Cindy Albright Shares Panel
Quilts with a Flair
Albright’s trunk show included many examples of highlighting panels in quilting. She had quilt panels with borders made using piano keys, half square triangles, checkerboard, shadow box, migrating geese, and hour glass patterns rather than a solid border to name a few. She encouraged using the colors from your panels in the rest of the quilt. Albright recommends that panels should be starched and blocked before using the quilt panel because the length and width is not the same from top to bottom or left to right on the panel. Panels can be used asymmetrically to enhance the panel. Her presentation was fresh and informative.
Criteria for Judging Quilts
Wilma Blair presented a program on the criteria used by judges when choosing winning quilts in quilt shows. The criteria used for juried quilts is:
The quilt should be clean.
All markings have been removed.
The quilt holds its shape when hung.
The quilt has been entered in the correct category.
Pattern choice, color, and fabric make a complete design.
Embellishments compliment the quilt.
Quilts are judged on quality of quilting stitches as well as piecing and applique techniques.
It was a very good program. Thank you Wilma.
Christmas Tree Napkins
During our break at the November meeting, Juanita Woodard brought some gorgeous Christmas Tree Napkins that she had made and demonstrated how to make them. They would make great Christmas gifts or really complete your Christmas dinner table setting. See the instructions and follow along on YouTube. Two presentations in our meeting and everyone had a great time. You can download the PDF Instructions here or watch the YouTube video from Jordan Fabrics.
A Lesson in Millefiori
At our October meeting Ginny Watson presented a method of English Paper Piecing used to create Millefiori Quilts. Pieces of various shapes such as trapezoids, squares, and diamonds are whipstitched together to form brilliant designs.
After the designs are pieced together into larger sections of hexagons, they begin to appear as beautiful flowers–as you can tell from the quilt that Ginny brought to show. Millefiori means “thousand flowers” in Italian.
Thank you to Ginny for teaching us this piecing method.
August 15, 2022
Ice Dyeing
Thanks to Shirley Chai for demonstrating Ice Dyeing. We had a great time and learned a spectacular technique.
July 11, 2022
The theme for the July guild meeting was "Christmas in July." Thank you to those who shared projects. Patterns can be found on the Patterns page under "Christmas in July."
