 

After a couple of amazing  trip Cindy brought some items to share with us. Look at the details of these items. Are they not just breath taking. 

Thank you for stopping and taking a minute to share with us the amazing talents of the Layton quilters. They have hearts of gold and a willingness to share there talents with us. Please come back and share with us next month. 

January meeting and more

January 15, 2015  Guild meeting minutes

President Cindy Gerber-Chavez welcomed all to the meeting.  She thanked everyone for coming and bringing food for the luncheon.  It was very nice.

Michelle Stay asked if everyone received the newsletter. Everyone said they did.

Vivian Blotter made a motion that we should have a budget for the prize basket for the year. We discussed it and decided on $125 for the year. Ruth Davis seconded the motion.

Lorri Bashein told us there was $412.62 in the guild checking account and $31.99 in petty cash.

Our new Utah Quilt Guild Rep Sandra John told us about the new fundraiser at Quilt Fest. We will be able to purchase the fabric  for $4 and we use it to make a small quilt (40x40 or less) These will be auctioned off at Quilt Fest. The proceeds will go to aid in heart disease research. The charity this year for the UQG will be making quilts for various women’s shelters. They are in need of quilts for twin beds and cribs. She passed out instructions to make blocks for last year’s President Krisanne. She told us that Ricky Timms will be coming later this year or next and we need to agree to send out 3 emails to our guild membership.

Michelle Stay told everyone that the polka dot challenge items need to be finished for sure by February’s meeting. Nickey Greene told us about our next challenge. It will be “I heard it on vinyl.” We should choose a song from our past and make a quilt/project about it. It will officially start in a few months but we should start thinking about it now.

Genette King passed around papers for everyone who wanted to to make a list of 10 UFO’s they want to finish this year. We will pick a new number every month. #6 was picked this time.

Denise Thalman showed us a cute Easter row quilt pattern and passed around a sign up to see how many wanted to participate. She asked us to bring the money for the pattern next month.

Ruth Davis told us about a block exchange we will be doing later in the year. Any star block you want to make, 9 inch finished block, white or white on white background only.

We discussed the upcoming National Quilt Day. We can bring our own table if we want to have a rectangle instead of circle for our guild booth. Our guild is in charge of overnight security. We can put 6 quilts in the show – 2 large and 4 small (45x45ish) We decided on a demo idea – Vivian Blotter will be demoing how to make folded hexies from a circle of fabric. We need to cut and donate circles for her. The template will be put in the newsletter. We were asked to make small things to sell at our guild booth and at the silent auction so we can make more money for our national teacher.  

Next meeting will be Thursday February 19^th at 1:00 pm. 

The sew-in will be for us to come sew items for quilt day. Either our own to donate or the group projects. It will start at 10:00 am.

I wasn't able to attend the meeting but loved hearing what all of you have been up to. I have been busy trying to get my UFO pile down to manageable if that is at all possible. This along with baby sitting my granddaughter who is a whole 5 months old and a joy to watch I have been staying busy. 

A long trip gave me time to do some hand work,  A bit of down time allowed me to create 2 of this adorable pillows .  Not only where they fun to do but they look wonderful on my couch and the friend who recieved it for Christmas was thrileed. 

My UFO might only be 10 items long but that doesn't mean that each one listed I only did one thing. I think this was my Number 6 which was do at our February meeting. These back packs were made and taught to youth at a 4-H extension class for my county.  A total of 4 different back packs and 2 different bags were made to decide which one the youth could make and would want to make. 

This was bag number two and the one not chose and the instructions were terrible and not as user friendly as the pack pack and the skills to learn weren't there either. Still this and one more was made and both turned out darling and will make a fun bag to use. They are being donated to CF to help out the cause. 

A few years ago a dear lady donated to me large scraps of baby flannel, I spent hours cutting and bagging them in to quilt kids. Several were made and waiting for some quilting. A new quilt machine was bought and the fun begin as quilt tops were finally getting made and the fun on binding them. This one was donated to Happy Chemo and the rest will be donated as well. It is the fun to just being able to create. 

In the learning process I made up this fun dino quilt for CF and not knowing what I was doing. I put cuddle fabric on the back and proceeded to free hand quilt it. This is the final out come of it. I loved how the the fabric showed off the quilting. The front was from a kit I pieced together for little one to enjoy. 

Before heading out on a major road trip and a wonderful family vacation, I was asked to make super hero pillow cases and personalized with names, with the amount of extra fabric it was decided to make quilts. This one is the last of 5 that were made. Using up the scraps and having a bit of fun this one was created. My 18 year old daughter did the quilting and I bound it. This quilt have been donated to the Young women of my ward to auction off for girls camp. 

Day after day the pattern grew;
Each block was deftly set in place, 
And rows of tiny stitches tell
A tale that time cannot efface.
Of patience, skill, housewifely pride, 
Of women's love for pretty thing, 
Of fingers trained such work to do
By those who know the joy it brings, 
Of time within the home week spent, 
The heart with homely tasks content

Have a wonderful day! I hope to see you back next time for the wonderful adventures of the Layton quilters and more.