May Meeting

May Layton Quilt guild Meeting:

President’s Message:

What inspires your creativity? Is it a beautiful sunset or a blooming flower? Is it a raging storm or a lush landscape? I often find inspiration while I am shopping. Colors are everywhere. Stores are filled with objects and people. Next time you are at the store any store make sure your senses and visual perception are ready to record some colors, textures, and inspirations on a small notebook in your purse. World markets are great for colors and visual effects. See if you can’t snap a few pictures with your phone or camera of items that might inspire a great idea for a quilt. See if you can’t fill up your visual well and use it through creative expression. I hope some of you were able to attend the shop hop. This is a terrific way to find inspiration and visual excitement. I love walking into any quilt shop and seeing how they display things and how they choose to pair fabrics together for their quilts. This helps us to expand our color pallets and use the fabrics that perhaps we might not be drawn to. Last year’s state fair challenge helped me to use all bold and busy fabrics in my quilt and it is one of my favorite quilts today. Be thinking of some things that inspire your creativity and share them with us at the meeting.

Happy Quilting Lorri Bashein

Our meeting was opened by our guild president sharing with us the 10 reasons for quilting.
The June Ott light went to Joan Jenson. What ott to you be doing in with your quilt projects.

#3 the number to be finished for your unfinished projects. How is your list coming along. Is yours getting smaller or is it growing?

Sewing Tips from May Meeting: By Loretta Hunt

©      When your quilt book won’t stay open to your project you are working on, use your Potato Chip Bag Clip!

©      Do you have the dreaded little humps on your sewing machine? Use a post-it note. Put the post-it note over the hump, but not touching feed dogs. Even better, use graph paper tape on in line with the needle.

©      When you use fusible web or fleece, put a piece of parchment paper (available at the grocery store) either over or under the edges as you iron. The paper prevents fusible edges that peek out from sticking to your iron or ironing board. It will save you a lot of cleanup.

 

 

 

Barns were the show and tell of the day! Everyone is making them thanks to Lorri for sharing her amazing pattern and teaching us. This barn is a fun one to show case our quilting talents.

Lindy found a friend to play with during the meeting. As you can see every ages is welcome at our guild meetings.

In the Crazy quilt of Life I'm gladf you're in my block of Friends.