February Club Show & Tell

Since January's meeting was cancelled due to weather, we had quite a bit of show & tell at February's meeting.
I just love show & tell!

Pat made these sampler blocks and center for our Club BOM called Family and Friends by Lori Smith.

 Mary Alice made a tumbler quilt and is busy knitting a scarf.

 Anita made this very special memory quilt for her Mother.

 Pat made this quilt for a challenge for the Heart & Home Quilters Guild in Kutztown.  The challenge was called "Name that Tune".  Her quilt was made for the tune "I Heard it From the Grapevine".  Very Clever!

 Stacey is making a raffle quilt for the Moose.  This is the quilt so far.  It will have a moose appliqued on it after it is quilted.

 Judy was busy again making bags!

As you can see, we have very busy Club members!  They are all so talented and make wonderful things!  I look forward to seeing what they have done till next time.

What are you working on right now?

Until next time,

Happy Sewing

Jean

Club Members Show & Tell

I thought I would try to get caught up on some Club Show & Tell.  These are from December's meeting.
Enjoy the show!

 Pat made this cute penguin quilt.

 Zlaty made these two quilts.  A cute snowman quilt and a beautiful coffee quilt for her Mother.

Pat made this darling quilt for her Grandson Dexter.

We also had a surprise baby shower for Zlaty from the Club Members.  Everyone made her a 6" block using a common fabric in each block to use for the baby.  Some even made more blocks.  They were beautiful.  I'm afraid that I didn't get pictures of them, but will be sure to add pictures at a later time. 

 Thanks Pat for the lovely idea! And Thank you to everyone that made such beautiful blocks and made this such a special meeting!

Happy Sewing,

Jean

Baby Quilts

I made a wall hanging for Zlaty's baby shower in November  and finished the quilt for my Granddaughter after she was born.  For the wall hanging, I used Zlaty & Scot's favorite colors for the Mommy & Daddy bears and then combined the two for the baby bear.  For the quilt, I used a pattern from Possibilities and added my own border to it.  I also made the Sunbonnet Sue half the size of the original, so that I could keep the quilt smaller.  I hope that Veronica will always treasure the quilt that her Grammy made her.

Customer Show & Tell

I am always very happy to see what some of my customers and friends have been up to.

Here are pics from some of them.

 A beautiful jacket made by a shop hopper.

 Anita made this wonderful Easy Striped Table runner.

Leisa knitted this beautiful sweater for my new grand daughter Veronica.

Stacey made this cute latch hook teddy bear rug for my grand daughter.

Aren't they all just lovely?!

Well, until next time.

Happy Sewing,

Jean

November Club Meeting

Hello out there!

Yes, I am still here.

I am going to try to get a little caught up in my blogging.

I thought I would share some of the pictures from the November Club Meeting. Maybe I should say the November 2010 club meeting. :-)

Enjoy!

Pat Christ made this beautiful baltimore album quilt block which was part of the quilt shown in the picture above from Elly Sienkiewicz's new book called Beloved Baltimore Album Quilts!

Congratulations Pat!

Mom made these wonderful Christmas quilts.

Edna made a darling Christmas quilt putting a twist on my pattern "Pumpkin Spice".

Wishing you all Happy Sewing,

Jean

Quiche

Hi Everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

I had lots of ham left and have been trying to think of ways to use it up.

Last night I made a quiche using a recipe that a friend gave me.

It is delicious and you can add whatever you would like to it to make a tasty dish!

Quiche

1 - 9" pie shell baked for 7 mins. at 450 degrees

2 tbs. butter

2 tbs. flour

1/8 tsp. nutmeg

1 1/2 cups milk

4 oz. (1 cup) swiss cheese

3 beaten eggs

1 cup chopped ham, spinach, mushroom & crumbled bacon - whatever sounds good

Melt butter. Add flour & nutmeg & stir into a paste.

Add milk all at once. Cook until thick.

Add cheese, eggs and ham or your chosen ingredients.

Pour into pie shell.

Bake at 375 degrees for 25/30 mins. Cool 10 mins.

Yum! Delicious!

There wasn't even a piece left for my lunch today! :-)

Enjoy!

Wishing everyone a very Happy & Healthy New Year!

Jean

Block of Month

We are starting a Civil War Chronicles BOM in January. You will receive very detailed pattern directions for the blocks each month and also very unique stories of military wives of the Civil War Era. You provide the fabric to make this quilt in your favorite fabrics. This quilt was designed by Homestead Hearth. The cost is $15.00 per quarter.

You can either stop by and pick it up or we can mail it to you.

Send us pictures as you go along and we will share them with others so that they can see your beautiful project as you go.

We are starting a new block of the month for the new year. It is called Family and Friends by Lori Smith. The cost is $14.00 for the year.

Each participant receives the cutting and sewing and pressing directions for both setting arrangements with the quilts finishing at 73 1/4" x 73 1/4". The quilt contains 12 sampler blocks that finish to 12" square. You will receive instructions for creating both quilt centers. You can choose to make either one or do two quilts if you like. The star block center can be machine pieced and there are no set in seams.

We will be starting this program in January. If you would like to join us for our meetings, we meet the second Wed. of every month at 10am. You will receive the block pattern for that month, see the latest products that have arrived at the shop, share show and tell and of course have cookies and coffee!

If you cannot join us, you can stop in the shop and pick up your block of month patterns or we can ship them to you.

Be sure to send us pictures of your blocks as you go along, so that we can see the wonderful colors that you have chosen to make it special to you. I will post them on the blog to share with others.

Note: Registration is needed for whichever block of month program that you choose.

Happy Sewing,

Jean