Today I shopped a little before the guild meeting, but still arrived in time to see what everyone was working on this morning.
This lady was making a rag rug with leftover 2 1/2” strips. Each strip, about 42”, width of fabric (WOF), makes about three stitches. She uses a large size ‘P’ crochet hook.
This woman was making a table runner and needed help. Two ladies were right there to review and explain the directions. Notice her weighted pin cushion with a mini trash bin near her machine. I might need to make one.
These two ladies were removing the paper from these diamonds that were paper pieced. 106 of them. Yes, 106. Each pile is numbered and clipped together.
Here’s the pattern she’s making. After getting her diamonds all together, she realized putting it together will be all ‘Y’ seams.
‘Y’ seams aren’t that difficult, although they will slow the sewing process down. Each seam needs to start 1/4” into the seam line and end 1/4” before the end of the seam. Then you open it up, repeating the steps to sew the adjoining seams so they lay flat. She believes the Lord is teaching her to have more patience.
James 1:2-4 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
This lady was paper piecing Grandmother’s Flower Garden. She said it would be easier for her to show me what she was doing, and I of course, got a few pictures for the blog page. She buys the paper pieces and uses a paper punch to put a hole in each because she found it easier to remove the paper later by using a crochet hook in the hole, turning around the piece to loosen the glue and remove. She can usually reuse the paper several times before it’s too messy from the glue.
She explained each step. First using a glue stick on the paper, adding the fabric, trimming the seams and hand stitched the seam allowance. Notice her trims she threw into the trash bag she made.
She will make three strips and then sew each onto a sweatshirt for a jacket.
One lady went through her fabric stash and brought several pieces to give away if anyone was interested. Another woman brought a large box of fabrics; which covered one of the large tables; that a friend gave her and she decided to share them with guild members. I managed to find a couple pieces for an idea that’s been mulling in my mind.
The set-up for the demonstration.
The demo was paper piecing a log cabin square. She ordered the printed papers and explained placing, stitching, trimming and pressing of the strips. She plans to arrange the squares for a Barn Raising quilt.
Sew & Tell
This woman is one of the Canadian members that hasn’t been able to cross the border for two-years during Covid-19. She showed her Jack-o-lantern placemats. She used black buttons for the mouth.
I showed my Farm Memories Quilt and told about a past co-worker that had asked if I was going to make a farm memory quilt square to submit for an anniversary quilt. At the time I didn’t know about it, but quickly put my thinking cap on. I made four squares for that project and had more memories I wanted to put on fabric. Sew I just had to make one. They loved it and suggested I put it in the next quilt show.
Next, a table runner that her four-patches finished at 3/4”. That’s small. Her other one she called, ‘Trash Can Triangles.’ She and her mother had gone to a quilt show where someone doing a demonstration had thrown all the half square triangles away after making snowballs. She went over to the trash can and rescued the pieces that were discarded and made this pink and sage baby quilt.
The next were two, ‘Five Yard Quilts.’ One with a border and one without.
The final Sew & Tell of the day was one the lady didn’t want to show because she said, “it’s the ugliest quilt I’ve seen.” The members convinced her to show it so she went out to the car to get it. Everyone LOVED it!! No one thought it was ugly at all. We encouraged her to finish it for the next quilt show.
There are no ugly quilts.
Isaiah 64:8 But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
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