Save the Date!

We are so excited to announce that

Lee Heinrich of freshlypieced

will be in  New Hampshire

Saturday March 7, 2015!

Lecture and trunk show will begin at 4PM.

More details to follow!

 

September Show and Tell

See what everyone was working on over the summer!

Janice and her original quilt design

Terry  and her Show quilt for The Gathering

Nancy made this awesome bag and pouches!

Donna and her beautiful bag

Betsy made this really fun quilt top!

Chelsea and her Birds and Berries quilt

Chelsea's Swell quilt made from scraps

Chelsea also made a Dresden Plate quilt.
Check out the fun low volume fabric she used in the background.
And the embroidery is an awesome touch!

Hannah made this pretty zig zag quilt top

And this fun Christmas quilt top!

Michelle made this awesome Amy Butler bag

Michelle's Watermelon Patchwork

Marie and her awesome bag

Simone quilted her fabulous Tree Quilt

STAY TUNED for some exciting news that will be posted soon!!

Charity Quilt in Progress

Over the summer, our guild received a fabulous package of fabric from Hawthorne Threads!

 Their donation included a fat quarter bundle of Hawthorne Solids and assorted scraps of printed fabrics.

What are we doing with all this yummy fabric?

We are making a quilt, of course!!

The blocks look like this...

and the tutorial for constructing the block can be found here...

http://badskirt.blogspot.com/2011/04/japanese-x-and-scrappy-quilt-tutorial.html

How can you get the fabric to make a block or two??

COME TO THE NEXT MEETING!

Please be sure to join us Tuesday September 9th!

Plan to pick up a fabric bundle (or two?) and make a block for this quilt!

The quilt will be donated to Bridges.

Mark your calendars for Friday October 24th when we will gather at Twill to put the blocks together.

Sign up for this event will be at the next meeting.

Hope to see you Tuesday!

Color Swap

Want to learn more about Color Theory?

Many of the available books suggest that the first step is to make a color wheel!

Don't have all the colors on hand?

No worries!  We are planning a swap for the next two meetings!

That way everyone could have all the colors of the spectrum to build a color wheel!

Here's the plan for the September 9th meeting...

PLEASE BRING WHAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR STASH TO SWAP from the

WARM COLORS ON THE WHEEL

those colors are

Yellow

Yellow-Orange

Orange

Orange-Red

Red

Red-Violet

Please bring what you can swap of the above colors to the September 9th meeting.

Choose prints from your stash that read like solids.

If you have it in your stash, please bring - light - medium - dark - values of the color.

Don't worry if you don't have all the colors!

The plan is to swap for the colors you need to complete your color wheel.

What size fabric should you bring? 

If you would like to make the color wheel quilt pictured at the top of the post, swap size is 2.5" x 7"

Please keep in mind that you will need to purchase the book to make that color wheel quilt.

If you have another design in mind for your color wheel, bring your fabric and plan to cut it at the meeting when a swap has been agreed upon.

See you next Tuesday at Twill!

August Show and Tell

Check out all the fantastic quilts shown at the last meeting!

Simone's tree quilt

Another gorgeous quilt by Simone

Michelle's candy circle quilt

Michelle's noodlehead bag

Susan's baby quilt

Trish's baby quilt

Trish's granny square quilt; a collaborative quilt made with other Souhegan Valley Quilt Guild members

Debbie's beautiful quilt

Mary Jean's bright and fun quilt

Foundation pieced quilt by Mary Jean

An original design by Chelsea

Nancy's Target Practice block

Lisa's Michael Miller challenge quilt

Lisa's baby quilt

Terri's Kaleidoscope Star block

Marie's Michael Miller challenge quilt...Improv Log cabin

Patty's Michael Miller challenge quilt

Lisa...Meet the Members fabric bundle winner

Bonnie...Count the Colors bundle winner

NEXT MEETING is Tuesday September 9th at Twill

Meeting will begin at 7...doors open at 6:30

Half Rectangle Triangles

At the August meeting, Marie demonstrated how to make...

Half Rectangle Triangles

The step by step instructions are now located in the left toolbar under

BLOCK OF THE MONTH

There are so many ways you can configure these.  Have fun!

It will be so great to see what everyone makes!